Ed Pitchford

@CptAllenHistory Now that is the real ethnic cleansing of the middle east. x.com/destinationXIX…

The Jewish community in Iraq predated the arrival of both Arabs and Islam in the region by more than 1,200 years! Iraqi (previously Babylonian) Jewry WAS one of the oldest continuous Jewish diasporas in history. Now it's gone.

Only a decade ago, this was rhetoric that was exclusively found within Neo-Nazi circles

None. Every country Israel has conducted military strikes against—Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Tunisia—had either attacked Israel, issued explicit threats of attack, or hosted/supported groups (PLO, Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis) that planned or executed attacks on Israel. No exceptions in the historical record.

When we talk about age in everyday terms, we instinctively think in years defined by Earth’s orbit around the Sun. By that measure, the Solar System is about 4.6 billion years old, formed from a collapsing cloud of gas and dust that eventually gave birth to the Sun and the planets. That number is precise in geological terms, but it hides a more interesting perspective: the Solar System is not sitting still. It is moving continuously through the Milky Way. The Sun orbits the galactic center at a distance of roughly 25,000–28,000 light-years, traveling at a speed of around 220–250 km/s. Even at that speed, the scale of the galaxy is so vast that a single orbit takes about 225–250 million years. This duration is what we call a galactic year. If you take the Sun’s age and divide it by the length of a galactic year, you get a surprisingly small number. Over its entire lifetime, the Sun has only completed about twenty orbits around the Milky Way. That means the entire history of Earth, from its formation, through the rise of life, to the present day, has unfolded in less than twenty trips around the galaxy. This framing changes how you perceive cosmic time. Dinosaurs appeared and disappeared within a fraction of a single galactic year. Even the entire history of human civilization occupies only a tiny sliver of the Sun’s current orbit. So in galactic terms, the Sun is not “4.6 billion years old” in the way we usually think. It is roughly a 20-year-old star. 👶🏻 🌞

El rover Curiosity de la NASA ha revelado cómo se ve el cielo nocturno en Marte, que está a 225 millones de kilómetros de distancia.

Your galaxy, photographed by four humans farther from home than anyone in history. There was no atmosphere between the lens and the stars, no city glow, no light pollution at all. The Artemis II crew took this on April 7 while drifting 236,000 miles from Earth on their way home from the Moon. The last time any human left Earth's neighborhood was December 1972, over 53 years ago. Since then, every single photograph of deep space has come from robots and telescopes. This one came from a spacecraft window. The crew kept the camera shutter open for several seconds to soak up as much starlight as possible, a technique photographers call long exposure. With the lens pointed away from both the Earth and the Moon, there was zero stray light. Just the galaxy. That bright band across the frame is the dense center of the Milky Way, where billions of stars are packed together. The pink glow near the middle is a cloud of gas roughly 7,500 light-years from Earth (one light-year is about 6 trillion miles), left behind when a pair of massive stars erupted. The hazy smudge in the lower right is a completely separate galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud, a smaller companion that orbits our own. The photo is almost the least of what happened this week. On April 6, this crew flew within 4,067 miles of the Moon and shattered Apollo 13's 56-year-old distance record, reaching 252,756 miles from Earth, about 4,100 miles farther out than any human had ever traveled. They watched a total solar eclipse from lunar orbit that lasted 54 minutes. The longest a total eclipse can last on Earth is about seven and a half minutes. They photographed craters on the far side of the Moon that no person had ever seen with their own eyes. When they passed Apollo 13's mark, Commander Reid Wiseman asked Mission Control to name a lunar crater Carroll, after his wife, who died of cancer in 2020. He wept as the request went through. The whole crew held each other. And somewhere on the quiet coast home, they turned the camera away from the Moon and aimed it into the dark. They splash down Friday off San Diego. Four people, about to re-enter the same atmosphere they just photographed the universe without.

I love the idea that nasa created this huge conspiracy involving thousands of people but forgot to put the stars in

Guardian writers man..

Mehdi seems lost his moral compass: 1.Ukraine did not invade another country—Russia invaded Ukraine. 2.Ukraine is fighting for its national survival, not to preserve a regime. 3.Ukraine has not sponsored terrorist groups in the Middle East, unlike Iran. 4.Ukraine has not attacked Gulf states, unlike Iran. 5.Ukraine does not impose a religious doctrine on its citizens, while Iran does. 6.Ukraine has not killed tens of thousands of its own citizens for protesting, as Iran has. 7.Ukraine does not punish women over their choice of dress, while Iran does. 8.Ukrainian leadership has not called for the destruction of other countries, unlike Iranian leadership call “death to America” 9.Iran has supplied Shahed drones to Russia, which have been used to kill Ukrainians. Ukrainians have right to defend themselves against Iranian regime who supplied Russians with weapons

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While you slept last night, completely still in your bed, our galaxy moved millions of kilometers through the cosmos. You woke up in the same room, on the same planet, yet unimaginably far from where you were the night before. The Milky Way is not drifting quietly through the universe. It is racing through space at around 600 kilometers per second, carrying billions of stars, planets, and everything on them along for the ride. It is a good reminder that even when life feels motionless, you are always in motion.

Antisemites always think they're the good guys. Why? Because it always starts with lies about Jews that present them as demonic baby killers. What is more righteous than to stand up to demonic baby killers? That is why antisemitism always begins with lies, progresses with brainwashing and ends with this.

Nixon’s speech if Apollo 11 had failed, in which case the astronauts were stranded on the Moon, 1969.

We're going farther than ever before 🚀 Today, the Artemis II crew will break the record for how far humans have traveled from Earth as they fly around the far side of the Moon. Coverage begins at 1 p.m. EDT (1700 UTC). Watch Artemis II make history: nasa.gov/ways-to-watch/

Just a reminder, when the Greens ran Brighton & Hove only 3 years ago, they turned the city into a biohazard site because they *checks notes* REFUSED TO SIT DOWN WITH THE TRADE UNIONS.

This take is worse than his Casemiro "leave football" one 😂

On this day 22 years ago, Paul Scholes sent the invincibles packing in the fa cup

As someone who isn’t Jewish, this part of Kemi Badenoch’s Passover article really hit home. I will fight for and guard that freedom with them.

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