Supporting antimatter propulsion before it was cool 😎 A positron thermal rocket would likely be the nearest term propulsion system using antimatter. Reason is that antimatter is incredibly hard to store. A positron thermal rocket would require fractions of a gram for significant energy transfer. You’d still need to bring the fuel you needed for thrust. Would be about 3x the fuel efficiency of a chemical rocket if you could figure it out.

“Defense Unicorns, the Airgap Software Company, in partnership with the United States Air Force, successfully demonstrated a key enabler for continuous software delivery to the F-22 Raptor. For the first time, software in the F-22 open mission system compute enclave was installed and upgraded on the aircraft in a matter of minutes.” The next generation of warfare will be software defined. Your ability to update your software on demand is your ability to adjust and adapt in the battlefield. If you can deploy capabilities in real time, on-demand, and by the brave men and women serving in uniform operating these systems, you fundamentally have a capability none of our adversaries can keep up with. At Defense Unicorns we are making software a strategic deterrent. We can’t always talk about the technology and systems we support at Defense Unicorns 🦄 But every once in a while, we’re able to get an approved press release to give the world 🌎 a glimpse. Read more in the press release: lnkd.in/gT5T7WJ2

On the edge of my seat 🍿

Just a reminder on why nuclear weapons will forever drive national politics. The GBU-57, the “bunker buster” that was used operationally for the first time to target Iran’s nuclear sites, has a 5,300 pound explosive charge. That’s the equivalent of about 2 metric tons of TNT 🧨 For context, “Little Boy” the first nuclear bomb was 15KT (kilotons) or 15,000 tons of TNT. That’s about 10,000 more powerful than the GBU-57. Current nuclear ☢️ weapons for most countries ranges between 100 KT to 1MT (megaton), meaning most modern nuclear weapons are 10-100x more powerful than the ones first dropped in world war 2. To put that in perspective, that’s 100,000 to 1,000,000 times more powerful than the GBU-57. For more context, a firework is about 100 grams or 0.1 kg of TNT 🧨 Putting it on log scale: GBU-57 is about 4 orders of magnitude from a firework 🧨 GBU-57 is 5-6 orders of magnitude from a nuclear ☢️ bomb Meaning the GBU-57 has more in common with a firework 🎇 than a nuclear ☢️ weapon in terms of pure thermodynamic yield This is why nuclear bombs are very scary. And why threats of developing, using, or distributing nuclear weapons gets taken very seriously.

Had an awesome time at Manifest Demo Day with some of my 500 closest Defense Tech friends. Shoutout to @lk_bell and @MikeSlagh This is how we win!!!

All I want for Christmas 🎄 is…. 1988 and still so relevant

We just announced raising $35M in our series A today 💪 🚀 🦄 First thing the team does is make me go get them coffee ☕️ 🤔 😂 Thanks @DefenseUnicorns @BadCodeOnly @andrewg_xyz @Austen_Bryan @ansacapital @SapphireVC ….. and all our mission heroes we are honored to support

Leadership principles of Colin Powell. The 40:70 rule 1. If you have less than 40% of the information, you are "shooting from the hip" 2. If you are waiting to have 70-100% of the information, you waited too long 3. When you feel you have 40-70% of the information, TRUST YOUR GUT. #data #leadership #ColinPowell

My mom always said to be prompt if I wanted to succeed in life Source: forbes.com/sites/craigsmith/…

We see you 👀 #GPT #LLM #AI #chatGPT

Some “light” reading @JasonPLowery