- Blue Origin and Boeing were characterized as “old-space” companies with incompetent management, toxic culture, and a “government-shakedown” business model, prompting warnings against employment there.  
- SpaceX was described as an alternative that “works you to death in the Texas heat,” while Lockheed Martin was praised for delivering solid aerospace work on time and for its open positions in nuclear-thermal propulsion, lunar-rover design, and Mars-sample-return aeroshells.  
- A flexure-based precision lathe from an MIT 2.72 class project was linked as prior art for ultra-precise machining: http://web.mit.edu/mact/www/Projects/Classes/272/272Index.html.  
- The James Webb Space Telescope’s mirror-actuator flexures were highlighted in a Hackaday article showing the engineering behind micron-level positioning: https://hackaday.com/2022/02/08/working-model-reveals-amazing-engineering-of-webbs-mirror-actuators/.  
- Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm, according to an official SpaceX update: https://www.spacex.com/updates/.  
- Discussion centered on sourcing industrial piezoelectric inkjet printheads (e.g., KM512, $1 500–$3 000) for open-source 3-D electronics printing with UV-curable resins and silver-nanoparticle inks; consumer Epson printers with documented waveforms were suggested as cheaper, hackable alternatives.  
- Participants debated whether university patent exemptions and expired inkjet patents would allow academic research on these printers without legal risk.  
- Josiah Zayner was noted to have relocated to Austin, and an anecdote recounted an e-ink Nook reviving after years in storage with an unexplained battery issue.