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Originally posted by Oonjerah:

I played Wizardry I & Ultima I a lot.

... now I'm playing Lord of the Rings online on my PC.



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I've given up looking for the meaning of life. Now all I want is a cookie.

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As they say — and especially when it comes to Peter Thiel — follow the money.

Despite their attempts at secrecy, it has been an open secret for years now that Thiel was fundamental in funding the start-up UFO reporting app Enigma Labs. It’s a bit odd that someone who Chris Sharp’s sources claim to be “a key advocate for UAP transparency” would want to hide their role in it altogether, but I digress. The Enigma Labs CEO has also insisted on anonymity, and once you scratch the surface of these relationships it becomes pretty clear why. It turns out there is another monetary relationship between Thiel and “Alex Smith” that is even more concerning than co-founding an app that was essentially created to track experiencers.

Alice Lloyd George, the CEO of Enigma Labs, is the great-granddaughter of former UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George. Like Thiel, she has spent a lot of time in venture capital funding various aerospace start-ups. Through her firm RRE Ventures, she was a principal investor in a satellite imaging company called BlackSky. Thiel is also co-investor in BlackSky through his firm Mithril Capital Management. Unsurprisingly, it also turns out that Thiel’s Palantir Technologies is an investor and integration partner with BlackSky.

To extend the benefits demonstrated by the pilot project, BlackSky also has entered into a multi-year software subscription agreement with Palantir to access Palantir Foundry, an enterprise platform run by Palantir. BlackSky will offer a combined solution that integrates Spectra AI with Palantir Foundry to expand the delivery of high-resolution imagery and deep analytics to customers worldwide. The capabilities of the combined solution were successfully demonstrated in a series of exercises with experienced geospatial intelligence customers earlier this year.

Lloyd George (RRE) and Thiel (Founders Fund) also have another co-venture called Accion Propulsion Systems. I’m sure it comes as no surprise that the company “is developing next-gen propulsion systems for satellites— with an approach that aims to "break from [the] slow, expensive aerospace alternative propulsion systems.” The intent to break away from the normal acquisition process and work around legacy defense contractors is a theme that runs through every Thiel investment in defense tech start-ups. There are potentially other partnerships Thiel and Lloyd George have forged together in this area, but we will focus on the two most relevant to Matthew Brown’s testimony: BlackSky and Enigma Labs.

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