Radu Cornea

@GamersNexus yes, and also virtually *all* of ad-tech is based on stealing personal information in the same manner. they say it's anonymous, untrackable, until they literally target you with things you have said. unhinged that they don't have all of their businesses closed, this moment

Tech companies: competitors should be banned for stealing our intellectual property Also tech companies:

@AJamesMcCarthy Austria foto-webcam.eu/webcam/ederpla… (use the arrow buttons up in the nav to check the view from a few minutes earlier)

Oh my heavens…. I can see Aurora from the plane over Texas!

@fermatslibrary A bit more about the language, from Bespoke's author: winslowjosiah.com/blog/2025/02/0…

Bespoke is a programming language that encodes instructions in word lengths. You write programs that read like poetry This poem prints “Hello, World!”

@johnkrausphotos hey @johnkrausphotos, it sounds like it's a very noisy place. do you know what's the source of the noise in this video?

Starship Flight 11 launches in seven hours! Starbase is entirely accessible to the public. Anyone can get this close to the rocket just a few hours before liftoff. Come see the most exciting engineering project undertaken by humanity!

@FFmpeg is learning Rust okay as well? i kind of left C and assembly behind after my Uni years

Agreed, learn C and assembly

Bought a laptop with a copilot key not knowing that it can't be set to act as CTRL. Workarounds ignore that the hardware actually sends win+shift+f23, taking over the shift button and making shift+ctrl+arrow navigation impossible. Well. NO. MORE. COPILOT. github.com/BoyC/NoMoreCop…

@bryan_johnson alright so the protocol is to grow a CaCO₃ shell

The oldest animal on record was a clam called Ming. She was 507 years old when scientists accidentally killed her while studying her.

It's important to remember that "technology influencers" can be bad role models. Many encourage people to be "fans of technology" instead of actual developers of technology. Hot takes are easy, writing good code is not.

@cnunezimages @SpaceIntel101 very "90s arcade" colors and layering in this one

July 17, 2025

This is nature's periodic reminder that we are responsible for running arbitrarily operationally effective space programs. The last time something this large didn't miss us by a whisker it ended the dinosaurs. They didn't have a space program. We do, but ours can't even figure out how to get back to the Moon or return samples from Mars. It only just *saw* this colossal hypervelocity space mountain. Until we have the operational capacity to nullify threats like this, we're in the dinosaur space program category.

@cnunezimages @SpaceIntel101 this reminds me there's bound to be some materials science overlap between fusion power research into inner vessel cladding tiles for plasma containment, and Starship tiles cladding for re-entry plasma protection

Can you guess the number of tiles? - June 28, 2022

@_lm_ash_ @NASASpaceflight Yup, thank you. Found the segment at minute 15 in the livestream.

@RaduCornea @NASASpaceflight youtube.com/live/MZopG-xQN…

Never change, JAXA. Never change. 😅

@NASASpaceflight i found the link, looks like it's part of their live stream youtube.com/live/5tRdzj_7O…

You can now pan & zoom the full Rubin First look images in their glory here: projects.cosmicds.cfa.harvard.edu/rubin-first-lo…

@waitbutwhy it could poke holes in our ozone layer, and make some acid rain fall for some years, at that level.

@waitbutwhy Yeah, but you'd need to be really close (~<3200 light years) to the collapsing star to actually be affected by any of that GRBs energy coming to collide directly with Earth. Then it could match the energy of our own Sun (albeit, at a high frequency).

We need to discuss gamma-ray bursts. The most insane things in the universe. When the biggest stars die, their core collapses to form a black hole. At the moment the black hole is born, a jet of high-energy radiation can shoot out like a laser, called a gamma-ray burst. Just how powerful is a gamma-ray burst? I’ll tell you in four steps: 1) TSAR BOMBA: In 1961, the Soviet Union blew up the biggest bomb in human history in a test explosion—the Tsar Bomba. It exploded with the equivalent force of 50 megatons of TNT—more than 3,000 times the explosive force of the Hiroshima bomb. 2) SUN: The sun releases the equivalent of 91 quadrillion tons of TNT—more than a billion Tsar Bombas—every second. 3) SUPERNOVA: Giant stars die in the ultimate blaze of glory: the supernova. The biggest supernovae explode with the equivalent of 40 decillion (4 x 10^34) tons of TNT. That’s more than the amount of energy released by the sun in its entire 10-billion-year lifetime. 4) GAMMA-RAY BURST: The largest gamma-ray burst ever detected was observed in October of 2022. In a span of about ten minutes, it released the equivalent energy of 10,000 supernova—more than 10,000 times the energy the sun will release in its lifetime. In ten minutes. Don’t fuck with gamma-ray bursts.

Drop your best space memes

All the LOX you could drink

The 9th Flight of Starship is scheduled to fly on May 27th, 2025. (Local time) This will be a repeat of the previous two flights, which ended earlier than expected. Link to the high resolution of this Infographic in the comments below! S35: - Sides of the TPS shield are now smooth, along with a buffer zone of ablative material between the TPS shield and bare metal. B14: - First Booster to be reused! - This will be it's second mission, flown previously on Flight 7, with S33. #SpaceX #Starbase #Starship #Superheavy #S35 #B14 #Flight9 #GatewayToMars