Thomas Antony

Guidance Navigation and Control Engineer.

"The lesson of Icarus is not 'don't fly too close to the sun' it's 'make better fucking wings'”.

[Thomas Antony @thomasantony]

I made a thing.

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https://t.co/S8kcfVrNyX

[Thomas Antony @thomasantony]

Nice to see this finally fly!

[Jonathan McDowell @planet4589]

Unannounced LAUNCH at about 1020 UTC Jun 19 by Electron from Mahia of the US Space Force mission VICTUS HAZE Puma, to a 347 x 461 km x 97.5 deg, 2241LTDN sun-sync orbit.

[Thomas Antony @thomasantony]

@wingod They already charge hefty "Road Improvement Fees" every year in CA for registering EVs regardless of mileage driven - far more than what a gas car driver would pay driving the average number of miles per year.

[Thomas Antony @thomasantony]

@paradite_ @tszzl @ivan_bezdomny Skill issue.

[Thomas Antony @thomasantony]

@durox @bigblackjacobin What fraction of the energy do you think is radiated as RF? Where does the rest of the energy go? Just disappears?

"wattage is almost 100% heat" - it is not almost 100% - it *is* 100% - for any satellite, minus any energy radiated as RF (which is a small fraction).

[Thomas Antony @thomasantony]

@durox @bigblackjacobin How is it that a ~28kW Starlink v2 mini satellite is under 0.5 tons with solar panels, radios, radiators and everything? Does it run on magic electricity that generates no heat? 🤔

[Thomas Antony @thomasantony]

@CarlyleSmith @Yrouel86 @DJSnM Why would you have a language model add numbers? Use a calculator/script for that, and btw that's what most of the AI systems would do today for doing math.

[Thomas Antony @thomasantony]

@BonkDaCarnivore Interesting. I wonder who first developed and demonstrated supersonic retro-propulsion ...

[Isaiah Taylor - making nuclear reactors @isaiah_p_taylor]

Moments ago, Valar Atomics took Ward 250 critical for the first time. This fulfills President Trump’s EO 14301, which called for 3 advanced reactors to go critical by July 4th.

This is our second criticality as a company, and an important step toward our goal of power by July 4.

[Joshua Achiam @jachiam0]

Seeing reactions like "Frequent scanning is bad, over-testing leads to unnecessary procedures that cost thousands of dollars." This take is catastrophically wrong. More data is unequivocally good. We should adjust the threshold for follow-on procedures, not make ourselves blind.

[Jared Isaacman @rookisaacman]

I bought Shift4 stock, the company I started 27 years ago, that serves predominantly hotels, restaurants, and stadiums, because it was trading at a multi-year low and permissible under my ethics agreement. I sold all SpaceX stock, any indirect equity exposure to it, and any other aerospace-related companies 18 months ago when I was first nominated for the job. A billion-dollar sacrifice I was happy to make to serve my country. I suspect I will be worth much less coming out of public service than going into it-- and that is completely fine!

[Sebastian Caliri @SebastianCaliri]

I just tested my hand in a mini version of this scanner. Images that are higher quality than MRI, whole body captured in <1 minute, virtually free to run. This is going to change medicine.

Things get even crazier when you consider the possibility of using the same tank to focus ultrasound to ablate tissue, stimulate nerves, etc.

The FDA is not in the slightest ready for this. People will also complain about incidental findings but they are wrong and don’t understand how quickly software can improve and how inexpensive a time series of scans will be to generate.

[Midjourney @midjourney]

A technical dive inside our new "Midjourney Scanner"

[Midjourney @midjourney]

Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"

[Chris @ChrissGPT]

Mid journey unveils the future of medical scanning:

"Less than a dozen of these machines operating together at full speed can do more full body scans than every MRI machine together on Earth. Our goal is to build a fleet of 50,000 of these scanners, capable together of doing a billion scans a month—enough to bring full body imaging to everyone on Earth."

Using thousands of specialized transducers, this prototype system shoots ultra-precise sound waves through the body at over 1,400 meters per second. As these sonic vibrations echo back, they are captured in data streams of 17 gigabytes per second, measuring changes finer than the width of an atom. A massive 2-petaflop compute ring then merges these thousands of sub-images to map out a highly detailed, 3D internal anatomy of organs and tissues in just 60 seconds.

"This is a new kind of infrastructure. It’s Full Body Ultrasonic Computational Tomography. No such device has ever been built until now, and yeah, we’re calling it the Midjourney Scanner."

My favorite quote from David, was that they want this to be a feel like a genuinely “nice” experience, not a “going to the doctor experience” they’re going to put these inside mid journey spas!

[Thomas Antony @thomasantony]

@perrymetzger Cloudflare has it. You can get it direct from them or through OpenRouter - they also have other providers.

https://t.co/4I84iTrcbo

[Chun @satofishi]

People are voting with their hard-earned money for the vision of making humanity an interplanetary species. $SPCX

[Greg Koenig @gak_pdx]

Remember folks, when the government buys a product you offer, they consider that “help” and vilify you for selling to them so they can claw back in taxes.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

SpaceX raised only $12B of capital before going public. With that $12B, they revolutionized the rocket industry, built a global satellite network, and created arguably the most innovative company of all time.

The federal government spends $12B every 15 hours and still can’t get its shit together. Prior to SpaceX, NASA was sending astronauts into space on Soviet-era Russian Soyuz capsules.

So no, I don’t find Elon’s wealth to be a problem, and I wouldn’t trust Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders to allocate a single dollar of it.

[Brian Singerman @briansin]

My video from the Hawthorne office of the final Falcon 1 launch (first ever success with deployment). This is one of those startup moments you never forget, and why you get into tech in the first place. 7/13/09.

[Thomas Antony @thomasantony]

@JWalters314 &gt; and the strategic decision to make one private company into national infrastructure

Why do you drop such truth bombs about ULA?