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Prepping for my trip to mars! Let’s party🕺

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

«When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me ― it still sometimes happens ― and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife.

They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don't ever expect to be reunited with Carl.

But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting.

Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous-not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance.

That pure chance could be so generous and so kind. That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time. That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me and it’s much more meaningful.

The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday. I don't think I'll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful».

― Ann Druyan

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

https://t.co/nau532GFAp
🟡 Honey is 80% sugars and 20% water.
🟡 To make one pound of honey, the bees in the colony must visit 2 million flowers, fly over 55,000 miles and will be the lifetime work of approximately 768 bees.
🟡 A single honeybee will only produce approximately 1/12 teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.
🟡 A single honey bee will visit 50-100 flowers on a single trip out of the hive.
🟡 Honey is the ONLY food that includes all the substances necessary to sustain life, including enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and water; and it's the only food that contains "pinocembrin", an antioxidant associated with improved brain functioning

[📹 macrofying]

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

NEWS🚨: Astronomers discover the largest black hole ever and it can fit 30 billion suns. We found it with gravity and bent light

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Anatomy and movements of the human eye

[📹 https://t.co/QgvspRwx7r]

[Slava Bobrov @slava__bobrov]

Human heart structure from the inside:

#biology by SciePro

[Erin Remblance @remblance_erin]

Over the last week I've seen a LOT of footage of flooding around the world. I thought I'd put them here in one place 🧵

#floods #ClimateEmergency #degrowth

1. Greece (1/13)

https://t.co/8KIqammOjj

[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt - Work & Credit: Puca Printhouse - NeilParkinsonMakes.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Code of Hammurabi (1750 BC), from
Babylonia (modern-day Iraq). It was discovered in 1901, by French archaeological exploration team.

Code of Hammurabi remains one of oldest known systems of codified laws in human history. It not only has historical value but literary and artistic significance as well. It is a stele with inlaid art at top and list of laws in long column below it.

This artifact contains 282 complex rules handed down by King Hammurabi of Babylon.

You may have heard phrase “eye for an eye” quoted from it, but that penalty depended on your status and rank of person you injured.

Louvre Museum

#archaeohistories

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

2020 was a terrible year, but it's still far from being the worst in recorded human history. Here are a few bad ones:

1349 was the peak of the Black Death, which killed an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Europe, Eurasia, and North Africa. It is considered the deadliest pandemic in human history.

1520 was when smallpox spread across the Americas, killing an estimated 90% of the Indigenous population. It is estimated that 25 to 55 million people perished.

1918 was when the influenza pandemic killed an estimated 50 million people across the globe. As many as 500 million people were infected.

These were all terrible years, but many historians believe that the absolute worst was 536 AD. According to medieval historian, Michael McCormick, "It was the beginning of one of the worst periods to be alive, if not the worst year."

So what exactly happened in 536?

Well for starters, a volcano erupted in Iceland, which dimmed the sun for 18 months, causing temperatures to decrease by 1.5 to 2.5 degrees Celsius. This led to the coldest decade (536 to 545) in 2,000 years, leading to crop failures and mass starvations in Europe, Mesopotamia, and China.

In 540 there was another volcanic eruption, this time in Ilopango, El Salvador, which killed tens of thousands of people and decreased global temperatures once again.

In 541, the Plague of Justinian began to spread throughout the Mediterranean Basin and would kill 35 to 55% of the population. The plague would greatly weaken the Byzantine Empire after devastating its capital, Constantinople.

The natural disasters, crop failures, and the plague would go on to decimate Europe's economy, which would not recover until 640, more than a century later. Ice core records show that in 640, there was a spike in atmospheric lead pollution which was the result of an increase in silver mining. Silver is found in lead-rich galena ores. During this time, periods of prosperity almost always coincided with increases in lead emissions.

Keep in mind that this is just from recorded history. Imagine all the crazy stuff that happened in prehistory, including population bottlenecks, which reduced the human population to just tens of thousands of people. We could have easily gone extinct on a number of occasions.

[Rok Hladnik @rokhladnik]

I don't really agree with @mcuban a lot

But this is not just Your Tip of the Day but generally good advice: those who boast the loudest often have the least substance

It applies to DTC Twitter as well. All the courses that promise to reveal secrets, 420 tactics, strategies, slack groups that do miracles and idk what else ...

Make sure to follow the right people or at least to not follow too close the wrong ones

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Gorgeous tunnel of Bougainvillea blossoms in Yuchi, Taiwan

[📹 Khanjipeerwala]

[11:11 @cryptoneon]

@cperruna @Apple @Google @Microsoft @Verizon On Verizon I can’t even use google maps in NYC without being blocks off or streets away …

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

James Webb confirms the discovery of the oldest galaxy: the object appeared 320 million after the Big Bang
More: https://t.co/uup3lMuo4T

[11:11 @cryptoneon]

@cperruna @BackpackerFI Lol it seems my whole Instagram is 20 something’s trying to get me to learn how to like 50k a week with their affiliate marketing system…. Who knew they were all so rich, and such good teachers lol!

[The Science World @scienceworld224]

Jupiter’s south pole, taken by Cassini NASA.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This interactive periodic table from designer Keith Enevoldsen puts the elements in the context of their uses

[source, ri-res and pdf: https://t.co/5iiGUXb9aI]

[The Science World @scienceworld224]

About 4.3 billion years ago, Mars may have had enough water to cover its entire surface in a liquid layer about 450 feet deep

credit: NASA/GSFC

[Space @redditSpaceView]

Scandinavia at night from the ISS

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

James Webb confirms the discovery of the oldest galaxy: the object appeared 320 million after the Big Bang
More: https://t.co/uup3lMuVUr

[The Science World @scienceworld224]

The Pillars of Creation. 😍