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SPACEX: MIT researchers presented findings at the IEEE Aerospace Conference in Big Sky, Montana, showing Starship could cut travel time nearly in half for NASA’s Uranus Orbiter and Probe mission. The mission, ranked highest priority flagship in the 2022 Planetary Science Decadal Survey, aims to send an orbiter and atmospheric probe to study Uranus’s atmosphere, interior, magnetosphere, rings, and moons — the first detailed exploration since Voyager 2’s 1986 flyby. Traditional Falcon Heavy missions would take over 13 years, while Starship with in-space refueling and aerobraking could reach Uranus in about 6.5 years. More news below...

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@spacealt4 One time during an interview my watch went off saying my heart rate was extreme though and km like oh ok thanks 😂

During day time is rare

Tomorrow is Foreskin Day (4/4)! A day to celebrate, learn, & start conversations that matter. Join us by tuning in at 9 PM EST: youtube.com/watch?v=L2NSS6… Explore more ways to learn & take part: foreskin.day/celebratewithu… Let’s make this a moment of awareness, education, & change.

Don’t follow anything from American Heart Association

TO THE MOOOOON!!!

@Bitchasaurus1 Only evil people mutilate children. Its almost even sicker than pedofilia. At least they dont mutilate your body. And imagine how sad someones life is if they have to put down normal male body to cope with the fact that you dont have a full penis. Its sad honestly

There are people in this world that seriously believe that infant circumcision is benign and harmless and has ZERO effect on penile function. You cant make this shit up.

Here are some ways in which the world has gotten better.

What do astronauts have in common with gymnasts, pole vaulters, cancer patients, and Crohn's patients? They all offer support to my hypothesis that optimal pressure is fundamental to health and especially to immune function. As I covered in "The Biomechanics of Immune Dysfunction: This is the elephant in the autoimmunity and cancer room that EVERYONE IS IGNORING," T cells use the pressure of their extracellular environment to push off with internal "muscle power" that drives the capture of kinetic energy to invest into the energy-hungry reactions involved in their activation. Cancer modifies its external environment to make it more difficult for T cells to perform this maneuver. In Crohn's patients, 1) liquid diets made of trash (Ensure) are as effective as high-end biologics in inducing remission because 2) they reduce the internal pressure in the intestinal segment proximal to the site of inflammation with 3) animal experiments showing that internal pressure is the very cause of that inflammation, and 4) one of the major risk factors for a flare is a trip to altitude of 5000 or more feet and 5) simply putting Crohn's patients in a hypobaric chamber for 3 hours experimentally induces a flare in 33% of them and 6) PIEZO1 is a gene for a pressure sensor and mutations in it are strongly associated with Crohn's. This shows that Crohn's flares involve a high ratio of internal to external pressure in the section proximal to the inflamed section. Liquid diets reduce internal pressure but altitude and hypobaric chambers reduce external pressure. I suspect this interacts with poor biomechanics in the pelvis and lower spine to cause intestines smooshing into their environment in a way that generates the inflammation. Astronauts get reactivation of viruses in space because space causes dramatic reduction in external pressure. A space suit corrects for this, but the correction is incomplete and wearing a space suit in space is like being at 30,000 feet altitude. So the low pressure destroys their immune function. I believe the reason that elite male gymnasts and pole vaulters live eight years longer than the general population, whereas athletes that have excellent cardiorespiratory fitness like cyclists only have two years on the general population is because their sports require excellent biomechanics, and excellent biomechanics leads to optimal pressure in body spaces and around body tissues, which leads to optimal immune function.

Measure what you can, but never discount the unquantifiable biomarkers. Will never spreadsheet your way to a life well-lived.

I say this because both sides, for different reasons, have a nasty tendency to reduce people to their skin color being the headline. "Oh, he's a black man? Must be because they prioritize diversity." or "HE'S A BLACK MAN, THIS IS HISTORIC, HE'S BLACK" Different motivations, same reduction of the man to a one-dimensional representation of something wrong or right. In reality, he's an insanely qualified expert with a resume you'd pick out if you had no idea what he looks like. He's a certified badass who happens to be black. I understand why that will (hopefully!) inspire younger black people, some young man who sees himself in Glover. That's fine. But everyone needs to be careful not to take that too far and reduce him to something less than he is. That would be unjust.

BREAKING: @SecKennedy announces the launch of STOMP: Systematic Targeting Of MicroPlastics — a national program to measure, understand, and remove microplastics from the human body.

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@bigbaddad7101 Can help

I may need to learn Polish as a second language...

@Brice75789265 Circumcision isn't an upgrade.

So I followed the mission on NASA livestream but just checked Everyday Astronaut’s coverage. Are you kidding me? The video coverage from Everyday Astronaut team was far far far far far better than on the official NASA stream. Come on!

THAT WAS AWESOME LET'S GO TO THE MOON AMERICA ROCKS