The math on this image is insane.
New Horizons transmitted at 2,000 bits per second from 3 billion miles away. Slower than a 1990s dial-up modem. It took 16 months to download all the flyby data.
The spacecraft had to hit a target box 100km wide, arriving within 150 seconds of schedule, after 9 years of flight. Miss it and the preloaded observation commands point at empty space.
Ten days before arrival, the spacecraft crashed and went into safe mode. Engineers had 72 hours to restore everything.
The probe is now 5 billion miles out, still whispering data back to Earth. We got 50 gigabits of Pluto photos using technology slower than your phone’s bluetooth.
“We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.”
― Carl Sagan
Right wing twitter: MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! Are you TRIGGERED libs???? Gonna say it again….Merry Christmas!! The snowflake left is about to crash out over this 🤣
Left wing twitter: Merry Christmas everyone, have a great day!
As the year draws to a close, a crowd-sourced effort, as well as trackers from advocacy organizations and labor unions, show that the Trump administration has implemented roughly half of the goals laid out in Project 2025. (From @19thnews) https://t.co/JbGWwBNrQT
You may think screens have destroyed your ability to read, you may think your focus is beyond saving, but I’m telling you, it only takes a bit of effort to recover an attention span. You are capable of reading books again.
I have just been informed that the highly respected Board of the Kennedy Center, some of the most successful people from all parts of the world, have just voted unanimously to rename the Kennedy Center to the Trump-Kennedy Center, because of the unbelievable work President Trump has done over the last year in saving the building. Not only from the standpoint of its reconstruction, but also financially, and its reputation. Congratulations to President Donald J. Trump, and likewise, congratulations to President Kennedy, because this will be a truly great team long into the future! The building will no doubt attain new levels of success and grandeur.
AI access is free or cheap now to get you dependent on it, so they can later start charging you — and you’ll have no option but to cough up, because you’ll have forgotten how to live without it.
So… maybe just skip that whole future crisis, and don’t use it / stop using it now?
There is a simple answer:
-Kash Patel fired experienced FBI agents, promoting loyalty and political ideology over competence and experience.
And when we let childish little podcast bros run the FBI, we are all less safe!
One of the last cases we filed charged that Pepsi schemed with Walmart to hike prices at the grocery store and punish retailers that wanted to offer people dealing with inflation a better price.
This new @FTC nixed the case and tried to hide the allegations.
Grateful to @ilsr for getting the complaint unsealed and shedding light on this key issue.
I am very disappointed that a small group of misguided State Senators have partnered with Democrats to reject this opportunity to protect Hoosiers with fair maps and to reject the leadership of President Trump. Ultimately, decisions like this carry political consequences. I will be working with the President to challenge these people who do not represent the best interests of Hoosiers.
The moment United States 🇺🇸 booked their ticket to the Olympics! 🎫 Daniel Casper cashes in on a massive ninth end, taking four points and a 9-4 win. 🤝
Watch all games live on The Curling Channel! https://t.co/u1IYfEBOkx
#curling#oqe#usa#roadto2026
Pete Hegseth: "The future of American warfare is here, and it's spelled AI."
He says the military has launched a new platform that "puts the world's most powerful frontier AI models, starting with Google Gemini, directly into the hands of every American warrior."