@CTRL_FOX_UTAH @JimPointless POD: an Australopithecus ignores a snake that appears to be encouraging her to eat a tamarind.
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James Garcia Alver
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James Garcia Alver
@JayAlver
Harvard and GW Space Policy Alumnus. Tampa native living in LA. Gold Star of Excellence: Founded Aug 18, 2009
LA, USA, Earth, Milky Way Katılım Şubat 2009
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Today’s Gold Star of Excellence goes to the cast and crew of #ProjectHailMary, a heartfelt, funny, and visually beautiful sci-fi epic and a wonderful adaptation of the novel.
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@JavonBaker_6 @Theurgyer @ABC There’s a lot of cut Earth stuff from the book you could do in a prequel/mid-quel but it wouldn’t be the same.
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@Theurgyer @ABC They might find a way to make like a prequel show or something but it would be pretty damn hard to
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“Project Hail Mary” is bringing audiences to movie theaters in numbers the industry hasn’t seen for a non-franchise film since “Oppenheimer.” abcnews.link/zYHruDL
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@AaronCReale @JoelWBerry If by real you mean puppet and by talking you mean singing and if by animals you mean rocks, then yes.
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Something I appreciate about Project Hail Mary is finally having a movie I can take my kids to that doesn’t involve CG talking animals or minions
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@fairieteeth Los Angeles! Not many here as far as I’m aware, mostly fossorial and I’m not planning on massive excavations to find them.
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@samaraliwarsi Not really. The oversimplification is that in reality it’s the method of observing rather than fact of observation that changes the outcome, but it doesn’t matter in practice because *any* attempt at observation would do the same thing so it’s irrelevant.
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Isn't this just a massive oversimplification, and likely a wrong interpretation, to make a joke?
SweetDee@RealUnsweetDee
Ummm…pretty sure you can tho…
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@aimetheon2046 @RealUnsweetDee Okay but that distinction still doesn’t matter in this particular analogy.
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@RealUnsweetDee Double slit experiment is a midwit filter. The mechanistic limitations of a photon detector interfering with an experimental subject has nothing to do with a human observer whatsoever
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Ummm…pretty sure you can tho…
doomer@uncledoomer
i dont know which of you needs to hear this, but you cant change the outcome of the situation by monitoring it
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@mrnateathon @MemoriesOfGreen @Variety Diversity criteria probably, but I’m pretty sure PHM meets those standards anyway.
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Ryan Gosling is the first name worth circling on any early Oscar ballot this year, thanks to #ProjectHailMary.
Gosling’s dynamic with James Ortiz’s Rocky — equal parts humorous, tense and genuinely moving — gives the film its emotional core, providing the leading man with a scene partner who draws out some of his most spontaneous and effective acting moments.
The mission, should Amazon MGM choose to accept it, is to bring this film back into the conversation come fall, return it to theaters and remind voters exactly what made it special the first time around.
wp.me/pc8uak-1lH2gC
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Today’s Gold Star of Excellence goes to test pilot Mike Melvill, the first pilot to fly the privately-funded SpaceShipOne to space, becoming the first commercial astronaut in the process, who died at 85.
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Today’s Gold Star of Excellence goes to martial artist and actor Chuck Norris, known for countless action roles including starring in the Walker, Texas Ranger series and for inspiring the iconic “Chuck Norris Facts” internet phenomenon, who died at 86.
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@hoomver41 @EudaimoniaEsq The Holy See recognizes Israel! The sovereign state in the eyes of the Church thus has a legal right to continue existing as all recognized states do. That does not mean there was a unique moral obligation to create it, thats a separate argument.
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@EudaimoniaEsq I dont think "the zionist state has a right to exist" is really the actual Catholic position tbh. But even Bishops are afraid of the social consequences of telling the truth sometimes.
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“The Catholic position on matters of ‘Zionism’…is as follows:…the modern nation of Israel does not represent the fulfillment of Biblical prophecies and hence does not stand beyond criticism.”
Bishop Barron stating in plain terms what everyone with a shred of reading comprehension has been saying for weeks—for months, years, and decades, actually.
