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If you're under 53 years old, you have never once been alive while a human was farther than 250 miles from Earth. Tonight, four astronauts are heading 252,000 miles out. That's a thousand times farther than any person has gone in your lifetime. The 250-mile ceiling is where the International Space Station floats. Every astronaut since December 1972 has been stuck in that zone. Spacewalks, science experiments, cool photos from orbit, sure. But nobody left the neighborhood. The last crew to go farther was Apollo 17. December 1972. Nixon was president. The internet didn't exist. Cell phones were 11 years away. The youngest member of that crew is now 90 years old. The farthest any human has ever been from Earth is 248,655 miles. The Apollo 13 crew set that number in 1970, and they didn't mean to. Their oxygen tank blew up, and the emergency route home took them farther out than anyone before or since. Tonight's crew will break that record on purpose. And the crew itself. Victor Glover becomes the first Black astronaut to leave Earth's neighborhood. Christina Koch becomes the first woman. Jeremy Hansen, a Canadian fighter pilot, becomes the first non-American to do so. When they come home, they'll slam into the atmosphere at 25,000 mph, faster than any human has ever traveled. The Moon's south pole has ice. Water ice, sitting in craters so deep that sunlight hasn't hit them in billions of years. A 2024 NASA study found way more of it than anyone expected. You can split water into hydrogen and oxygen, which gives you rocket fuel, breathable air, and drinking water, all made on the Moon instead of hauled up from Earth. George Sowers at Colorado School of Mines calculated that Moon-made fuel could shave $12 billion off a single trip to Mars. The Moon is a gas station on the road to Mars. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced last week a $20 billion plan to build a permanent base at the South Pole over the next seven years, with landings every six months. China is developing its own lunar lander and spacesuit, aiming for a crewed landing by 2030. The Artemis program has burned through $93 billion so far, and the first actual surface landing is penciled in for 2028. There's a real question of who gets there first this time around. Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon in December 1972 as part of Apollo 17. He's 90. Asked about it this week, he sounded pretty relaxed. "Mars is attainable," he said. "We're humans. That's what we've always done."

Garbage men are more important than billionaires.

If you’re under 55 and vote for this party you are an unfathomably large idiot.

Sick to the back teeth of this propaganda now. The Daily Mail did a full investigation over a three year period of all residents of asylum hotels who have been convicted of sexual offences. You know how many there were? 59. You know how many estimated sexual offences there are per year in the UK? 900,000 You know who the biggest percentage, incl per capita, of child sexual offenders are? White British men. You know who needs to STFU with your racist garbage? I'll give you two guesses....

Does he not understand economics? Not how a 'pension' works, you don't "pay in", it's paid by the state, funded by CURRENT taxes

2 Number 9's, a number 9 large, number 6 with extra dip, number 7, 2 number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda

All engineering standards and regulations are written in blood, there's a reason they exist.

Two people died. People.

The NHS is in crisis — and the government’s solution is to remove training jobs, likely pushing even more doctors to leave or work overseas. The government thinks it is acting tough, but it is the patients who will suffer. What a disgrace.

If you don't cut off Israel completely at this point when they're openly demonstrating the crimes against humanity they're about to perform then you'll never be able to pretend you didn't know

Just so we're clear, Israel is now the first state to have an ethnicity-based death penalty since Nazi Germany.

God forbid some of us are literate and know how to use the oxford comma.

@flips1884 @YesterdaysBrit1 Ah, a nazi as well then. Zero surprise, especially if your IQ is room temperature

@Nic_gaskell @YesterdaysBrit1 I don't have conversations with people who have that flag visible.

Fill up your car with petrol Get a round of drinks in Go to a restaurant with your other half Have a day out at the seaside Go to watch a Premier League match Get your weekly shopping in a supermarket Buy a packet of cigarettes Go on holiday for a week Get your hair done/have a haircut in town then hit the shops for some new clothes Insure your car Have a night out at the cinema... For many people who work hard, pay their bills and their mortgage or rent, these things are enough to put them overdrawn at their bank. Britain 🇬🇧 in 2026. The more you earn, the less you have to spend. All because of bastard greed and a system that is fundamentally broken.

Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist." RT if Mick is right.

Boomers objectively had a much easier path to becoming financially secure, especially through housing. They were able to buy earlier, on lower house price to income ratios, and then benefited from decades of asset growth. The broader financial picture points to boomers also being objectively better off. Younger generations face weaker wage growth, higher housing and rent costs, and less secure long term wealth building. Inflation has hit the young harder too, because they have less spending power and far less protection against rising costs. So the old pattern where each generation moved ahead of the last has broken down. As a general rule, anyone under age 35 has been dealt a materially worse financial hand than the boomers.

@flips1884 @YesterdaysBrit1 Are you fucking simple?

@YesterdaysBrit1 Its because the Labour Govt want the cash from working people to give to the feckless on benefits.

Probably one of the most sobering charts I've seen in the last year. Yes, we have better technology than our parents, higher incomes, and so on. But we are also facing challenges and cultural shifts that they could never imagine, and it's important to be honest about that.

What a disgraceful and patronising way to treat healthcare staff working hours on end to look after us all. These training posts are vital for the future of our NHS. To use them as bargaining chips is appalling. Time to end privatisation and fund the NHS properly instead.

The land of the free not letting you in for a holiday if you tweeted that Trump is a fat orange nonce 2 years ago

love the uk system. £9,250 a year for uni. £50k debt before you even start. then once you earn enough to actually pay it back they hit you with 40% tax 2% ni 9% student loan. 51% marginal rate. but sure the problem is you bought a coffee this morning lol