So is anyone planning observations of the moon for the booster impact? I think the chances of seeing anything are slim, but you never know unless you try.
@nypost “Netflix star” FFS
L/Cpl Nirmal Purja MBE, 1 RGR and SBS
The first Gurkha ever to join the SBS
57 ascents of 8000m peaks, a world record
First ever ascent of Everest in 48 hours
First person ever to climb all 14 8000m peaks in 6 months
Husband and father
“Netflix star” is such an absurd way to describe one of the greatest climbers of all time. He scaled the 14 tallest peaks on earth in 189 days. Then he did it all over again without supplemental oxygen. And he served in the British special forces.
The man was a legend and proof that with the right mindset, you can conquer anything.
IMPORTANT: A former colleague who has tracked the police for years sent this apt and very well written note on the July 20 violence . Pl read it carefully one and all (especially some of our top cops who still retain a commitment and integrity to the uniform)
Read here:
Full sympathies with families and children of cops as no one should be made to see the suffering of their loved ones. But this isn’t an argument about whether the protesters did this or not. The idea of parading the families of injured Delhi Police officers is a dishonourable attempt to create an emotional counter-narrative and is more aimed at deflecting systemic accountability for use of force by the state and hence shifts the focus from institutional actions to individual suffering.
Comparing state-backed police force's injuries with injured students ends up creating a false moral equivalence, because the police hold state authority and crowd-control tools. Remember, violence is always a state monopoly in legal terms. Their attempts distract everyone from the core issue - of police misconduct and disproportionate use of force. In this battle of my emotion versus your emotion, the larger picture should never be lost in any civilised society.🙏
Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. What on earth is Google doing? Check my latest post here: https://t.co/N0h6CVECqS
Curiosity has delivered a new 360-degree panorama from Mars. “We’ve seen a lot of fascinating landscapes through Curiosity’s eyes, but this sea of polygons took our breath away,” said the mission’s project scientist. 1/2
Everyone knows the Uphaar cinema fire. Fifty nine people who went to watch a war film in Delhi and never came home.
Almost nobody knows that the safest man in that hall, the one person trained and calm enough to walk straight out, chose to stay inside until it killed him.
His name was Captain Manjinder Singh Bhinder.
On the thirteenth of June 1997, he was at the Uphaar cinema in Green Park watching Border, the film about the soldiers of Longewala. He was a real one.
An officer of the 61st Cavalry, a national level horseman who had just won gold at the National Games and was being talked about for the next Asian Games. He was there with his wife and his four year old son.
Partway through the film, a transformer in the building caught fire. Thick black smoke began filling the balcony. The exits were few, badly lit, and some were blocked. People had minutes, and most of them did not know which way to move.
He got his own family up and moving toward the way out, the way any man would.
And then he turned around and went back in.
He understood what a panicking crowd in the dark does. It bunches at the wrong doors, it freezes, it tramples itself. So he put himself in that stairwell and did the job he was trained to do.
He took charge. He steadied people. He guided women and children through the smoke toward the narrow passage that led out, group after group, breathing that air the whole time.
More than a hundred and fifty people got out of that cinema alive because a soldier stood in the dark and refused to leave until they did.
He did not get out. Neither did his wife. Neither did his little boy.
There is a Netflix series about the Uphaar fire. It is told, rightly, through the eyes of two parents who lost their children and spent decades fighting for justice. His name is not in it.
And there is one more thing the country should be made to sit with. After he died saving over a hundred and fifty of its citizens, his elderly parents had to fight the defence ministry for years for his pension, because a clerk's rule said he had not died fighting an enemy.
He walked out of that fire once, with his family, and he was safe. Then he heard the people still screaming inside, and he went back.
If you don't have my book on the early development of the SST in the United States... what are you even doing with your life?
Covers designs from just after WWII up to the cancellation of the Boeing 2707-300. Pages below show the 2707 configurations.
https://t.co/t5PU9ToTuX
Somebody ran up to Colonel Chesty Puller at the Chosin Reservoir to tell him the terrible news that his Marines were completely surrounded by the Chinese army. Puller looked at him and said, more or less, good. Now we can shoot at them in every direction.
Lewis Puller, called Chesty because of his barrel chest and his bulldog walk, was already a living legend before Korea. He is still the most decorated Marine in the history of the Corps, a man who would end his career with five Navy Crosses, and there are Marines to this day who end their night with the words good night Chesty, wherever you are. He was the old breed, a Marine who believed in the rifle, the bayonet, and never, ever leaving a man behind.
In late November 1950, at a frozen lake in the mountains of North Korea called the Chosin Reservoir, everything went wrong. Around thirty thousand UN troops, most of them Marines, suddenly found themselves cut off and encircled by something like a hundred and twenty thousand Chinese soldiers who had poured across the border in secret. The temperature dropped to thirty and forty degrees below zero. Weapons froze. Blood froze. Rations froze solid. The Marines were outnumbered, surrounded, and stuck at the far end of a single narrow mountain road with the enemy dug in on every hill above it.
Most units in that spot break. Chesty Puller's did not. His attitude, and it spread to every man in the regiment, was that being surrounded was not a disaster, it was an opportunity. He is supposed to have said it plainly. We are surrounded. That simplifies our problem. And the other line his Marines loved. They are in front of us, behind us, and on both flanks. They cannot get away from us now.
So the Marines did not surrender and they did not panic. They turned around and fought their way out, attacking in a new direction, as Puller and the other commanders put it. They came down that one frozen road through seventy miles of ambush and roadblock, hauling their gear, and this is the part that mattered most to men like Chesty, bringing their wounded and their dead with them. They refused to leave their people behind.
They fought their way clean out of the trap and did enormous damage to the Chinese armies that tried to destroy them. For his part in it Puller earned that fifth Navy Cross, and the breakout from Chosin became one of the most legendary fighting retreats in the history of the United States military.
Chesty Puller spent his whole life proving a simple idea. It is not the numbers against you that decide a fight. It is whether the men will stand. His men always stood.
ORBIT ACHIEVED. 🚀
Vikram-1 Test Flight-1 has reached orbit. India's first privately developed orbital rocket has completed its final burn and injected its payloads into a ~450 km orbit, making India the third country in the world with private orbital launch capability.
History is made. 🇮🇳
#Vikram1 #JourneyToOrbit #SkyrootAerospace
Kamo'oalewa was previously thought to be 40-100m in diameter, but this image validates the ~18 metre estimate derived from JWST observations in a paper from just a few days ago. https://t.co/VWYlS93IWv
@bijnor2 India is not an ordinary power- doesn't need such tilts or binary games to be recognised by the world. But it does need to get its neighbourhood right, across the three geographies.
Guard: "Sir, a thief escaped the prison".
Jailer: "How?"
Guard: "I don't know sir, but he picked the Enfield bike parked at the gate and vanished before we could react."
Jailer: "Oh no, let me talk to the Home Ministry and get a blanket ban on Enfield. We can't afford another escape."
#neetexam2026 #telegramban