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[de_voux @de_ron]

@grok @elonmusk @xAI_imagine Probably a tossup… between the dichroic prism crystal… or the mouse 🐁 lol

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Voyager 1 is 24 billion kilometers from Earth.

It communicates with us using a 23-watt transmitter.
Less than a refrigerator light bulb.

The signal takes 22 hours to reach us, traveling at the speed of light.

By the time it arrives, it's 20 billion times weaker than the power of a digital watch battery.

NASA's Deep Space Network picks it up using 70-meter dish antennas cooled to near absolute zero to reduce electronic noise.

The engineering required to hear a 23-watt signal from 24 billion km away is arguably more impressive than the spacecraft itself.

Launched 1977.
Still transmitting.
Still being heard.

We built something that works perfectly, 47 years later, in conditions no one has ever tested in.

That's what engineering for the long term looks like.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The car that used to be in my garage is currently in an Earth-Mars elliptical orbit and will be there for at least 10 million years

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

How are Democrats cheating in L.A.?

Let me show you…

There are 26 registered voters at this toilet in Los Angeles.

I’m not kidding. I have the voter records. See for yourself. The only thing here is a stinky port-a john inside an empty parking lot.

No homes. No mailboxes. No businesses. Yet TWENTY SIX ‘people’ are casting ballots here.

Straight-up voter fraud out in the open. This just a glimpse of what’s happening under Gavin Newsom.

This is why California desperately needs Voter ID — and we must pass the Save Act NOW.

[NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day @apod]

What is happening inside this unusual nebula?

Planetary nebula Tc 1, captured here in exquisite detail by the James Webb Space Telescope, is the celestial site where buckyballs were first identified in 2010.

Buckminsterfullerene — as buckyballs are officially called — is a molecule with 60 carbon atoms (C60) arranged in the shape of a soccer ball.

The molecule is named for architect Buckminster Fuller because of its resemblance to the geodesic dome he helped popularize. Webb’s new data reveal where the C60 molecules live in this nebula, and the geometry is striking: they populate a thin spherical shell around the central star, visible here as the bright edge of the nebula’s glowing orange central region.

Look closely near the nebula’s heart and a more perplexing feature emerges: a delicate structure shaped uncannily like an upside-down question mark, fitting punctuation for the many questions this nebula still poses.

Image Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/J. Cami (Western University); Image Processing: K. Beecroft
Text: Jan Cami (Western University) & Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)

[Science Magazine @ScienceExpand]

Physics and art make for a powerful combination

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

Before AI we had Zach King

[Saif @diol2n]

رجل مهاجر ومشرد يقترب من بائع تاكو في الاكوادور ويمد له يده لكن البائع رفض اخذ المبلغ وحضر له الاكل واعطاه، واكتشف ان الرجل كان بحاجة الى حضن اكثر من الطعام

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Good Starship highlights video

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

You and I are never in the same place twice.

Our spaceship made of dirt, water and air carries us to a place further than the place you were born by the second.

We could not have made a better spaceship moving eternally to our destiny…

[de_voux @de_ron]

A Floating City 🏙️ #FreedomShip

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

The Moon last night, captured with my 12" telescope. That blue color you see? Real, but nothing to do with the "blue moon"

There is color visible on the moon year round- and it can be captured in photos fairly easily, just by increasing the saturation, as I've done here

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

These two giant tortoises have been fighting each other for over 120 years.
According to the zoo, one tortoise stole the other's food 120 years ago, and they've been enemies ever since. 😂😂

[End3of6Days9 (Helen) 🇺🇸 @end3of6days9]

This roadrunner doesn’t just show up — he knocks on the door like he’s coming over for a visit.

When she opens the door, his tail feathers go wild like an excited dog, and he proudly hands over his latest “gift” (this time, a yellow leaf and a twig). Once she takes it, he’s off again to find her something else. It’s become their daily little ritual.

What makes it even sweeter is that she rescued him when he was hurt. He never left after he recovered, and now he brings her gifts every day like a thank you she never asked for.

Have you ever had a wild animal decide you were their person?

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

🚨: Voyager 1 is now so far from Earth that a signal traveling at the speed of light takes 23 hours, 32 minutes and 35.444 seconds to reach it — so when engineers send a command, they can wait nearly two days to know whether the spacecraft responded.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This trend will continue for many years

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Real-time video of Starship from Starlink

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Breathtakingly Beautiful

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It was a very good day https://t.co/shJaoIIDPX

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Earth at night viewed from space.