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I think there’s a big misperception about extraterrestrial life forms—most people seem to assume that life in the universe has to be tied to water or based on carbon, like life here on Earth. This idea makes sense given our limited experience, but I believe it’s far too narrow. If we step back and think about it, life could take so many different forms, especially considering the diversity of environments across the universe. It’s entirely possible that life elsewhere might not be organic at all. For example, there could be life forms built around silicon instead of carbon. Silicon can also form complex molecules, and while it might not work the same way under Earth-like conditions, there’s no reason it couldn’t thrive in the right environment. Taking it a step further, I think life doesn’t necessarily need to be "biological" as we define it. Imagine completely inorganic beings—self-replicating systems made of metal or some other durable material. They might operate more like advanced machines, reproducing by assembling parts rather than dividing cells. They could store and process information in ways similar to how DNA or even our computer processors do today. Life doesn’t need to rely on water or traditional metabolic processes to exist. It could gain energy from electromagnetic fields, nuclear reactions, or even phenomena we don’t fully understand yet. The key is that these systems would still fulfill the essential functions of life, such as reproducing, adapting, and processing information. When we think about the range of environments out there—icy moons like Europa, high-pressure planets, or even the vacuum of space—it seems unlikely that all life would conform to Earth-like standards. To really explore the possibility of alien life, we need to rethink what “life” means. Maybe it’s less about specific ingredients like water and carbon and more about universal principles like energy use, adaptability, and the ability to store and change information. These are the kinds of possibilities I think about when it comes to extraterrestrial life.

We are now at a level of scientific discourse that is both extremely advanced and extremely complex. Incredible, what type of fresh views can be discovered here regarding the influence that shutter times have on the amount of brightness that an image possesses? Prior to Artemis, this kind of research was not feasible.

These two images were taken by @astro_reid only minutes apart. The stark difference is the result of camera settings. In the first, a longer shutter speed let in much more light from Earth, while the shorter shutter speed in the second emphasizes our planet's nighttime glow.

Even in darkness, we glow. In this image of Earth taken by the Artemis II crew, we can see the electric lights of human activity. In the lower right, sunlight illuminates the limb of the planet.

@Ethprofit It may be good for ETH, but if you don't feel it, then it is irrelevant, by definition.

This is good for Ethereum

@uncledoomer When you include predetermined breaking points

first the toilet breaks and now their email isnt opening. going to the moon is a functionally identical experience to working from home

@lannywarwick2 @BBMagaMom Exactly.

@EGFReceptor @BBMagaMom Even worse it’s the ccp officials

🚨 BREAKING: Feds busted 20 maternity hotels in California for a birth tourism scam. Chinese women flew in illegally to give birth for U.S. citizenship. Operators charged up to $80,000 each. This is why birthright citizenship needs to END!!

@StevenCheung47 Yes, when the Democrats installed Vice President Kamala Harris as chair of the National Space Council, we all immediately knew how important space exploration was for Biden and the Left.

You killed the space program. It’s only because of President Trump this triumph is a reality.

For the "average" Chinese person, one of the most important things is food and money, and, for those who can afford it, obtaining US citizenship as a backup and insurance against the CCP. The Anglo-Saxons and Europeans are playing the long-term games. For example, Americans are currently in the process of establishing a Moon base, with plans to move on to Mars and beyond as the next step. Others are trailing far behind (100 years, perhaps). The great "BRICS strategy" by China, Russia, and other third-world nations is just being dismantled.

@EGFReceptor @BBMagaMom You don’t know Chinese. The short term game for them is 100 years

@FoxNews The guy on the left who has a permanently moving piece of chewing gum in his mouth, which is considered a practical, non-pharmacological countermeasure for mitigating motion sickness, including symptoms similar to space sickness.

ARTEMIS II CREW SPEAKS FROM SPACE: “We are definitely 100% on our way to the moon." "The lunar gravity will take over in a couple of days here and start pulling us around the far side." "At the end of our translunar injection here, about an hour and a half ago, we just really looked at each other — and I know the United States has done this 1968 through 1972 — but it's just, this is unbelievable, that we can put our minds to something and pull it off." "This is an unbelievable technical accomplishment.”

@LoomerUnleashed @JamesCarville I don't like this talk from the gentleman who looks like an advanced-stage prostate cancer patient either. However, it should be admitted that the other side is also constantly talking about similar plans regarding their opponents, but without any consequences.

James Carville openly lays out the House and Senate Democrats’ “Get Trump” strategy: “Listen to me, Trump. I’m going to tell your fat f-a***something. You’re getting ready to get the living crap kicked out of you. Then they’re (House and Senate Dems) gonna start going after you.” The most powerful people on the left are consumed by Trump Derangement Syndrome. That’s why “Getting Trump” remains the Democrats’ number one policy.

@christopherrufo One of the most 💯 descriptions I can think of

The State of California is one giant Learing Center

@dannyevospyder @bennyjohnson That the iconic scene is from the 1979 James Bond film, Moonraker, you NOOB!

@bennyjohnson Benny don’t be a dumb ass. You think this was real as well in 1966 aired on CBS wake up Benny.

