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Germany's largest open-pit mine sits on more than 1 billion tonnes of extractable lignite. But starting in 2030, Rhine water will flood the pit, creating a 360-metre-deep lake. It's not a coincidence that the state's environmental ministry where the mine is located (Nordrhein-Westfalen) is led by the Green party. The same political class that dynamited functioning nuclear cooling towers is now drowning a billion tonnes of domestic fuel under a recreational lake. Once the pit fills, the coal beneath becomes permanently inaccessible. No future government can reverse a 360-metre column of water. The decision to flood Hambach is the deliberate, irreversible destruction of a strategic reserve, executed by politicians who price energy security at zero.

@JunkScience Not until it can milk billions from people's credulity.

Nuclear fusion is another energy fantasy. nature.com/articles/s4156…

@GiacomoGorini L'umanità aveva perso il sense of wonder, era ora qualcuno lo ripristinasse.

“Perché andare sulla Luna? E perché allora scalare il picco più alto? Perché sorvolare l’Atlantico? Noi scegliamo di andare sulla Luna e fare il resto non perché è facile, ma perché è difficile. Perché facendolo organizziamo e misuriamo il meglio delle nostre energie e capacità”

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@ConceptualJames @BridgetPhetasy Can confirm. ✋

@BridgetPhetasy Everyone who was school-age in 1986, yooooo

Gen X breathes a collective sigh of relief.

@ComfortablySmug She has pronouns.

Extremely tired of technology journalism being a group of people telling us everything is actually bad

@BenGrahamUK How kind of idiot spends that amount to buy some paint? I'm enraged and I'm not even English.

£48,174. That’s how much Hounslow Council spent on a single rainbow crossing, the most expensive in England. Meanwhile, councils claim they’re struggling to fund basic services. Is this a justified expense, or a complete waste of taxpayer money?

@Banksycat Conquered.

In 1000 years this has NEVER happened at Windsor Castle. March 2025. The Islamic call to prayer echoed through St George's Hall. 360 Muslim guests. First iftar in the State Apartments history. Approval came directly from him. No Easter message. Watch what the Supreme Governor of the Church of England has been doing. He studied Arabic to read the Quran in 1993 and said Islam can teach us a way of understanding and living in the world which Christianity itself is the poorer for having lost. Called Islam one of the greatest treasuries of accumulated wisdom and spiritual knowledge available to humanity. Refused to support Salman Rushdie when Iran put a fatwa on him. Then met in 2010 with the man who organized the protests against Rushdie. Set up a panel of 12 wise men to advise him on Islamic religion and culture. They met in SECRET. No comparable body exists for Christianity or any other faith. Just Islam. 1996. Called for more Muslim teachers in British schools. Said we need to be taught by Islamic teachers how to learn with our hearts. 1997. At a private dinner Saudi Arabia gave £28 million to Oxford to build the Centre for Islamic Studies. To establish Islamic studies at the heart of the British education system. He's been Patron since 1993. After 7/7 killed 52 people he defended Islam. Said the attacks have nothing to do with any true faith. Took £2.6 million in CASH from Qatar between 2011 and 2015. Highest denominations. The Foreign Office uses him as point man for British business interests in Muslim countries. Cambridge professor said the extent to which he is admired by Muslims even to the point of hero worship has not sunk into British consciousness. No other Western figure commands this sort of admiration. Visited dozens of Muslim countries. Refused to visit Israel. Advisors said no chance so as not to boost Israel's international status. Said he wants to be Defender of Faith. Not Defender of THE Faith. February 2026. Ramadan message posted on Shrove Tuesday before Lent. March 2026. Nigerian Christians being slaughtered by Islamic militants. Over 7000 killed in 2025 alone. 125000 since 2009. He says Ramadan Mubarak and Eid Mubarak to their President at the State Banquet. Easter 2025. Mentioned Islam and Judaism as much as Jesus. Easter 2026. No message. Two days ago Rudy Giuliani said Charles III might be the Muslim monarch of England. The Supreme Governor of the Church of England gave Islam special status in secret. Took Saudi money to put Islam at the heart of British education. Approved the Islamic call to prayer at Windsor Castle. No Shrove Tuesday. No Ash Wednesday. No Easter. But Ramadan. Iftar. Eid. He knows EXACTLY what he's doing. #Easter2026 #KingCharles

