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Charlie Helps FRSA ⚛️❣️💙🖤🤍

@HelpsCharlie

1 day ago

When a war breaks out, people say, “It’s too stupid; it can’t last long.” But though a war may be “too stupid”, that doesn’t prevent it lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves. — Albert Camus, The Plague, part I, chapter 5. https://t.co/ycXWbhjlus

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Socialist Opera Singer

@OperaSocialist

4 days ago

If only someone in the media would expose Farage's incitement yesterday via performative utterance in the same way that Jonathan Miller humiliated Enoch Powell and his grubby little racism.

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NASA History Office

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5 days ago

60 years ago today, Surveyor I made a three-point soft landing on the Moon—the first soft landing for America's space program—AND accomplished on its first try. Over the next 6 weeks it returned more than 11,000 images of the lunar surface including this one featuring its shadow. The mission was one of the great successes of NASA's early lunar program.

NASAhistory's tweet photo. 60 years ago today, Surveyor I made a three-point soft landing on the Moon—the first soft landing for America's space program—AND accomplished on its first try. Over the next 6 weeks it returned more than 11,000 images of the lunar surface including this one featuring its shadow.

The mission was one of the great successes of NASA's early lunar program.

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SciTech Girl

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4 days ago

🚨 AI Just Created a Material Humans Never Imagined! Scientists have developed a revolutionary new material that is stronger than steel, lighter than foam, and up to 5 times stronger than titanium. The most surprising part? It was designed by artificial intelligence, not human engineers. Using AI, researchers created entirely new microscopic structures that were later 3D-printed and tested. The results could lead to lighter airplanes, stronger buildings, and more efficient vehicles. This breakthrough shows that AI is no longer just helping scientists—it’s starting to invent alongside them. What could the world look like when AI designs the materials of the future? Source: University of Toronto. AI-designed nanomaterials achieve exceptional strength and lightness. University of Toronto Engineering News.

scitechgirl's tweet photo. 🚨 AI Just Created a Material Humans Never Imagined!

Scientists have developed a revolutionary new material that is stronger than steel, lighter than foam, and up to 5 times stronger than titanium.

The most surprising part? It was designed by artificial intelligence, not human engineers.
Using AI, researchers created entirely new microscopic structures that were later 3D-printed and tested. The results could lead to lighter airplanes, stronger buildings, and more efficient vehicles.

This breakthrough shows that AI is no longer just helping scientists—it’s starting to invent alongside them.
What could the world look like when AI designs the materials of the future?

Source: University of Toronto. AI-designed nanomaterials achieve exceptional strength and lightness. University of Toronto Engineering News.

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4 days ago

On New Year's Eve in 1881, a 29-year-old Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo from The Hague, describing how artists express mood and motion through black-and-white tones. He compared different drawing styles to musical instruments, calling some artists “violins,” others “pianos,” and Millet “a stately organ,” offering a rare glimpse into how he blended sound and imagery in his mind. This letter has become intriguing evidence that Van Gogh may have experienced synesthesia, a trait long suspected due to his vivid artistic style and modern theories about his neurodivergence. The discovery was first made by René D. Quiñones, a synesthete who spotted the passage while reading Van Gogh’s correspondence and immediately recognized the sensory crossover. Artists and researchers have since revisited Van Gogh’s work with new interest, noting synesthetic “photisms” in paintings like Starry Night and Wheatfields with Crows. Though Van Gogh sold only one painting in his lifetime and died at 37, his letter now adds a fascinating dimension to his legacy, suggesting his genius may have been shaped in part by a uniquely connected sensory world. Learn more: https://t.co/k7XD6E5BWw

fasc1nate's tweet photo. On New Year's Eve in 1881, a 29-year-old Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo from The Hague, describing how artists express mood and motion through black-and-white tones. He compared different drawing styles to musical instruments, calling some artists “violins,” others “pianos,” and Millet “a stately organ,” offering a rare glimpse into how he blended sound and imagery in his mind.

This letter has become intriguing evidence that Van Gogh may have experienced synesthesia, a trait long suspected due to his vivid artistic style and modern theories about his neurodivergence. The discovery was first made by René D. Quiñones, a synesthete who spotted the passage while reading Van Gogh’s correspondence and immediately recognized the sensory crossover.

