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Jo Panzer Ellegård retweeted
A high school girl in Mexico just won a gold medal for putting out fires with a speaker. It plays one deep, low hum and the flames die in about 5 seconds. DARPA tried the same idea back in 2012 with a rig so big and clunky they never took it any further, and hers runs on a 12-volt battery and a speaker she can carry around. Sound is just air being pushed back and forth. A low note at 30 hertz means the air around the flame is flipping direction 30 times every second. Flames only exist in a thin layer where fuel vapor mixes with oxygen. Shake that layer hard enough and it keeps getting stretched thinner, the heat gets pulled away faster than the flame can make more, and eventually the flame rips right off the fuel. Whatever tears off is too cool to keep burning, so it just goes out. DARPA's report put a number on how little it takes. Once the air at the flame is moving about half a meter per second, which is barely a breeze, the flame goes out, and pretty much any pitch can get there if you crank the power high enough. Low notes just get you there way cheaper, because a speaker moves a lot more air on each push when the pitch is low. Two engineering students at George Mason figured this out by trial and error in 2015. They started with super high pitches, 20,000 to 30,000 hertz, and all the flames did was shiver. It only worked once they dropped down to 30 to 60 hertz, which is basically the bass on a hip-hop track. Ángela Karime's build is a 12-volt battery, a frequency generator, an amplifier and a speaker, tuned to 30 hertz. She named it Vortex Tech and talks about it shooting out little rings of air, and that's real physics. When loud, low sound gets pushed through a narrow opening, the air curls up into rings like a smoke ring, and those rings carry a puff of air way farther than the sound would get on its own. In her tests it put out small flames from about 2 meters away. She went through five prototypes and over 100 tests in about a year, and she says it's put out burning wood, flammable liquids, electronics and cooking oil. The cooking oil one is a big deal. Throw water on a grease fire and it flashes into steam and flings burning oil all over your kitchen, which is exactly the kind of fire where you'd want something that doesn't put anything into the pan. Now, sound can't cool anything down, so a big fire sitting on red-hot fuel can come right back the second the speaker shuts off. The George Mason guys worried about the same thing in 2015, and it's why this is still a prototype for small flames and the red extinguisher under your sink isn't going anywhere yet. Space might end up being where this matters first. Up there water floats off in blobs, while sound works the same with or without gravity, and acoustics researchers have already published experiments on fighting fires with sound on spacecraft. She's still in high school, and she's already working on a version that spots a fire and puts it out by itself. The gold in Indonesia also came with a special award that gets her into another international competition.
Uma estudante de 16 anos criou um aparelho que apaga o fogo usando SOM, sem água ou produtos químicos. A invenção conquistou uma medalha de ouro na Indonésia.
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Vel, russland klager på sanksjonene, sanksjonene virker. Altså finnes det flere kort på hånden. Yttligere sanksjoner. Det finnes et bord der det er plass.
🚨 Just as expected. The Kremlin is literally spitting in the faces of the leaders of Norway and Finland after their call with Putin “Apparently, nothing new was said. This only shows the Europeans’ desire to force their way into the negotiation process,” Lavrov said. The Russian foreign minister mockingly added that Europe has no chance of getting a seat at the negotiating table — because the EU “consistently condemns Russia and demands an end to the aggression, completely ignoring how it all began.” That last part was particularly amusing. And how exactly did it all begin, I wonder?
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Gass har gjentatte ganger blitt brukt som maktmiddel av russland. Maktmiddel for å styre andres politikk. Det grepet ovenfor Europa er i ferd med å svinne hen. Serbia derimot. EU har både tilbudt Serbia en konkret ordning for å kjøpe gass gjennom europeiske innkjøpsmekanismer og finansiert infrastruktur som gjør landet mindre avhengig av Russland. Serbia har ikke avvist EUs tilbud om en alternativ innkjøpsordning for gass. Landet har søkt om å benytte ordningen, men forsøker samtidig å opprettholde betydelige gassleveranser fra Russland. Konklusjon. Ingen eller liten vilje til å senke graden av sårbarhet.
