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hangin out in east Texas

[🌷🦋 Love Music 🎶 & Dance 💃🏻🕺🏻 @Tiana_Celine_23]

The most iconic solo dance scene in cinema history – Saturday Night Fever (1977)John Travolta as Tony Manero explodes on the 2001 Odyssey dance floor with the Bee Gees’ "You Should Be Dancing". The crowd instantly clears the floor, the disco lights flash, and Tony becomes the undisputed “King of the Dance Floor” in just a few minutes!
Did you know?
• Travolta trained for 5–9 months, running and dancing 3 hours every day, losing nearly 20 lbs (9 kg) to get that perfect physique.
• He almost quit the role because the studio initially wanted to film only from the waist up. Travolta insisted on full-body shots so audiences could see every step of his incredible footwork.
• The scene wasn’t shot in one take - it was skillfully edited from 14 different shots, yet feels completely seamless.This is the moment that turned John Travolta into a superstar and sparked the global disco fever!

[The Night Warrior @WarriorNight007]

Sometimes, the smallest acts of compassion restore your faith in humanity.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Aerial view of an abandoned house in the middle of lavender fields, in Valensole, France

[Latest in Cosmos @latestincosmos]

JUST IN🚨: NASA has mapped the entire ocean floor using gravity data obtained from space.

[Dangerous Thoughts @DangerousThinkg]

Comedy like this is truly rare

[Stellarix @Stellarixorine]

The SpaceX Raptor is among the most sophisticated rocket engines ever developed. Instead of traditional rocket fuels, it burns liquid methane and liquid oxygen through a full-flow staged combustion cycle, a design that maximizes both efficiency and thrust. The engine is also built with rapid reuse in mind, allowing it to fly repeatedly with minimal refurbishment. These innovations make the Raptor a critical step toward reliable, low-cost missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

[Science & Nature @Sci_Nature0]

This is the oldest known quasar! After more than 13 billion years, light emitted from its companion quasar has illuminated the existence of a black hole in negative space. Researchers, in a paper published this month in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, named the quasar J0313-1806 and wrote that the animated black hole originated 670 million years after the Big Bang—20 million years older than what is now the second-oldest black hole ever discovered. This oldest and most distant quasar and others like it are “critical to understanding how the earliest black holes formed and to understanding cosmic reionization—the last major phase transition of our universe,” said Xiaohui Fan, an astronomer at the University of Arizona. The J0313-1806 black hole is 1.6 billion times the mass of the sun ☀️ and 10 trillion times brighter. 🌟 Credit: NASA, Hubble. Image by Science Photo Library.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

An estimated 40 million tons of wind turbine blades will end up in landfills by 2050.

Each modern blade weighs around 10 to 15 tons--mostly fiberglass and epoxy composites with 1 to 2 tons of carbon fiber, balsa and foam, plus roughly a ton of steel and copper for structural support and lightning protection.

All mined, smelted and transported using fossil fuels.

Then once they wear out, after just 15 years, those complex materials are almost impossible to recycle, so most are simply buried.

It's another hidden cost of green energy and the complete opposite of sustainable.

[International Space Station @Space_Station]

#ICYMI: Three crew members launched aboard the Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft at 10:47 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, July 14, and docked at 1:52 p.m. to the space station. Shortly afterward, the new trio entered the orbital outpost joining Expedition 74. https://t.co/udawFdgvYL

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

World's first jet suit race in Dubai

[Jonathan Slater @slater57649]

Beautiful.

[HOW THINGS WORK @HowThingsWork_]

Graffiti laser removal is oddly satisfying to watch.

Credit: Twonix

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Here's what NASA's satellite data actually show about global vegetation growth...

Between 2000 and 2017 alone, the planet's leaf area index increased by 5%, adding an area twice the size of the continental United States in new green growth.

Much of this greening is happening in semi-arid and dry regions, including large parts of Africa, where plants are responding to increased atmospheric CO2.

Overall, NASA estimates that over 25% of the global vegetated surface is significantly greener today than it was at the start of the century.

Far from the catastrophizing desert expansion predictions, many of the world's driest landscapes are actually growing greener.

[Latest in space @latestinspace]

NEWS 🚨: NASA has released new renders of SpaceX's Starship docked nose-to-nose with the Orion capsule

The two will link up in Earth orbit during Artemis III, targeted for 2027

[khalifa @_0Nestor]

I could’ve used this back in high school! 🙌🔥👇

[Rapid Flow @RapidFlowMedia]

This dude caught a fish and noticed an eagle had its eyes locked on it so he did the most unexpected thing

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

The male pufferfish tries to impress potential mates with his masterpiece.

[Science & Nature @Sci_Nature0]

The future is here 🙌

[ِDogs @lovedoggods]

Animals don't know cruelty, but they always know love ❤️

[Dangerous Thoughts @DangerousThinkg]

Coyote never got a break

EVER