Jonathan Laudelout

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Frank. He was getting checked out at the vet when he decided the appointment was over. Has things to do and places to be, but doesn't mind if you come along. 13/10

[Anonim Avukat @anonimavukatx]

Bu kadar kolaydı da neden kimse bize bunu söylemedi ya 😯 kaydedin lazım olur 💯

[Jonathan Laudelout @JonathanLa97353]

@conkerax

[Today In History @historigins]

When Daft Punk's iconic lyrics turned into a full-on argument

[🅶🅾🆁🅺 @Raclure03]

Y'avait pas plus flippant que de te réveiller en sursaut à 4h30 du mat' avec le générique d'"Histoires naturelles" sur TF1.

Mais pas à cause des animaux.

Non.

À cause de cette musique de l'enfer.

Le truc démarrait et ton cerveau passait direct en mode panique médiévale.

T'étais affalé dans le canapé, la bouche ouverte, encore à moitié dans ton vieux film du soir, et d'un coup ça hurlait dans le salon comme si une secte de chasseurs en bottes venait d'invoquer un sanglier démoniaque.

Tu ouvrais un œil, tu voyais des canards, des roseaux, un chevreuil qui te jugeait, et derrière ça, cette musique beaucoup trop solennelle pour un reportage avec trois mecs planqués dans la boue.

Pendant trois secondes, tu savais plus où t'étais.

Ni quelle heure il était.

Ni pourquoi TF1 avait décidé de transformer ton réveil en sacrifice païen.

"Histoires naturelles", c'était pas juste une émission.

C'était le rappel brutal que tu t'étais endormi comme une larve, que la nuit avait pris le contrôle de la télé … et qu'il était vraiment temps d'aller te coucher.

Tu as connu ça ?

[Alex Boge @alexboge]

Moon landing deniers, space and rocketry deniers, and Flat Earthers all seem to share the same obsession: NASA.

And I find it strange.

They focus nearly all their attention on one of the most transparent agencies in the U.S. government while almost completely ignoring the existence of every other major space agency, launch provider, aerospace contractor, tracking network, observatory, military space command, and private rocket company on Earth.

If spaceflight were fake, then apparently all of these organizations would also have to be “in on it”:

NASA,
ESA,
Roscosmos,
CNSA,
ISRO,
JAXA,
CSA,
DLR,
CNES,
ASI,
UK Space Agency,
KARI,
UAESA,
AEB,
CONAE,
SANSA,
Iranian Space Agency,
North Korean National Aerospace Technology Administration,
Australian Space Agency,
Space Force,
NOAA,
USSF Space Systems Command,
NRO,
DARPA,

plus:

SpaceX,
Blue Origin,
Rocket Lab,
United Launch Alliance,
Arianespace,
Boeing Defense Space & Security,
Lockheed Martin Space,
Northrop Grumman Space Systems,
Sierra Space,
Firefly Aerospace,
Relativity Space,
Virgin Galactic,
Virgin Orbit,
Astra Space,
Intuitive Machines,
Astrobotic,
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries,
IHI Aerospace,
Hanwha Aerospace,
CASC,
ExPace,
LandSpace,
iSpace China,
Galactic Energy,
ABL Space Systems,
Skyrora,
PLD Space,
Gilmour Space Technologies,
Interstellar Technologies,
Impulse Space.

Apparently all of them are either lying, incompetent, or secretly collaborating in the largest coordinated deception in human history.

And somehow the evidence for that boils down to YouTube videos, TikTok clips, and “trust me bro” memes.

🙄

[Steeve Cx 🦩🦈 @cox_steeve]

Un scientifique des années 70 qui parle de cycles glaciaires sur 100 000 ans et vous croyez avoir réfuté le GIEC.
Vous savez quoi ? Les climatologues connaissent les cycles de Milanković.
Ils les ont intégrés dans leurs modèles depuis des décennies. C'est littéralement la base.
La différence ? Ces cycles opèrent sur 10 000 à 100 000 ans. Le réchauffement actuel c'est +1,2°C en 150 ans, avec du CO2 à 425 ppm, niveau jamais atteint depuis 3 millions d'années.
Aucun cycle naturel connu n'explique ça.
Vous avez sorti une vidéo INA pour contredire 50 ans de recherche sur les carottes glaciaires, les satellites, les océans et l'atmosphère.
C'est pas du scepticisme. C'est de la couille en barre et en costume vintage.

