Jon Prescott

@sunnylohmann MAID in Canada

@ElectionWiz @grok, what has the drop been for the Minneapolis / St Paul metro area?

🚨The New York Times reports that Net Immigrantion FELL in every metro area in the U.S. in 2025.

46% of the deaths occurred on the day of vaccination, yet the CDC will not acknowledge this because they determined that a person was not fully vaccinated until 14 days after the COVID vaccine injection. This is outrageous!

@jeweljk @theNASciences @NASA @theNASEM @NigelCurtiss @Schiaparelli @dolcegabbana That was one of your funnier BSIGGOH posts. 🙂 that outfit is exponential.

✅ Serving science ✅ Serving fashion @theNASciences @NASA @theNASEM 👗 : @NigelCurtiss 👛: @Schiaparelli 👠: @dolcegabbana

@bscholl @DanielleMorrill @grok how will this bill affect boom aerospace if it passes?

BREAKING: The bipartisan Supersonic Aviation Modernization Act (SAMA) just passed the House UNANIMOUSLY and is headed to the Senate. Supersonic flight isn't red or blue. It's Red, White, and Blue. 🇺🇸✈️💪

@MetamateDaz @Random_Guy_18 I mean, it’s a damn good pretzel. I can practically smell it just talking about it.

The minimum wage in Pennsylvania is $7.25 an hour. A regular Auntie Anne’s soft pretzel at the mall is $7.29. Imagine telling someone an hour of their time is worth less than a pretzel.

@EricRWeinstein @richgel999 Yeah, reading about the Palomar analysis last year gave me chills. It’s the kind of thing I’d hoped for from Avi Loeb’s efforts, but aside from the ocean floor debris recovery, haven’t really seen. Perhaps I’ve missed it.

I have not heard an unremarkable explanation for this.

@sunnylohmann 🙄

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Robert Mueller harassed an innocent man (Peter W. Smith) until he commited suicide. Robert Mueller ruined HUNDREDS of lives based on a fraudulent case he KNEW was fabricated by Democrats. Robert Mueller drove families that had ZERO involvement with Russia into bankruptcy. Their children even received death threats. Spare me the pearl clutching over Trump's response to his death. Robert Mueller was heartless. ☠️

Under Mueller the FBI had to pay Dr. Steven Hatfill $5.8 million for basically framing him in the anthrax case. Mueller was a modern day Beria. He would find a suspect and reverse engineer the crime. And RussiaGate “One of the worst” is a far a better way to describe him.

My initial reaction to Trump’s post was negative. We all know the rule to not speak ill of the recently departed. But on a moment’s reflection, I changed my mind. Mueller betrayed the nation and never repented. His “investigation” did more to further Putin’s strategic goal of dividing the American people than Putin could have ever dreamed. Mueller did everything in his power to overturn an election. History should remember him as a villain.

@TheMonologist The most unbelievable thing about this wonderful movie is that he had a girlfriend.

Mueller was destructive and vindictive. He ruined people for a living. He was a terrible person and responsible for one of the worst manipulations of US intelligence in history - and he did it with full knowledge that he was lying.

@nobulart If this doesn’t make you support Mars efforts, lunar industrialization, O’Neil habitats and all things space, you don’t understand what he’s showing. We gotta get off this rock.

"This is the first time anyone has reverse-engineered possible past pole-shift directions straight from surface clues using a global math test." Very good plain language summary shared here by David:

I think Amex travel just charged me an added $2400 extra for a ticket I bought a month ago for $1200. WTF?!?

May 16, 1963. Gordon Cooper was orbiting Earth alone inside a capsule barely big enough to turn around in, moving at 17,500 miles per hour. He had been up there for over a day. Then the warnings started. First a faulty sensor screaming that the ship was falling — it wasn't. He switched it off. Then something far worse: a short circuit knocked out the entire automated guidance system. The one that kept the capsule steady. The one that was supposed to bring him home. Without it, reentry was nearly impossible. Too shallow an angle and the capsule would bounce off the atmosphere back into space. Too steep and it would incinerate. The margin for error was razor thin — and every computer that was supposed to hit that margin was dead. Down on the ground, NASA engineers watched the telemetry in silence. They could see everything going wrong. They could fix nothing. Cooper didn't panic. He uncapped a grease pencil and drew lines directly on the inside of his window to track the horizon. He looked up at the stars he had spent months memorizing and used their positions to orient the ship by eye. Then he set his wristwatch. Because when you have no computers left, you become the computer. At exactly the right moment — calculated in his head, confirmed by the stars outside — he fired the retrorockets. The capsule shook. The sky turned to fire. For several minutes, no one on Earth could reach him as plasma swallowed the ship whole. Then the parachutes opened. Faith 7 hit the water just four miles from the recovery ship — the single most accurate splashdown in the entire Mercury program. The man with a wristwatch and a few pencil marks on a window had outperformed every automated system NASA had. We talk a lot about technology saving us. And it often does. But Cooper's story is a quiet reminder that behind every machine, there still has to be a human being who can look out the window, think clearly under pressure, and decide what to do next. The final backup was never the software. It was him.

Activist: "The water usage for beef is obscene. Thousands of litres per kilogram." Farmer: "That's rainfall." Activist: "What?" Farmer: "The figure includes all the rain that falls on the pasture. The cows drink from the stream. The rain falls whether there's a cow here or not." Activist: "It's still water consumption." Farmer: "Should I stop the rain falling on my field?" Activist: "Grow crops instead. More efficient." Farmer: "This is a 35-degree slope in the Welsh hills. Show me the crop." Activist: "Technology..." Farmer: "To make tractors climb mountains?" Activist: "There must be a solution." Farmer: "There is. It's called a cow." Activist: [checks phone]

I have very few connections to celebrity, but Bill and I love both this wonderful Jules Breton painting and Salon de Tokyo (NYC).

Bill Murray. Interesting.