OpenAI milestone, June 11, 2018 — "Improving language understanding with unsupervised learning" (GPT-1). Illustration: Ben Barry.The Trinity test — the first atomic bomb is successfully detonated, July 16, 1945. Source: Wikipedia.Falcon 9 first-stage landing test — the first steps toward reusable rockets. Source: Wikipedia.Falcon 1 Flight 4 mission control, September 28, 2008 — SpaceX's first successful orbital launch, the mission that saved the company from ruin. Source: Ars Technica.Hung Cao — Acting Secretary of the Navy, U.S. Department of War.The Moon landing — Apollo 11, July 20, 1969.The God Particle — the Higgs boson search at CERN.Neuralink — The Link, the first commercial neural implant that will let you control a computer or mobile device anywhere you go.Xenobots — the world's first living, programmable organisms, built from frog cells.The Standard Model of elementary particles — our best theory of the fundamental building blocks of the universe.The James Webb Space Telescope — the most powerful telescope ever built, peering back to the dawn of the universe.Superheated plasma inside a nuclear fusion reactor.Lou Bloom in Nightcrawler (2014) — relentless drive, on any terms.Starship — the first integrated test flight, April 20, 2023. The only rocket economical enough to make us multiplanetary.SpaceX Starfactory — the Starship production facility at Starbase, Texas. Building the road to Mars.Tesla Cybercab — the autonomous, two-seat robotaxi with no steering wheel or pedals.President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech on France's nuclear deterrence strategy.Philippe Petit walks a tightrope between the Twin Towers, August 7, 1974 — "the artistic crime of the century."The French Constitution of 1791 — the first written constitution of France, establishing constitutional monarchy after the Revolution.