ganska stark rabarberkultur

Lego, larv och LOTR-memes

[ganska stark rabarberkultur @Turbo44931192]

@PeteBlackburn Hes relaxed and not a try-hard, that’s actually really cool

[ganska stark rabarberkultur @Turbo44931192]

@RobinSoderlund Äsch! Det är störigt att vara det misslyckade syskonet men försök njut, de gör det jävligt bra och underhållande.

[ganska stark rabarberkultur @Turbo44931192]

@OlaSoderholm Norge är den hopplösa lillebrorsan som vunnit på lotto och nu glider och sportar hela dagarna. ”Hur kommer det sig att jag är bättre än dig på allt?” Frågar han ofta efter ett par öl. Helt outhärdlig, men alltjämnt min bror. Jävligt spännande, heja Norge! 🇳🇴

[Edward af Sillén @EdwardafSillen]

Informationen att Bröderna Olsen inte alls var två mysiga pensionärer, utan den ena var nyss fyllda 50 och den andra 46 år - är den typen av info som det kommer ta ett tag att resa sig ifrån.

[AlphaFox @alphafox]

Man perfectly explains the reason for the worlds declining birth rate: 💯

[Cosmos Archive @cosmosarcive]

Brian Cox reveals that every tiny dot is a galaxy hosting 100 billion stars. That thin line at the top? A billion light-year span. Even at the speed of light, it would take a billion years just to cross that sliver. We are part of a cosmic ocean containing 30 sextillion stars, and yet, this is only the part we can see.
​The room went completely silent as the scale settled in. It is one thing to hear the numbers, but seeing that map makes you realize we are drifting in a vast, beautiful ocean of light. This is the observable universe, a tiny fraction of a much larger reality. Pure cosmic awe is the only appropriate response to our place among the stars. It makes every earthly struggle feel both infinitely small and our existence infinitely precious.

Source: Horizons: A 21st Century Space Odyssey (Live Tour)

[CR Sanchez. @crsanchezx]

Granjeros franceses durante el Tour de Francia.

Les pagarán por hacerlo?

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The math on this black hole should mass-humble every physicist who thinks we understand gravity.

M87's central black hole is 6.5 billion times the mass of our Sun. It's 38 billion kilometers across. It spins at 80% of the theoretical maximum speed allowed by physics. And it's firing a plasma beam at near light speed that stretches 5,000 light-years into space.

To put 5,000 light-years in perspective: if you started driving at highway speed when the Egyptian pyramids were built, you'd have covered roughly 0.0005 light-years by now. This beam covers ten million times that distance.

The plasma travels in a spiral along a coiled magnetic field. Hubble watched it for 13 years just to confirm the motion pattern. And the beam isn't just decorating empty space. Stars near its path explode twice as often as stars elsewhere in the galaxy. Nobody knows why. The lead researcher at Stanford said they don't understand the mechanism at all.

The black hole eats roughly 90 Earth masses of material per day. The energy output from that feeding process matches the power of the jet itself, somewhere between 10^33 and 10^37 joules per second. The upper end of that range is a number so large it has no human analogy.

Your brain runs on 20 watts. This thing outputs more energy per second than every star in the Milky Way combined. And we photographed it with a telescope in 2019.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Look at this astronaut's face during reentry, knowing the capsule exterior is at 5,000°F.

The physics of why he's alive are wild.

The air in front of the capsule compresses so violently at Mach 25 that it turns into plasma. 5,000°F on the surface. Half the temperature of the sun. The heat shield absorbs that energy by literally burning itself away, layer by layer, carrying the heat with it as gas.

One inch of material is the entire margin. On the outside of that inch: 5,000°F. On the inside: 75°F. Room temperature. The thermal gradient across that single inch is the steepest temperature drop humans have ever engineered.

The orange glow in the window is ionized nitrogen and oxygen. That plasma is why comms go black for six minutes during reentry. Ground control can't reach the crew. The astronauts are alone inside a fireball, falling at 25,000 mph, watching the laws of thermodynamics keep them alive through a 1-inch wall.

