Mattia Borzillo

Space and Astronautical Engineering @ Sapienza University of Rome

[Zherka @ZherkaOfficial]

You should be exhausted by bedtime.

If not, you wasted your whole day.

[Joseph 🕊️ @CaudilloXIV]

Patriot

[Zherka @ZherkaOfficial]

Wait until it’s your turn to give up what you love most and move on with your incarnation.

[Zherka @ZherkaOfficial]

As a person becomes more integrated, dreams become more coherent and meaningful.

[Zherka @ZherkaOfficial]

Most unconscious souls avoid the inner work they want to do for many years, and heartbreak reorients them in the right direction.

[Nabeel S. Qureshi @nabeelqu]

So interesting how many brilliant mathematicians insist that they are not especially intelligent or quick. Never sure what to make of this.

[🗽 @verritass]

Your phone is doing magic on you. All screens are black (empty glass) because it represents the empty space of mind. A magical device that shows you everything you didn’t even know you wanted to see (brain rot) + (created by geniuses to keep you addicted). It strips away your curiosity and creative ability, it blocks the spontaneity of mind from occurring and hyper conditions you (feedback loops are one thumb swipe away) to desire slop. You quite literally destroy your spirit every time you scroll. You block life’s spontaneous beauty from arising in your mind (algorithm overlords do it for you) and waste your life chasing what the feeds have shown you, instead of allowing your soul to birth it from within you.

[Mgoes (bio/acc 🤖💉) @m_goes_distance]

>be me
>read that Italy's birth rate is 1.2
>has been declining every decade since 1975
>government response: "Fertility Day" national campaign
>posters of hourglasses and wilting flowers
>national campaign to remind women their eggs expire?
>women are not reminded
>women are instead offended
>birth rate continues to plummet
>Italy now has more people over 65 than under 15
>I look at Italian biotech
>very little is happening
>I look at what the Vatican thinks about epigenetic reprogramming
>???
>I close the tab
>I open a different tab
>I am now booking a one way flight to Rome
>I will set up a lab there
>I will set up a peptide clinic too
>I will save the people of Italy
>the pope will understand eventually

[Mattia Borzillo @Er__Secco]

@ballaratiandrea Anche tu dovresti rispondere e dire in che squadra stai senza girarci troppo intorno, dato che come dici tu dalla risposta alla domanda si ricava l'azione. Quello che pensi sull'Italia o sugli Italiani "non insubri", chi è vicino e chi distante, dillo esplicitamente

[Sergio Ferrero @calotonterias]

Los futbolistas de élite tienen habilidades cognitivas superiores al promedio de la población:
- Mejor memoria de trabajo (tanto en modalidad directa como inversa)
- Mejores funciones ejecutivas, especialmente flexibilidad cognitiva
- Mayor eficiencia en planificación y resolución de problemas (menor número de movimientos en la Torre de Hanoi)
- Mayor fluidez figural (generación de diseños nuevos en el Five-Point Test)
- Mayor velocidad de reacción manual (Simple Manual Reaction Time)

En cuanto a rasgos de personalidad (Big Five), muestran:
- Niveles significativamente más altos de conciencia (conscientiousness), extraversión y apertura a la experiencia.
- Niveles reducidos de neuroticismo y agradabilidad (agreeableness).

Además, algunas de estas habilidades y rasgos predicen de forma significativa el rendimiento real en el campo: número de goles, asistencias, regates exitosos...

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video.

Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments.

The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times.

Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it.

Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone.

The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

[Elai @elaifresh]

Unfortunately, you do indeed have to wage a 24/7 war against your own body getting stiff from modern sedentary-sitting life

Fortunately, it is curable

[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

Men admire in women masculine virtues (self-accountability, logic, composure, self-command) expressed through feminine embodiment - not as an imitation of man, but as a refinement of character.

Women admire in men feminine virtues (empathy, tenderness, intuition, receptivity) expressed through masculine embodiment - not as softness without toughness, but as completeness.

So each sex seeks the best of its own principle integrated in the opposite, their natural polarity preserved but elevated.

Men and women are thus seeking the best of themselves in their opposite in stable contrast - a marriage within so there can be a marriage between - recursive union - what beauty!

[hunter @hunterlanier]

Had a good discussion with someone today about why the literature and overall vibes from Apollo era NASA feels so different compared to now.

Two things:

1. The average age of a NASA engineer during the Apollo era was 28

2. Most of them were first generation engineers who didn’t really have the engineering background

So you take a bunch of 21-32 year olds who grew up on a farm, and now you tell them we are going to do something nobody’s ever done before. It leads to things being as simplified as they need to be. There is enough duct-tape work that things actually get done.

Society has forced us into a evermore theoretical world where we have forgotten what it feels like to beat the puzzle pieces into place with a hammer.

This is why many of the textbooks from this time period are actually very pleasant to read through. They were often written by or for someone who had nothing but outside life experience, trying to understand it.

Our generation is taking Artemis back to the moon and also Mars in the same way this generation did. I think we have a lot to learn from how they did things, and I’m glad to see a return to this type of engineering.

I can’t help but think about how many projects I didn’t finish because I couldn’t do them well enough to my standards in my head, and I should have just wrapped the thing in duct-tape and crossed the finish line

[RAW EGG NATIONALIST @Babygravy9]

In that brief moment, the frog attained something like divinity as conceptualised by the Ancient Greeks. That frog was Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods. He lived more than 99.99% of all human beings have ever truly lived.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Scientists have created one of the most detailed 3D reconstructions of a human cell (eukaryotic cell) ever produced.

This groundbreaking model, often termed a "Cellular Landscape Cross-Section Through a Eukaryotic Cell," combines data from X-ray tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy to map molecular structures in extreme detail.

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Been waiting for this moment. There is a lot in my head that I must process and very little has to do with leaving the planet. Today is my first step. I have never in my life felt peace like this.

[doomer @uncledoomer]

italian versus german mindset

[Il Politico Web @ilpolitico_web]

E la risposta politica? Sempre la stessa: bonus. Assegni. Detrazioni.

Come se il problema fosse economico.

La Corea del Sud ha investito 200 miliardi di dollari e ha il tasso più basso al mondo: 0,72.

I soldi da soli non salvano nessuna civiltà.

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[Il Politico Web @ilpolitico_web]

Ogni mese un 30 italiano versa il 33% della sua busta paga per mantenere 400.000 pensionati d'oro che incassano 5.000 euro al mese.
Loro non hanno mai versato quelle cifre. Lui non ne vedrà mai una simile.

Questa si chiama rapina. Noi la chiamiamo sistema pensionistico.

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