Bishop Robert Barron@BishopBarron
Over the past several weeks, Carrie Prejean Boller has complained that she was removed from the Presidential Commission on Religious Liberty because of her Catholic beliefs, and she has called out myself and other Catholic members of the commission for not defending her. This is absurd. Mrs. Prejean Boller was not dismissed for her religious convictions but rather for her behavior at a gathering of the Commission last month: browbeating witnesses, aggressively asserting her point of view, hijacking the meeting for her own political purposes. The Catholic position on matters of “Zionism,” to which I fully subscribe, is as follows: all forms of antisemitism are to be unequivocally condemned; the state of Israel has a right to exist; but the modern nation of Israel does not represent the fulfillment of Biblical prophecies and hence does not stand beyond criticism. If Mrs. Prejean Boller were dismissed for holding these beliefs, it is difficult to understand why I am still a member of the Commission. To paint herself as a victim of anti-Catholic prejudice or to claim that her religious liberty has been denied is simply preposterous.
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@jassifun @AndrewParsonson The 2032 date hasn’t been officially put in law yet, and it still wouldn’t be long enough for all three unflown members of this class to make it under the normal rotation schedule!
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@AndrewParsonson The Council meeting was in Interlaken, not in Paris. The ISS is being extended at least to 2032.
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ESA plans to purchase a dedicated SpaceX Crew Dragon mission to the ISS, offering its new class of astronauts a flight opportunity before the station is retired.
europeanspaceflight.com/esa-to-purchas…
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Today’s Gold Star of Excellence goes to Jessica L. Dobson et al., for discovering that the melanosomes in platypus hairs are hollow, a feature previously thought to be unique to birds.
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@JamoboBorg @SketchesbyBoze Large enough moons tend to end up in the same situation as our moon because of mutual tidal forces slowing down their rotation. Planets orbiting very close to their stars experience the same phenomenon. It’s called tidal locking! So it’s not really a coincidence but a trend.
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@SketchesbyBoze Also, the fact that we only see one side of the moon is another coincidence. Most moons have different rotation speeds to orbits.
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Been reading a number of books on prehistory and every new fact has me reeling. Whales evolved from land mammals that spent so much time in the water they became whales. Earth might be the only planet with the right oxygen level for fire. Birds are, quite literally, dinosaurs.
Dinah@dinahaddie
I finished watching the dinosaur documentary a few days ago and I’m still not ok because what do you mean it rained for 2 million years
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James Garcia Alver retweetledi
.@NASA’s 2025 Astronaut Candidate class now has a name. Meet the Platypi! ⭐
Ten explorers are currently training at NASA Johnson in Houston, mastering the technical and operational skills needed to become flight-eligible astronauts. Their missions? The International @Space_Station, the Moon, and eventually Mars.
Learn more about the group: nasa.gov/centers-and-fa…
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@Jason41875257 @AckTeacher @christopherrufo Maybe! Bottlenecks exist in the wild too. But that doesn’t decrease the efficacy of crossings in practice, plus this one is *intended* for predator use as the mountain lion and bear populations in the mountains are cut off from the wider gene pool.
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@JayAlver @AckTeacher @christopherrufo Won’t the predators adapt to just posting up next to the crossing full time to ambush all the easy prey ?? If not they aren’t very good at their job …
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California built the Golden Gate Bridge in four years. It's taken Gavin Newsom five years to build this ugly wildlife overpass to nowhere—and it's still not finished.
Something has gone deeply wrong in the Golden State.
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Today’s Gold Star of Excellence goes to civil engineer James Barnard, known for developing the biological nutrient remover wastewater treatment process that is now the global standard for removing nitrogen & phosphorus from wastewater & preventing eutrophication, who died at 90.
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@CTAhey4 @christopherrufo There’s *supposed* to be earthworks connecting it to the surrounding hills.
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@christopherrufo So the butterflies fly up to it, then butterfly walk across? Mountain Lions I’m sure can jump well but not that well.
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@AckTeacher @christopherrufo They do actually, in other places where these have been implemented a combination of fences and fear of traffic funnel animals to the bridge and they adapt to using it regularly over time.
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@christopherrufo Ok, a wildlife bridge? Do the animals walk to the bridge to cross?
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