Gad Ring

Curiosity and exploration

[Ash Jogalekar @curiouswavefn]

1/n: Often people's biggest contribution is something they aren't actually known for the most. For instance, Oppenheimer's biggest contribution was to create the American school of modern theoretical physics. Many of today's leading physicists are his academic grandchildren.

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

@DatNameIsMrPlow @krassenstein LLMs are not an appropriate tool for debunking mass-scale lying about a particular video. Try ten times and you get ten different answers.

[Ash Jogalekar @curiouswavefn]

Leonard Susskind: "The second law of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics are as deep as the Higgs boson or particle physics."
*Whispering*: "Actually they're deeper." "Hope I am not disowned by my particle physics friends." https://t.co/7wVsYfnCsi

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

It must suck to have to pretend to be mad at this

[Jonathan Conricus @jconricus]

If the Iranian regime strikes Israel again, I sure hope we won’t be told not to defend ourselves or to retaliate.
And if we’re told, I hope we will do what’s right for Israel.
When you’re attacked, you defend yourself. Plain and simple.

[Crypto Tice @CryptoTice_]

BREAKING:

Poland just told the EU to go to hell.

President Nawrocki vetoed the Digital Services Act.
"The state is supposed to guarantee freedom. Not restrict it."

One man. One veto.

The EU spent years building the most sophisticated censorship machine in the Western world.

Destroyed.

Governments deciding what you can post.
Governments deciding what you can share.
Governments deciding what is true.

Poland said no.

While Germany complied.
While France complied.
While the entire EU rolled over.

The same Poland that surpassed the ECB in gold reserves.
The same Poland that has been right about everything.

Is now the last wall standing between European citizens and state-controlled speech.

The EU doesn't want free citizens.
It wants manageable ones.

Poland just reminded them what freedom actually looks like.

Every European should be paying attention.

[Don Keith @RealDonKeith]

🚨They’ve detained my friend Tommy Robinson again and taken his phone under The Terrorism Act.

This is the same crap they tried 2 years ago and the judge in that trial blasted the cops for politically targeting Tommy and he was found not guilty.

How stupid are they to try the same thing again?

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

Things you didn't learn in school.

▪️2 to 5 million Europeans were taken as slaves by the Ottomans.

▪️European Christian men were the first to abolish slavery.

▪️Communism has killed over 100 million people in 100 years.

[Abhijit @abhijitwt]

This tweet lives rent free in my head

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Labour must go as soon as possible

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Better benefits ?

[Winston Marshall @MrWinMarshall]

One of the greatest lies ever told is that “the left have good intentions”

We see with the outpouring of jealousy, envy and bitterness at the news of Musk becoming a Trillionaire - it is total nonsense

The left don’t want to lift up the poor.

They want to tear down the rich.

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

ADMIN POST

Tommy wanted me to pass on a message to apologise to everyone in the UK for being a terrorist.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

The fear is caused by the complete lack of respect for British traditions and values

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

Following German TV blaming me and Elon Musk for violence in Belfast, rather than the literal invader trying to be behead people, the AfD have issued a criminal complaint to the broadcaster 🤝🏻 🇩🇪

[C3 @C_3C_3]

This is the UK…

Unreal.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Comment about Islamophobia is exactly right

People are so easily deceived by wordplay

For example, I am a culturalist, not a racist

One big difference: you can chose your culture but you can't chose your race

[RadioGenoa @RadioGenoa]

Another church on fire in France last night.

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

Tommy Robinson was just detained AGAIN.

Police stopped him under the "counter terr*rism act" at Heathrow Airport.

This seems like obvious political harassment at this point.

[Math Files @Math_files]

In the 1960s, a direct flight to Neptune would have taken nearly 30 years. That was longer than most spacecraft could survive. Reaching the outer planets seemed almost impossible.

But one engineer, working quietly with a pencil, found a way around this problem.

Gary Flandro, a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was asked to study how spacecraft might travel to the distant planets despite the limits of rocket technology at the time. Fuel was scarce, and engines were not powerful enough for such long journeys.

Flandro turned to a clever idea from physics called a gravity assist, sometimes known as a planetary slingshot. The concept is simple in principle. When a spacecraft passes close to a large planet, the planet’s gravity pulls it in and then flings it forward. In doing so, the spacecraft steals a tiny bit of the planet’s motion around the Sun. The planet slows down by an amount too small to notice, but the spacecraft gains a huge increase in speed without using any fuel.

With only paper, pencil, and the limited computers of 1965, Flandro calculated the future positions of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. What he found was remarkable. In the late 1970s, these giant planets would line up in a rare formation. This alignment would allow a single spacecraft to travel from one planet to the next, gaining speed at each step.

This opportunity appears only once every 176 years.

Flandro showed that a spacecraft could use Jupiter’s gravity to reach Saturn, then use Saturn to reach Uranus, and finally use Uranus to reach Neptune. This chain of boosts would cut the travel time to Neptune from about 30 years down to just 12.

This elegant piece of mathematics changed everything.

It became the foundation for the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 missions, both launched in 1977. Thanks to this precise planning, the two spacecraft sent back the first close images of the outer planets. They later continued their journey beyond the solar system, becoming the first human-made objects to enter interstellar space.

All of it began with a simple insight, worked out by hand, that turned an impossible journey into a reachable one.