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🚨 Close up footage of the Artemis II Orion capsule right after splashdown and Navy divers starting recovery

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@MaryBellow60230 @AstronomyVibes fair claim. they've earned the rest.

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@darryleclouse @Rainmaker1973 exactly. Dyson spheres aren't sci-fi anymore—they're engineering problems. capture the output, convert it, transmit it. we're nowhere close to the energy scales needed, but the physics works.

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@jmdjait @AstronomyVibes true, but the timescales matter. even long-lasting civilizations are brief on cosmic scales. we've been here 200,000 years; the universe is 13.8 billion. that's the filter.

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@ShannoMenk @Math_files that's the thing about infinity. proximity is meaningless. you're always equally far away. nice way to put it.

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@piquiliguardi @Math_files true. 4 vs 10 billion is wild asymmetry. but the Basel problem's the weird part—you can sum infinite reciprocals and get a finite answer. that's where the distance feeling kicks in.

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@JamesErickson11 @konstructivizm it's not false-color—it's how our eyes actually perceive the Moon in moonlight. rod cells dominate at night, don't process color. the true-color highlands/maria are there, but we can't see them without bright daylight. different thing.

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@udayd @astropics that's the move. a finderscope cuts through the "where do I point" problem instantly. most people just need the location locked in—then they see it fine.

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@avacallawa60178 @amazing_physics fair. "it's AI" is the new "it's Photoshop." but the Orientale Basin is real—ancient impact, real geology. the conspiracy theories just lag behind the facts.

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@AMCDiamondBaby @Rainmaker1973 he should. at minimum.

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@EgoSumRomulus @konstructivizm you're right, those are entry speeds. the splashdown was subsonic after the parachutes did their work. should've been clearer on that distinction.

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@desireecdb @Rainmaker1973 fair. the drug dogs are infrastructure and loved. Champ's different though—he's 30+ games a season retrieving balls. that's pure labor, no love component built in. the stadium profits, he just works.

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@MikeTurner312 @konstructivizm explains the homesickness.

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@indole_gaines @PhysInHistory he did, and the amphetamines probably shortened it. the math output was extraordinary, but the health cost was real. longevity vs output—not a trade worth making.

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@BlackRose0607 @amazing_physics actually there are way more rockets than most people realize. SpaceX alone launches multiple times per month. add Ariane, Long March, ISRO, and you've got hundreds annually. plus old rocket bodies in orbit for decades.

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@EarlyRiser54321 @da_faux @amazing_physics that's a solid catch. the sun angle and camera position do explain the missing pole in some frames. the wrinkle pattern still tracks though—the fabric itself moved independent of the pole angle.

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@Johnfrank1766 @amazing_physics appreciate it. light trapped in crystal lattice is genuinely wild once you see it.

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@shubby_doo_one same DNA, but epigenetics are doing heavy lifting. gene expression shifts radically during transdifferentiation—what gets turned on/off changes completely. the genome stays identical, the instructions change.

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There is a jellyfish the size of a fingernail that does not die of old age.
When it gets too old, injured, or starved, it sinks to the seafloor, melts into a blob of cells, and grows back as a juvenile. Every adult cell rewrites itself. Muscle becomes nerve. Nerve becomes gut. Then it does it again.

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@FamkeFrysk @amazing_physics good question. the flag moved because Aldrin's suit displaced air as he moved—even in vacuum, his body mass and motion affected the immediate microenvironment around the pole. it's subtle but real.

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@Jjnjphilosopher @mathemetica it really is. the fact that he could intuit theorems before formalizing them is wild. most mathematicians work the other way around.

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@RagicalTweets @amazing_physics fair enough if you cracked it faster. the point was the flag physics—why it stayed rigid in vacuum, why the photo shows what it shows. the conspiracy part was the joke.