
A Lantern of Hope
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A Lantern of Hope
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Multiverse cartographer, transformative justice activist, friend to felines, science supporter, history geek, and dedicated daddoo. (he/him)


NASA’s Curiosity rover just captured something truly magical on Mars: rare, iridescent “mother-of-pearl” clouds shimmering high in the alien sky!These aren’t ordinary clouds. While Earth’s clouds are made of water droplets, these Martian beauties are formed from dry ice — frozen carbon dioxide crystals floating at dizzying altitudes where temperatures plunge to unimaginable lows.What makes them absolutely breathtaking is the rainbow-like glow. As the Sun slips below the horizon, the last rays of sunlight catch the tiny, perfectly uniform ice crystals, scattering light into vivid, shifting colors of pink, blue, and green. The result? A spectacular iridescent display that looks more like cosmic art than weather.These clouds only appear briefly during specific seasons on Mars, glowing brightest right after sunset when the sky turns deep purple and the crystals act like floating prisms.It’s a stunning reminder of how strange and beautiful the Red Planet can be — a world where clouds are made of frozen CO₂ and sunsets paint the heavens with otherworldly rainbows.What other rare space weather phenomena or breathtaking celestial events would you love to see captured by our rovers on Mars? Drop your ideas in the comments! Image Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS


What if the whole LLM thing is a false start? If the flaws are inherent systemic problems - if the compounding of hallucinations/errors can't be sorted out? If the capex build out is one of the biggest misallocations of capital ever? Then what? bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

Two weeks ago, FPRI released a fascinating paper covering the immense difficulty of replacing the munitions used just in the first 96 hours of this war:

Iran has already begun rebuilding the civilian bridge that was destroyed by an American-Israeli strike




The local chief of the Mandan tribes, Arkara and Hidatsa in North Dakota, weeps, forced to sign a treaty transferring the fertile lands on the Missouri River plain, the homeland of these tribes, under threat of the destruction of his entire people. United States, 1948.

your 20s are for having fun. your 30s are for having fun. and you guessed it your 40s are for having fun













