John McElhone

The photo of the U.S. Air Force's new stealth aircraft is on the left, taken at night, with stars in the background. We can use them to find the exact location of the jet (thread)

@HarryCKB 🫶

@Johnmcelhone The McElhones are the best

This is my Dad. Since my sisters and I have moved out, he sends updates into the family group chat, this is one of them. I post my favourites on reels/tiktok. Every morning he still works out of his garage, blissfully unaware of how many millions of people enjoy his videos too

@astro_Pettit Found it! x.com/Johnmcelhone/s…

I photographed this passenger jet from the ISS on Sunday, October 20, 2024 at 18:26 UTC over the central Mediterranean. Can any aviation uber-geeks out there identify this flight?

Right now we've narrowed our search to two aircraft. On the left is a United 787, and right Air Canada 787. With Air Canada's black trim livery I think we can safely estimate this is our aircraft! 6/6

Don's photo makes it look like the aircraft has four plumes (747 or A380). However, what we learn from the original source image, is this is actually a two plume aircraft, zoom out and you can see it clearly. Also we see darker parts to the livery by zooming in. 5/6

This is an Air Canada Boeing 787-9, Flight# ACA8. October 20th 2024, 18:26 UTC. Attached photo is the full res I found in the Astronaut photo archives. Detailed below how I found it. 1/6

@thegarrettscott @pipedream_labs Insanely cool, congrats on the launch!

WE DID IT! The first portal and robots on the Austin @pipedream_labs Network go live in February! We'll be around all day, so ask a question here and we'll respond with a video! Here's a quick thread about what we delivered & where we're going next:

@ADoricko At some point you have got to build one of those space-race-era control rooms

POV: you’re monitoring the situation with Rainmaker’s growing fleet of atmospheric sensing assets

@benjamin_bolte @Harryoc493 💪💪💪

A truly HISTORIC day! A BIG congratulations to Harry O'Connor (@Harryoc493) on taking delivery of the very first K-Bot humanoid robot. A great patriot and a very smart man, one of the all-time smartest, many are saying - he knows a winner when he sees one! People are saying this is a historic moment, one for the history books. TREMENDOUS!

@FurqanR Would love to come! 🏎️

We rented an entire race track this friday for founders! If you're into cars, in the bay area and interested in coming let me know.

@charliewu @orchard_robots Congrats Charlie!! Rooting for you guys 🚀🚀

I'm excited to announce our $22M Series A here at Orchard!🍎 Here @Orchard_Robots, we’re securing America’s food supply by building the AI farmer that automates our nation’s farms. Our mission is to make farming profitable, efficient, and sustainable again.

NEW IN PIRATE WIRES: What makes a Thiel Fellow a Thiel Fellow? Back in 2010, Peter Thiel came up with an idea on a plane trip from NY to SF: paying people to leave college and start their own companies. Outrage soon followed. A billionaire bribing kids to forgo their futures? But today, the Thiel Fellowship is gaining notoriety for producing so-called “unicorns” (billion-dollar companies) at a higher rate than top accelerators. As it turns out, the fellows did not forgo their futures. They designed them to their liking. (And got rich while doing it.) @dodgeblake interviewed the fellowship’s early architects @DStrachman and @William_Blake about what they learned from years of betting on cracked teens (stay weird). Now they’re taking the thesis even further: at 1517, their VC fund, Danielle and Michael are looking to invest in 11-year-olds. The way they see it, you can pay $90K/year to learn how to do laundry, read Chaucer, and slowly turn into everyone around you. Or you can, per Peter’s longtime investing philosophy, play the only winning move: don’t compete. Read the full story threaded below 👇

@karunkaushik_ Congrats guys!! 🚀🚀

Today, we're announcing our $32M Series A at a $300M valuation led by Insight Partners. Delve is automating busywork for humanity, starting with compliance. Here's our story.

@KicksCharlie @CompositeAI @YangFanYun 🚀🚀🚀

Excited to announce - @CompositeAI When I started sneaker botting 8 years ago, never would I have thought we'd have the technology to have this level of generalized automation. Looking forward to building the future of work with @YangFanYun

@erikdunteman Pike pig?

@kokoxsu Ireland’s BT Young Scientist to startup founder pipeline is undefeated

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