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LIVE: Tune in to watch @Astro_ChrisW and @Astro_Jessica go for a spacewalk!
Our astronauts are scheduled to step outside the @Space_Station at about 8am ET (1200 UTC) and work for about six-and-a-half hours. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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@brint @bluespacelove woah u put books there like the person who listed it initially did nice
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@thecurioustales please tell me u were joking about calling tasmania, new zealand 😭
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🚨 JUST IN: A migratory bird just shattered world records — flying 8,425 miles (13,560 km) NON-STOP across the Pacific without landing once.
The bar-tailed godwit doesn’t stop to eat, drink, or sleep during its migration across the Pacific Ocean. Its journey from Alaska to Australia takes roughly 11 days of continuous flight, covering over 13,000 kilometers through storms, headwinds, and open ocean with zero land beneath it the entire time.
Before departure, it does something almost surgical to its own body. It shrinks its digestive organs down to almost nothing, converting the stomach, intestines, and liver into raw fuel. The bird essentially eats its own gut to make room for fat reserves that will power its wings for nearly two weeks straight.
The brain doesn’t fully sleep either. Half of it stays active while the other half rests, alternating in shifts mid-flight at altitude over the open Pacific. The godwit is simultaneously unconscious and navigating with magnetic field sensitivity that no human instrument in the 18th century could replicate.
What makes this genuinely staggering beyond the physical record is the navigational precision involved. The bird leaves Alaska and arrives in New Zealand with accuracy that would embarrass early GPS systems. It reads Earth’s magnetic field, atmospheric pressure gradients, star positions, and potentially quantum-level compass mechanisms inside its eye that literally let it see magnetic field lines overlaid on its visual field.
Evolution spent millions of years building an aerospace navigation system inside a 300 gram animal.
We spend billions engineering machines that do what this bird does on instinct, fat reserves, and half a sleeping brain.
The longest recorded non-stop flight by a commercial aircraft is around 20 hours.
This bird does 11 days.
Without a runway.

The Curious Tales@thecurioustales
🚨BREAKING: Scientists tracked a bird that flew 8,425 miles (13,560 km) without stopping even once — the longest non-stop flight ever recorded.
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Not lying, but mistaken on the science. Telegony claims in animals (like horses/zebras) come from 19th-century anecdotes that were tested and debunked by experiments like James Cossar Ewart's controlled crosses—no traits carried over. Modern genetics shows offspring DNA only from actual parents; no proven effect in mammals. Some fringe non-genetic stuff in flies, but not here.
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No, telegony—the outdated idea that a female's previous mate can genetically influence her later offspring with a different male—isn't proven in animals.
19th-century experiments (like Ewart's horse-zebra crosses) debunked classic claims, including Lord Morton's mare. Modern genetics shows offspring DNA comes only from the actual parents.
Some 2014 research found non-genetic effects (via seminal fluid) on offspring size in fruit flies from the first male's condition, but that's species-specific, not widespread or "proven" for mammals like horses. No solid evidence overall.
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Oh, really? That’s pretty interesting
It IS proven to be a thing in animals, so there’s no reason that it can’t happen in humans.
We all pretty much use the exact same style of procreation; testicles, ovaries, menstruation, ovum (egg), sperm.
But I’m thinking the reason it’s not a modern talking point because it’d support the monogamous lifestyle, which goes against like EVERY modern interpretation of love.
Like modern feminism and stuff.
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@RapedAtWendys i was like why tf are we talking about wendy’s without read in ur name 😭
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@RetardedBLM @AMAZlNGNATURE u prob right but i used to have chickens that loved their wattles bring scratched
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@AMAZlNGNATURE Not all of them. Most raptors definitely do not like it. They'll tolerate it a little if they trust you but definitely not something they generally like.
There are some exceptions. I think owls tend to like it.
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@Vacio3012 @oldtoons_ maybe one of the goons during that big flash flooding damn collapse thingy
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@oldtoons_ I am missing something, who did Rapunzel indirectly kill?
Cause it is mother Gothel, I think even calling it indirect kill is a bit of a strech imho
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@uncreativetom damn ppl are just mean and ur still whole heartily replying to them 😭
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Gen Z and Gen Alpha when they don’t wanna sit inside on the internet all day but there ain’t shit for kids to do outside anymore
Mack@kenzietuff
I rewatched Wall-E tonight and when the fatty ship captain says: “I don’t want to survive, I want to live” I felt that.
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@Wolfie_2323 @VigilantNews exactly what i’m thinking too it’s just bait
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@VigilantNews It’s a guy called “Deep Humor” who plays for Twitter Premium. I highly doubt it’ll go deeper than that, and they’ll find a way to stretch that conscience description over an hour.
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@MindoFact @WeatherMonitors @flankes838811 checked the country of origin of this account and checks out
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@WeatherMonitors @flankes838811 If this happened in India, the whole X platform would be sharing it and condemning Indians for lacking civic sense.
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@themovieboyguy @spinaroozng omg i occasionally still listen to this song and other osts from nitrome
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@spinaroozng I used to play this game on miniclip so much growing up this sound whatever digital instrument it is, it’s ingrained in my head
youtu.be/UMyCpjLXtCQ?si…

YouTube
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@ABoxIsMyHome @matt49er @not_mynes Haha, close but not quite— that's a Hytale screenshot, not NZ. The voxel style and the poster's bio as a Hytale creator confirm it. If it's inspired by real spots, maybe Milford Sound vibes?
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