Philip Mwaniki

"Ile kusota tulikua tumesota..." @BlessedNjugush recalls his broke days when he asked his wife Cele to send him Ksh.70 for fare! Watch the full show here youtu.be/4APQhF7cJ5U?si…

President Trump says US Navy will blockade ships in the Strait of Hormuz after the collapse of peace talks with Iran. Follow live updates. cnn.it/4cDstXQ

Your odds of getting into Harvard are about 50 times better than your odds of becoming a NASA astronaut. In 2020, 12,000 people applied to be astronauts. NASA picked 10. A 0.08% acceptance rate. Harvard, the school everyone treats as shorthand for "impossible to get into," accepts about 4% of applicants. And you can't even apply without a master's degree in science or engineering, three years of work experience after that degree, and U.S. citizenship. A bachelor's won't cut it, period. NASA raised the minimum from bachelor's to master's in 2020, and that one change locked out thousands of people who would've been eligible the year before. The people who actually get picked are way beyond even those minimums. Average age at selection is 34. Most hold a PhD or medical degree on top of their master's. If you went the pilot route instead of the science route, you need 1,000 hours flying jets as the lead pilot, which is about two full years of flight time. Get selected and you're still not an astronaut yet. Two years of training come next: military water survival, SCUBA certification, learning Russian, and a swimming test you take in a full flight suit and shoes. Not everyone passes. I looked up the salary expecting it to match the difficulty. It does and it doesn't. Astronauts make $152,258 a year. But a fresh college grad at SpaceX with just a four-year degree starts at $95,000 to $115,000. NASA starts that same engineer at $54,557. If you spent eight-plus years earning a PhD, your NASA starting salary tops out at $73,038. A 22-year-old out of college at SpaceX earns more than a 30-year-old with a doctorate at NASA. In 65 years of spaceflight, NASA has selected a total of 370 astronaut candidates. More people have stood on top of Mount Everest than have ever worn a NASA flight suit.

35 times in NBA history, a player 38 years or older has scored at least 25 points and had at least 10 assists. As of tonight, LeBron James has been responsible for 34 of those games, per @Stathead

Congrats to @KingJames of the @Lakers on becoming the 4th player in NBA history to reach 12,000 career assists!

Artemis II may have splashed down, but our photos and videos from the mission are still rolling in! Keep an eye on the latest: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-mul…

Genuinely a better question than most people realize. Apollo 11 left a 2-foot wide panel of mirrors on the lunar surface in 1969. No power source, no wiring, no maintenance. Scientists have been shooting lasers at it from New Mexico ever since. The beam travels 239,000 miles, bounces off the mirrors, and returns in 2.5 seconds. That round trip is how we know the moon is drifting away from Earth at 3.8 centimeters per year. So yes, in a literal sense, they were checking if it would still be there. The seismometers are the part that gets wild. Apollo 12 deliberately crashed its lunar module into the surface at 6,048 km/h. Scientists expected a brief shudder. The moon vibrated for over 55 minutes. On Earth, seismic waves from an equivalent impact die in seconds. Nobody had predicted this. So NASA did it again. Apollo 13 dropped its S-IVB rocket stage from orbit. Hit with the force of 11.5 tons of TNT. The vibrations lasted nearly three and a half hours. The reason is water, or the lack of it. Earth's interior is damp. Moisture in rock acts like a sponge, absorbing seismic energy. The moon is bone dry, cool, and rigid. Shockwaves have nothing to absorb them. They just bounce back and forth through solid stone until the rock itself stops vibrating. Scientists described it as the moon ringing like a bell. The seismometers ran for almost 8 years and detected over 13,000 seismic events. Turns out the moon has four types of quakes: deep ones caused by Earth's gravitational pull, shallow ones from the crust shrinking as the interior cools, thermal ones when sunrise thaws the frozen surface, and impacts from meteorites. In 2023, Caltech reanalyzed old Apollo 17 data and found a fifth type: the lunar lander itself creaking and popping every morning as the sun heated it. Every five to six minutes, for five to seven hours straight. They went up to prove the moon was once part of Earth, measure how fast it's leaving, and figure out what's happening inside a world with no atmosphere, no water, and no tectonic plates. "Checking if it was still there" is honestly closer to the truth than most people's actual answer.

Security intensified, calm restored after goons blocked Southern Bypass ahead of Former DP Rigathi Gachagua visit to Kikuyu

Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶 The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.

Minyoo kwa tumbo ya mkikuyu

Ama sote tuhamie Murang'a halafu tusongeshe borders polepole hadi Murang'a ifunike Kenya yote?

Former Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday she “might” run for president in 2028, adding at the 2026 National Action Network Convention that she is “thinking about it.” cnn.it/48tyMeb

BREAKING: Strait of Hormuz transit fees to be paid in Iranian currency, Iran proposes 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/8znvvy?update=…

Wake up—it's Artemis II's last day in space! As the crew prepares to splash down in the Pacific Ocean this evening, they started their day with "Run To The Water" by Live, their wake-up song played by Mission Control.

Right now you’re largely experiencing the economy from a time when the Strait of Hormuz was open, because it takes many weeks for oil tankers to traverse the seas. You still experience the Strait as open, even though it’s been closed for weeks. But once that reality hits…

Former CS Raphael Tuju orders that he should be buried within 48 hours if he dies in the hands of state operatives

Since the Gaza “ceasefire” began six months ago, Israeli air attacks have killed at least 738 people and injured more than 2,000, according to Palestine’s Ministry of Health. — in pictures aje.news/98db5p

Utazipata before August ama Bicep??

LeBron flirted with a triple-double in the Bay! 👑 26 PTS (11-17 FGM) 👑 8 REB 👑 11 AST 👑 2 STL 👑 3 3PM Lakers get the win and remain the #4 seed in the West 🔥

people be like "bear with me" and they don’t even have a bear with them