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Ryan M. Patrick

@ryanpatrickauth

Aerospace engineer, Space Force vet, sci-fi author, Philly sports fan, dad of four. Opinions are my own.

Northern Virginia शामिल हुए Ocak 2023
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Ryan M. Patrick@ryanpatrickauth·
The Europan Deception is now available from Amazon! It's a first-in-series hard sci-fi thriller for fans of The Expanse looking for a fast-paced espionage story about an ancient conspiracy looking to destabilize the galaxy. Link below.
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Laocoon of Troy
Laocoon of Troy@LaocoonofTroy·
A family of settlers in Custer County, Nebraska, 1886. Library of Congress photo by Solomon Butcher.
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KC-10 Driver ✈️ 👨‍✈️ B-737 Wrangler
A funny combat sortie in the KC-10: We’re meeting up w/ a formation of British Tornados to fuel them in Afghanistan. Our next customers, F-16s if I recall correctly, announced they were showing up early, too. We de-conflicted them altitude wise & arranged the meeting point. As we approach, I can see both formations. They are nearing a rendezvous point from maybe 135° off different headings, the Tornados are closer. We’ll fly over & do a turn to help them get behind us…the Vipers have more time & will maneuver to wherever we are. Anyway, suddenly the Tornados start dispensing flares & roll hard, pulling G to get to a different aspect of something & splitting up. The Vipers soon follow…or maybe they did simultaneously, I could only really see one flight at a time. 4 jets all getting away from us as fast as they can. It takes me a second to figure out what’s going on. You see, the KC-10 had no real sensors. If someone was shooting at us, we didn’t know unless we saw it with our eyes. That was it, that was all we had. If we did manage to see it, we had no flares to dispense or any other countermeasures. We could try to turn or maneuver vertically. Good luck, Maverick, remember it still weighs 550,00 lbs after you’ve burned 40,000 to get to the front. The fighters, though, had systems that can “see” a missile launch. They don’t need a “radar lock on them” like in the movies…the sensors see the heat plume & maybe even the track of a missile & can automatically start dispensing flares & such. It’s a necessity…not all missiles are guided by radar, some look for the Infrared Profile. In layman’s terms, they are “Heat Seekers”, but it’s way more complicated than that. So they are sitting & watching with sensors that don’t send out a signal to be detected until they launch…it’s extremely difficult to tell you are being targeted until it’s in the air. (These missiles have gone through decades of being developed, having countermeasures developed to defeat them, then developing a way to defeat countermeasures, to have new countermeasures introduced, etc., etc.. They are very sophisticated) But then they launch, and the second they do there are warnings in the cockpit…hiding the heat plume of a missile is pretty difficult. If equipped, the jet may dispense flares or other countermeasures automatically. Missiles come fast, you’ll only have a little reaction time to change your aspect & evade. So, there I am, watching the fighters go away, and realizing why they are doing it. Then realizing I can’t do anything & even if I could, it was too late. After maybe 30 seconds with no loud bang, I start thinking this has taken too long. There is some amount of time that passes, but eventually the Tornados come on the radio & apologized for a false alarm. Their sensors had picked up & interpreted a heat plume from the ground & sounded the alarm. I don’t know if the Tornado dispenses flares automatically or not, but it looked cool when the flares all came out. Viper pilots don’t apologize. You should never expect an apology from a Viper pilot. I was probably in the wrong for endangering them. I didn’t say it on the radio, but I wanted to say “what fucking alarm, dude, you bailed & didn’t say a damn thing to the brightest meatball in the sky”. What I said is something along the lines of “no problem, join up left wing, we’re trailing the drogue”. Hope you liked the story! As a coincidence, this is what I find questionable about video of an F-35 flying in a straight line & doing nothing after an IR missile is launched against it, then just keeps flying in the same straight line after getting hit & I wonder what the wingman was doing, too. P.S.: new tankers & military cargo jets have sensors now, too. You can google “LAIRCMS” & go down the rabbit hole. Enjoy! Also, picture is not related to the story.
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Ryan Leachman
Ryan Leachman@RG_Leachman·
“Kids I have good news. Daddy is out of Claude tokens until 3PM. He has time to play with you now.”
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Ryan M. Patrick@ryanpatrickauth·
At age 26 I got handed a $160M Air Force launch contract with SpaceX for a rocket they had no plans to ever build and got told to go have fun. Three and a half years later...
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Ryan M. Patrick@ryanpatrickauth·
Finished this last night. I'm not a huge superhero guy but it was a fun playthrough...just wish we had gotten a Deus Ex: Mankind Divided sequel instead!
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Ryan M. Patrick@ryanpatrickauth·
8 straight hours of system-level testing and I'm beat. 5 bug tickets of varying degrees of severity and I had to rewrite my TLE/OEM generator a couple of times. But it's done!
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RIP Chuck Norris
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Reminds me of the time the new LT married a Ukrainian woman and didn't report it to his security officer...
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Susan Crabtree@susancrabtree

