Julien Brisse

♦️Ingé, linguiste, PhD, Master2,MBA.Ts sujets autant que possible.Défense de notre langue.On all subjects as much as i can. Bsky: @johndoebouteille.bsky.social

[Cosmos Archive @cosmosarcive]

When James Clerk Maxwell unified electricity and magnetism with four equations, he did more than solve a physics problem.

He uncovered the true nature of light and laid the foundation for much of modern technology. From radio waves to visible light, he described how electromagnetic fields behave and interact.

[Julien Brisse @pathamadouche]

@Doberman840032 @joni_askola ah un troll russe !

[Julien Brisse @pathamadouche]

@yvan_theriault Très joli conte plein de vérité
Merci

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

No, there are no true "zero-gravity" points anywhere in the Universe. Gravity is relentless. It never switches off. Even though its strength fades with distance (following the inverse-square law), it never actually reaches zero. No matter how far you travel, you’re always feeling the faint tug of something—a distant star, a galaxy cluster, or the cumulative pull of the cosmic web.Imagine floating in the emptiest void between galaxies, billions of light-years from the nearest star. You’d feel almost weightless… but not perfectly. The combined gravity from thousands of galaxy clusters, each containing hundreds of billions of stars, would still exert a tiny, ghostly pull. It might be weaker than the gravity from a pebble on Earth from across the room, yet it’s https://t.co/ipVLXPiAi6 ways to picture it:Lagrange points (like those between Earth and the Moon) feel like “zero gravity” zones because the pulls from multiple bodies cancel out. But that’s a local balance, not true zero—move slightly and you’ll drift.
Deep intergalactic space comes closest to gravitational silence, but even there, the Universe’s mass distribution creates a subtle gravitational landscape. You’re never truly free.

Gravity is one of the four fundamental forces, woven into the fabric of spacetime itself. As long as the Universe has mass and you have mass, the dance continues—https://t.co/4Pjmahod7Y while astronauts in orbit or at Lagrange points experience microgravity, the idea of a perfect gravity-free sanctuary somewhere out there? It’s a myth. The Universe just won’t let go.

[TheRealCherokeeOwl 🦉 @CherokeeOwl]

They Scaled 100-Foot Cliffs Under Fire: The Rangers of Pointe du Hoc on D-Day 🪜🇺🇸

⚠️ Historical War Story True accounts of heroism and sacrifice on D-Day. Educational purposes only. RIP to all who served and fell. Lest we forget. 🇺🇸

June 6, 1944 — Lt. Col. James Rudder and 225 U.S. Army Rangers faced a suicidal mission: scale sheer 100-foot cliffs at Pointe du Hoc between Utah and Omaha Beaches to destroy German guns that could devastate the landings.

Ropes, ladders, and sheer will — under machine gun and artillery fire. They reached the top, found the guns moved, then hunted and destroyed them while holding off counterattacks for two days. Only about 90 Rangers were still fighting by the end.

They saved countless lives on the beaches below.

Supported by naval gunfire, these elite warriors turned the impossible into victory. Their stand became legend.

The Pointe du Hoc Ranger Monument stands today in their honor. True American warriors who changed history.

#DDay #GreatestGeneration

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Private Carlton Barrett was possibly the smallest man in his regiment.

5 feet 4 inches tall. 125 pounds.

On the morning of June 6, 1944, he landed at Omaha Beach in neck-deep water, machine gun fire cutting the surface all around him. He made it to shore.

Then he turned around and went back in.

A soldier was drowning. Barrett pulled him out. Then another. Then another. For hours, under constant fire, this 125-pound man waded back into the surf again and again, pulling drowning men to safety and physically carrying the wounded to evacuation boats offshore.

But he didn't stop there.

He ran dispatches the full length of the fire-swept beach. He found soldiers paralyzed by shock and calmed them back into action. He appeared wherever the crisis was worst, doing whatever needed doing, treating rank and personal safety as irrelevant details.

He did this for hours without stopping.