Artemis II did exactly this last night. Four astronauts hit Earth's atmosphere at 24,664 mph, rode a 4,900°F plasma sheath for six minutes of radio silence, and splashed down a mile from target.

The heat shield is now being inspected for cracks. They found over 100 on the last unmanned test.

[ganska stark rabarberkultur @Turbo44931192]

@CoachDanGo I believe it often can the other way around. A friend of mine who’s exceptionally fit barely enjoys food - it’s a necessity he has to handle, basically. If you have that inclination to some extent, staying fit gets much easier.

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

22,580 drones.
One single computer.
All lifting off at the exact same second.
A new world record.

[Physics & Astronomy Zone @zone_astronomy]

The highest quality video of the moon was just released… this is so beautiful.

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

1:1 scale recreation of the Titanic leaving Belfast docks using 1000 drones 🤯
https://t.co/HEId8Srweh

[Todd Jones 🦊 @toddrjones]

Here are some ways in which the world has gotten better.

[Piotr Piotrowicz @Piotrowicz17]

🇸🇪 Szwedzki komentarz przy bramce na 3-2 dla reprezentacji Szwecji.

Tylko dla widzów w Polsce o mocnych nerwach.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Rory Sutherland made a quietly devastating observation about one of the biggest societal shifts of the last 50 years.

He said the move to the double-income household started as an option but quickly became an obligation. The big winners? Governments (twice as many people to tax) and property owners (now two salaries were needed to buy a house). The big loser? The family itself, which lost roughly 35 hours of discretionary leisure time per week — with no real increase in living standards, because the extra money was largely soaked up by higher house prices and taxes.

It’s a classic example of how something that begins as liberation can quietly turn into a new form of constraint.

Longitudinal studies on happiness and time use (including data from the American Time Use Survey and OECD reports) show that the sharp rise in dual-earner households correlated with stagnant or declining leisure time for families, while subjective well-being metrics for parents have not risen in line with the additional income — supporting the idea that much of the gain was captured by housing costs and taxation rather than improved quality of life.

It’s a reminder to look carefully at changes that society presents as inevitable progress.

What do you think — has the double-income model delivered more freedom or more pressure for most families?

[ganska stark rabarberkultur @Turbo44931192]

@ekonomigurun_ Det är väl en helt rimlig riskhantering? Allt handlar inte om att maximera marginalerna utan ibland är man ute efter en försäkring, tex under föräldraledighet när marginalerna är mindre. Jag överväger att binda i någon mån, att sova gott är värt en del det med.

[Eric Nuttall @ericnuttall]

I've so far avoided dramatics because I would be accused of bias. To be clear: this is the worst energy crisis of our lifetimes, well beyond what any sober mind could have envisioned, with no end in sight. The level of complacency to me is astounding.

[maddie rune🪰 @themaddierune]

Sometimes I catch myself watching my children like I’m already missing them. Then I get this overwhelming urge to cry because time is moving through them faster than I can catch it. Like trying to memorize a dream while you’re still inside it & already waking up. And one day you’ll pick them up with mysteriously sticky fingers & cheeks & it’ll be the last time…but neither of you will know it’s the last time. That’s how most endings in life happen too. Always disguised as ordinary days. So answer the endless questions, tie the shoes twice, build the fort, read the bedtime story & give them your attention like it’s the only thing in the world that matters, because to them, it is. These are the moments & sounds you’ll one day search for in a house that no longer makes them. And you’ll realize you were holding forever in your arms all along, even while you thought it was just today.

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

Wife explaining her husband's job to her close friend.

Wife: "He sells software to companies."
Her friend: "Oh nice, like apps?"
Wife: "No. Big software. For running whole businesses."
Friend: "Oh, like Microsoft?"
Wife: "No. A German company. SAP."
Friend: "What's SAP?"

Long pause.

Wife: "Well.... It's… hard to explain. Basically he flies somewhere, finds whats broken in their business, spends 18 months with fixing it, and then everyone panics on this thing called go-live or something."

Friend: "And they pay him for that?"
Wife: "Sometimes they fire him first. Then they call him back."

35+ years in this industry.
She nailed it in 90 seconds.