Gerardo G.

Man of the world. Student of history. Running enthusiast.

[Gerardo G. @GerardoGarzaV]

Hi @elonmusk ! Please help us saving #ElHuesoDelFraile in #Brownsville.

Could you please retweet the GoFundMe for visibility?

https://t.co/YYM7oM2TXC

Thanks!

[Gerardo G. @GerardoGarzaV]

@grok @caberichie @undacappn @grok could you post the links to the extended versions on Suno?

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Views of Starship in space from a @Starlink satellite

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

In 458 BC, Rome was on the brink of collapse.

An invading army had trapped the Roman consul and his legion in a mountain pass. Panic spread through the city. The Senate did the only thing they could think of:

They sent messengers to find a 60-year-old farmer plowing his field.

His name was Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. He had once been a senator, then lost his fortune paying his son's bail. Now he worked his own four-acre plot just to feed his family.

When the Senate's envoys arrived, they found him sweating behind a plow. They asked him to put on his toga so they could deliver an official message.

The message: Rome was making him dictator. Absolute power. Total command of the army. No checks. No oversight. No term limit.

He accepted.

Within 16 days, Cincinnatus had raised an army, marched out, surrounded the enemy, and forced their surrender. The republic was saved.

He had legal authority to rule for six months. He could have stayed. He could have expanded his power. He could have done what every other ruler in human history did when handed unlimited control.

Instead, he resigned on day 16.

He took off the toga, walked back to his farm, and finished plowing the field he'd left half-done.

Twenty years later, when Rome faced another crisis, they called him back. He was 80 years old. He took command, crushed the conspiracy, and resigned again, this time after just 21 days.

He died poor. On his farm.

2,200 years later, when George Washington was offered a kingship after winning the American Revolution, he refused and went home to Mount Vernon. The reason he was hailed as "the American Cincinnatus" is because Europeans literally could not believe a man who had won would willingly give up power.

King George III, on hearing Washington would resign rather than rule, said: "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world."

The lesson isn't that Cincinnatus was humble.

The lesson is that for most of human history, the people most qualified to lead were the ones who didn't want to. And the moment a society starts rewarding those who chase power instead of those who flee from it is the moment the republic begins to die.

Cincinnati, Ohio is named after him.

Most people who live there have no idea why.

[Rich Par @AstroPnoy]

The Artemis II astronauts placed a micro SD card carrying the names of 5.6 million people (who submitted them online between last September and March 27) inside Rise, their zero-gravity indicator, earlier today

🌎🌕🙂

[Gerardo G. @GerardoGarzaV]

To the moon!

[NASA @NASA]

Liftoff.

The Artemis II mission launched from @NASAKennedy at 6:35pm ET (2235 UTC), propelling four astronauts on a journey around the Moon.

Artemis II will pave the way for future Moon landings, as well as the next giant leap — astronauts on Mars.

[Gerardo G. @GerardoGarzaV]

#sunset #Brownsville #Texas

[NASA Solar System @NASASolarSystem]

BREAKING: Sugars essential for life have been found in pristine asteroid Bennu samples collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Combined with previous detections of amino acids and nucleobases, we see that life’s ingredients were widespread throughout the solar system: https://t.co/Tb3HpwZG9J

More on the study led by Yoshihiro Furukawa of @TohokuUniPR⤵️

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Liftoff of Starship!

[Bluntly Put Philosopher (BPP) @SocraticScribe]

A stellarator is wild: plasma hotter than the Sun holds its shape along twisted 3D magnetic fields, no current needed. It’s like turning Kanye into Keanu, chaos made calm.

[NASA Solar System @NASASolarSystem]

Potential biosignature on Mars: confirmed. ✔️

After a year of scientific review, we are more sure than ever that our Mars Perseverance's 'Sapphire Canyon' sample could contain signs of ancient microbial life. Learn more about the discovery: https://t.co/RMO2UFfnjv

[Gerardo G. @GerardoGarzaV]

Sunset

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Liftoff of Starship!

[Gerardo G. @GerardoGarzaV]

#MyXAnniversary

[Wintergatan @wintergatan]

The machine that started it all, hand built on a band saw using plywood.

[Evan @StockMKTNewz]

The landscape of humanoid robots in 2025 🤖

[T.Yamazaki @ZappyZappy7]

マルチモーダル六脚ロボット、地形に適応して動作モードを切り換える (惑星探査や災害対応などを想定)
https://t.co/0UQAFv6c9j

#hexapod #robot #manipulator #multimodal #locomotion #legged #wheeled

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!