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When Artemis was launching, I held my breath, remembering Challenger. Today, Artemis will return, and I will hold my breath again, remembering Columbia. 🙏🏻🇺🇸

We’re entering a postliterate age. That’s why image-rich Catholicism is trending and text-based Protestantism isn’t. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

These people 😂🤣 We sha wont give up on them. Lol

In case you want to follow the Artemis II landing today in Nigeria Artemis II Splashdown Timing for Nigeria (WAT) The mission is currently on track to conclude at the following local times in Nigeria: 11:30 PM (Friday): Live broadcast coverage begins on NASA+ and YouTube. 12:53 AM (Saturday): Orion enters the atmosphere (Entry Interface). 1:07 AM (Saturday): Official Splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. 2:30 AM (Saturday): Post-splashdown news conference begins.

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في شوارع الأرجنتين، نساء يمارسن الدعارة وينتظرن الزبائن مقابل حوالي 30 دولارًا، أثارن جدلاً على وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي.

Indo-Europeans engaged in sexual intercourse with horses to seal their rule. In Ireland, the king had public intercourse with a mare, and in India, the queen with a stallion. These are Indo-Europeans Jaan Puhvel; Comparative Mythology

US fertility reached 1.57 last year, the lowest ever recorded, and the WSJ explanation is "uncertainty about finances, relationship stability, and the political climate" my great grandma had eleven children during the second world war, in a country being bombed, in a house with no running water, on rations. poor people have always had kids. the poorest people on earth right now still have kids and the financial excuse is a story we tell ourselves because it makes us feel good and the real one is unbearable the real mechanism is that we got rich enough to redefine children as an expense instead of the point. somewhere in the last fifty years the cultural goal inverted and a child stopped being what life is for and became a line item competing with the lifestyle. once you frame it that way the math never works, because the math isnt supposed to work. that's the point we are living in the richest moment in human history and we decided to use the surplus to buy ourselves out of the future. the most prosperous civilization that has ever existed is committing demographic suicide at the altar of personal optimization and comfort, and the official line is that we cant afford it the birthrate is a lagging indicator of a civilization that forgot why it was alive

An Afrobeat band from Melbourne Australia called The Seven Ups, playing the opening horn riffs of No Agreement by Fela. Occurred to me e that very few of this bands can play Afrobeat with vocals. Why?

women are reinventing convents from first principles

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Moon joy [noun] the feeling of intense happiness and excitement that only comes from a mission to the Moon The Artemis II crew bring us endless Moon joy.

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It's a few weeks old, but I keep thinking about this video from the Ukraine War, where soldiers shoot down explosive drones with shotguns to save their own lives. Welcome to the future.

The chemistry of this transformation is one of the most violent processes in the food industry, and you eat the result almost every day. Pig skin is roughly 30% collagen by weight. Collagen is a triple helix protein, three polypeptide chains wound around each other like a rope. That structure is what makes skin elastic and tough. To turn it into gelatin, you have to destroy the rope. The skins arrive at processing plants and get soaked in sulfuric or hydrochloric acid at pH 1.3 for 8 to 48 hours. The acid breaks the cross-links holding the triple helix together. Then they're washed for another 24 hours to flush the acid and salts. Then the actual extraction: the skins get cooked in water at 50°C to 100°C for up to 36 hours. Each temperature stage pulls out a different quality of gelatin. The first, lowest-temperature batch produces the strongest gel. The last batch, at near-boiling, produces the weakest. The collagen molecules unwind, collapse, and fragment into shorter peptide chains. What was a structured fiber becomes a random coil dissolved in water. That solution gets filtered, demineralized, vacuum-concentrated to 50% solids, sterilized at 300°F for 13 seconds, extruded into noodle-like strands, dried, and milled into powder. The global industry processes about 620,000 tons of this per year. 46% of all gelatin on Earth comes from pig skin. That powder goes into gummy bears, marshmallows, Jell-O, yogurt, pill capsules, even film photography. One-third of the world's population can't eat it for religious reasons. The gummy bear you're chewing started as connective tissue holding a pig together. Everything between those two states was acid baths, 36-hour cooks, and industrial chemistry operating at a scale most people never think about.

720 individuals recruited by UBA for its graduate trainee programme. One company, 720 individuals. If I assume they get ₦400k monthly, that's an estimated ₦3.5bn of income annually that is about to enter the system.

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Quite hilarious.

Four humans are about to fall into a 10,000°C wall of plasma at 25,000 mph with a heat shield NASA knows is flawed. Tomorrow evening. Off the coast of San Diego. Orion hits the atmosphere at 36 times the speed of sound. The air can't move out of the way fast enough, so it compresses into a shockwave twice as hot as the surface of the Sun. The plasma ionizes the surrounding air and blocks all radio signals. For several minutes, the crew is falling faster than any humans have ever traveled inside a spacecraft, and nobody on the ground can talk to them. The heat shield is 186 blocks of a material called Avcoat glued to a titanium skeleton. It works by charring, melting, and disintegrating on purpose. The destruction of the outer layer is the cooling mechanism. There is no backup system. No redundancy. The heat shield works or the crew doesn't come home. The Artemis I heat shield came back with over 100 locations where chunks had ripped off. NASA spent two years figuring out why, concluded it was gas pressure building up inside the material during reentry, and decided not to replace the shield. They changed the flight path instead. Steeper angle, less time in the danger zone. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said publicly that this approach "is not the right way to do things long term." The capsule will slow from 25,000 mph to 17 mph in thirteen minutes. Parachutes don't even deploy until the last four. Everything before that is managed by a curved piece of titanium and glue entering air twice as hot as the Sun. Tomorrow at 5:07 PM Pacific, San Diego might hear a sonic boom. That sound is four people betting their lives on NASA's math being right.

Shockingly relatable. This animal called man!