82 years ago today, June 6, 1944, 156,000 Allied forces 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy region. It marked the start of Western Europe’s liberation from Nazi rule. 2,501 American troops died on D-Day.
@Milajoy Ummm...once again the BOT is being misleading. You are using very limited and highly inaccurate facts to prove this point. In 1978, there may have been a single metric that the US ranked number 1 and that is undoubtedly NOT the same metric that it now ranks 29th in.
@CelticsForum0 Awful take. Brown was a top ten player this year. He and Tatum should be enough to make the team a contender each year if properly built around.
UPDATE: @NASA can confirm a fireball over New England at 2:06 p.m. EDT on Saturday, May 30, 2026. The meteor was about 5 feet (1.6 meters) in diameter with a mass of 5.6 metric tons and entered Earth’s atmosphere at roughly 42,000 mph.
The meteor traveled through the atmosphere from northwest to southeast for 26 miles before breaking up at an altitude of 31 miles and producing a meteorite fall into Cape Cod Bay.
Based on the latest data, the energy released at breakup is estimated to be equivalent to about 230 tons of TNT, which accounts for the sonic boom.
Have questions? Check out our fireball FAQs: https://t.co/HyyRIGmeoI
Wishing a very happy 78th birthday to Jerry Mathers, forever remembered as Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver from Leave It to Beaver! 🎉🎂
Be sure to watch #LeaveIttoBeaver weekdays at 10:30a & weekends at 9a ET on FETV!
Some personal news: You won't be reading, seeing, or hearing me for a bit. Before last Pats season, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. My goal was to do the full season. I did, then re-weighed treatment plans. Recent scans showed additional cancerous areas. Time for surgery...
We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of @ProFootballHOF wide receiver and former Patriots head coach Raymond Berry.
We extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends and everyone who loved him.
@CelticsForum0 Ummm, tanking is never a good idea. The Celtics tried tanking for Tim Duncan (and again for Kevin Durant). How did that work out for them? One lead to a disastrous run with Rick Pitino, the other resulted in a pivot to the new big three. But the actual tanking failed.
More fun with meteors:
1) Most that we see as "shooting stars" are only the size of a grain of sand/small pebble
2) They move up to speeds of 160,000mph
3) This one was a bolide (fireballs that explode), which are larger (can be more than a few feet wide)
4) Even bolides mostly burn up before the surface. Occasionally some fragments do reach the ground
5) Given the trajectory, if any fragments landed they made be in the Atlantic
@wbz