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@tonyfcarter @kelly_simonx @viserism @TrackGazette Well, due to a couple of technicalities. All the "straight" ones are not comparable. The Mennea run was hand-timed, so not comparable either, and Johnson's time was just a split en route to his 19.32s run in the 200m. The 150m on a bend is rarely run, simple as that.

@kelly_simonx @viserism @TrackGazette There are still faster bend records. So, how?

WORLD RECORD!!! Kishane Thompson 🇯🇲 clocks a time of 14.92s (1.3) to win the men's 150m at the Miramar Invitational! He breaks the World Record in the event. Tapiwanashe Makarawu 🇿🇼 was 2nd in African Record of 14.96s, followed by Adrian Kerr 🇯🇲 was 3rd in 15.21s.

@TrackGazette nvm, I found the wiki page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stawell_G…

@TrackGazette what kind of event is this?

Christian Coleman 🇺🇸 wins his heat at the Stawell Gift in Australia!

@Julianthebull @Saganismm the astronauts should still get some pretty crazy views of the moon with the earth in the background

@Saganismm There won't be such thing like this since the picture was part of a landing whereas this Artemis II mission is an approach (of roughly 5.000 miles away).

This photo was taken by astronaut Michael Collins in 1969. With the entire Earth in view, along with the lander carrying Armstrong and Aldrin, Collins was the only human being not in the frame. We are going to get a new view of Earth from lunar orbit soon.

@FunkyDL @photo2electric There's also a chance he'd still be alive, given the longevity of a lot of these early astronauts.

@photo2electric According to Deke Slayton, who picked astronaut crews, Gus would have likely been the first man on the Moon had he lived.

Rest in peace to an actual legend. He died at the young age of 40 in 1967 when the Apollo 1 command module caught fire. One of the all time great Americans.

@SixSeedStudio @siennapotterz Bait

@siennapotterz so you think its an insult to be called a lesbian? thats rather biggoted of you? many lesbians are proud of their look

no Dominic Mclaughlin does not look like a girl, or a lesbian or whatever adjectives that are being thrown at him. He looks like a normal healthy 12 year old pre pubescent CHILD. Either y'all are blind or sick in the heads. Get a life, losers.

Imagine winning this hard. Impossible

@Iammarels @MichaelBlaq "He has 43.3 PB" lol y'all just saying things that ain't true

@MichaelBlaq He has 43.3 PB, with his improved performances in the shorter sprints, he can break the world record

If he goes sub-20s in the 200m, I'm afraid Van Niekerk's 400m world record is on borrowed period

@marsfoole @memeticsisyphus They are not everywhere. They just get a loud voice on the internet

@memeticsisyphus Dude these fucking people are getting on my last nerve. This launch has shined a light and the 70IQ cockroaches are everywhere.

@Geoffre97227678 @flatsmackin @JohndeVos762831 He probably thinks gps works off of pure vibes

@flatsmackin @JohndeVos762831 have you ever used a gps, the tv or even possibly the internet. maybe even a radio in some cases

You can’t fall “around” the earth. You either fall straight down to the ground, or you fly above it. You can’t fall sideways.

@TrackGazette Impressive time, but he maybe went a bit too hard given that this was a semi and the lead he had in the last 50m

Bayapo Ndori 🇧🇼 clocks 44.69s to lead the men's 400m semis at the Botswana Athletics Championships!

@trackkworldd @Predamame No one said they were

@Predamame None of them are a factor today.

He's in Fred Kerley/Michael Norman/van Niekerk territory with that 100 and 400 combo.

@TrackGazette insane speed

Watch 400m World Champion Collen Kebinatshipi 🇧🇼 run a blazing PB of 9.89 (0.8) over 100m at the Botswana Athletics Championships! The first man in the world under 10 seconds in 2026.