Artemis II astronauts emerge in their space suits at Kennedy Space Center as they prepare for blast off in hours. They pause for photos, give thanks, then receive thunderous applause for their contribution to this historic mission for NASA and humanity.

@bennyjohnson An almost "woke" probability distribution of genders and races to see here. But they all look very competent, IMHO.

The majority of wealthy and successful people attended school for a long time. They are fully aware of what matters and what doesn't in life. They are fully aware that teaching kids at home with private instructors is far more successful than attending most institutions where you have to worry about other students lowering the standard of instruction.

@flowidealism Just because they’re good at building businesses (or whatever else they’ve achieved) doesn’t mean they know anything about education. People tend to over-respect the opinions of the successful on subjects outside of their expertise, and sometimes they do that to themselves.

Elon Musk built his own school for his children because he rejected all existing options. I know four or five other billionaires here in Austin doing the same thing. These are not fringe people. These are the highest-achieving, most successful humans in the economy. And they refuse to use conventional schools. If you have billions and a genuine choice, why would you use a system that fails two-thirds of adolescents? You wouldn't. The billionaires know. The system works for a narrow band of kids who happen to be good at school. Everyone else is collateral damage that the rich avoid.

@HudsonInstitute You are correct. Such "systems," like China, and mainly, it is about the CCP, are not capable of change from within. That's impossible. It is like a negative feedback loop.

Every major leap in Chinese weapons development has been triggered by decisive demonstrations of US military superiority. When China's military shortcomings are exposed, especially under the pressure of comparison with US military performance, the response is to assign blame to individuals rather than address institutional flaws. This creates a cycle in which political purges replace technical reform and the system undermines its own capacity for learning and improvement. As long as this dynamic persists, each new demonstration of US military superiority will not only challenge China externally but also destabilize it internally, reinforcing the very gap it seeks to close, @milesyu10 writes for @WashTimes. Read: hudson.org/national-secur…

@RonDeSantis They are most likely now working for NGOs, different charities, and protesting against Trump. Also, they work as counselors for organizations related to sex change procedures and similar entities.

Was it necessary to do a study to figure out that advanced degrees in social work and psychology have zero or negative ROI?

@UjoIvo @robkhenderson Both could be true.

@robkhenderson No, it was the other way around. People had higher education because they were loyal to the Communist Party. Non-loyal people were not allowed to study at universities.

The people most committed to communism in the Soviet Union weren’t the workers—it was the educated elite. A retrospective study conducted in the 1990s titled "Work Ethics and the Collapse of the Soviet System," examined which groups were most supportive of the Soviet system. The researchers found that, compared to factory workers and semi-skilled laborers, individuals in white-collar positions—especially those with higher levels of education—were significantly more likely to express loyalty to the Communist Party. In some cases, support was two to three times higher among elites. In other words, the strongest support for the system came not from those at the bottom, but from those in relatively advantaged positions within it. This runs counter to the common assumption that egalitarian or redistributive ideologies are primarily driven by the least well-off. In practice, they are often most strongly endorsed by people closer to the top of the social hierarchy—those who benefit from the system’s institutional structure, or who are positioned to navigate it successfully.

@robkhenderson It reminds me somehow of their approval of the lockdown and climate measures.

Good luck if you have to coordinate the BTC core developers, nodes, and miners. I still remember the discussions about BTC Segwit and other changes to the protocol, especially with Luke Dashjr. Usually that ends with philosophical disputes about what BTC should be or shouldn't be.

This is only the tip of the iceberg for Bitcoin. There has been virtually no R&D into a post-quantum upgrade, no plan, community divided on an upgrade and no track record of successfully deploying a change of this scale. This is just the beginning, as Bitcoin miners are losing power, infrastructure, and hardware contracts to AI, or exiting mining altogether. They are going to get hammered to death from every side. Ethereum is already ahead of the game with years of R&D into post-quantum, roadmap laid out and years of experience rolling out upgrades of this magnitude. $ETH is the future pq.ethereum.org

@SadiesMopingBed @bennyjohnson They seem to crash more often than human planes.

@bennyjohnson I hate this BS. Just stop. There are advanced species capable of interstellar travel, but they haven't figured out how to prevent their craft from crashing? Nonsense.

I asked Matt Gaetz What Is the Most Disturbing Alien Finding He Learned In Congress: Alien 'Breeding Programs' and 'Non-Human Biologics' "I had someone come and brief me who was in a military uniform, worked for the United States Army, that was briefing me on the locations of hybrid breeding programs where captured aliens were breeding with humans to create some hybrid race that could engage in intergalactic communication. An actual uniformed member of the United States Army briefed me on that." "In crashes of craft that had been recovered by the CIA... it wasn't just the hard materials, it was also biologics, but that they couldn't identify a human source of those biologics."

Perhaps a solution might be to provide a transition period for holders of old addresses to move their coins to quantum-secure ones, after which all old addresses are blacklisted. After that grace period, only those old addresses for which users provide proof of ownership will be whitelisted.

No warning. You wake up, check your portfolio. Bitcoin is at zero, Ethereum at $100,000. You jump onto X trying to figure out what happened. Satosh's 1M BTC wallet just moved and started selling. Russian & Chinese quantum algorithms cracked encryption while you were asleep.