shitter posting 🐀(tony)

I'm Tony, New Glenn #1 fan, general nuisance.

[shitter posting 🐀(tony) @LaunchOoc]

Mr.biden the commies are back and want nukes in space. I propose a 5-10 fold increase in nasa and space force funding. Lest we have another sputnik.

[shitter posting 🐀(tony) @LaunchOoc]

5k no lowballs ik what I got

[ٍ @horsepower]

It’s impressive that this truck is still on the road

[Isaac @isaacturnersong]

Please retweet my viral post , “If Central Park was Mud”

[Travis “Panic” Mathew @trav_mathew]

I hate when I open YouTube before going to bed and it’s straight grey loot

[shitter posting 🐀(tony) @LaunchOoc]

@retrocornpy @sirdagiboi @JOTPQWERTY @KezzieSquared Hi bob

[lake @LKSGNA]

When The Russo Br*thers start talking about some "Avengers Secret Wars" during 2027 the year of our lord and savior Matthew Reeves

[Antiperson @antiAntiperson]

I got lost hiking up a mountain, and I saw a shepherd. I asked him "How far up are we?" and he answered "Artemis Blue Moon Mk2 HLS" That's how I realised, I already knew the answer. We were at the peak.

[Bradley Brownell @PluginHyBrad]

Repo guy a class traitor fr

[JTH👑💌 @JTH_X]

everytime this topic comes up a thousand smartasses like to go "erm you weren't actually gifted" yeah dude that's the whole fucking point
being told "you're super special and smart" when you're actually just like everyone else fucks you over in the long run

[ias #LVMSpoilers @wiIdemount]

i love seeing astronauts being treated like the real superstars they are! here are the people we should be looking up to!

[emberflux is a trans woman ⚢ @emberflux]

hi, just posting to confirm that i was sexually assaulted by a police officer who entered my flat *illegally* and raped me. i am being charged for resisting rape with assault on an officer. i really need legal help, ty for any support, my health has been incredibly rough since.

[Jack J @Jack_Frodo]

my future looks bright I know it

[shitter posting 🐀(tony) @LaunchOoc]

@NosuSuishinV2 Moon rover

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Russia eased vaccination standards when diphtheria seemed beaten. 157,000 infections. 5,000 dead. Japan dropped mandates after a trust collapse. Rubella came back. Babies born blind and deaf. Nigeria boycotted polio shots. The virus paralyzed 2,500 children and spread to 20 countries.

That is the documented pattern. Kennedy has now dropped six vaccines from routine schedules and pulled $1.6 billion from global immunization. Measles is already in 46 states.

[PT: Psycho Tman @johnny_tmanV2]

oi oi, ughie. that fackin cunt ‘omelandah done turned me into a fackin’ action figah. Fawkin’ diabolical

[Diesel Powered Fuck Machine @DieselNA1993]

all the "retvrn to the 1980s" posting of the US government is starting to work armored car heists are back in vogue

[slinky vagabond 🌲🔩☕️🦉🌻 @83dollaroring]

this is what REAL engineering conducted by REAL engineers to accomplish REAL missions looks like. you are just a pathetic little consoomer who has never even attempted to Fulfill Mission Requirements

[Someone Named Tygget @Tygget]

Idk if this is a hot take but I absolutely loathe the interiors of both starship hls and bloomoon

This sleek "sci fi" aesthetic is so boring. I want BUTTONS, DIALS, A THOUSAND CHUNKY SCREENS, I want spacecraft to look like the advanced machines they are, not cheap toys!

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.

It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.

Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.

Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.

The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.

It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.

The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.

When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.