Andrew Côté (@Andercot) / X

Andrew Côté

16.1K posts

Andrew Côté

@Andercot

engineering physicist, writes about deep tech, physics, energy, sci fi and whatever. founder @hyperstition_x produces @deeptechweek

San Francisco

andercot.substack.com

Joined September 2012

Andrew Côté
@Andercot
Apr 15, 2025
Can any space nerds help me understand how the Blue Origin capsule came back down without any re-entry burns? Was this a trajectory thing or some kind of superior material used? Falcon crew capsule for comparison
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Andrew Côté
@Andercot
Nov 17, 2024
The CIA publishes the craziest stuff on their website. "Oh yeah we had professional remote viewers, yeah, we asked them to go visit Mars one million years ago. What did they see? Pyramids, obelisks, a dying elder race looking for a new home. Anyway its declassified now."
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Andrew Côté
@Andercot
Nov 3, 2025
Oddly enough this is basically how life started
abcdent
@abcdentminded
Nov 2, 2025
Attention everyone I have successfully crafted a closed ring of oil in my ramen broth. This marvelous shape prevents surface tension from drawing the blob into a disc as usual. After ten minutes of observation, it has proven stable. The entire paradigm has been overturned tonight
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Andrew Côté
@Andercot
Sep 24, 2024
My political preferences are whatever leads to this
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Andrew Côté
@Andercot
Oct 4, 2025
I used to work 6am - 6pm, 6 days a week, on a construction site in my early 20s. Honestly? It fucking sucked, dude. I would sit in my car outside the site at 530am, desperately drinking a coffee, telling myself over and over again, "god I wish I was in sciences" Because every
Cleobug101
@cleobug101
Oct 2, 2025
men need to be working real jobs again. muscle and a shovel style jobs. testosterone levels would rise and men would feel like they had a purpose again. men yearn for the oil rigs and coal mines not the excel spreadsheets and 9-5 grind. we've neutered them, one business day at a
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Andrew Côté
@Andercot
Dec 18, 2024
It's crazy how bad trains are for GDP growth
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Andrew Côté
@Andercot
Feb 10, 2025
The Lockheed CL-1201 was an actual concept study in producing a flying aircraft carrier that could stay airborne for 41 days, carry hundreds of troops and 22 fighter jets, powered by an 1,800 MW nuclear reactor. We used to dream
Andrew Côté
@Andercot
Feb 10, 2025
Why make an airplane that shoots missiles when you can make an airplane that shoots airplanes
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Andrew Côté
@Andercot
Nov 2, 2025
The US Navy has managed a total of 273 nuclear reactors, 6200 reactor-years, over 177 million miles, averaging 4 new reactors per year over 70 years. They have done this with a perfect safety record. Zero accidents. Zero injuries, zero deaths, zero environmental pollution.
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Andrew Côté
@Andercot
Dec 9, 2024
"Yeah Steve absent mindedly bent this paperclip during a meeting. Anyway it's the best performing antenna we've ever produced. Don't ask me why" Any sufficiently advanced RF engineering is indistinguishable from magic
anna-sofia
@annasofialesiv
Dec 8, 2024
science is a spell book & engineers are wizards
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Andrew Côté
@Andercot
Mar 20, 2025
I wonder whats underneath this one in Antarctica.
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Andrew Côté
@Andercot
Sep 8, 2024
Starlink is estimated to cost $15-30 bn to deploy the full constellation and can provide internet to the entire globe. Meanwhile $42 bn in government grift hasn't connected one American using last decades technology.
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Andrew Côté
@Andercot
Dec 23, 2024
This could be an incredible revolution in Cosmology. The Dark Energy model of the universe, which won a Nobel Prize in 2011, may be completely wrong. The accelerating expansion instead is simply because time runs faster in the voids between galaxies. Let me explain:
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Andrew Côté
@Andercot
Aug 18, 2025
The funny thing about Newton is he finished all of his physics work in his twenties, and devoted the rest of his multi-decade career to Biblical genealogy, Alchemy and the Occult, and, persecuting counterfeiters of currency and having them hanged. Physics was a side hustle
Dylan Field
@zoink
Aug 17, 2025
tell me again about how locked in you are
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Andrew Côté
@Andercot
Oct 11, 2025
I walk down Market Street late at night probably 5 nights a week. It's a fucking disaster. It's zombie town. It's a morass of human misery, suffering, and crime. San Francisco has been killing the homeless en masse with permissive empathy, making their lives comfortable on the
Matt Dorsey
@mattdorsey
Oct 11, 2025
This is a slap in the face to San Francisco. It’s insulting to our cops, and it’s honestly galling to those of us who’ve been fighting hard over the last few years to fully staff our @SFPD. Marc @Benioff, I pleaded for your support last year for the Prop F Charter Amendment I
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