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I traveled to Columbus, Ohio, and witnessed the most egregious government waste I've seen in my 20 years as an investigative reporter.
This has been going on for years, and you've been paying for it.
Take a look⬇️
Look at this astronaut's face during reentry, knowing the capsule exterior is at 5,000°F.
The physics of why he's alive are wild.
The air in front of the capsule compresses so violently at Mach 25 that it turns into plasma. 5,000°F on the surface. Half the temperature of the sun. The heat shield absorbs that energy by literally burning itself away, layer by layer, carrying the heat with it as gas.
One inch of material is the entire margin. On the outside of that inch: 5,000°F. On the inside: 75°F. Room temperature. The thermal gradient across that single inch is the steepest temperature drop humans have ever engineered.
The orange glow in the window is ionized nitrogen and oxygen. That plasma is why comms go black for six minutes during reentry. Ground control can't reach the crew. The astronauts are alone inside a fireball, falling at 25,000 mph, watching the laws of thermodynamics keep them alive through a 1-inch wall.
Artemis II did exactly this last night. Four astronauts hit Earth's atmosphere at 24,664 mph, rode a 4,900°F plasma sheath for six minutes of radio silence, and splashed down a mile from target.
The heat shield is now being inspected for cracks. They found over 100 on the last unmanned test.
NCAA hockey botching the regional situation again is in fucking sane. Give top seeds the regionals and pack those barns and make the atmosphere electric for the teams and broadcast . Stop being stubborn and stupid. Bad combo. Whoever is in charge needs to figure it out.
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Talking Heads doing “Life During Wartime” in Stop Making Sense (1984) is pure electricity. The groove is tight as a vice, Byrne moves like a funky marionette, and that line “This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco” still lands like a warning.
The moment the U.S. Men’s Hockey team brought the Gaudreau kids onto the ice… that said everything about who these men are.
Champions aren’t just defined by gold medals. They’re defined by heart. By loyalty. By remembering the people who helped build the journey.
In the middle of the biggest celebration, they made space for family. For love. For legacy.
I’m not even ashamed to say I’m crying. That was bigger than hockey. 🇺🇸 ❤️
That’s character. That’s brotherhood. That’s what real men look like.
@savnhl They’ve been playing the game since they were 4 years old…
we definitely know better than they do when to “shoot the puck”
maybe they don’t shoot cuz they don’t wanna score right then and wanna save their goals for later 😜