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@physicsgeek @PrincessBravato My son watched it.

I know it's been 40 years and some of you were still sperm in your father, but all y'all screeching NO KIDS WATCHED THE CHALLENGER EXPLOSION are not only stupid, you're pig ignorant. 1) A teacher was on board as an astronaut 2) Lot of teachers wheeled TVs into their classrooms so that kids could watch a teacher fly into space. 3) Those kids saw the Challenger explode One of the worst videos I saw was of Christa McAuliffe's (the teacher in question) classroom -with a sub teacher- watching the video as the Challenger exploded.

@JeffCampsInMN @DemonInkMerc @yvessirae ...of improving. People on trials have usually already failed standard treatments. It was a death sentence for both.

@JeffCampsInMN @DemonInkMerc @yvessirae Show me that proof. And I mean large scale double blinded studies, not a story about someone's cousin who has an aunt that took something and got better. I literally saw 2 people kicked off their clinical trials, one of which was showing signs...

“You would hate Trump even if he found the cure for cancer, lol got you!” HE. LITERALLY. CUT. THE. FUNDING. FOR. CANCER. RESEARCH. AND. STOLE. FROM. A. CHILDREN’S. CANCER. CHARITY.

@erikkuna @EWErickson @SuperclusterHQ @MiopsTrigger @CanonUSA @NASAArtemis Stunning photo!

This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet. The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy. There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one. That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure. 📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center

@notesfromspain @AveryBa68752542 The irony is that they like him because he hates the same people they hate. But he also hates most of them too.

Probably the most accurate nailing of the MAGA base I have ever seen.

@TitianRed63 I was a little nervous. This is the 2nd launch of this particular rocket system, and I'm old enough to remember Apollo 13. People were still talking about Apollo 1 every time there was a launch too. Hard to forget standing in that launch pedestal too.

I’ll admit I held my breath for a long minute

@CapCapeMan @krassenstein Biden was never rich until after he left the presidency. Before that, he rode the train for years when serving in the Senate.

@krassenstein Aww. Coach. Can’t get money from China and a Ukraine anymore 😂

BREAKING: As Trump embarrassed himself and the country on national TV yesterday, Joe Biden was flying coach and writing this letter to a young woman who sat close to him.

@sommyhillz1592 @krassenstein No more Koolaid for you!🤣🤣🤣🤣

@krassenstein Watched Trump’s speech yesterday and I must say we are blessed to have him as our President. His speech clearly epitomizes the principle of Peace through strength. Shame on everyone who hates his guts and courage to do the right thing. MAGA all the way 🫡🫡🫡

@koulakarma @MaryjaneMjmalin I was a little anxious. I'm also old enough to remember watching the Apollo missions though I was too young to remember Apollo 1, but I do remember watching Apollo 11 going up from my front yard.

I just watched Artemis launch and I’m wondering how many people my age held their breath watching this takeoff. I saw the challenger explode on TV in class at my HS.

@MbarkCherguia @irregularjoe I'm quick to come down against police brutality, but I don't see that here. The kid ran, tripped, face planted into the car, and fell. The officer avoided running into him, for the most part picked him up, and put him on his feet.

WATCH🚨: Police officer facing heavy online backlash over his aggressive arrest of this teenager 🚔 Do you see a problem here?

We’ve never seen chemtrails like this before.