Kudos to the finance degree, genuinely but this is a different domain entirely. In engineering, the loss of technology isn’t uncommon nor is it inherently catastrophic. The idea that “we lost the ability to go to the moon” sounds stupid to people but it follows a pattern we see all the time. FOGBANK is the example I love to use. FOGBANK was a classified material essential to the W76 nuclear warhead, a kind of aerogel if you will . Sometime by the 1990’s the warheads were being decommissioned and the facility that produced it (as well as many other ones critical to the warheads lifecycle) was shut down and the small group of specialists (only a few hundred people) retired. By the early 2000s, when the US government wanted to extend the warhead’s lifecycle, they discovered that the process for producing FOGBANK had effectively been lost. Recreating it was a fucking disaster . Around hundreds of millions were spent attempting to reverse engineer the material and in doing initially reproduced it too perfectly. The original formulation relied on impurities introduced by older and less refined production methods that were absent in the modern process. Here, modern methods improving the purity stripped the oxide layer making the material nonfunctional. Those “imperfections” were in fact essential. So in essence it took years and hundreds of millions of dollars to approximate what had once been produced routinely. Returning to the moon isn’t any different. It’s not that it’s impossible it’s that it requires rebuilding an entire ecosystem from the ground up which involves redefining engineering standards, requalifying or replacing vendors capable of extreme precision (many of whom no longer exist), retraining a specialized workforce, integrating modern technologies, and revalidating everything through rigorous testing and safety protocols. From the outside, it’s easy to assume you can simply “rebuild” and scale it like an assembly line. In reality, the system that made it possible the first time no longer exists. We can disagree and be skeptical but I don’t like contrarianism for the sake of it .

this is the average moon landing denier: >never applied himself in a technical field >can’t do basic math problems let alone trigonometry, calculus, linear algebra >”what’s a vector?” >has never set foot in an engineering workspace >never seen a P&ID let alone read one >never coded >can’t read a schematic >confuses mass and weight >confuses voltage, current, and resistance >”bernoullis principle?” >cannot calculate slope between two points >”I love Ancient Greeks, wrestling naked in the sun. Wait, pythagorean theorem? why would I need that? >does not understand order of operations >struggles with exponents and powers >cannot work with fractions or ratios >doesn’t know the difference between diameter, circumference and radius of a circle >essentially mathematically illiterate >thinks g force is a watch I’d like to convince you one day about how great of an achievement this was for humanity, Sol.

@SolBrah @sainimatic I'm surprised you can read. Also wager you didn't read Orwell lol

@sainimatic “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” George Orwell, 1984

They want you believe this aluminium foil wrapped hunk of junk went to the moon and back. The amount of fluoride in the brain to swallow this is staggering.

@stackhodler Prepare to receive comments from retards

You look at the United States today and of course you don't believe they put a man on the moon in 1969 But go watch the Apollo 11 documentary on Amazon What you'll see is an entirely different country full of people that basically no longer exist today A serious, focused, rational, and united people with a common goal They had a pack of tin foil and less computing power than a microwave oven... But they understood physics They knew how to build things And most of all, they had belief Why wouldn't they? They were from the country that invented flight itself If two bike mechanics from the midwest could accomplish something that even the great da Vinci only dreamed of... Why couldn't a team of the brightest minds in the most powerful country in the world come together to put a man on the moon? As time goes on, fewer people believe that the scientists and engineers of the 60's actually put a man on the moon But that says more about our own time than theirs Go tour the Mont Saint-Michel in France and you'll realize that progress isn't always linear They built that place 500+ years ago, but no one could imagine us building it today Yet no one denies it's there. It sits there as a high watermark in architectural history, reminding us what we are no longer capable of. The moon landing is a lot easier to deny. You can't see it with your own eyes. And what you do see with your own eyes makes it hard to believe it was possible.

@mattbnelson @AmazingSpace2 Oh god, you're so smart. It's a fucking animated demo

@AmazingSpace2 That animation is a lie. The fuel in the SRBs gets used from the bottom up, or more accurately, from the central core out to the walls.

Artemis II animation - fuel use during launch

Me blocking every account I see on my timeline expressing even the tiniest amount of pessimism about spaceflight

@EvilPepeMogul @cammakingminds Out the window

@cammakingminds k, but where are they going to shit?

If you are using the earth as a reference frame, the moon is actually doing a close flyby of Artemis II.