In today's Russian papers, surprise at the the defeat of Moscow ally Aleksander Vučić in Serbia. One paper: “Russia can expect nothing good from this.” Another: “The results benefit the EU.” But several point out: “The Serbs are dependant on Russian gas.” #ReadingRussia
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Når «den sterke mann» bor i hodet ditt. For å forstå hva den sterke menns styre er og hva frihet er utforsk begrepene positiv og negativ frihet. Alle kan tilby «Frihet» så lenge du nøyer deg med begrensninger i ditt liv, hvis du en dag avviker fra den godkjente malen kan det ha konsekvenser. Nissen følger med på lasset. #protips
Let me show you what it's like to live in an autocracy. This morning, the heating went off in New Belgrade due to a technical malfunction. My mom, an educated woman and a medical doctor who has traveled the world, immediately assumed it was revenge by remnants of the regime because we voted against them. Autocracies change your psyche. The state becomes an actor that persecutes you, takes from you and watches you. This fear and distrust make it harder for people to connect and organize collectively against the regime. Russia is Serbia multiplied a hundredfold.
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🇳🇴🇺🇦 How can Ukrainian soldiers apply for a vehicle from Ukrainian Freedom Convoys (UFC)? Every week, we receive desperate requests from Ukrainian soldiers who need vehicles. We understand their situation, and we wish we could help every single one of them. But the reality is that demand far exceeds our resources. We have received more than 270 requests for our autumn convoys alone. That is far more than we can possibly fulfil. How are vehicles allocated? UFC operates a democratic allocation process. Requests are considered collectively to ensure that vehicles are distributed as fairly and responsibly as possible. We cannot simply buy a vehicle and prioritise one particular soldier or unit because someone contacts us directly. There are hundreds of soldiers waiting, many in equally desperate situations. Every request deserves fair consideration. What does a vehicle cost? On average, approximately NOK 40,000 (€3,400–3,500) covers purchasing a suitable used vehicle, necessary repairs and preparation. Our volunteer drivers cover their own travel expenses. That means: NOK 40,000 can fund approximately one vehicle. NOK 200,000 can fund approximately five. NOK 400,000 can fund approximately ten. Actual costs vary depending on the vehicles and repairs required. How can soldiers apply? Our application list is currently closed because of the overwhelming demand. Applications reopen on 10 January 2027. Contact: Mariia Dushenko (Signal): +47 941 57 542 Ole Kvåle (Signal): +47 416 51 682 Email: [email protected] Want to see more vehicles delivered? Help us fund them. UFC depends on private donations and volunteers. We cannot increase deliveries without additional financial support. Donations enable us to help more soldiers through our established allocation process, not simply move individual requests ahead of others. SUPPORT UKRAINIAN FREEDOM CONVOYS: PayPal: paypal.com/ncp/payment/WNDN6… Vipps: 860247 Bank account: 1813 72 81259 Website: ufconvoys.no/en We have the volunteers. We have the requests. What we need is funding for more vehicles. Every donation brings us closer to helping another Ukrainian unit. More donations. More vehicles. More lives saved. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 #UkrainianFreedomConvoys #NAFO #StandWithUkraine #SupportUkraine #Ukraine #DonateForUkraine #VehiclesForUkraine #SlavaUkraini
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Jo Panzer Ellegård retweeted