His Medal of Honor citation says his courage had "an inestimable effect on his comrades." That is military understatement for: this small, anonymous man held that section of beach together through sheer force of will.

He survived the war.

His comrades later said his life darkened after he came home. He lived quietly and died in 1986 in California, largely unknown outside of military history circles.

5 feet 4 inches. 125 pounds. He went back in.

Remember him.

[Epitomax 💊 🐍 @Topiramatee]

Je repartage cette échelle de la douleur - non officielle - qui compare le ressenti des personnes atteintes de douleurs chroniques versus celles qui n’ont pas de douleurs chroniques et que je trouve très pertinente 👇🏻

[Philosophy Of Physics @PhilosophyOfPhy]

Albert Einstein, reflecting on the 10-year struggle to create General Relativity

From 1905 to 1915, Einstein was locked in a grueling intellectual marathon. He repeatedly published wrong turns, suffered from severe stomach ailments brought on by stress, and watched his marriage fall apart, all while chasing a mathematical ghost that he felt existed but could not yet prove.

“The years of searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express, the intense desire, and the alternations of confidence and misgiving until one breaks through to clarity and understanding, are known only to him who has himself experienced them.”

[Julien Brisse @pathamadouche]

@ETinTheDark @NGC_4553 @JeanMessiha c’est même plutôt un risque qu’une chance je pense

[Julien Brisse @pathamadouche]

@Compas_Patricia @FrancoisCame Oui vous avez raison et vous l’écrivez si bien.

[Julien Brisse @pathamadouche]

@ChamoisClan @Paroles_auteurs Mais cher Monsieur, votre erreur est tellement grossière ! Je n’ai pu m’empêcher de la souligner !
Je vous souhaite un bon dimanche !

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Kasparov: This war has been a war of miracles from the beginning. On February 24, 2022, how many people expected Ukraine to survive at all?

Now we are in the fifth year, and Putin has failed to achieve his objectives one after another. 1/

[Adenot Sophie @Soph_astro]

Jour 114, orbite 1764 – La science du dimanche matin avec Sophie, épisode 9 : Chasse aux sons, partie 1.

🎥 @esa / @NASA

#εpsilon • @esaspaceflight • @esa_fr • @Space_Station • @NASAJohnson • @CNES

[François Camé @FrancoisCame]

Une camarade de 3eme vient d'expliquer à l'un de mes jumeaux que "mettre un point à la fin d'un texto, c'est froid et distant"...

Un ami lituanien me dit, de son côté, que les jeunes lui déconseillent fortement de mettre dans ses messages une majuscule en début de phrase, voire de ponctuer son texte. Car : "Quelqu'un qui écrit avec une syntaxe et une ponctuation soignées peut être perçu comme condescendant..."

Et quand j'interroge Grok, pour savoir si c'est une maladie très répandue, cette bestiole m'explique froidement :

- "Écrire tout en minuscules est devenu un marqueur stylistique de relâchement assumé. Cela signale : je ne fais pas d'effort rhétorique, je parle comme je pense ."
Bref, cela signale que je suis cool et sincère...

Génial.
Nous avons donc, en quelques années, régressé de mille deux cents ans. Au moins.

-Au départ, les Grecs et les Romains écrivaient tout en majuscule, sans séparation entre les mots, sans point en fin de phrase. Ce qui rend leurs textes extrêmement pénibles à déchiffrer.
- Ce n'est qu'au IVe siècle après Jésus-Christ que les scribes commencent à inventer les lettres minuscules.
- Au VIIe siècle, les moines irlandais copiant des textes latins commencent à introduire systématiquement des espaces entre les mots.
- Au VIIIe siècle, Charlemagne, lui, instaure la majuscule en début de phrase, le reste étant en minuscules (ce qui permettait de placer plus de texte dans une seule page, donc d'économiser du parchemin, ce matériau étant extrêmement cher)
- Au XIIe siècle, les Universités inventent ensuite le paragraphe, qui permet de donner un peu de respiration à un texte.
- Et ce n'est qu'à la fin du XVe siècle que le génial Alde Manuce, imprimeur et humaniste vénitien, invente la virgule et le point-virgule dans ses éditions des grands textes antiques (c'est aussi lui qui crée l'italique : trop fort🙂).