[BuBBliK @k1rallik]

do you understand what just happened to your computer..

Google Chrome secretly downloaded a 4GB AI model onto your device. Without asking.. Without telling you..

It's called weights.bin. It lives deep in your system folders. It powers Gemini Nano - Google's on-device AI.

And if you delete it? Chrome re-downloads it automatically. Like nothing happened.

Just Google deciding your hard drive is their storage unit.

At 1 billion Chrome users - that's 4 BILLION gigabytes of data pushed silently across the internet.

The carbon footprint alone equals tens of thousands of cars running for a year.

Check your disk right now:
📁 %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\OptGuideOnDeviceModel

To stop it: chrome://flags → disable Optimization Guide On Device Model → restart Chrome → delete the folder.

Reshare so people know what's sitting on their computers.

[Jonathan Laudelout @JonathanLa97353]

@GambergeTacos @RaAaKtheFox je trouve aussi. Quand je le lit, j'entend :"vas te faire foutre"

[Alex Boge @alexboge]

The Expanse is legendary for getting the physics of space travel, living in space, and life on planets, moons, and stations right in a way almost no other show ever has. Fans constantly catch these little moments and feel that satisfying "whoa, that actually makes sense" click.

One sneaky and fascinating example is Detective Miller pouring himself a drink in his apartment on Ceres Station. You've probably seen the clip - the liquid comes out of the bottle and curves sideways instead of falling straight down.

Show-only viewers, if you correctly identified that as the Coriolis effect, give yourself a pat on the back. You're not wrong. But there's an even better, deeper reveal hidden inside that moment - one that book readers will remember and that changes how you see the scene. 😉

Ceres began as a dead rock with almost no natural gravity. Early Belters were used to the low-g life on ships and small stations, but the human body simply isn't built for long-term zero gravity. Bones weaken. Muscles atrophy. Even basic work becomes exhausting and dangerous. So Tycho Manufacturing made a bold decision: spin the entire asteroid up and give Belters proper simulated gravity.

The books are very clear about it - spinning Ceres up to 0.3 g "had taken the best minds at Tycho Manufacturing half a generation, and they were still pretty smug about it." They torqued a 470-kilometer-wide rock until the outer levels felt like 0.3 g - the sweet spot. Enough "down" for human bodies to stay healthy long-term, but light enough that lifelong low-g Belters didn't feel crushed. It took energy on the scale of the Sun's entire output for about a second, plus massive internal reinforcement so the asteroid wouldn't tear itself apart under the centrifugal forces. In the end, they created a livable place inside a hollowed-out dwarf planet.

When Miller pours his drink, the liquid is falling radially outward toward the "floor." But the whole station is spinning underneath it. In that rotating reference frame, the falling liquid gets pushed sideways. That's the Coriolis effect. The show exaggerates the curve so you can actually see it on camera - in reality it would be much subtler on a short pour - but the physics is 100% real and exactly what should happen in a spinning habitat.

Here's the part most show-only viewers completely miss: this isn't just neat science. It's class structure literally built into the physics of an entire dwarf planet.

The wealthy live on the outer levels - closest to the surface, full 0.3 g, milder Coriolis, nicer apartments under the big sky domes. The poor live deeper in, toward the spin axis. Weaker gravity and stronger apparent Coriolis for the same movements. That dramatic sideways curve in Miller's apartment? He's in the inner/lower levels - the cheaper, grittier real estate where the physics itself gets weirder. Miller, a lifelong Belter detective, lives right there.

In the very same episode, Miller runs out of water mid-shower - shampoo still in his hair because station-wide rationing has kicked in hard. Later, when he slips into Julie Mao's apartment to investigate, her water supply is still at 97% full. He quietly finishes rinsing his hair using her abundant ration. Another tiny, almost throwaway moment that says everything about how resources and comfort are distributed on Ceres.

