David Chapman
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@VividProwess Please Lord, bless the soldiers of the IDF. Guard their hearts. PLease Lord, draw them closer to You. Stay their hearts on Your Word.
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NOW: Astronaut Victor Glover thanks God after his trip around the moon.
“When this started on April 3rd, I wanted to thank God in public, and I want to thank God again."
"The gratitude of seeing what we saw, doing what we did, and being with who I was with, it's too big to just be in one body.”
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@theepicmap I think the Czechs are a tough, stubborn people who waited for their chance for freedom and then made the most of it.
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GLOBUS - The Soviet Mechanical "SPACE GPS"
Before digital computers took over, Soviet spacecraft used something extraordinary: a fully mechanical navigation computer called Globus.
Installed in missions like Vostok and Soyuz, this device used a system of gears, cams, and rotating mechanisms to calculate the spacecraft's position in real time. As the capsule orbited Earth, Globus would continuously update-showing where the crew was above the planet.
No screens. No software.
Just pure engineering.
By factoring in orbital motion, Earth's rotation, and time, the system could accurately track ground position and even help determine reentry timing and landing zones.
It was reliable, self-contained, and didn't depend on external signals-making it perfect for the early space age.
A reminder that long before digital navigation... spaceflight was powered by clockwork precision.
🌍 / 🌎 / 🌏
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Why did Tolkien call death a gift?
In The Silmarillion, he writes death is an exclusive gift given to mankind by God. All other creatures envy this gift, including the immortal elves:
Mankind alone, through death, is granted union with the divine.
Tolkien's point is that immortality in a fallen world is not a blessing, nor man's actual purpose. To live forever in a world marred by corruption, vice, and decay is to be trapped with no escape.
Death, then, is not a tragic ending, but a release — a return of creation to its creator. The humility of mortal man leads to a glory far greater than immortality.
In other words, man was made for something greater than earthly pleasure. Death is the preparation for eternity.
Today we tend to see this backwards. We treat death as the ultimate evil, and endless life as the ultimate good, no matter the cost. We try to preserve life indefinitely, and in doing so, lose sight of what life is actually for.
Tolkien's final insight is simple:
A man who refuses to die for anything will one day find he has nothing worth living for.
A world that fears death above all else will never reach the highest good, for life truly begins when you discover a love greater than life itself.

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🚀 for all mankind 🚀

Reid Wiseman@astro_reid
@elonmusk Thank you, @elonmusk - the four of us glimpsed the red hues of Mars far in the distance as the sun slipped behind the Moon and there was zero doubt in our minds that the creative genius of our greatest minds will have us there very soon. LETS GO
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Before we begin I would like to take a moment to acknowledge that we meet here today on land stolen from the striped bass, haddock, and flounder peoples
Amazing Maps@amazingmap
Most of Boston was built on land that didn’t exist in 1630
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New small arms calibres, notably SIG's 6.8x51 mm HYP are delivering impressive amounts of energy on target. So much so, that penetration isn't essential to achieve lethal effect. This clay block placed behind a Level IV plate shows the blunt force trauma effect of high pressure ammunition. No way are you getting up and continuing the fight after this.

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@ClownWorld Let’s not forget sheep and clouds, since they’re white too 🤣🤣
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