Artiste et magicien; arpenteur de l'humanité.
Enjoying the preamble to the main act.
Take heed who is your master.
(Re)Posting sci & tech w/ autogenic content.
Do you appreciate your existence; do you find others a burden? Would you willingly accept dominance of another species? Do humans value their offspring?
@m0ndayne@neuralink The potential interconnectivity of Neuralink, Starlink, Tesla, and Optimus is promising; remotely controlling your Optimus to ride in your Tesla for a grocery run, or let it run autonomously while you monitor it's progress mentally.
Casimir has been selected by SpaceWERX for a STTR Phase I contract to advance our fully independent solid-state generator, tackling the Department of the Air Force's toughest power challenges.
Read more at: https://t.co/x3CM3um5ft
Here are three of the blocked off tunnels in the subterranean labyrinth of Yaxchilan, Mexico. They lead under a mound extending away from the pyramid above. How far do they go? We don't know.
I'll be sharing a full tour video of the site soon, featuring Marco Vigato, but you can also learn more about Yaxchilan in Marco's video here: https://t.co/C8KNs2cCYu
Precise maneuvering requires precise propulsion.
Our Throttling Divert and Attitude Control System, or TDACS, is designed to provide precise trajectory and attitude control.
We’re developing and hot-firing TDACS in-house as we build the integrated capabilities to contribute to the next generation of missile defense.
We’re looking for engineers who want to learn fast, build real hardware, and take on hard problems that actually matter.
Join us:
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5 more sleeps until launch! 🥹
Join us on Aug. 30 at 7:26 a.m. EDT. We'll be broadcasting live starting Sunday morning at 6:20 a.m. EDT.
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A dark cavity raised NbSe2’s superconducting critical temperature by up to 5.4%, marking the first reported superconductivity enhancement tied to amplified vacuum fluctuations. @nature https://t.co/4dFAfpVeWS
An intense pulse of laser light enters a plasma and what follows is almost unbelievable.
The laser pushes plasma electron aside, carving out a charged cavity. As the plasma rushes back, it creates an electric wake that can trap and accelerate another bunch of electrons.
This is known as Laser Wakefield Acceleration (LWFA) and is being explored for future accelerator Physics.
For this animation, we used a reduced particle-in-cell (PIC) method, coupling particle motion to the self-consistent plasma field on a computational mesh.
Next up on Electron will be our latest dedicated mission to deliver another StriX Earth-imaging satellite to LEO for @synspective.
"Owl Around The World" launch window opens:
🚀00:00 am NZST, Sept 1
🚀12:00 UTC, Aug 31
🚀9:00 pm JST, Aug 31
🚀8:00 am EDT, Aug 31
🚀5:00 am PDT, Aug 31
📜 I ran the rongorongo tablets through my symbol decoder... and the Rapanui migration epic came out the other side.
I want to be completely upfront about this: this is not an academic decipherment, and I'm not claiming this is "the" official reading of rongorongo. I don't have a background in linguistics or archaeology. I built a symbol decoder system with its own grammar and rules, and when I applied it to the rongorongo glyph structure... this is the story that emerged.
How I did it:
• I first established a grammar: symbols function like nouns, verbs, markers, modifiers, and persons
• The reading is two-way: in/forward to a centre pivot, then back out/return as reflection/teaching
• Shape doesn't matter to the grammar — disc rings or tablet lines, the logic holds
• I mapped rongorongo glyph forms to decoder symbols by visual analogy (bird figures = sky messengers, human forms = watchers/ancestors, crescents = moon, circles = sun, etc.)
• Once the raw story came through, I noticed it aligned with Rapanui oral tradition, so I integrated the actual names and terms from their culture (Hotu Matu'a, Hiva, Haumaka, Manutara, the seven explorers, etc.)
What came out reads like the Rapanui foundational epic:
• The homeland Hiva sinking into the sea
• Haumaka's prophetic dream
• Seven explorers sent ahead
• Hotu Matu'a's migration voyage
• Landing at Anakena
• Building a new civilization guided by celestial observation
• Ancestor reverence and knowledge preservation
The alignment across seven different categories (flood narrative, the number seven, sun/moon observation, bird messengers, high vs. low ground, ancestor culture, migration journey) is what caught me off guard. It feels too consistent to be random, but I don't have the expertise to know what that means.
I'm sharing this openly because:
• Maybe someone who actually knows Rapanui language, culture, or rongorongo scholarship can see where this lines up correctly
• Maybe someone can spot where my analogies are off-base
• Maybe there are connections I'm completely missing
If you know anything about this — Rapanui traditions, glyph analysis, comparative mythology — I'd genuinely love to hear your thoughts. This isn't about "proving" anything; it's about putting an interesting result out there and seeing what the community can make of it.
The full decoded story is in the images/swipe. What do you see?
#rongorongo #rapanui #easterisland #symbolism #decoding #opendiscussion #mystery
Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery in the necropolis of Saqqara, 20 miles south of Cairo: they unveiled an ancient Egyptian tomb carved into rock over 4,000 years ago with remarkable treasures in it
This is a Second Dynasty child burial.
Lots of robot demos at WRC this year. This one stands out for what it's attempting.
A Symbiosis Robotics humanoid autonomously drives a go-kart. One take, no stitched clips.
The hard part isn't the driving. It's climbing into a confined cockpit, sitting, then coordinating vision, both hands, both feet, and balance through a continuous multi-contact task.
They moved from a hierarchical brain-plus-cerebellum architecture to end-to-end control, feeding perception straight into a single model that outputs motion. Fewer cascading errors between layers.
Pre-flight testing with Hungry Hippo is underway 🦛 We're opening and closing the Hippo's two permanently attached fairing halves under flight-like conditions to simulate how they'll perform for Stage 2 deployment and Neutron's return to Earth.
After testing, Hippo will return to its hangar and wait to be attached with Neutron's interstage when it arrives in Virginia.
@michaelmalice Eldaughter is actually a word, though seldom used; it's likely this is either an error outright, or a proper usage of the word, but it's up to the interpretation of the reader, as we have no data to confirm it either way.