Colin Ake

The Artemis II mission will also retrieve the ball that #Braves slugger Jorge Soler blasted out of Houston in Game 6 of the 2021 World Series.

Dudes only want one thing and it’s to go back to the fricken moon

Very excited about what we're seeing from NASA today. Lot's of areas we're excited to engage in from expanded CLPS (we're the first commercial company to land on the Moon and have the two landings closest to the Lunar South Pole), to the Moonbase, to comms/nav infrastructure, LTV mobility, RTG power and more. Let's go! #adlunam

This is the sci-fi future I was promised.

Raytheon recalled retired engineers and dug up Carter-era blueprints to restart Stinger missile production. The original 1980s components no longer exist. Current output: 60 per month. Cost per missile: $120,000. NATO just signed a $780 million contract for 940 of them. A hobbyist just 3D-printed a guided rocket with a $5 sensor and piano wire. An ESP32 flight computer, an off-the-shelf IMU, PLA filament. Total bill of materials: less than $100. You arm it from your laptop over Wi-Fi. Run the actual numbers. A Stinger costs over 1,000x more per unit. Raytheon employs thousands of engineers across a multi-billion dollar supply chain to produce 60 per month. One person printed this over a weekend with parts from Amazon. The rocket itself isn’t a weapon. No warhead, insufficient propulsion, zero viability against real aircraft. The propulsion and lethality engineering would require orders of magnitude more work to reach operational capability. The guidance problem is the part that cost decades of classified R&D and billions in defense contracts. It now solves for $5 on a sensor you can buy with same-day delivery. Every decade, some military technology crosses the line from “requires a nation-state” to “requires a credit card.” GPS crossed it. Then drones. Then satellite imagery. Precision guidance just crossed it on an ESP32 and piano wire.

1) With revenue + OIBDA ripping higher, what’s the target payroll philosophy during a championship window? 2) Where do incremental profits go — roster, debt paydown, or more real estate expansion? 3) What are BravesVision’s break-even KPIs? Subs? ARPU? Timeline? That’s what matters.

China knows exactly what this does. Their domestic version of TikTok caps kids under 14 at 40 minutes a day, locks access between 6am and 10pm, and swaps the entire feed to educational content. Science, history, museums. The version they export to everyone else? Unlimited, unrestricted, pure dopamine on demand. When kids in the US and China were asked what they wanted to be when they grew up, the number one answer in America was influencer. In China it was astronaut. Macron calls this a cognitive war. Export what dulls young minds and keep what makes them intelligent for your own population. This is the most effective weapon ever deployed against a generation’s ability to think.

The @Braves moved to diversify revenue before it was obvious TV contracts wouldn't carry the load. Check out this thorough breakdown of their financials.

I don't know who's more excited, my five-year-old or me.

The red dots show Chinese fishing vessels swarming Peru’s EEZ in 2024 525 Chinese boats in Peruvian waters, while Peru itself barely had 239 China’s greedy pirates emptied their own seas and are now hijacking the livelihoods of other nations’ fishermen.

If these numbers are right, the Braves have every reason in the world to try and make ‘Atlanta Braves Sports Network’ work out. That is a massive drop in revenue for STL

Just encountered one of the most convincing Google account takeover scams I’ve seen. Perfect American accent. Calm. Professional. They start the call by saying someone tried to hack your Google account using a fake death certificate, then ask if you recognize a recovery email or phone number. They ask if you’ve received any recent Google emails about an account you don’t recognize trying to recover access. And sure enough, there’s a legit Google security email. Here’s the trick. The attacker isn’t trying to hack your account. They create a throwaway Google account, set your email as the recovery email, then try to recover that account. Google sends you a real security email. The scammer calls you live, references the email, and even tells you to verify the headers since it comes directly from Google. The headers are real. That’s the point. Then they tell you they’re locking down your account and that you’ll get a recovery prompt on your phone. You just need to approve it to stay safe. The giveaway was the device and location in the prompt didn’t match me. When I pushed back, they claimed it was from their servers, which obviously makes no sense. At that point I hung up. I have a personal rule to never approve anything I didn’t initiate, especially while on the phone. Extremely well executed social engineering. I’m sure this works on a lot of people. And if someone calls you about account security, assume it’s a scam

Checking every weather forecast imaginable to see if it’s going to snow 1 inch or 15 inches this weekend

The Island of Sodor is full of mysteries.

Not to mention - C-3PO lived with Owen Lars for years after Anakin built him. The droid ostensibly didn't make the connection in Episode 4 because he had his memory wiped, but is Owen stupid?

In retrospect, Obi-Wan asking Owen and Beru Lars to watch Luke is quite risky given the attachment Anakin had to his mom and the fact that she's buried there. Honestly, I'm surprised Darth didn't swing by when he was in the area in Episode 4.

Hahaha oh no. New anti-manufacturing law in WA defines both additive and subtractive manufacturing as 3D printing. Anyone selling manufactured parts or equipment to residents of WA are subject to fines & imprisonment. Is Washington about to nuke its aerospace industry?

@mrdoornbos @hermeuscorp is building a plane a year. Atomic-6 just announced a launch for their micrometeorite shield and is doing good composites work outside that. There are others but I'll let them do their own PR when the time is right. Lots of talent here.

@colinake What are some examples?

Atlanta hardware startups are doing good work in the arena these days.