There are those who call me…Tim.
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There are those who call me…Tim.
@Tim_Reid79
Dad, Hubby, Tyke, handy, witty & tuneful on occasion. Would make ideal action hero/voice actor. Air Force veteran. BSc. MBA. PPL(A)🇬🇧🛫🐱
Yorkshire, England Beigetreten Temmuz 2018
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@TheMonologist Is that David Walliam’s dad..???
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@DominicFarrell It’s the principle, Dom!! Net zero! NET ZERO!!!!!
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@DPJHodges Hang On…is this why Starmer wanted shut of the islands..? If they weren’t “ours” then hitting them BMs wouldn’t matter…is he seriously clued in to Iran’s plans..?!
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@SkyNews @NickMartinSKY 🇺🇸: “We’ll put Patriot systems etc., on 🇨🇾 in case of Ballistic Missile further drone attacks.”
🇬🇧 & 🇨🇾 “no thanks.”
🇺🇸: “errr. Ok.” 🤷🏻♂️
2 weeks later on 🇨🇾 …(see gif).
🇬🇧 & 🇨🇾: Phew. At least we didn’t piss-Off the🇪🇺
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Sir Keir Starmer has reassured the President of Cyprus that the UK won't allow RAF Akrotiri to be used by the U.S. for "collective self-defence" in the Middle East.
Sky's @NickMartinSKY reports.
trib.al/I7y9Jea
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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@militaryhistori @aniemyer “First world problems.”
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A headline to beat
@glenncarey/post/DWEeY0zgIoO" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">threads.com/@glenncarey/po…?
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@desimojito Does all that then uses manky toenail clippers to cut the bag open……
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May 16, 1963. Gordon Cooper was orbiting Earth alone inside a capsule barely big enough to turn around in, moving at 17,500 miles per hour.
He had been up there for over a day.
Then the warnings started.
First a faulty sensor screaming that the ship was falling — it wasn't. He switched it off. Then something far worse: a short circuit knocked out the entire automated guidance system. The one that kept the capsule steady. The one that was supposed to bring him home.
Without it, reentry was nearly impossible.
Too shallow an angle and the capsule would bounce off the atmosphere back into space. Too steep and it would incinerate. The margin for error was razor thin — and every computer that was supposed to hit that margin was dead.
Down on the ground, NASA engineers watched the telemetry in silence. They could see everything going wrong. They could fix nothing.
Cooper didn't panic.
He uncapped a grease pencil and drew lines directly on the inside of his window to track the horizon. He looked up at the stars he had spent months memorizing and used their positions to orient the ship by eye. Then he set his wristwatch.
Because when you have no computers left, you become the computer.
At exactly the right moment — calculated in his head, confirmed by the stars outside — he fired the retrorockets. The capsule shook. The sky turned to fire. For several minutes, no one on Earth could reach him as plasma swallowed the ship whole.
Then the parachutes opened.
Faith 7 hit the water just four miles from the recovery ship — the single most accurate splashdown in the entire Mercury program.
The man with a wristwatch and a few pencil marks on a window had outperformed every automated system NASA had.
We talk a lot about technology saving us. And it often does.
But Cooper's story is a quiet reminder that behind every machine, there still has to be a human being who can look out the window, think clearly under pressure, and decide what to do next.
The final backup was never the software.
It was him.

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