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flying rocks beware

[bcb @bcbruns]

Indy 500 drinking game: drink every time someone says "greatest spectacle in racing" #Indy500

[Guy Dupont @gvy_dvpont]

A fun UX I've been playing with for a project: If you scan this QR code, a small .png file will be downloaded to your device (SFW, I promise).

The kicker is that file is not hosted on any server, anywhere. It lives completely within the QR code itself!

🧵

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

The Pale Blue Dot is an iconic photograph of Earth taken by NASA's Voyager 1 Spacecraft on February 14, 1990.

When Voyager 1 was 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) miles from the sun, far beyond Neptune, mission managers commanded it to look back toward home for a final time. It snapped a series of 60 images to create the first "family portrait" of our solar system.

The picture known as the Pale Blue Dot shows Earth within a scattered ray of sunlight. Voyager 1 was so far away that Earth was just a point of light about a pixel in size.

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Historic: 🌖🇮🇳

India becomes the first ever country to successfully land a space probe near the lunar South Pole and the fourth country to soft-land the probe on the lunar surface.

The LM successfully touched down on a flat plain near the south pole of the moon at around 6:02 pm IST (12:32 pm UTC) on 23 August 2023, making India the first country in history to achieve a soft landing on this region of the moon. The LM will deploy its ramp and release the RM soon which will begin its exploration of the lunar terrain.
The mission’s main objective is to explore the south polar region of the moon, which is believed to contain water ice and other resources that could be useful for future human settlements. The mission also aims to conduct various scientific experiments on the lunar surface using its instruments. After orbiting the moon for about a month, the LM separated from the orbiter on 23 August 2023 and began its descent towards the lunar surface. The LM performed a series of automatic maneuvers to reduce its speed and align itself vertically to the landing site.

The LM and the RM communicated with each other and with the orbiter, which relayed their data and images to the ground station in India. The mission’s scientists and engineers celebrated this remarkable feat, which was also witnessed by millions of people around the world through live telecast and streaming.

A proud moment for @isro, India, and all of humanity!

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

First claimed successful replication of LK-99

Accomplished by a team at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology and posted 30 minutes ago.

Why this is evidence:
The LK-99 flake slightly levitates for both orientations of the magnetic field, meaning it is not simply a magnetized piece of iron or similar 'magnetic material'. A simple magnetic flake would be attracted to one polarity of the strong magnet, and repelled by the other. A diamagnet would be repelled under either orientation, since it resists and expels all fields regardless of the polarity.

Caveats
There is no way to verify the orientation of the strong magnet in this video, also, there are yet to be published experimental measured values of this sample. Diamagnetism is a property of superconductors but without measured and verified data, this is just suggestive of a result.

Take-away
If this synthesis was indeed successful, then this material is easy enough to be made by labs other than the original research team. I would watch carefully for results out of Argonne National Lab, who are reported to be working on their own synthesis of a sample.

This overall corroborates two independent simulation studies that investigated the original Korean authors claim about material and crystal structure, and both studies supported the claims.

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab: https://t.co/1Blls3VcgL
Shenyang National Lab: https://t.co/I0NHAP3KsR

The attached video shows a small flake of their sample responding to an external magnetic field. I scroll through the video to skip to the relevant part.

original video credit to: @altryne

[depths of wikipedia! @depthsofwiki]

guys help out my friend charlie

[Andrew Kossack @AndrewKossack]

Here’s where that flying tire impacted in turn 2
⁦@IMS⁩ #indy500

[bcb @bcbruns]

@phbruns Definitely CGI, that moon is way too close

[bcb @bcbruns]

@AmericanAir I'm attempting to get on my 7th flight of today trying to leave MEM and still haven't been able to go. Why'd my original 7am flight (AA1846) get canceled?

[Amelia Boone @ameliaboone]

How are political spam text messages not illegal?

[bcb @bcbruns]

Wardriving a ~$6k drone to steal data- crazy. Crashing it on the target roof- hilarious lol

[Greg Linares (Laughing Mantis) @Laughing_Mantis]

This lead the team to the roof, where a 'modified DJI Matrice 600' and a 'modified DJI Phantom' series were discovered.

The Phatom was carring a 'modified Wifi Pineapple Device'

It appeared neatly landed and was not damaged

[NASA Artemis @NASAArtemis]

Our next #Artemis I launch attempt is on November 14.

Years of teamwork and preparation have led to this moment. Follow the @NASAGroundSys teams that put the @NASA_SLS rocket and @NASA_Orion spacecraft together, piece by piece: https://t.co/So0Cxey4PB

[bcb @bcbruns]

@BJHazzy Cherished memories

[bcb @bcbruns]

#westpalmbeach #Palmbeach #miami #wpbfl #stolenbike #delray #boyntonbeach #royalpalmbeach #southflorida

[Bike Index @bikeindexstolen]

STOLEN - White GT Bicycles Aggressor Comp in West Palm Beach, FL https://t.co/JfaQHeLyMz

[bcb @bcbruns]

Indy 500 drinking game: drink every time someone says "greatest spectacle in racing" #Indy500

[bcb @bcbruns]

So when's Twitter getting the 'T' changed to the Tesla one? @elonmusk

[bcb @bcbruns]

Overheard at the airport: "did you know in Canada a pint is 20oz??"

[Tim Medin @TimMedin]

"We crunched the numbers..."
This got me thinking, which number is the crunchiest?

[o @lilirafiki]

I'm convinced a bunch of job postings are straight up scams. I always start getting mad phishing/scam texts in the days following me applying for jobs hmmmmmm

[Christophe Limpalair @christophelimp]

To celebrate launching my CompTIA Security+ practice exam & course, I'm giving away a free exam voucher (worth $370) to a lucky winner. Enter:
1- Retweet this
2- Follow me
3- Reply w/ the cybersec role you'd like or are currently in
Ends Friday 3rd!
#comptia #securityplus