Peace Pipe

Husband. Father. Son. Brother. Friend. Airman. Tar Heel. Porcivor. Servant. Working on it.

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@PFTCommenter I hope you get well soon but what happened on that field was punishment for what @JMUFootball did there.

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@KenColeman Congratulations. Bittersweet indeed. I'm very grateful for all you did for others and best of luck in your next adventure. Your closing message was a masterpiece. Thanks Ken.

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@krninjawarrior Good idea, but also bring the cheese wheel lady. The Moon is made of cheese promo you didn't know you needed.

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@TAshleyIC Caleb is Drake Maye. These guards are Chizik's defense.

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When he's right, he's right. I agree with @ESPNLunardi, the 2026 Selection Committee should not grant an at-large bid to the 2025 Tar Heels. Do we hold their experience against Michigan? St. Johns? NC State? They have as many 2025 UNC starters as 2026 UNC.

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@PFTCommenter I love not sending the B-2s or the F-22s. Give someone else a chance for some burn.

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@JonesAngell @TAshleyIC @GSBarnes23 @bepryor @jonatha
On behalf of my fellow recent converts to the New England football team, is it more correct to say I am a "Maye-triots" fan?

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

There have been thousands of generations of humans, and you are alive to witness the first photo of a Sunset on another World.

This is a real photo of the sunset on Mars.

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This stuff is so cool and more interesting than any other news story we get forcefed. Humans at our best.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The signal strength hitting Earth from Voyager 1 is less than one trillionth of a watt.

To put that in perspective, your phone’s WiFi signal is roughly 100 billion times stronger, and it drops a connection walking between rooms.

NASA picks up Voyager’s whisper using arrays of 70-meter antennas, then reconstructs coherent data from it at 160 bits per second. That’s slower than a 1990s modem. Downloading a single photograph at that rate would take weeks.

The spacecraft itself runs on 8.8 kg of decaying plutonium-238 that generated 470 watts at launch in 1977. Today it produces roughly 200 watts, losing about 4 watts per year. NASA has been shutting down instruments one by one since the 1980s to keep the math working. They turned off the cosmic ray sensor just this year.

And here’s the part nobody’s talking about: there is exactly one antenna on Earth that can send commands to Voyager. Deep Space Station 43 in Canberra. It went offline for major upgrades from May 2025 through early 2026. During that window, if Voyager had a critical fault, the team would have had to wait months to respond.

A 48-year-old spacecraft built on 1970s computing, running on a plutonium battery that’s lost 60% of its output, transmitting at a power level that barely qualifies as existing, from a distance where light itself takes 23 hours to arrive. And a German observatory just casually picked up its carrier signal on a live stream.

The engineering margin NASA built into this mission was designed for 4 years to Saturn. Everything after that is borrowed time the engineers keep extending by doing math with 200 watts.

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@RobMcLamb Absolutely. We're all on the same team against that awful disease. Good for those fighters.

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@Dameshek Huge one this weekend. Must win?

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@WesDurham @sportsfan513 Cool story. Anyway.

[Kendall Baker @kendallbaker]

Five schools have produced a U.S. president and a Super Bowl-winning QB.

- Delaware: Biden/Flacco
- Miami (OH): Harrison/Big Ben
- Michigan: Ford/Brady
- Stanford: Hoover/Elway/Plunkett
- Navy: Carter/Staubach

If Drake Maye wins this year, UNC will be the sixth (James K. Polk).

[Cookie Monster @MeCookieMonster]

Da snow is falling and da cookies are calling.

[Encyclopaedia Britannica @Britannica]

Redheads require about 20% more anesthesia than people with other hair colors.

Scientists are unsure why anesthesia, both general and local, is less effective for redheads, but it may be linked to the MC1R gene mutation that causes hair to be red.

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Man...

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

When Jerry first put on his Subway hat in 1990, people didn’t expect much from him.

He had Down syndrome. He didn’t speak much. He shuffled nervously with each customer, terrified of getting an order wrong. But every morning, without fail, he showed up.

And day after day, sandwich after sandwich, Jerry learned. He started remembering people’s orders before they even asked. He learned their names. He greeted them with a smile. Sometimes he’d tell a joke he’d heard from the TV the night before—even if no one understood it, everyone laughed.

Jerry became the heart of that store. The kids who used to come in with their parents grew up and brought their own kids. The walls were repainted, managers changed, the logo evolved. But Jerry stayed.

He never missed a shift. Not when it snowed, not when he twisted his ankle. Not even when his mom passed. “She’d want me to go,” he had whispered, buttoning his green shirt through tears.

For 33 years, Jerry made thousands of sandwiches. But more than that—he made people feel seen.

On his last day, the store was packed.

People lined up not for footlongs—but for Jerry.

The mayor came. The news came. A young man who once had a panic attack at the counter came just to say, “Thank you for being patient with me.”

Then they handed Jerry a plaque:

“33 Years of Service – Thank You, Jerry.”

He held it with trembling hands and smiled.

Then he whispered to the crowd, in the softest voice:

“Did I do good?”

The store went quiet.

And everyone cried

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

Less than a year ago, President Biden upped the Maduro bounty to $25,000,000.

Removing Maduro was positive for Venezuela.

As a Democrat, I don’t understand why we can’t acknowledge a good development for Venezuelans—and how deft our military’s execution of that plan was.

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@Dameshek @BaldBryan *ahem*

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

How the iconic Star Wars blaster sound effect was made

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@ProFootballTalk I have a theory....

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@PFTCommenter The F-15 is so cold. I love the F-22 for what it is for all-time, but in its day the F-15 was a flying Ace of Spades. It was in its day to aviation what Bo Jackson was to sports.