Expired Nicety

Out of all the newly released files, this one is easily the wildest The object almost appears humanoid, with visible arms and legs. The real question is what speed is this thing flying at? Could this be the most convincing UFO or alien footage ever made public?

@AshtonForbes Probably something suspended by a cable from another aircraft.

That is definitely plasma. Excellent.

@sireilisa I do it exactly like that, but I stop at the 28 second mark; thin slices is enough chopping; no need to make it glitter. I also do it faster and with more finesse.

Is this the correct way to chop garlic?

@dove_of_babylon I have one that comes into my backyard and knocks on the door until I feed him every morning.

australian white ibis :)

@AmericaPapaBear Buys bandannas from the manchester section.

Describe this forehead. Best one wins!

@TotalMotorcycle Suzuki Boulevard LS650.

Q. If you remember, what was the motorcycle you learned to ride on? For me it was a Yamaha Serow XT225. Great bike for a tall rider to learn on. Funny enough, I never owned a bike like the Serow in my over 35 years of riding... hmmm.

When no one is around, what do you like to wear?

@mosca_md @trad_west_ Nope, we'll take that thankyou,

Real (real 🇵🇹)

@awakened_mullet @MartinSellner_ Not generally in Australia.

@ExpiredNicety @MartinSellner_ You can wear it with a kilt but it must be on display. You can also wear a dirk on your belt.

Is it really true that foreigners are allowed to wear weapons around England while the English people are systematically disarmed by their own state?

@wakenminds Because ancient deep underground bunkers exist there that were used by humans to survive the last cataclysms. Also, there might be gold artifacts to steal and pretend they never existed, so we need to make sure it's the thieves that find them.

Why aren’t we allowed to explore Grand Canyon?

@nacchan_h0528 It's a Benda Napoleon.

このバイクの車種わかる？ なんだこのフロントフォーク

@elonmusk All the best books are necessarily second hand.

True

@r0ck3t23 "Blown apart in explosions so violent they forged new elements. Then gravity pulled those scattered pieces back together." Do things come back together quicker with Detol and a BandAid?

Elon Musk just measured your existence by how many times your atoms have been inside a dying star. Musk: “How many times have your atoms been at the center of a star? I think it’s like on average three or four times.” Every atom in your body has already survived the core of a star. Multiple times. Crushed under pressures that would flatten planets. Superheated to millions of degrees. Blown apart in explosions so violent they forged new elements. Then gravity pulled those scattered pieces back together. New stars formed. And the cycle repeated. For 13.8 billion years, your atoms have been fuel for the most violent process in the universe. And they are not done. Musk: “In terms of existence as measured by the number of times your atoms will be at the center of a star, we seem to be roughly halfway.” Halfway. Your atoms have been through the furnace three or four times. They will go through three or four more. But right now, in this impossibly thin sliver between cycles, those atoms are doing something they have never done before. They are conscious. For billions of years before you, they burned through stellar cores with no awareness. No memory. No sense of what they were or where they had been. After you, they will return to that state. Unconscious matter drifting through space until the next star claims them. This is the only moment in their entire journey where they can look back at the stars that made them and understand. Musk: “If you want to look at the big picture… that’s the really big picture.” The big picture is not that we are small. Everyone already knows that. The big picture is that we are temporary witnesses to a process that does not need witnesses. Stars do not need observers to burn. Atoms do not need anyone to understand where they have been. The universe ran for billions of years with no one in it. It will run for billions more after the last conscious thing disappears. But right now, matter is examining itself. That has never happened before in 13.8 billion years. You are not a person who happens to contain ancient atoms. You are ancient atoms that briefly figured out how to think. The universe did not design consciousness. It designed stars. Consciousness was the accident. And the accident is half over.

@KobieThatcher Yes, because China was invented by Aussies.

Here's a question for you all. As an Aussie, if I moved to China, lived there legally, worked hard, followed their laws, and fully assimilated, would I be Chinese?

@Waqas_Inayat1 @sama It forgot to understand your frustration.

@sama Mushroom problem

what problem do you most hope AI will solve in the future? maybe we can help!

@TotalMotorcycle I've done camping, I lived in a forest off grid for quite a while, I also ride motorcycles, but I've never done the 2 combined. I like the idea of touring, but in my mind's eye, this image depicts the type of camping I'd like to do between destinations.

Q. Would you be interested in trying motorcycle camping for the first time or again?

@dove_of_babylon The tail wagging is to flush out insects, so they can be captured on the wing when they try to fly off. If you get pea sized balls of food for them, they will quite happily play catch while you throw it to them.

guys and gals and nonbinary pals what's this bird? i think willie wagtail 🤔

@CaptGraybeard13 @BlaireWhite They call it a brush but think about it, isn't it really just a tiny broom? It's witchcraft!

@BlaireWhite New technology, its called a brush

@elonmusk I've put my shoes on the right feet every time this year, I was thinking of contacting Mensa actually.

If you’ve made a very complex thing do useful work, that’s a major plus

SpaceX is actively hiring world-class engineers/physicists for SpaceXAI, even if you have zero prior experience in AI. Smart humans figure it out fast. Please send an email with ~3 bullet points demonstrating evidence of exceptional ability to ai_eng@spacex.com.

@randallwcarlson Because people destroy other people's religious things, so people made things logistically too hard to destroy.

Modern construction uses stones that one strong person can manipulate. Not because larger stones are unavailable - but because working with ten or fifty ton stones is economically irrational. The cost in time, labor, and logistics makes it impractical for any society operating within normal resource constraints. That economic reality is precisely what makes the global pattern of megalithic construction so difficult to explain within the conventional framework of prehistoric hunter gatherer societies. The argument that one exceptional group of people devoted their spare time - between foraging, following game, and moving their encampments - to quarrying and transporting fifty ton stones is already a stretch. People operating at the margin of subsistence do not divert resources toward economically irrational construction projects. But that argument at least has the theoretical possibility of applying to a single isolated case. What it cannot explain is the repetition. The same pattern of working with impossibly large stones appears over and over and over again across the world - in cultures with no documented contact, on different continents, across vastly different time periods. At that point the explanation of an exceptional local anomaly collapses entirely. Something else was going on - and Randall argues the honest response to that pattern is to admit that the current framework simply does not account for it.