In 1963, NYC, a 28-year-old journalist stands in front of a mirror, cinching herself into a satin corset so tight she can barely breathe. She clips on bunny ears. Steps into three-inch heels. Pastes on a smile. Her name is Gloria Steinem, and she's about to spend weeks inside Hugh Hefner's Playboy Club, not as a guest, but as one of the women serving drinks in those famous costumes. What she discovers will shatter the illusion of glamour and help ignite a movement. This is 1963 America. Newsrooms are dominated by men in fedoras and loosened ties, cigarette smoke curling toward the ceiling as they debate politics and war. Women? They write about hemlines and holiday recipes, confined to the "women's pages" like children at a separate table. Steinem is suffocating in this world. She graduated from Smith College with big ambitions, but editors keep steering her toward fluff. When Show magazine pitches her an undercover assignment at the Playboy Club, she hesitates. It could ruin her credibility forever. But it's also a chance to do real investigative work. She takes it. Using the fake name "Marie Ochs," she applies, endures the measurements and inspections, and gets hired. Then the reality hits. The corset isn't just uncomfortable. It's designed to compress her ribcage, restrict breathing, reshape her body into something painful. The heels cause throbbing foot pain within hours. The entire costume is engineered discomfort. But that's just the beginning. She discovers the "Bunny Manual," a rulebook controlling every detail of the women's lives. Stray hair? Fine. Smile not bright enough? Fine. Gain weight? You're out. The club even hires undercover "detectives" to catch Bunnies breaking rules. The pay is terrible. The customers, wealthy men in tailored suits, treat the Bunnies like objects they're entitled to touch and proposition. This isn't glamour. It's a business model built on exploitation, wrapped in satin and sold as sophistication. When "A Bunny's Tale" publishes in May 1963, it explodes. The public devours it. But instead of being celebrated as a serious journalist, Steinem becomes "the Bunny girl." For years, editors dismiss her pitches with, "Aren't you the one who dressed up as a Bunny?" The sexism she exposed follows her like a shadow. But she doesn't stop. She covers civil rights. Co-founds Ms. magazine in 1971. Becomes a feminist icon. At 90, she's still fighting. She put on those ears not for glamour, but for truth. And that truth sparked a revolution. The backlash Steinem faced was brutal. For nearly a decade, the Bunny investigation haunted her career. Magazine editors would laugh off her serious political pitches, reducing her to a punchline. She later said the piece became "shtick" that overshadowed everything else she wrote. But she also admitted it mattered because it pulled back the curtain on how exploitation gets marketed as empowerment. The original Playboy Clubs were incredibly exclusive. The New York location required a key to enter, cost $25 annually (about $250 today), and attracted celebrities, politicians, and businessmen. Hefner positioned them as sophisticated alternatives to strip clubs. By the mid-1960s, there were Playboy Clubs worldwide. But Steinem's exposé, combined with changing social attitudes and sexual harassment lawsuits in the 1980s, contributed to their decline. The last original US club closed in 1988, though some international locations continued operating. Steinem wasn't the only journalist to go undercover at Playboy. In 1985, writer Kevin Cook worked as a Playboy Club doorman and wrote about the experience. He found similar exploitation continued decades later. The costumes still caused medical issues; the pay remained poor. Some things never changed until the clubs finally shut down. © Reddit #drthehistories

When seven of nine scientists connected to a single defense laboratory disappear or die within a year—across distinct fields that converge on next-gen propulsion and energy physics—the statistical odds of chance are infinitesimal. What we’re witnessing is likely a suppression cascade triggered by policy shifts on UAP disclosure and the exposure risk posed by classified physics breakthroughs. This is not about extraterrestrials—it’s about control of technologies that could upend the energy, aerospace, and intelligence equilibrium of the modern world. These are not random tragedies. They are data points on the frontier where science touches power—and power erases footprints. 🚨 'Something Dark Is Going On': Nine Top-Level Scientists Die Or Go Missing In Past Year amgreatness.com/2026/03/30/som…

