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@AnishA_Moonka @ComfortablySmug But Michigan still cant build/lay a road that will last more than 3 years...

Those wheels you’re looking at are 0.75 millimeters thick. That’s half the thickness of a US dime. Each one was carved from a single block of aluminum, and NASA sent six of them to Mars knowing they’d eventually shred. Curiosity was built for a 2-year mission. It landed in August 2012, and by December that year NASA had already extended the mission indefinitely. Thirteen years and 35.5 kilometers later, the rover is still going, but the wheels started cracking just 14 months in. The damage came faster than anyone at JPL predicted. Sharp embedded rocks were punching straight through the skin between the treads. So NASA assembled a Wheel Wear Tiger Team (a crisis problem-solving tradition that goes back to Apollo 13) and got to work. In 2017, they uploaded a traction control algorithm from Earth that adjusts each wheel’s speed in real time based on the terrain, reducing force on the front wheels by 20%. They rerouted the rover to softer ground and started driving backward when possible, because pulling wheels over rocks produces less force than pushing them into rocks. The wildest part: if enough treads snap off, Curiosity is designed to find a sharp rock on Mars and use it to deliberately rip out the damaged inner section of its own wheel. JPL tested this on a replica rover and found Curiosity can keep driving on just the outer third. They predict this won’t be needed until around 2034. Every 1,000 meters, the rover pulls over and uses the camera on its robotic arm to photograph its own wheels so engineers on Earth can count every crack. Each wheel also has tiny holes that spell “JPL” in Morse code, which Curiosity uses to measure distance by photographing its own tracks in the dirt. These photos directly changed the next rover. When NASA built Perseverance, engineers 3D-printed about 70 different tread designs before landing on 48 curved treads instead of Curiosity’s 24, with thicker skin. They tested the new wheels over 60 kilometers and got zero damage by Curiosity’s original failure definition. “A boring graph with no data on it,” as one JPL engineer put it. A $2.5 billion machine doing self-surgery with rocks on another planet because the mission outlasted its design by 6x.

@atxurbanist @Amena__Bakr @zerohedge Im shifting more and more to the simulation theory...

@BigCFinancial @Amena__Bakr @zerohedge 😂 yes! On the bright side, at least we know two users on Twitter aren't AI bots

Cosco Shipping Lines (China) resumes new bookings for standard containers to UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Iraq effective immediately. #OOTT

BREAKING: 30+ NATO allies are now moving to secure the Strait of Hormuz, per Fox News.

@LeadingReport Needs to be 10x that

BREAKING: 3.3 million people have been moved off food stamps since President Trump took office, per Sec. Brooke Rollins.

BREAKING: Another electrical backout in Cuba.

@NYCMayor Islam is a political ideology-not a religion. Until that changes (it wont)-dont be surprised by the pushback especially when you refuse to condemn muslim terrorists (which is forbidden under your "religion"...)

I’m outraged by this hateful, anti-Muslim attack in our city. No one should be targeted with slurs, threats, or violence—ever. Muslim New Yorkers deserve to move through this city in safety and dignity. Islamophobia has no place here, and we will not tolerate it.

@NYCMayor Furious about a stranger yelling Islamophobic slurs? Interesting. How do you feel when Muslims stone their own women?

Two girls from Yorktown Heights New York One supports illegal immigration The other got killed by one The first one is completely silent

@atxurbanist @Amena__Bakr @zerohedge Seriously - is this parody...?

@BigCFinancial @Amena__Bakr @zerohedge No cosco is the shipping arm of Costco. Thats why the stock has pumped so much. You'd be surprised just how big Costco is.

All roads lead to OBAMA. Imagine if President Trump sent $400 MILLION in cash stacked on wooden pallets in the back of a cargo plane to Iran? $1.7 BILLION in total. I thought we didn't negotiate with terrorists or pay ransoms?

@PatrickByrne When does the DOJ start getting aggressive...?

Verdict: True

@tony4mrht @HansMahncke We've yet to see anyone get near a trial let alone prison sentence

The question on every sane American's mind right now: When will we see anyone prosecuted for this perversion of justice and the weaponization of the federal government?

The subpoena released this morning by Chuck Grassley in connection with the fraudulent Arctic Frost investigation is absolutely staggering. It didn’t just ask for Kash Patel’s phone records, it asked for everything he did from 2020 to 2023. Just to name a few, they requested all usernames and screen names, every address and email, complete billing and payment details including credit card and bank account numbers, every device ID, and a full log of every call, text, and voicemail showing who was contacted, when, and for how long. They also obtained all internet session data, including the exact IP addresses. So this wasn’t just about who Kash called. It was basically a complete view of his entire life, mapping his daily routines, travel, relationships, finances, and even tracking the specific hardware he used. In short, they got a full digital shadow of his life. To have come through all of this without so much as a scratch tells you just how clean he is.

@atxurbanist @Amena__Bakr @zerohedge COSCO vs COSTCO Completely different

@BigCFinancial @Amena__Bakr @zerohedge #winning

@drawandstrike I would have bet my house and family agaainst that failing on Polymarket...

What if I told you that Paramount + had greenlit a new Star Trek show a year ago for two seasons? And that it was about the famous 'Star Fleet Academy'? And that when it debuted, it was a woke clusterf**k that didn't have one Alpha Male cadet at the Academy? And it obviously wasn't because the cast wasn't big enough to have one. The show had over a dozen main cadet characters, all 'wokified'. Every single 'good' male in the show is a pussified feminist version of the completely safe subservient Beta male they demand around them in real life. In other worlds... THERE WASN'T EVEN ONE MALE CADET OR INSTRUCTOR CHARACTER THAT WAS WITHIN YODELING DISTANCE OF THE MOST POPULAR CHARACTER THAT HAS COME OUT OF THE STAR TREK UNIVERSE IN IT'S 60+ YEARS OF EXISTENCE: The ALPHA MALE: James...Tiberius...KIRK. You can't make a Star Trek for fans of the lore and fill it with male characters than aren't fit to shine Captain Kirk's black boots. This awful show was yet one of THE worst examples of the recent fatal 'Woke Mind Virus' in the entertainment industry: Get control of a massively successful IP and then utterly gut it like a fish and debone it, extracting everything that attracted all the fans in the first place, and then inserting your woke 'modern audiences' talking point tropes to virtual signal to all your friends at the right parties. @TheCriticalDri2's done another excellent takedown here of a show no one will really miss.

@ImtiazMadmood Nah - its called "equity" in academic circles' perverted thinking...

•When a Muslim is attacked, it’s called Islamophobia •When a Jewish person is attacked, it’s anti-Semitism. •When a Black person is attacked, it’s racism. •When a trans person is attacked, it’s transphobia. •But when a White person is attacked? It’s just business as usual. - @Aku_700

@C_3C_3 But its all for our "safety"

I’m frantically chugging a 24oz bottle of water my kids forgot they had in their backpack in the TSA line and Somalis are walking through with $700 million in cash. Insane.

@WallStreetApes @drawandstrike Its been broken for a long time. ACA made it exponentially worse (by design) to collapse it. Then, only government run single payer would be able to "fix" the mammoth problem that was purposely created.

American has Cigna health insurance Her daughter was sick, she takes her to the doctor thinking it would likely be at most a couple hundred bucks with insurance All they did was a nose swab for the flu She just got the bill It’s $984 “What the f*ck is going on, what do you mean by a thousand dollars for a Q-tip up a nostril” The American healthcare system is legalized robbery