Tamara Gorman 🇺🇸

Talks to strangers and writes about it for a living.

[Pelagius 🦁 @pelagiusreborn]

It’s incredible how a single leak already looks better than the trailer of The Odyssey

[Sarah Salviander @sarahsalviander]

Finally got to see this movie! It's gorgeous, with high production values, and it ably makes the case from two sides - physics and biology - that what we see in the natural world is best explained by a transcendent Intelligence.

I learned some new things watching this movie. I knew the late great astronomer Allan Sandage was Christian, but I didn't know that he, like me, was a non-believer who had been led to God by his scientific work. I also didn't realize the extent to which some scientists objected to Lemaitre's big bang model because it resonated too much with Genesis 1:1. This point is both exciting and depressing. Exciting, because it emphasized even more how scientists in the last century, as modern physics was heating up, understood the theological implications of the big bang. Depressing, because so many Christians still think the big bang is an atheist conspiracy. 😕

I was featured more than I thought in the first part of the movie. Kind of weird seeing myself on a big screen, but I got over that pretty fast. It was fun seeing who else they brought in for this movie, and it was an impressive cast.

It's important that we continue to present our case this way when we can - beautifully, compellingly, with striking visuals and music. That's what makes something memorable - it's the way humans are wired.

[Nerdrotic @Nerdrotics]

Christopher Nolan, WTF are you doing?
This isn't for awards. He has them already
It's about the top dog of a dying industry reinforcing their bad ideas.

[Gabriele Corno @Gabriele_Corno]

This moment shows how deep the bond is between this chimp and dog

[Fandom Pulse @fandompulse]

Mell Brooks says our whole society has become "stupidly politically correct" and that's why we don't have good comedy now:

"We have become stupidly politically correct, which is the death of comedy. It's not good for comedy. Comedy has to walk a thin line, take risks. Comedy is the lecherous little elf whispering in the king's ear, always telling the truth about human behavior."

Do you agree with Mel Brooks that political correctness is bad for comedy?

[Gabriele Corno @Gabriele_Corno]

Cane Corso, with a very troubled past, finds comfort in the Orangutan Family who adopted him

[Stephen C. Meyer @StephenCMeyer]

The Story of Everything takes you on a journey through the biggest discoveries in modern science—cosmology, physics, and biology. These discoveries raise a deeper question: Is it all the result of chance—or something more? 👇

[TheNewPhysics @CharlesMullins2]

🚨 BREAKING:
Scientists just learned how to control magnetism at the atomic level.
Not materials.
Not circuits.
Individual spin patterns.
Read that again.
Instead of using electric charge…
they’re using the spin of electrons to store and process data.
And it gets crazier:
They can create tiny magnetic whirlpools
called skyrmions…
that move with almost no energy
and can store massive amounts of data

This means:

Faster computers
Lower power usage
Ultra-dense memory

But the real shift is this:

We’re not just building electronics anymore…
we’re engineering structure at the smallest possible scale.

So the real question is:
If information can be stored in spin itself…
what limits computation?

Follow me I’m tracking where physics becomes technology.

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

🚨GUILTY VERDICT: In Oregon, rainwater falling on your own land doesn’t actually belong to you.

Gary Harrington built 3 reservoirs on his 170-acre property to collect rainwater & snowmelt for fire protection.

The state demanded he drain every drop. “All water belongs to us.”

He refused.

They hit him with 9 misdemeanors, jailed him for 30 days, and fined him more than $15,000.

This is government claiming ownership of the sky.

What’s next — your air? Your soil?

Actually… yes. 👇

[American Thought Leaders 🇺🇸 with @JanJekielek @AmThoughtLeader]

During his research into China’s Uyghur concentration camps, investigator Ethan Gutmann realized a disturbing pattern.

Many of those that disappeared in the middle of the night from the camps were typically 28 or 29 years old.

He believes the CCP has made this age demographic their primary target for forced organ harvesting. “You are at the peak of your health. At that point, your organs have stopped growing,” Gutmann says.

For two decades, Gutmann has been researching how the Chinese Communist Party secretly harvests the organs of prisoners of conscience and kills them in the process.

He authored the groundbreaking 2014 work “The Slaughter” and more recently, “The Xinjiang Procedure.”

To gather firsthand information, Gutmann travelled to Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkey to interview dozens of Uyghurs and Kazaks who had managed to escape after being imprisoned in camps in Xinjiang, China, also known as East Turkestan. Many spoke to him at great personal risk to themselves and their loved ones.

@Eastofethan @VoCommunism @ETAC_Global @MDsAgainstFOH

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

This is what happiness looks like..🐄😊

[wealthmoose @wealthmoose]

🚨 Read this slowly.

• Wife lives in the U.S. 🇺🇸
• Four kids live & study in the U.S. 🇺🇸
• ~91% of his portfolio in the U.S. 🇺🇸
• Home in the U.S. 🇺🇸
• Brookfield moved HQ to the U.S. 📍

Yet he tells Canadians: 🇨🇦

“We can’t depend on America.” 🇺🇸

Do you see the contradiction?

#cdnpoli #Canada #US #Reality

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

A historic return captured-Artemis Il astronauts exits the Orion capsule after landing safely on home (Earth).
NASA

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

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.

[New York Post @nypost]

John Cleese blasts world's silence on Easter massacre of Nigerian Christians by Islamist terrorists https://t.co/Kb1ZOBkj6t

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

Re-entry of Artemis II crew captured by the astronaut in International Space Station

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

There are 3 living members of people who worked on The Wizard of Oz.

One of them Is Caren Marsh Doll who was Judy Garland's stunt double.

It was her birthday yesterday.

She turned 107.

[Tolkien Universe @tolkienzone]

Viggo Mortensen still remembers The Oath of Elendil, the song in Elvish that Aragorn sings during his coronation in The Lord of the Rings.

[Tolkien Universe @tolkienzone]

At 81, John Rhys-Davies still gets as excited as a child every time he’s handed Gimli’s axes.