SpaceX Blocked A U.S. And NATO Satellite to Assist a Russian Intercept After Crippling Ukraine's Air Defenses The Math Proves the Reality that Musk doesn't want you to see. On Oct 13-14, SpaceX restricted Starshield/Starlink during a 39-missile Russian attack, cutting Ukrainian drone intercepts by 23% and stranding U.S. personnel in Kyiv. Forty-eight hours later (Oct 15), SpaceX blocked U.S.-licensed NRO, Space Force, and NATO radar satellite ICEYE-X36 in orbit so Russia's COSMOS 2612 weapon could intercept it (99.89%-99.98% posterior) Our Model Demonstrates that the Russian intercept of the US/NATO ICEYE X-36 satellite (contemporaneous with the throttling of Starlink) would not have been possible, and almost certainly not been attempted, without SpaceX resources. At a material opportunity cost, Russia sprinted its COSMOS satellite to intercept ICEYE X36. Based on a previous attempt in June during which X36 maneuvered to evade COSMOS, Russia knew that this would be successful only if X36 could not maneuver. On October 15, SpaceX fixed X36 in place by issuing a collision alert for a sub-kilometer approach with its Starlink 35856 when SpaceX's own data shows that the actual distance was 4.8-5.0x as great. SpaceX issued no warning to COSMOS despite the fact that its sprint was far more threatening than the stable X36 orbit. SpaceX did not maneuver its Starlink 35856 satellite to clear the supposed collision risk. How, absent coordination with SpaceX, could Russia have known that SpaceX would take actions that (a) misrepresented the danger posed by X36, and (b) resulted in the fixing of X36 thereby enabling COSMOS's successful intercept? Thus, SpaceX was directly involved in simultaneously compromising Ukraine’s defensive and offensive capabilities. The conjunction of these two events makes innocent explanations untenable. The Pentagon Capture & Iran Round Two Trap: Pentagon CTO Emil Michael who cashed out $7M–$35M from Musk’s inner-circle SpaceX vehicles (M8/Gigafund 0.1 and M6/Valor M33 II) and KQ Partners / xAI (selling xAIfor $5M–$25M three days before taking over CDAO/OSCand 21 days before SpaceX bought xAI, while keeping M8, M6, M9, M10 & Nomadic open) and Pete Hegseth purged rival Anthropic in two hours, surrendered combat command over US drones used to attack Iran to Starlink’s "Terms of Service," and on October 2 named Musk Co-Director of Project Meridian to design the Pentagon's "Future of Warfighting" just as America enters Iran Round Twowith depleted Patriot/THAAD magazines and Russia feeding U.S. warship/aircraft locations to Tehran. SpaceX’s actions in Ukraine raise serious questions about its alignment with US security interests and its reliability as a cornerstone of US defense. These questions are particularly troubling given the effectively irreplaceable position SpaceX has been granted by the Hegseth/Emil Michael Pentagon. $SPCX $TSLA Our full quantitative analysis below w/ @streetwiseprof
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BLACKLISTED BY RUSSIA. WORN AS A BADGE OF HONOUR. Putin’s regime has officially declared Ukrainian Freedom Convoys (UFC) an “undesirable organisation”. We wear this as a badge of honour! As UFC leader Ole Kvåle stated: “I see it as a recognition of the work we do with Ukrainian soldiers.” When a dictatorship blacklists volunteers for helping Ukraine defend itself, we know we’re doing something right. Putin can blacklist us, but he can’t stop us. The convoys will keep rolling! Slava Ukraini! Source: thebarentsobserver.com/news/… #NAFO #Ukraine #UkrainianFreedomConvoys
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Intet nytt for oss som gikk på søndagsskolen. At han er så ung overrasker, at han har klør overrasker ikke. Men la deg ikke lure, ditt hjem holder ikke. Han vil bli stor. Ordfører eller kanskje fylkesmann (man har sett The Omen) Da er h….te løs. Ikke rart at kommentarfeltet er i fyr og flamme…
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Jo Panzer Ellegård retweeted