The little whiskey pour isn't just a cute visual gag. Neither is the interrupted shower. Huge credit to authors James S.A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) and showrunner Naren Shankar and the entire writing team for layering in this kind of quiet, devastating social commentary through nothing more than physics and resource scarcity. They didn't just get the science right; they used it to show how inequality follows us into space and shapes every detail of daily life, even the way a drink pours - or a shower runs dry.

[Alex Boge @alexboge]

A tiny little scene in Season 1, Episode 6 of The Expanse shows Uncle Mateo, a Belter, popping open his helmet for a few seconds to yank out a sparking sensor wire that had come loose inside his helmet.

He takes a big breath first to better oxygenate his bloodstream, then begins exhaling steadily as he opens the helmet. He pulls the wire, seals it, and repressurizes - and he's fine. It always got me thinking how over-the-top Hollywood usually makes exposure to vacuum in movies.

But this scene actually gets the science right. (Note: In real spacesuits you can't open a helmet like this - the pressurized bubble stays sealed. But the physics of what would happen if you could is still fascinating.)

You MUST exhale steadily, and here's why:

The reason is Boyle's Law. When external pressure drops to zero, the air trapped in your lungs wants to expand dramatically. Even at only 4.3 psi inside the suit, that creates a huge unbalanced pressure pushing outward against the delicate alveoli. On Earth a big breath is safe because pressure is equal on both sides. In vacuum it's not - the alveoli can tear, sending air bubbles into your blood (an arterial gas embolism that can hit your brain or heart). Game over.

Even if you somehow held it, you couldn't use the oxygen anyway. In vacuum the pressure gradient reverses and your lungs start stripping oxygen out of your blood.

So you take that big breath to load up your bloodstream with extra oxygen, then you begin a steady exhale as you open the helmet, and…

- 0–2 seconds: What little bit of air is left rushes out of your lungs.
- 3–5 seconds: Your saliva starts fizzing and boiling on your tongue - that weird, carbonated, Pop-Rocks feeling.

If you stay exposed without resealing: In 10–15 seconds you black out from lack of oxygen. Once you pass out, your face and body start swelling from water vapor forming in the tissues. Not the dramatic explosion of bad sci-fi - more like severe bloating, and it reverses almost completely once you repressurize.

But you could last unconscious for up to approximately three minutes. Should someone reach you, seal your helmet, and repressurize, you'd have a surprisingly good chance at recovering.

Uncle Mateo was fine. His exposure was very brief. He exhaled, and as a Belter, he'd probably become used to that mild Pop-Rocks feeling.

NASA proved all of this with real tests in the 1960s - Jim LeBlanc's near-vacuum accident plus animal chamber studies. It's not movie nonsense. It's physics.

[l'Expat' - @2_expat]

J'ai rencontré Anna, elle a activé mon ADN.
C'est vachement efficace mais ça énerve un peu les cachalots et les dauphins.

[Cosmos Archive @cosmosarcive]

CERN's "How Small is an Atom?" zooms from a human hair (100μm) down to quarks!

Atoms are ~0.1 nm wide; millions fit across one strand. 99.99% empty space around a tiny nucleus of protons & neutrons (made of quarks).

Building blocks of everything.

[Lord Frederic Bourget ®️ @fredbourget]

@marlene4719

[Halte à la Connerie @halteconnerie]

🔴 Le palestinisme, allégorie

[Dr Jérôme BARRIERE, MD. @barriere_dr]

Semaine de la vaccination

Le « problème » avec les vaccins ?
Ils sont tellement efficaces pour éviter des maladies mortelles qu’ils ont fait naître des générations qui doutent même que certaines maladies aient été un jour une menace… simplement parce qu’elles n’ont jamais connu un monde sans vaccins.

[Jonathan Laudelout @JonathanLa97353]

@sabaton 🤘

[Zolden @ZoldenGames]

Fluid particles in a radial force field form spiral arms. Without fluid solver it's just a shapeless cloud. I was suprised. Fluid solver has properties pure gravity doesn't have. Yet, real galaxies driven by pure gravity look similar. As if spacetime was fluid on galactic scale.

[Jonathan Laudelout @JonathanLa97353]

@2_expat @iltugnela En Belgique, on a bien un nationnaliste/séparatiste flamand comme 1er ministre alors plus rien ne m'étonne.