Il filosofo inglese Roger Scruton spiegava di essere diventato conservatorismo dopo aver assistito alle proteste studentesche del maggio 1968 in Francia: “Per cominciare, la cosa che mi ha colpito di più di quegli studenti per strada è stata la, sentimentalità, della loro rabbia. Era tutto incentrato su loro stessi, non riguardava nulla di obiettivo. Eh, eccoli qui, i figli viziati della classe media, i baby boomers che non avevano mai dovuto affrontare difficoltà reali, urlavano, a squarciagola per strada, bruciavano le auto appartenenti a comuni proletari che fingevano di difendere contro alcune immaginarie strutture oppressive erette dalla borghesia. L'intera faccenda era una completa finzione basata sulle idee antiquate di Karl Marx, idee che erano già obsolete a metà del XIX secolo. Stavano mettendo in scena, se vogliamo, un dramma auto-scritto in cui il personaggio centrale erano loro stessi”.

Angela Merkel admits to deliberately flooding Germany with migrants to stop the so-called "far right."

UPDATE: NASA personnel are now carrying Ryan Gosling (sedated) to the launchpad.

@ramspacek Vangelis is a good start, Blade Runner of course but Antarctica too, with Morricone you can't go wrong either, name a Sergio Leone movie at random, I like also other soundracks, Local Hero, The fabolous Baker Boys, some John Williams, Saving Private Ryan to say one. Many more.

Best film theme music?

Too bad solar isn’t a real power source.

Iran was trying to use the North Korean model to get a nuke: create sufficient conventional deterrence so you won’t be challenged in acquiring one (it’s called the Seoul Hostage Problem). This has been explained over and over since day one. Everyone claiming shifting goalposts or no imminent threat has been lying. The reason North Korea was allowed to get nukes is because Seoul (and its 10 million inhabitants) is within artillery and rocket range of North Korea. During the 1994 nuclear crisis, the Clinton administration seriously considered airstrikes on North Korea’s Yongbyon reactor but backed off precisely because of the artillery threat to Seoul. Iran was trying to accomplish the same by stockpiling missiles and drones which would have had the same deterrent effect. The proof is what Iran has been doing in the past month: attacking all its neighbors in order to pressure the US to stop attacking it Beyond this, they were building medium-range ballistic missiles that could reach Paris and London, meaning all of Europe could be held hostage as they built a nuclear bomb. The reason Iran has not built a nuclear weapon until now is not because it couldn’t, but because it knew it would be attacked and denied this capability. So by allowing them to continue developing this conventional deterrence, you would be allowing Iran to get a nuclear weapon. And unlike North Korea, Iran is led by an eschatological death cult Reagan saw nuclear mutually assured destruction (MAD) as both morally bankrupt (because of the innocent-body-count problem) and dangerously fragile because it assumed flawless rationality between adversaries…this means it only takes one irrational actor to destroy the world. Working backwards from the conclusion that Iran’s Islamist regime must never have a nuclear weapon, it was necessary for the US to attack Iran to deny it the conventional capacity to hold the entire eastern hemisphere hostage. Every European leader knows this and behind the scenes praises the US for this action. But they are cowards, held hostage by their own internal Muslim populations, and so adopt these ridiculous public positions. This was never about Israel. And if your argument is that Iran should be allowed to get a nuclear weapon then you are a fool and a traitor to western civilization…you’re a useful idiot

Well hello, Laffer Curve

Energy reality strikes Italy: Coal plants to keep running until at least 2038. reuters.com/sustainability…

The most eye-opening Tax conversation you'll hear all year.

ARTEMIS II AS SEEN BY THE OFFICIAL NASA CESSNA THIS IS THE BEST LAUNCH VIDEO AND IT ISN'T CLOSE