Atanu Maulik

@Emir_Kandemir23 @kamilkazani Who decides legality? You ?

@MaulikAtanu @kamilkazani That bridge was illegally built by Russia and considilating its occupation of Crimea by connecting it to its mainland and one of its primary millitary supply routes for its invasion.

So, POTUS is threatening a (nuclear?) genocide Everyone who has not yet lost their mind needs to abandon him

@Pivot2Centre Educate yourself. youtu.be/aeX9PPERBw4?is…

Nuclear weapon - without any help Feeder reactor - without any help Jet engines- no ToT will get India there. It has to be made without any help

@peterrhague Europeans have given up on big things and big dreams a long time ago. Now, they focus on cow farts adding to global warming and saving their pension systems.

Artemis represents a triumph for America and an inspiration for the world - but also a civilisational crisis for Europe. We provide the service module for the capsule. In exchange, a gracious NASA will at some point in the future allow some of our astronauts to tag along on their missions. Meanwhile China will lead another coalition of rival nations to stake their own claim to the Moon. But what is Europe doing for itself. We need a big program of our own. We should maintain our relationship with NASA of course, but we have to have our own grand endeavour to remain relevant. My proposal: planetocracy.org/p/a-draft-road…

@benjamincowen People with PhDs should stop acting like partisan hacks. Then they will be taken seriously.

Someone could go to school for 4 years and study aerospace engineering, then get a PhD with a dissertation related to orbital mechanics, and some instagram influencer who watched a youtube video will be like "actually that guy is wrong" on a topic related to space travel and people will believe them. I'm not sure how we got here, but I hope we go back to a society where credibility is earned with rigorous training in the associated field, not by a popularity contest.

Venezuela looking at Iran and breathing a sigh of relief that they made the correct call, unlike Iran.

NASA has 32 cameras on the Artemis II spacecraft. The top science priority during the Moon flyby was the four astronauts looking out the window and talking about what they saw. NASA's lunar science lead confirmed it. What the crew says out loud about the Moon's surface matters more to the science team than anything the cameras capture. NASA trained this crew in Iceland's volcanic highlands and at an impact crater in Labrador, Canada, teaching them to read rock textures and spot geological details at 25,000 mph. There's a reason NASA trusts human eyes over cameras. In 1972, Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt was walking near a small crater called Shorty when he scuffed the dirt with his boot. The soil underneath was orange. Schmitt was the only trained geologist to ever walk on the Moon, and he got so excited he blurred most of his own photos. That orange soil turned out to be tiny glass beads from a volcanic eruption 3.64 billion years ago, one of the biggest finds of the entire Apollo program. A boot and a pair of trained eyes caught what no camera did. For this flyby, NASA sent the crew a final list of 30 surface targets. They killed all the cabin lights to cut window reflections. They worked in pairs, rotating every 55 to 85 minutes, calling out craters and lava flows while scientists at Johnson Space Center analyzed everything in real time. Pilot Victor Glover reported that the Moon's south pole, where NASA wants to land astronauts by 2028, looked "more jagged" than the north with much steeper terrain. One observation from a human eye at 4,070 miles could shape where the next crew touches down. At 6:44 PM Eastern, Orion slipped behind the far side and went radio silent for 40 minutes. Four people, completely cut off from every other human alive, the Moon blocking every signal back to Earth. The last time humans experienced that was December 1972. They broke the all-time distance record on the way. Apollo 13 held it for 56 years at 248,655 miles from Earth. Artemis II passed that mark and kept going to 252,760. Jim Lovell, who commanded Apollo 13 and held that record his whole life, died last August at 97, eight months before these four beat it. Before he died, Lovell recorded a message for the crew. "Welcome to my old neighborhood," he told them. "Don't forget to enjoy the view." The crew named two craters during the flyby. One for their spacecraft, Integrity. The other, Carroll, for Commander Reid Wiseman's late wife, a nurse who cared for newborns and died of cancer in 2020 at 46. Wiseman has raised their two daughters alone since. When Jeremy Hansen read the name to Mission Control, his voice broke. The crew hugged. Wiseman and Koch wiped tears. Then they got back to work, because they still had hours of Moon left to map with their eyes.

A new milestone for humankind: The crew of Artemis II are now the farthest any human has ever travelled, reaching a maximum distance of 252,752 miles from Earth. This surpasses the previous record set by Apollo 13 in 1970 by about 4,102 miles.

“Colonization is the reason these countries are so poor!!” Singapore, a former British colony:

Euros be like: “I would never risk $300M to save the life of a single soldier, but also I would never grow the economy by $300M if it risked the life of a single spotted owl.”

@komal_42 The gemer misery and filth and chaos are the same, sprinkled with a few shopping malls. Some Indians think that's development.

The Indians who left India back l between 70s to 90s … think that India is stuck in the same place as they left it. They have kids outside of India and their kids also grow up thinking that. And it’s very evident when they talk about India. They don’t realise how stupid it comes across to people actually living in India rn.

Most militaries in the world are meant for parades or shooting their own population. ONLY the US military can go to the opposite side of the planet and pull off insanely cool shit.

@major_pawan Most militaries in the world are meant for parades or shooting their own population. ONLY US military can go to the opposite side of the planet and pull off insanely cool shit.

Salute the CSAR team & the brave Weapons officer of the US F15E One of the most daring rescue op in modern military history if true Leave No Man Behind 💪🏻

@alpha_defense Just a remainder: India lost more fighter pilots in the past 35 days than either Israel or US. I know that a lot of Indians will be butthurt hearing this. But it's true.

Iran can still try to spin a “Pakistan-style victory narrative” claiming they shot down an F-15E Strike Eagle, hit an A-10 Thunderbolt II, and damaged rescue helicopters. But we all know : it was a textbook demonstration of CSAR capability

@alpha_defense Most militaries in the world are meant for parades or shooting their own population. ONLY US military can go to the opposite side of the planet and pull off insanely cool shit.

@GordoCDA I can bet thst Chinese military is in awe of American military. If they have a functioning brain, that is.

Regarding the war with Iran: China is gaining valuable intelligence of what they’re not capable of.

@LokiJulianus Iranian military is very good in shooting at unarmed protestors and raping women. Not very good at fighting.

“The Americans have actually built an entire military base overnight on this random mountain while looking for a guy (he's fine btw).”

Stuff of Hollywood movies.

@WarMonitor3 The technological and military competence gap between US and Iran is similar to that between Incas and the Spanish in the 1500s.

Per Fox, the WSO reportedly evaded capture by hiking away from the wreckage, reaching an elevated ridge, and activating an emergency beacon. Multiple elite rescue elements were then involved in locating and extracting him while Iranian forces searched for him.

@pronounced_kyle Don't worry, the American media will surely find a way to spin this as China winning.

Remember the Chinese rocket that accidentally lifted off the pad during a test fire? It just launched again today (intentionally this time). Looks like it lost an engine at ~33 seconds into this video, then reportedly failed to make orbit.