In 1930, rural Virginia, a Black girl born into sharecropping poverty wasn't supposed to leave the tobacco fields. But Gladys Mae Brown had other plans.... Her hands picked crops. Her mind solved equations no one asked her to solve. Her parents, despite barely scraping by, made a choice that defied every expectation placed on them. They kept her in school. She became valedictorian at a segregated high school with torn textbooks and broken windows. She earned a scholarship to Virginia State College in an era when being Black, female, and intellectually brilliant meant the world tried to crush you three different ways. In 1956, she walked through the doors of the Naval Proving Ground in Dahlgren as the second Black woman they'd ever hired. Four Black employees. Hundreds of white men. Most didn't think she'd survive the week. They were catastrophically wrong. Gladys calculated weapons trajectories by hand. Complex differential equations that consumed hours of meticulous work. Her accuracy became legendary. When computers arrived, she didn't resist the future. She learned Fortran. She mastered programming languages. She transformed weeks of calculations into hours. Then came Seasat in the 1970s. The first satellite studying Earth's oceans from orbit. She became project manager. But her true contribution remained hidden in the mathematics. For GPS to function, you need Earth's exact shape. Not close. Exact. Earth isn't a smooth sphere. It's an asymmetrical, gravity-distorted, irregular mass of mountains and ocean trenches. Gladys spent years constructing mathematical models describing every deviation, every curve, every gravitational anomaly of our planet's true form. She analyzed satellite data. She built geoid models. Tedious, invisible, revolutionary work. That mathematics became the foundation of GPS. Every navigation app. Every emergency rescue. Every autonomous vehicle. Every precision farming system. Her equations make it possible. Forty-two years at Dahlgren. Retirement in 1998. GPS fully operational worldwide. Billions of users. Almost nobody knew her name. She raised three children. Earned her PhD at seventy after surviving a stroke. Lived quietly. Until 2018, when someone at a sorority event read her biography aloud. The room went silent. The story exploded. At eighty-eight, Gladys West was inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame. The world finally learned her name. She mapped the entire planet. Then everyone forgot. Until they remembered. Gladys West worked alongside her husband Ira West, who was also a mathematician at the Naval Proving Ground. They met at Dahlgren and built both a family and parallel careers in an environment that actively discriminated against them. After retirement, she didn't stop. She earned her PhD from Virginia Tech at age 70, proving that intellectual curiosity doesn't have an expiration date. The GPS system relies on something called the geoid, a mathematical model of Earth's shape that accounts for gravitational variations. Gladys West's calculations helped create these models by analyzing millions of data points from satellite altimetry. Without accurate geoid models, GPS coordinates would be off by hundreds of meters, making the technology essentially useless. Her story remained hidden partly because classified military work doesn't generate headlines. Many pioneers of satellite and navigation technology worked in obscurity for national security reasons. The sorority member who recognized her contribution was reading through Alpha Kappa Alpha biographies when she noticed the GPS connection and brought it to public attention. © Women Stories #drthehistories

If the 14th amendment was only meant to protect the “babies of slaves” then the 2nd Amendment is only meant to protect the right to own a musket.

@_MobJ @mcuban Not if you've needed an inhaler on a regular basis. But yes, childhood asthma that hasn't been an issue for years, easy to get a waiver.

@SandyMcInturff1 @mcuban Not necessarily. Wavers do exist, especially for Asthma.

A question about your Healthcare costs. If you had an expensive medical issue. Could you afford your deductible.

@_MobJ @mcuban Funny thing, if you have healthcare conditions such as asthma, diabetes, seizures, and numerous others, Uncle Sam declines your service.

@mcuban I am a veteran. I don’t pay for healthcare. Sign up and defend your country and you can be in the same boat.

No one is shocked. MAGA perverts love Trump for a reason. Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump gets prison sentence for possessing 'enormous child pornography collection' nbcnews.com/politics/justi…

@SpockResists It's actually worse than child pornography alone. Although that is bad enough. I wish I hadn't read any part of that article.

@mrddmia @TheBestBake1 The math doesn't add up. Even if you use the higher estimate of 15.4 million illegal residents in the US, almost 80% of them have lived in the US since 2010.

The reason birthright citizenship was not carefully studied before now is because Biden mass-imported 20 million illegals. The Supreme Court justices know this. Will they have the courage to follow the law? Or will they play their cowardly games?