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SAKA

Probably the greatest individual male athletic performance ever recorded.

Balto didn't run his ass through 53 miles of bullshit Alaskan blizzard and get turned into a stuffed animal for y'all to be anti-vaxx.

we live on a planet where trees warn each other of danger through underground networks. where octopuses dream. where elephants return to the bones of their dead and stand over them in silence. where bees communicate through dance, showing each other where to fly. where flowers bloom...where crows remember human faces -especially those who were cruel to them - and pass that memory on to their young. where ants build entire cities. where cats purr at a frequency that can help heal bones. where forests, after fires, grow flowers first.

@DancesWidLesbos When are you ?

Everyone asks me how am I but they never ask me when am I. I think about that every now and again.

Rest In Peace, Tom. He was left in a coma, turned 22 while in that coma and passed away on 13th January 2004.

At any time, being alive is extraordinary. That being said, we sure are living in extraordinary times.

Four humans are about to fall into a 10,000°C wall of plasma at 25,000 mph with a heat shield NASA knows is flawed. Tomorrow evening. Off the coast of San Diego. Orion hits the atmosphere at 36 times the speed of sound. The air can't move out of the way fast enough, so it compresses into a shockwave twice as hot as the surface of the Sun. The plasma ionizes the surrounding air and blocks all radio signals. For several minutes, the crew is falling faster than any humans have ever traveled inside a spacecraft, and nobody on the ground can talk to them. The heat shield is 186 blocks of a material called Avcoat glued to a titanium skeleton. It works by charring, melting, and disintegrating on purpose. The destruction of the outer layer is the cooling mechanism. There is no backup system. No redundancy. The heat shield works or the crew doesn't come home. The Artemis I heat shield came back with over 100 locations where chunks had ripped off. NASA spent two years figuring out why, concluded it was gas pressure building up inside the material during reentry, and decided not to replace the shield. They changed the flight path instead. Steeper angle, less time in the danger zone. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said publicly that this approach "is not the right way to do things long term." The capsule will slow from 25,000 mph to 17 mph in thirteen minutes. Parachutes don't even deploy until the last four. Everything before that is managed by a curved piece of titanium and glue entering air twice as hot as the Sun. Tomorrow at 5:07 PM Pacific, San Diego might hear a sonic boom. That sound is four people betting their lives on NASA's math being right.

Holy fucking shit. Finally found the name for it. Im going to cry Ive never been able to explain this to anyone they never know what im talking about

The world finally sees the true nature of an Apartheid state that has terrorized, displaced. executed, jailed and tortured millions of Palestinians for decades. Israel won’t stop until States and people force it to stop. #StopArmingIsrael #NoTradeWithIsrael

So will April 8 receive as much non-stop global outcry as October 7? Will it become a litmus test on every mainstream network, where guests are asked, "do you condemn the April 8 massacre?" Will US politicians hold up pictures of dead Lebanese babies and scream for revenge?

NO WAR.

what if i cry

When the Knesset yesterday, passed the law approving the death penalty for Palestinians ONLY, they popped champagne bottles in the chamber as they applauded. You read that correctly. Not your problem? It’s complicated? STILL SILENT? SILENCE IS COMPLICITY.

The bill has been approved. Israeli prisons will turn into guillotines for Palestinians. Hundreds will be executed in the next few weeks. 9300 hostages now in Israeli custody. Dark day for humanity. Unforgettable memory in the Palestinian cause history.

How it feels being a Hamilton and Arsenal fan right now...

Max's magic moment ✨

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What's left to say about Carlos Alcaraz? Freed from the Career Slam chase at 22, freed from all narratives around him, freed from all limitations - playing free as ever, even on championship point. Thought his prime was over? He's just entering it.

Twenty years ago, our Keepers heard a rhino calf crying in the Nairobi National Park forest. They found him running in circles, completely blind, with no sign of his mother. She was never found. Surgery couldn't restore his sight – a congenital condition had taken it permanently. A blind bull rhino cannot survive in the wild. So we made Maxwell a promise: the Nairobi Nursery would be his forever home. Two decades later, he has become an institution in his own right. Max is the Nursery patriarch – a gentle, steady presence who has watched over generations of orphaned elephants pass through on their journey back to the wild. They adore him. Many stop by his stockade each morning to say hello, reaching their trunks through the bars or tapping on the gate so he knows they're there. He recognises each one by sound and scent alone. He is a double survivor: a member of a critically endangered species – black rhinos suffered a 98% population decline in Kenya between 1970 and 1983 – and a rhino who has built a rich, contented life without ever seeing it. Happy 20th birthday, Maxwell. sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/orphans/maxwell