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.
Evil rarely announces itself.
Hannah Arendt didn’t warn us that the greatest danger would come from monsters.
She warned us it would come from ordinary people who stop asking questions. People who trade conscience for slogans, curiosity for certainty, and morality for obedience.
The lesson of the Holocaust was never just about one man. It was about what happens when a society decides that thinking is optional.
Every generation believes it would have stood against evil.
History keeps asking the same question:
Would you have?
Or would you have simply gone along because everyone else did?
That’s why Arendt still matters. And that’s why this conversation matters. Because the opposite of evil isn’t outrage.
It’s the courage to think for yourself.
@EuroDale@SigurdsenXD Men må si at jeg savner åpne og tolerante folk her inne. Som kan diskutere udemagogisk og fritt og ut fra ambisjonen om å forstå hverandre.
Synes det er mye støy og fra stadig færre.
Er det kun jeg som synes det?
@EuroDale@SigurdsenXD Jeg håper jeg alltid vil forbli liberal.
Men jeg antar du mente at det å tillate mine observasjoner var den adferden du rapporterte. (Og ja, jeg skjønte humoren)
@DagensDummeste@LiseSorensen_@grok Det riktige spørsmålet er vel hvor mye tid er brukt i politiet og i andre norske off etater på å diskutere, beslutte og implementere alle ulike profileringstiltak for Pride.
@EuroDale@SigurdsenXD Har ikke noen formening om det. Men observerer at i de årene jeg har vært her på Twitter/X, har relevans og bredde fra ulike stemmer dalt kraftig. Synd.
Lurer egentlig litt på hvorfor jeg fortsatt er her.
@RMistereggen Vikinger er kult, men vi liker ikke at ytre høyre prøver å kuppe dem fordi dere projiserer 1800-tallsnasjonalisme på en førmoderne klan- og handelsverden. Vikingene hade ingen forestillinger om nasjonalstat, etnisitet, "vestlig sivilisasjon" eller kulturkonservatisme.