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CONGRATS to my alma mater DFJ Growth on their $B Fund V — their largest fund to date and “one of the most substantial new growth entrants so far this year.” — https://t.co/6QgsAlfFfz DFJ Growth was an investor in Twitter and the X take private and: https://t.co/o72y9eX9By https://t.co/V0Vt2Juhvp
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53 years ago today, the first EV drove on the moon. I found some spare wheels at the Lone Star Museum in Houston. • Metal mesh — no inner tube needed. The tire is made of a woven mesh of zinc-coated piano wire to which titanium treads were riveted in a chevron pattern. This… https://t.co/xlUMYfM5Vw
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T͢h͢e͢ ͢F͢i͢r͢s͢t͢ ͢L͢u͢n͢a͢r͢ ͢E͢V͢ ͢R͢i͢d͢e͢s͢ 🚘🌖 OTD in 1971, Apollo 15 landed on the moon, and they brought a new toy — the most expensive car and GM’s first EV. Here are some of my artifacts that were there on the first lunar rover, and brought back to Earth 🧵 1)… https://t.co/rwEYRyIIXW
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The first coin produced by the U.S. Mint, pressed in the presence of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson in 1792, makes a lovely proclamation of one of the earliest depictions of our nation’s self-image: LIBERTY, PARENT OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY. For Thomas Jefferson, advancing… https://t.co/JzYDbgPuBP
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Multiplanetary Mission Patches – the early days. “Designed and Tested for Interplanetary Transport” Test Flight 5 -> LFG! https://t.co/SiYKlZpICz https://t.co/JslJE328rS
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From space to the bottom of the sea… to me. 25 years ago, the Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft was recovered from the bottom of the sea, where it rested for 38 years. In July 1961, it carried Gus Grissom on the second manned flight of the U.S. space program, and after his hatch blew… https://t.co/y6uf6tvXt5
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My favorite moon — The Sponge of Saturn 🪐 Remarkably, 40% of Hyperion’s interior is empty space between icy fragments, and this also explains its stark surface texture. The Cassini spacecraft found cup-like craters filled with hydrocarbons and an extremely low density… https://t.co/zc29Mb3UwC https://t.co/ximXSs1YHm
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Time to break out the Windows Extinguisher! 🧯 (photo I took in Spain, also 20 years ago) https://t.co/L7Y7Z0Ekiw
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“Microsoft is a global monoculture and is therefore subject to catastrophic collapse.” — me, 20 years ago: https://t.co/EBaXYGQY8i “The resiliency of critical computer networks might suffer if they migrate to a common architecture. Like a monoculture of corn, they can be more… https://t.co/k2NtRv61DY
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