@_bilaire@inovajon Democrats: "vote blue no matter who!"
regular people: "ok, we like this person, we feel they represent our values"
Dems: "no! not that one"
people: "what's the choice then?"
Dems: "vote our pick or live with pain"
For the record, the president of the United States is now simultaneously claiming that he has won the war, is currently winning the war, needs help to win the war, and needs no help to win the war. All to destroy the nuclear program he claims to have already destroyed last year.
That story still gives me chills every time I think about it.Jocelyn Bell Burnell was 24 years old, building the actual telescope herself (hammering stakes, laying miles of wire across frozen fields), then sifting through 100-foot-long chart recordings by hand. When that first “bit of scruff” appeared every 1.337 seconds, she could have written it off as interference. Instead she traced it, re-observed it, and (crucially) demanded the equipment be checked and re-checked until there was no doubt.The precision was staggering: the pulses were stable to one part in ten million, better than most man-made atomic clocks at the time. The LGM joke only lasted a few weeks; once they found the second, third, and fourth pulsars in completely different parts of the sky, it was clear this was a natural phenomenon. The team published in February 1968, and the word “pulsar” was born.What’s often under-told is the human side: her PhD supervisor, Antony Hewish, and another colleague received the 1974 Nobel Prize for the discovery, while Bell Burnell was left out (still one of the most controversial omissions in Nobel history). She has handled it with extraordinary grace, saying she was “just a student doing her job,” and has since poured prize money she later won (like the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in 2018) into scholarships for underrepresented students in physics.Pulsars are now one of astronomy’s Swiss Army knives: they test general relativity in the strongest gravitational fields we can observe, they helped us discover the first exoplanets, they’re the backbone of navigation concepts for deep-space missions, and the very first detection of gravitational waves (indirectly) relied on decades of ultra-precise pulsar timing.All because one grad student in 1967 refused to ignore a suspicious little blip on a strip of https://t.co/NzDwdRAwR0 at its absolute finest. Thank you for reminding us of that quiet, world-changing day.
Astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell detected a strange signal from outer space that would lead to the discovery of the radio pulsar. The signal, once described as coming from "little green men," would earn her adviser the Nobel Prize in physics in 1974.
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the difference here is actually quite complicated: you see nazis were real, killed 11 million people, and inspired generations of hate
devils/demons on the other hand, do not exist whatsoever and are only scary to babies
Still no healthcare plan, or even concepts of a plan, after they gave Lesley Stahl an empty book.
And people STILL believe a single word coming out of trump's mouth? Absolutely ridiculous.
Timothy Mellon, who donated $130 million to help pay the $9 billion monthly cost to cover military salaries, is currently in litigation over his financial connections to the Epstein Sex Trafficking Ring.
What did Timothy Mellon actually buy for $130,000,000?
$1 trillion a year for the U.S. military to bomb, invade & occupy the world.
$250 billion for Ukraine war.
$40 billion to bailout Argentina.
$38 billion for Israel to blow up Gaza.
$300 million for a ballroom.
But no money for SNAP, nationalized healthcare or social housing.
You have to be out of your mind to believe that the guy who posted a video of him dumping shit on peaceful protesters, and calling Democrats terrorists is "the person who can bring us together."
Joe Manchin is a deranged idiot.