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TechTranslate The purpose of this account is to share my passion for explaining interesting technical and scientific facts that are not intuitive, often misunderstood, or simply odd. I'm always eager to learn, particularly when others provide context, correct me, or even prove me wrong. For unknown reasons, I have the urge to add the correct context to posts that state common misunderstandings or conspiracies. I primarily engage in this because conspiracy theorists are very active on social media and create a false sense of balance. Unfortunately, in recent years, I've encountered people in real life who were influenced by social media and believe in these theories, proving that this is becoming a real issue. This fact truly saddens me. I am realistic; I know I cannot convince the extremists or hardcore conspiracy theorists. However, I hope the context I provide will assist the undecided and vulnerable in making an informed decision. It's encouraging to receive so much positive feedback in recent weeks and to see that many people here are fed up with these conspiracy theorists. Happy Anti-Conspiracizing! 😉 Best regards ❤️ Geee from TechTranslate Technical and scientific facts explained step by step. 😃👍

Flerfs monthly reminder that flat earthers themselves verified the 24 hour sun in Antarctica which falsifies flat earth, according to the head flerfs themselves.

A 2.5-second rocket flight that heralded decades of discovery in space! Today marks 100 years since the first successful test of a liquid-fueled rocket. Robert H. Goddard's achievement would have appeared unimpressive by most measures: His rocket flew just 41 feet in the air, landing in a nearby cabbage patch. Liquid-propelled rocketry has been the backbone of spaceflight ever since. 📷 by Esther Goddard on March 16, 1926 (Clark University Archive)

100 years since someone had a crazy idea and believed in it. Only Goddard, his wife Esther, and a couple of assistants witnessed it. It didn't even make the local newspapers, and Goddard kept details secret for years afterward due to the ridicule he faced for his ideas about space travel. Model by @Vooper3D❤️

@James_Hawke1 Wrong. youtu.be/axfpL7sfJqs?si… youtube.com/live/pai-7YUBA…

It’s pretty simple if you’re not an idiot #FlatEarth

@TheGlobeIsDead Flat Earth is dead.

You’re looking at the Space Shuttle Discovery at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (part of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum) in Virginia. Discovery is the "overachiever" of the shuttle fleet; it flew 39 missions, spent a total of 365 days in space, and traveled nearly 150 million miles. It’s also the craft that launched the Hubble Space Telescope!

On this Day in 1969, Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module. Apollo 9 was the third crewed mission in NASA’s Apollo program and successfully tested the systems and procedures needed for a future Moon landing.

Boom! Finally, an M-class flare. An M1.1 from the departing AR 4384. A limb flare!

From ground to space: a sequence of 70mm photos captured during NASA's Mercury-Redstone 2 suborbital rocket flight from Cape Canaveral on January 31, 1961

Remember the ALaMO—the Automated Lunar and Meteor Observatory that is! 20 years ago today, this observatory at @NASAMarshall saw its "first light" and has since been tracking meteors and impacts on the Moon ⬇️ to help us better understand hazards that explorers could face.

Preparing for future missions to the Red Planet's surface. The LAVA team at NASA Ames is developing a simulation tool that accurately models how a parachute inflates when deployed behind a payload moving at supersonic speed. Researchers tested and improved their approach by simulating an actual supersonic parachute flight test, the one you see here, and compared results with real-world data. This effort is helping engineers better study how these parachutes will perform on future missions to Mars and beyond. go.nasa.gov/3P6FuQI

#OTD in 1969, command module "Gumdrop" splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean, the successful completion of the Apollo 9 mission.

Flerf lesson #891

☀️ Large filament eruption south of a large coronal hole. Main direction is southward, we'll have to wait for coronagraph imagery to see if it has an earth-directed component.

Make it make sense! #FlatEarth

@JohnnyD_cm @KenRDKAB @Evil_MerlinX @HarlysCorner 👍 A Flat Earther would zoom in and out before sunset, apparently they do not have the time to wait until the sun starts really setting.😉

@KenRDKAB @Evil_MerlinX @TechTranslate_G @HarlysCorner Me too. I mean, it's going to shrink to a point anytime now, isn't it....?

The #flatearth idiots describe this photo as the sun going away (i.e. going into vanishing point), or whatever fuck they mean by that. Apparently, if you zoom in enough, you will see the whole disc of the sun again.

👍 Flat earthers would approach this with a bit more confirmation bias. The technical equipment and atmospheric conditions are not that important for them. Flat Earthers take the photo a few minutes earlier, before the setting sun has already set and zoom in and out and then run away before the sun really starts to set.😉

@HarlysCorner Maybe a #flatearth person can tell me what I am doing wrong. Zoom here is 50x. F-stop: F/2.8 Exposure time: 1/2646 sec. ISO Speed: ISO-44 Focal Length: 18mm Max aperture: 2.97 Location: 19.947320709777806, -155.8672650780726

@TheSkywatcher17 Thank you! I am not jet a member, but it is good Idea to sign up.😉

@TechTranslate_G Are you a member of Astrobin? You can post your hi-res stuff there, then link to it from here. Anyways, that's an excellent shot as it is! 👍

🌞 Two sunny days in a row! 🌞 Currently, the Sun is rotating its only visible Earth facing sunspot further into view. You can see how it looked yesterday in the thread below. No sunspot update tomorrow ... rain is in the forecast.😩

It’s wild that the whole Shuttle-on-747 piggyback concept was first validated using a simple $40 balsa-wood RC model in the 1970s. NASA engineer John Kiker literally flew a homemade model in a park to prove the separation dynamics would work when everyone else was skeptical.