Our astronaut Luca Parmitano is assigned as pilot of NASA’s #ArtemisIII mission.
With Europe powering Orion with the European Service Module, this mission will test the critical operations preparing for humankind's return to the Moon.
A strong step forward for ESA–NASA partnership.
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📸 NASA
Voyager 1 is 24 billion kilometers from Earth.
It communicates with us using a 23-watt transmitter.
Less than a refrigerator light bulb.
The signal takes 22 hours to reach us, traveling at the speed of light.
By the time it arrives, it's 20 billion times weaker than the power of a digital watch battery.
NASA's Deep Space Network picks it up using 70-meter dish antennas cooled to near absolute zero to reduce electronic noise.
The engineering required to hear a 23-watt signal from 24 billion km away is arguably more impressive than the spacecraft itself.
Launched 1977.
Still transmitting.
Still being heard.
We built something that works perfectly, 47 years later, in conditions no one has ever tested in.
That's what engineering for the long term looks like.
Heard Of Skara Brae?
You should have as it changes history.
In 1850, a farmer discovered a hidden village.
Later, it was found to be older than the Great Pyramid of Egypt.
Archaeologists estimate that the village was home to about 100 people.
The village was known as "the Pompeii of Scotland," or Skara Brae. The houses were connected by tunnels, and each house was sealed off with a stone door.
An ancient site on a small island in the Atlantic Ocean, north of Scotland, remains shrouded in mystery to this day.
Overlooking Skyle Bay on the Mainland Island, the largest of the Orkney Islands in the North Sea, once stood the Neolithic settlement of Skara Brae.
According to archaeologists, this settlement consisted of about 10 houses and is believed to have been inhabited by ~3100 BC or perhaps a 1000 years or more earlier.
This represents what may become an even larger site spanning dozens of locations.
Now you know.
❤️🥹 UNA DE LAS HISTORIAS MÁS LINDAS DEL AÑO.
Maja Chwalinska llegó a Roland Garros habiendo ganado 865.000 dólares en toda su carrera, sin sponsors, fuera del Top 100 y luego de haber superado una dura depresión.
Maja Chwalinska se va de Roland Garros como subcampeona, con casi 1,5 millones de dólares en premios, siendo 21° del ranking y con la admiración del mundo entero.
Al tempo della I guerra mondiale, un secolo fa, la popolazione dell'europa era il triplo di quella dell'Africa, 300 milioni noi e 100 milioni loro. Ma è un continente grande 10 volte (sui mappamondi, la curvatura la rende più piccola del reale perchè all'equatore). Era vuota in larga parte, per cui ovunque vi sono migrati europei, non solo in Algeria, ma Kenia, Libia, Eritrea, Mozambico e ovunque poi. Senza contare Rhodesia e Sudafrica.
Gli europei hanno portato la medicina, gli ospedali, missionari, infermiere e medici volontati (una mia cugina inferermiera andava sempre in Africa gratis) e più sanità.
Così gli africani sono aumentati da circa 100 milioni a 950 milioni oggi. Grazie a noi. La prima cosa che hanno fatto, dandogli l'indipendenza, è stato cacciare tutti gli stranieri. Hanno distrutto totalmente la Rhodesia. Stanno distruggendo il Sudafrica
E ora distruggeranno l'Europa
No, no puedes trabajar de 9 a 5 y caminar 10,000 pasos al día, leer 2 libros a la semana, cocinar todas las noches, limpiar a diario, mantener amistades, cuidar de tu familia, cuidarte a ti mismo, dormir 8 horas, cultivar hobbies y ser completamente productivo en el trabajo todos los días.
Eso no es motivación, es una tontería irreal.
Libérate de eso.
🤡 Russia strikes another high-value military target
Russian drones hit the “Yagotynske for Children” factory in Ukraine’s Kyiv region. Four employees were killed.
The facility produced milk, yogurt, butter, and other dairy products for children.
Apparently, defeating a baby food factory was essential to achieving Russia’s military objectives.
🇷🇴 ❗️A powerful explosion occurred in the Romanian port of Constanta
According to local media, a naval drone exploded. The Prime Minister of Romania and the President of the country were urgently informed about the incident.
@fish_puddle@visegrad24 In this specific case it seems unclear for now. But since in Western Countries similar violent riots are happening frequently recently, my first guesses are: poor education from their parents, general frustration, inability to assimilate in Western Culture etc. etc. etc.
BREAKING:
New videos show the scale of the migrant riots in central Brussels today.
The capital city of the European Union is seeing serious unrest, with violent attacks against firemen and police officers as well as a lot of vandalism 🇪🇺🇧🇪