BREAKING:
This is Beirut right now.
Israel is MASSIVELY bombing Lebanon’s capital in the middle of the night — deliberately wiping out apartment block after apartment block.
Civilian homes. Residential buildings.
No justification. Just pure terror.
Happy 65th B’day Sputnik — “Fellow Traveller.” Launched by the USSR Oct 4, 1957
At the time, the United States lost its shit. Not because we hadn’t yet launched anything, but because a hollowed-out Intercontinental Ballistic Missile shell delivered the little satellite to orbit.
His passing has left an intellectual vacuum in his wake. But it's not empty. Think of it as a kind of vacuum energy permeating the fabric of spacetime that defies measure. Stephen Hawking, RIP 1942-2018.