Creon Levit on the DarkHorse Podcast

Creon was employed as a scientist at NASA Ames Research Center for over 30 years working in applied physics, aerodynamics, data visualization, computational chemistry, molecular nanotechnology, celestial mechanics, launch systems, optics, and satellite systems engineering. Since 2015 he has been chief technologist at Planet Labs - a satellite imaging company headquartered in San Francisco. Creon is a Planet Fellow at Planet Labs and a Senior Fellow at the Foresight institute. He serves on various NASA committees, and organizational technical advisory boards.

The views he expresses on this podcast are personal and are not affiliated with any of the above organizations.

Find Creon on X: @creon (https://twitter.com/creon)

Find Creon on Substack: https://creon.substack.com/

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introductions, "it's not rocket science"

(09:06) Sponsor

(10:52) Other rocket propulsion technologies

(15:30) Creon's opinion on DarkHorse

(17:10) COVID and rockets

(25:20) Inverse response

(33:50) COVID dissidents

(46:05) Elon Musk, Twitter files, and YouTube demonetization

(55:40) Mandates and the US Constitution

(01:01:40) Contrarianism

(01:14:10) How to reflect on COVID

(01:20:24) Mandates and removing dissidents

(01:28:36) Starlink, Elon's vision, and Twitter/X

(01:38:28) AI risk and moral panic

(02:06:50) DeSantis' COVID policy panel update

(02:09:40) Nuclear fission power

(02:21:33) Wrap up