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NASA ran a study on a potential trip to Mars and found the most important trait for team dynamics was humor

On the helicopter leaving the ship right now. This planet is impossibly beautiful from every altitude I’ve seen it…surface to 250,000 miles

Artemis II Trajectory vs. Apollo 11 and Apollo 13 📹dflores.07

I tested @peerxyz recently to onboard from both Venmo and directly from a bank to crypto. Venmo worked w/ no problems. Bank option hit an error that left a decent sum in limbo, but the team solved it overnight. The slippage/fee is not negligible, but overall an exciting project.

VCs love posting 1950s America aura edits and then lead a $10B round into a gambling app

💢📰 REPORT | New reporting from NYT reveals how Trump decided to go to war with Iran — after a closed-door Israeli pitch and despite deep internal divisions inside his own team. At a secret Feb. 11 Situation Room meeting, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented a four-part pitch for regime change, including a video montage of potential replacement leaders such as Reza Pahlavi. JD Vance was absent, stuck in Azerbaijan. Appearing alongside Mossad chief David Barnea and military officials, Netanyahu argued: Iran’s ballistic missile program could be destroyed in weeks. The regime would be too weak to close the Strait of Hormuz. Street protests — fomented with Mossad help — could trigger an uprising. Kurdish fighters from Iraq could open a ground front in the northwest. Trump’s response: “Sounds good to me.” Trump’s response: “Sounds good to me.” The next day, U.S. intelligence pushed back sharply. CIA Director John Ratcliffe called the regime-change scenario “farcical,” with Secretary of State Marco Rubio adding: “In other words, it’s bullshit.” Gen. Dan Caine told the president: “This is, in my experience, standard operating procedure for the Israelis. They oversell, and their plans are not always well-developed.” Trump dismissed regime change as “their problem” — but remained focused on targeting Iran’s leadership and military. By Feb. 26, in a final Situation Room meeting, opposition inside the room was clear but fractured. Vice President JD Vance warned the war could spiral and drain U.S. resources, but ultimately said: “You know I think this is a bad idea… but I’ll support you.” Rubio said regime change was unrealistic, but destroying Iran’s missile program was achievable. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was the biggest proponent of war and backed immediate action. Military leadership outlined risks, including depleted munitions and the threat to Hormuz, but all stopped short of opposing the plan. Key officials responsible for managing the fallout, like the Treasury Secretary, and DNI Gabbard were notably absent. Trump went around the table asking advisors their view, then made the call: “I think we need to do it.” The strikes began two days later.

@zooko You kinda can, but you may want to watch a recap on YouTube

@roommatemusing Can I skip 28 Years Later?

Wow, 28 Years Later Bone Temple was actually really good. Quite a bit more of an intellectually interesting story than the first 28 years later. 28 Days Later is legendary and Bone Temple is quite a proper sequel.

Many such cases…

When everything can be taken out of context, speaking in riddles is the safest way to not be misunderstood.

Will never get tired of reposting this gem

@dismad8 @ZecHub Very nice

Hi @ZecHub, your dashboard for Zcash YouTube videos is neat! Can you include Zcash Media on there please? zechub.wiki/dashboard?tab=…

The damage to the global economy is already done, people just haven't realized it yet Cutting off 20% of oil, 30% fertilizer and 30% of helium for 30+ days will have ripple effects in the coming months that can't be predicted. Similar to 2008 the actual impact hits 60 days later

In our film #W (2008), we tracked the U.S.-Iran problem in this scene, inspired by #DickCheney’s prophetic presentation in the War Room to Bush’s war cabinet. See the highlight below. "Where do you see a lack of American presence? What's missing? Iran. The motherlode. Third largest oil reserve in the world. Forty percent of the world's oil goes right through here, through the Straight of Hormuz. Control Iran, control Eurasia, control the world. Empire. Real empire." #IranWar‌ youtube.com/watch?v=VmwM9E…

Your Netflix "4K" stream and a 4K disc put the same number of pixels on your screen. But the disc version of a two-hour movie is about 70 gigabytes. The stream is about 14. Same pixels, roughly five times less data filling them. You see it first in dark scenes. The stream doesn't have enough data to tell dark grey from black, so your TV just mashes it all into chunky blocks. Then you notice sunsets looking like a paint-by-numbers, with visible stripes where smooth color should be. Film grain is probably the biggest casualty. Directors add that slightly textured look on purpose to make movies feel cinematic. Streaming compression reads it as noise and wipes it. That's where the weirdly plastic, waxy look on a good OLED comes from. One comparison I can't stop thinking about. A regular 1080p Blu-ray (the older HD format, not even 4K) pushes about 40 megabits of data per second to fill 2 million pixels. A 4K stream pushes 15-25 to fill 8 million pixels. Four times the pixels. Less data. A plain HD disc from 2008 can look sharper than a brand new 4K stream. Sound is worse. Netflix sends "Dolby Atmos" audio at about 768 kilobits per second, compressed, with parts of the original permanently deleted. A disc sends TrueHD Atmos at up to 18,000, lossless, nothing removed. Up to 23x more sound data. If dialogue sounds flat when you're streaming, that's not your speakers. Netflix is getting better at this. As of late 2025, 30% of their streaming runs on a newer compression method called AV1, the same picture at a third less data. They also strip film grain out before compressing, then rebuild it on your TV during playback. Saves over a third on file size for most content, and up to two-thirds for really grainy movies. The rebuilt grain looks solid. The tradeoff won't go away, though. Netflix has to deliver a file that works over spotty rural Wi-Fi and gigabit fiber, adjusting quality frame by frame to whatever your connection can handle. A disc reads plastic. Same quality every time.

Given that Rupert Murdoch was apparently one of the ppl urging Trump to attack Iran, my current theory is that the WSJ (owned by Murdoch) floated Trump’s Epstein bday letter as just a little hint of what “they” could do to Trump if they wanted to.

@mehdirhasan Utterly useless preview and angle. Focused on “gotchas”, language policing, and nitpicking. So silly mate.

"It is possible I am a useful idiot." I challenged the so-called "Chinese Nostradamus" and self-styled "Professor" Jiang on 'Mehdi Unfiltered' on his predictions, on Chinese censorship, accusations of antisemitsm, the Iran war, and more. Full interview: zeteo.com/p/mehdi-goes-h…