Charlie Lawford

Father, Tech professional, Motor racing, Politics, Food. ‘You are the universe experiencing itself’

[Charlie Lawford @C_Law79]

@BrandonButch Take all my likes!!

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@fortifoursi Not sure what you mean. Looks epic

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This is a single human cell. The white tubes are microtubules. The colored beads are ribosomes. You have 37 trillion of these.

Every cell in your body is a manufacturing plant running 24/7 without supervision.

Each ribosome (the colored beads) is assembling a protein right now. A single ribosome chains together about 20 amino acids per second. A typical mammalian cell contains millions of ribosomes. Every cell in your body is forming hundreds of millions of peptide bonds per second. Continuously.

The white worm-like tubes are microtubules, the cell's internal highway system. Motor proteins called kinesin walk along them on two protein legs, carrying cargo from one end of the cell to the other at around 800 nanometers per second. Each cell has thousands of these tracks with thousands of motor proteins walking on them simultaneously.

The blue mesh on the outside is the actin cortex. It holds the cell shape against pressure. It's also being torn down and rebuilt constantly. Every cell rewrites its own structural skeleton every few minutes.

Now scale that.

37 trillion cells. Each running millions of ribosomes. Each running hundreds of mitochondria producing ATP at roughly 100 million molecules per second. Your total daily ATP turnover is around your full body weight. You synthesize and consume your bodyweight in ATP every 24 hours.

The DNA in a single cell stretches 2 meters uncoiled. End to end across all 37 trillion cells, that's enough to reach the sun and back 250 times.

None of this is voluntary. None of it stops. It started when you were one cell and hasn't paused since.

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

Chinese Vacuum and Smart Home Appliance company Dreame unveiled a Jet-Powered EV supercar concept called the Nebula NEXT 01 JET Edition.

• Claimed 0-62 mph in 0.9s
• Dual solid-fuel rocket boosters delivering up to 100 kN of peak thrust (comparable to a single fighter jet engine).
• 1,900 hp Quad-Motor EV powertrain
• Sulfide solid-state battery
• Steer-by-wire
• 500 km/h top speed (310 mph)
• Targeted for 2027 production in Germany

For some context, solid-fuel rockets are typically single use or require replacement/reloading of propellant after firing.

AS ALWAYS, concepts are easy, production is hard. I think the odds of this making production are VERY slim. 😂

[Charlie Lawford @C_Law79]

@PatrickMoorhead Back to the days of Merc dominance. Thankfully F1 has multiple threads of drama and intrigue other than just who is winning the races but it certainly risks losing many of its casual viewers

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@McLarenF1 The pit lane…

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@kanevato You gonna tell us your pick?

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@MattP1Tommy Never in the history of the automobile or motor racing has there ever been a racing series where the cars slow down on the straights. It is not motor racing and it certainly isn’t F1

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@MattP1Tommy Is this the first racing category in the history of the motorcar to be going slower at the end of a straight than in the middle of it? Shameful

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@ANZDarrenA @F1 @Coxy847 Can’t wait to see how they overtake when they are both slowing down at the end of the straight. Will be a race to see who slows down less. What a joke

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@SulloReport He’s got great pace. I feel as though McLaren did show their hand in that last P3 run. They should be able to turn up the wick just as much as the Mercs

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@SulloReport I honestly don’t understand how cars are meant to be passing each other on the straights when they are both slowing down. It removes the pace advantage one car may have from the previous corner

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@techAU @Foxtel Would be better on AppleTV

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@laurogeitabat If they just stood on the other side of each other, it would look like Australia 🇦🇺

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@RuksanaAnsar 3551

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@Jindo_1307979 51118

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@yelistener Indianapolis?

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@StaurosNiarchos @F1mech Yup. This is the unknown and what I am sure was going through their head. They would be stuck in so much traffic. The fact that every other car pitted really screwed them

[Charlie Lawford @C_Law79]

@cytrusf1 Ferrari 😂