Bref, du Ve av. J.-C. au XVe siècle ap. J.-C. : il a fallu 20 siècles pour rendre nos textes lisibles.

Mais aujourd'hui, des zoulous de la "Gen. Z" ont décidé que tout ceci était "froid et condescendant".

Le raisonnement est délicieux : les points en fin de phrase, la majuscule en début... font perdre un peu de temps, quand on pianote sur un écran.
Certes, cela rend les messages bien plus lisibles, pour celui à qui le message s'adresse; mais cela demande à celui qui le rédige un petit effort supplémentaire.
Et ça, c'est pas cool.

Résultat : si je refuse de faire un effort pour les autres, et que je les oblige à en faire un... je ne suis pas une grosse feignasse égocentrique.
Non : je manifeste, tout au contraire, combien je suis cool et sympa.

Question de génération, surement.
Ok boomer, tout ça, tout ça...

Mais j'avoue, pour ma part, que je trouve ce genre de philosophie un zest paradoxal.
Voire un peu agaçant.🙂

[Julien Brisse @pathamadouche]

@ChamoisClan @Paroles_auteurs C’est assez savoureux de me reprocher un prétendu melon surdimensionné alors que vous refusez d’envisager que votre français puisse être perfectible.
Pour écrire correctement le français, nul besoin d’être Dieu le Père. Il suffit parfois d’accepter qu’on puisse se tromper.

[Julien Brisse @pathamadouche]

@VoicesofWW2 Il en a peut-être voulu à Hitler:Il a participé au complot du 20/7/1944, l'opération Walkyrie visant l’assassinat d’Adolf Hitler et la prise du pouvoir.
Après enquête on a découvert que Rommel faisait partie de ce complot, mais vu sa réputation, il n’a pas été condamné à mort.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

On June 6, 1944, the man who predicted D-Day almost word for word was home celebrating his wife's birthday.

Months before the invasion, Rommel told his aide:

"The first 24 hours of the invasion will be decisive. For the Allies, as well as Germany, it will be the longest day."

He wasn't being poetic. He genuinely believed Germany had exactly one chance to win the war: stop the Allies while they were still in the water. Get them on the beaches before they could breathe. After that, it was over.

So he became obsessed. He personally inspected every bunker on the Atlantic Wall. He demanded 6 million mines be laid along the French coast. He flooded inland marshes specifically to drown Allied paratroopers mid-drop.

Then on June 5, German meteorologists reported the Channel weather was far too rough for any crossing. Rommel exhaled for the first time in months.

His wife Lucie was turning 50 the next day. He had already bought her a gift on a recent trip to Paris: a pair of shoes.

He drove home to Herrlingen, Germany. Hundreds of miles from Normandy.

At dawn on June 6, the largest naval armada ever assembled opened fire on the French coast.

When Rommel's phone finally rang, tens of thousands of Allied troops were already ashore. He begged Hitler to release the Panzer reserves to crush the beachheads before they could solidify.

Hitler refused. He was still asleep. His staff would not wake him. When he finally rose, he was convinced Normandy was a decoy and the real invasion was still coming at Pas-de-Calais.

Rommel raced back through France. By the time he arrived that night, the beaches were lost.

The man who called it "the longest day" spent the most decisive hours of World War II at a birthday party, 600 miles away, holding a pair of shoes.

[Julien Brisse @pathamadouche]

@Kamel1692 @Paroles_auteurs Cet article est très complet
https://t.co/vpDtWFtNTj.

[Julien Brisse @pathamadouche]

@ChamoisClan @Paroles_auteurs un homme ou une femme prête 😂
Ah la bonne langue française que voilà !