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after carefully evading bottom bucket auntie inbound h1b deal flow, you finally find the girl of ur dreams
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Four humans are about to fall into a 10,000°C wall of plasma at 25,000 mph with a heat shield NASA knows is flawed. Tomorrow evening. Off the coast of San Diego.
Orion hits the atmosphere at 36 times the speed of sound. The air can't move out of the way fast enough, so it compresses into a shockwave twice as hot as the surface of the Sun. The plasma ionizes the surrounding air and blocks all radio signals. For several minutes, the crew is falling faster than any humans have ever traveled inside a spacecraft, and nobody on the ground can talk to them.
The heat shield is 186 blocks of a material called Avcoat glued to a titanium skeleton. It works by charring, melting, and disintegrating on purpose. The destruction of the outer layer is the cooling mechanism. There is no backup system. No redundancy. The heat shield works or the crew doesn't come home.
The Artemis I heat shield came back with over 100 locations where chunks had ripped off. NASA spent two years figuring out why, concluded it was gas pressure building up inside the material during reentry, and decided not to replace the shield. They changed the flight path instead. Steeper angle, less time in the danger zone. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said publicly that this approach "is not the right way to do things long term."
The capsule will slow from 25,000 mph to 17 mph in thirteen minutes. Parachutes don't even deploy until the last four. Everything before that is managed by a curved piece of titanium and glue entering air twice as hot as the Sun.
Tomorrow at 5:07 PM Pacific, San Diego might hear a sonic boom. That sound is four people betting their lives on NASA's math being right.
🚀 reAlpha (NASDAQ: AIRE) Reports 376% Full-Year Revenue Growth
Today we announced our fourth quarter and full year 2025 financial results.
In FY2025, revenue increased 376% year over year to $4.5 million and total transaction volume reached $116.1 million as we continued expanding our integrated homebuying platform.
“2025 was a year of strong growth and balance sheet progress,” said Thomas Kutzman (@thomaskutzman), Chief Financial Officer of reAlpha.
During the year, we acquired Prevu to expand our real estate footprint, signed a definitive agreement to acquire InstaMortgage, expanded our licensed footprint across 35 states and Washington, D.C., and continued advancing our AI-enabled homebuying experience with Claire.
“I’m proud of how our team executed in 2025. We did not just grow revenue, we expanded the platform, integrated brokerage and mortgage more tightly, and strengthened the operating foundation of the business,” said Mike Logozzo (@mike_logozzo), Chief Executive Officer of reAlpha.
Read the full press release: https://t.co/zQSge7x5g1
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We’ve entered into a definitive agreement to acquire InstaMortgage, a multi-state mortgage lender licensed across 32 U.S. states with more than $4B in lifetime mortgage originations.
“This agreement is about building the operating system for modern homebuying,” said Mike Logozzo (@mike_logozzo), CEO of reAlpha. “Following the completion of the acquisition, InstaMortgage will bring direct lending infrastructure and multi-state licensing that fits our platform strategy.”
Shashank Shekhar, (@ShashankTweets) Founder and CEO of InstaMortgage, added, “We built InstaMortgage with a focus on execution and a digital-first origination experience. reAlpha’s vision for an integrated AI-powered homebuying platform aligns with how we see the market evolving.”
The proposed transaction would complement reAlpha’s existing mortgage brokerage operations and is subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.
Read the full press release: https://t.co/RH3OyzZCjv
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These are the reasons why the Prevu acquisition matters.
It expands our reach, strengthens our technology stack, and accelerates our progress toward a more integrated and efficient business.
I am proud of our team and confident in where we are headed.
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This acquisition creates opportunities across our full stack.
We can now cross-sell mortgage and title services within markets where we previously could not operate end-to-end. This deepens engagement with customers and increases revenue per client. The strategic lift is meaningful.
Real estate agents don't want you to know this:
AI can now predict neighborhood value changes 18 months in advance with 92% accuracy.
This is why the traditional broker model is dying.
Technology is eliminating information asymmetry.
The biggest real estate shift in history is coming.
Warren Buffett just moved $234.6 Billion to treasury bills.
For the first time ever, he holds more than the Federal Reserve's $195B.
Here's what the Oracle of Omaha sees (that you don't):