Artists and researchers have since revisited Van Gogh’s work with new interest, noting synesthetic “photisms” in paintings like Starry Night and Wheatfields with Crows. Though Van Gogh sold only one painting in his lifetime and died at 37, his letter now adds a fascinating dimension to his legacy, suggesting his genius may have been shaped in part by a uniquely connected sensory world.

Learn more: https://t.co/k7XD6E5BWw

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Black Hole

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5 days ago

Nuclear Fusion: The Engine That Could Get Us to Mars in Weeks Imagine slashing the journey to Mars from a grueling 6–9 months one way down to just a few weeks.That’s the tantalizing promise of nuclear fusion propulsion — a technology that could revolutionize human spaceflight and make the Red Planet feel like a neighboring city instead of a distant world.From 500 Days to 30–90 DaysTheoretical studies and mission concept papers show that advanced fusion-powered spacecraft could reduce a full round-trip mission to Mars from roughly 500 days (using today’s chemical rockets) to as little as 30 to 90 days under optimistic but plausible engineering scenarios.Instead of burning chemical propellants in short, powerful bursts, a fusion drive would harness the same energy source that powers the Sun: controlled nuclear fusion. By smashing light atomic nuclei together, it releases enormous energy and generates exhaust velocities far beyond anything chemical rockets can achieve.Why Fusion Changes EverythingThe real game-changer is continuous thrust. A fusion spacecraft could accelerate for weeks or months, then flip and decelerate — creating a fast, efficient trajectory instead of the long, coasting Hohmann transfer orbits we use today.Because propulsion efficiency grows non-linearly with exhaust velocity, even modest improvements in energy density deliver massive reductions in travel time. In other words, fusion doesn’t just make things faster — it makes the impossible feel almost within reach.The Road AheadOf course, challenges remain huge. We still need:Stable net-energy-gain fusion reactions Compact, lightweight reactors suitable for space Advanced radiation shielding to protect the crew Concepts like those studied by NASA and research teams draw inspiration from Earth-based experiments such as ITER, but scaled and optimized for propulsion rather than stationary power generation.If we succeed, fusion propulsion could become one of the few realistic pathways for crewed missions across the Solar System on human timescales — turning months-long voyages into routine trips and opening the door to the rest of the planets.The age of fusion-powered exploration may still be a decade or two away… but when it arrives, Mars will suddenly feel a lot closer.

konstructivizm's tweet photo. Nuclear Fusion: The Engine That Could Get Us to Mars in Weeks Imagine slashing the journey to Mars from a grueling 6–9 months one way down to just a few weeks.That’s the tantalizing promise of nuclear fusion propulsion — a technology that could revolutionize human spaceflight and make the Red Planet feel like a neighboring city instead of a distant world.From 500 Days to 30–90 DaysTheoretical studies and mission concept papers show that advanced fusion-powered spacecraft could reduce a full round-trip mission to Mars from roughly 500 days (using today’s chemical rockets) to as little as 30 to 90 days under optimistic but plausible engineering scenarios.Instead of burning chemical propellants in short, powerful bursts, a fusion drive would harness the same energy source that powers the Sun: controlled nuclear fusion. By smashing light atomic nuclei together, it releases enormous energy and generates exhaust velocities far beyond anything chemical rockets can achieve.Why Fusion Changes EverythingThe real game-changer is continuous thrust. A fusion spacecraft could accelerate for weeks or months, then flip and decelerate — creating a fast, efficient trajectory instead of the long, coasting Hohmann transfer orbits we use today.Because propulsion efficiency grows non-linearly with exhaust velocity, even modest improvements in energy density deliver massive reductions in travel time. In other words, fusion doesn’t just make things faster — it makes the impossible feel almost within reach.The Road AheadOf course, challenges remain huge. We still need:Stable net-energy-gain fusion reactions
Compact, lightweight reactors suitable for space
Advanced radiation shielding to protect the crew

Concepts like those studied by NASA and research teams draw inspiration from Earth-based experiments such as ITER, but scaled and optimized for propulsion rather than stationary power generation.If we succeed, fusion propulsion could become one of the few realistic pathways for crewed missions across the Solar System on human timescales — turning months-long voyages into routine trips and opening the door to the rest of the planets.The age of fusion-powered exploration may still be a decade or two away… but when it arrives, Mars will suddenly feel a lot closer.

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Barack Obama

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6 days ago

As President, I would read 10 letters a day sent to me by ordinary Americans. At the Obama Presidential Center, we’ll have some of the letters I read — and responded to — every night. I still get emotional reading them, and it’s one of my favorite exhibits.