🚨🚨@RCPolitics EXCLUSIVE: Female Secret Service Agent Faulted for J13 Butler Failures That Nearly Killed Trump Suspended Again This time, the agent in question, Miyo Perez, is under internal Secret Service investigation for allegedly secretly marrying a foreign national and failing to report it for nine months. "DO NOT ADMIT" This is the third time Perez has been suspended in a little more than a year. She is on administrative leave and under "Do Not Admit" status while the investigation continues. Congressional investigations that examined the Butler failures faulted Perez for not placing any Secret Service or local police asset on top of the now-notorious sloped roof of the American Glass Building where would-be assassin Thomas Crooks fired off his shots, among other security problems at Butler. Yet Congress also questioned why the Secret Service allowed an inexperienced agent to be placed in such a crucial role at an outdoor rally with thousands of people in attendance. The decision to have Perez in a leading security role for the Butler rally is even more concerning considering that top-level Secret Service officials, including current Secret Service Director Sean Curran, who was serving as the Trump campaign detail leader at the time, had been briefed on an Iranian threat to Trump’s life. Despite the ongoing congressional investigations and internal Secret Service review of her role in the Butler failures, Perez quietly married a Brazilian foreign national last April without notifying the agency, according to a copy of her marriage certificate located on the Brevard County public records website and according to sources familiar with the timing of when she informed the agency of her marriage. THE INVESTIGATION IS LOOKING INTO THE TIMING OF PEREZ'S MARRIAGE TO A FOREIGN NATIONAL AND WHETHER THE WOMAN WAS AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT AT THE TIME OF THE MARRIAGE Perez had informed the Secret Service of her contact with the Brazilian woman in 2024 before the assassination attempt on Trump’s life, but the agency may have either lost the notification or failed to act on it at the time, according to several sources in the Secret Service community. It’s unclear, however, whether Perez characterized the contact accurately in 2024 and ever since. Agents are questioning whether she followed mandatory protocol to keep the Secret Service updated on how the relationship was developing and when the two began to live together and subsequently married. The marriage took place in April 2025, according to the marriage certificate attained on a public records database. I'll link to the marriage certificate below. Yet sources in the Secret Service community say Perez didn’t inform the agency until January, nine months after the marriage took place. The internal Secret Service investigation is examining whether the woman Perez was dating and married last year had overstayed her visa and was facing a deportation order, multiple sources familiar with the matter told RCP. SECRET SERVICE HAS A CHECKERED HISTORY OF COVERING UP OR UNEVENLY DISCIPLINING AGENTS WHO HAVE HAD RELATIONSHIPS WITH FOREIGN NATIONALS, INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE KNOWN RUSSIAN SPY In 2018, news broke that a suspected Russian spy had been working for the Secret Service in the U.S. embassy in Moscow for at least a decade. Dan Bongino @dbongino revealed on his podcast that he had tried to report the spy when he was serving in the embassy before he left the Secret Service in 2011 but was dismissed and told to keep his mouth shut. The same Russian woman was suspected of being involved in an affair with the top Secret Service agent working at the embassy, who had served as the Resident Agent in Charge, or RAC, after Bongino left but several years before her discovery as a spy, multiple sources in the Secret Service community told RCP. The Secret Service and the FBI launched an extensive investigation and suspended the former Secret Service RAC because he couldn’t pass his polygraph when questioned about his relationship with the spy, according to sources familiar with the matter. At the time, the agent in question was the head of the Inspections Division, which oversees disciplinary actions and investigations against all Secret Service employees. The agency allowed this agent to remain on administrative leave until he retired in 2019, a breach of normal disciplinary protocol to benefit an agent and keep the matter out of the press, the sources told RCP. READ The FULL @RCPOLITICS STORY BELOW, INCLUDING SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR SEAN CURRAN'S DECISION TO PROMOTE TWO SUPERVISORS WHO WERE CHARGED WITH OVERSEEING PEREZ'S HANDLING OF THE BUTLER RALLY SECURITY. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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NASA
NASA@NASA·
Happy vernal equinox! 🍀 Today marks the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the first day of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. After today, the Sun will shine more directly on the Northern Hemisphere than on the Southern Hemisphere until the autumnal equinox.
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Ryan M. Patrick@ryanpatrickauth·
Finally hit 26,000 words of The Kuiper Dominion. Very slow going the last few weeks but I think I'll pick it up this weekend. Also need to start thinking about a cover...probably doing it myself, but I'm struggling finding a good stock image of an asteroid.
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𝙋𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙡 𝙍𝙞𝙘𝙠
How a 22oz frosty mug of Coors light and 37 tvs at the sports bar look at me when I’m in a Teams meeting
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Redstagnoggin
Redstagnoggin@redstagnoggin·
@ryanpatrickauth That kid’s the best argument going for inefficiency in sorting high schoolers by future track. If he couldn’t find a college to take him straight out of HS, something’s broken.
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Patrick Abbott, Sci-Fi Author
I would be at the Catholics for Catholics event and say that Charlie Kirk warned me about the Jews and that everyone should buy my books. However, my God-given conscience would condemn me. Sad others don't listen to theirs.
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