Ethan Thornton

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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe · 497: Ethan Thornton—I Like a Lotta Problems · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

And those things cost hundreds of thousands to make compared to hundreds of millions, depending on the type of ship you're talking about.

I think anything you have, we can show.

Some of it might be outdated.

So I don't think we've released the new version of Pike yet.

He has, I mean, there are a lot of books in, like, the Ender series.

Yeah, yeah.

They're all incredible.

I think I've probably read that book like five times.

So I read it first time, I think like second or third grade.

And then I've read it a few more times.

It's important to read both of those books.

You shouldn't read Ender's Game without reading Lord of the Flies.

I think you need to think of it as physics and as sort of economic warfare.

We do war games.

So the military war games, we war game as a company.

And yes, you're like running these cases on both strategy and technology.

And I see a large portion of my job today is hopefully having a good understanding, definitely not a perfect understanding, but a good understanding of those things to ideate products.

So this is the asset I was describing that we will be able to launch from a shipping container and go about a thousand miles and disable a ship or hit another target.

Now, this is the old version.

So the way we build aircraft is we build the first aircraft, which just flies.

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