Colin Ake

Building the entrepreneurship ecosystem @kennesawstate. Side gig is City Council in hometown of Woodstock GA. Reading twitter for sports.

[Colin Ake @colinake]

@ArmsControlWonk how does one get an invite to slack? I’m a patreon member but have never gotten an invite.

[Colin Ake @colinake]

@jamesncantrell Feels like hyperloop is the other thing obviously designed to accelerate Martian infrastructure.

[Hermeus @hermeuscorp]

Supersonic. Mach 1.21.

Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 is now the world’s first privately developed, unmanned supersonic jet and the fastest unmanned aircraft flying today.

This flight makes Hermeus the fastest company in aviation history to go from founding to supersonic flight - exactly 364 days after the maiden flight of our first aircraft.

Now, we fly faster.

A special thanks to @DIU_x, Director @OwenWest91, Maj. Gen. Joe "Solo" Kunkel, and Deputy Director Kyle Norman.

[Colin Ake @colinake]

@FantasyCaresOrg

[Colin Ake @colinake]

@ZinCarlaH @ScottFish24 @sfb Hah, sorry I missed this. Will be my fourth time! Love the scoring format that always keeps people on their toes.

[Colin Ake @colinake]

@njigbasinpariis @SleeperHQ Big trade! Not quite nearly as lopsided. Could make sense for both sides.

[Colin Ake @colinake]

@ApoloJedi_ @SleeperHQ It’s up for vote right now

[Colin Ake @colinake]

@bstepp76 @SleeperHQ Sure is

[Patrick Finley @PatrickFinley_]

We just partnered with the Musk Foundation to give out $175k in grants to advance the frontier of collegiate rocketry.

This is in addition to the $390k we’re already giving out to collegiate teams building propulsive self-landing rockets.

When we first started, people laughed and told us what we were attempting would be impossible.

2 years later, several student teams have achieved both TVC and throttled hotfire with liquid engines, and they are making fast progress on their hoppers. We’re already seeing hover attempts at a collegiate level!

These kids are doing this on 0.001% of a typical rocket budget, dedicating 80 hour weeks without any pay to build some of the most capable rockets outside of industry.

The reason why so many people fall in love with space and rocketry is because it is proof that humanity is capable of the impossible.

We want to continue to advance that mission.

Back to work.

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

My god this is wonderful

[Artificial Gravity Space Stations @space_stations]

This is the kind of probe that should be build by the dozens, if not hundreds and should be orbiting every planet/moon within reach. They should be built for pennies on the dollar on a production line with minor modifications for the destinations

https://t.co/2OvGxlZEWw

[Vlad Saigau @VladSaigau]

“The problem with building a data centre, it had been generally agreed for some years, was that it required electricity, and the problem with electricity was that it had to come from somewhere, and the problem with somewhere was that it was almost always somewhere else, connected to the place you actually needed the electricity by a series of wires, transformers, substations, environmental review boards, regional transmission organisations, cost allocation disputes, and at least one retired schoolteacher named Margaret who had concerns about the noise. The solution, when it finally arrived, was so staggeringly obvious that it had only taken humanity approximately four billion years and one very impatient South African to think of it, which was to put the data centre in the one place where Margaret could not reach it, namely four hundred miles straight up.”

- LLM summary of our Orbital Data Center report in the voice of Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, my favourite book)

[Colin Ake @colinake]

@ZinCarlaH @ScottFish24 Fingers crossed!

[Colin Ake @colinake]

I don't know what to write about this other than you need to watch it. Send it to 2-3 close friends to watch and then get together for a drink and discussion. Heavy but necessary.

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

Extended interview: Former Nebraska senator Ben Sasse has metastatic pancreatic cancer. He spoke with 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley about where America has been and where it could still go.

[Colin Ake @colinake]

Bedford and the team doing the Lord’s work with RDREs.

[Astrobotic @astrobotic]

We fired a really cool rocket engine - and broke some records while we were at it. 🔥This Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine produced more than 4,000 pounds of thrust, and included a 300-second continuous burn, which is believed to have set the record for longest duration hot firing of an RDRE engine to date. Watch it fire:
https://t.co/dL1PgEplTQ

[Chris Lewicki @interplanetary]

I have alerted the authorities.

Prizes would be an excellent way for NASA to get more return on its tax dollar for ideas which deserve to be more than a paper study or lab demo!

[Colin Ake @colinake]

@dwainmcfarland random - where's Jamal Haynes in the RSM? Is there a cutoff to make the RSM?

[Physics & Astronomy Zone @zone_astronomy]

To think that we aren't just going "to the Moon," but rather traveling to meet it at an exact point in space... changes everything.
​It all comes down to orbital mechanics: arriving at the precise location, at the precise moment.
​One tiny error... and it simply doesn't happen