Hils på Olga fra Ukraina. Hun er en ung kvinne fra Ukraina med et lite barn, et land i krig og nød som forsøker å spe på sin økonomi med på å selge diverse håndtverk. Jeg/vi her har kjøpt fra henne flere ganger for å fylle opp julekalenderen, og ting fungerer. Jeg oppfordrer andre til å gjøre det samme, fra henne eller en annen mor med barn. Gi dem litt støtte, det ei ei gave som det følger ei historie med som du kan fortelle om💪 For øvrig er dette ei ung kvinne med meninger om krigen, landet sitt og livet i sin enkelhet, hvis man kan si enkelthet om slik tilstanden er. Interessant å følge, vurder det du og. Oppfordrer til å retweete, det er fredag og snart helg og da kan vi være litt ekstra generøse. Takk. God helg ønskes alle
Sometimes you are emotionally exhausted, and then you rise again like a phoenix ... and then something truly beautiful is born💙💛 etsy.com/shop/HappyJewelryHe…
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Ballon de`or 2026 Mine favoritter Kvinner: Karoline Graham Hansen Menn: Erling Braut Haaland. Kvinnelag: Brann Herrelag: Bodøglimt, eventuelt @HauerseterAlag🤷‍♂️ Realistiske Jo Kvinner: Karoline Graham Hansen. Menn: Harry Kane Kvinnelag: Barcelona Herrelag: Skulle helst sagt Leeds for pokker, men Arsenal tror jeg på. Innhentingen demmes er jo…
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Jo Panzer Ellegård retweeted
The dangers of idealizing people. A friendly reminder: being successful at something doesn’t make someone a good person.
Replying to @igorsushko
Cause he’s on the spectrum and is probably going through a manic episode. He’s not a world leader nor a superhero. I think people gave him too much credit and forgot that he’s got a horrible track record in his personal life.
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Jo Panzer Ellegård retweeted
Snart är motmedlen ikapp. Det blir svårare och svårare att hitta ett segment i fart/höjd/verkan/kostnad där det går att genomföra massanfall till rimlig kostnad/verkan. Billigare, ingen verkan. De som kommer igenom, blir för dyra för massanfall.
Ukrainian company F-Drones has demonstrated tests of the “F-Jet 80,” a jet-powered interceptor UAV designed to engage jet-powered targets such as the Russian Geran-4 and Geran-5. The company reportedly plans to price the interceptor at approximately $7,000, while its technical specifications have not yet been disclosed. The F-Jet 80 is said to use a target-homing system already featured in the company’s F7 LITAVR interceptor. Its maximum speed and operational range remain unknown, and the “80” designation has not been confirmed to indicate an 80 km (50-mile) range. The F-Jet 80 is among several interceptor projects reportedly being tested in Ukraine to counter jet-powered UAVs. Other identified systems include Alexa Spatium, Bars, SPYS and STING S, alongside another interceptor shown in footage released by Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU). #Ukraine #FDrones #FJet80 #F7LITAVR #DroneWars
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Jo Panzer Ellegård retweeted
🧵I 1972 var Brasil et mørkt sted. Militærdiktaturet ledet av president Emílio Garrastazu Médici var i ferd med å nå et dystert klimaks. Tortur og forsvinninger var hverdagskost, og kunst måtte forhåndsgodkjennes av regimet før den ble sluppet. 1/
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Det norske forsvaret og tilhørende industri har satt ting i container før. Slik man ser i Ukraina nå, så veier nok mobilitet stadig mer.
The Kongsberg company has presented a containerized launch system for the NSM cruise missiles. The system, called the NSM Mission Module, is based on a 20-foot maritime container and can hold 4 NSM missiles, with a range of approximately 300 km and a payload of 120 kg. The use of a container allows for the creation of a discreet launch system, and it can be used in a stationary configuration, on a truck, or on a maritime platform.
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Dette er nye Toner fra Kreml. Anchorage er muligens skrinlagt, hard maktrealisme bør innebære også Europa. Tross alt er det stort sett Europa og noen andre land som støtter Ukraina og påfører russland økonomisk friksjon.
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Forklarer noe om hvorfor i en eventuelt forhandlet løsning er enkelte linjer det er lite trolig at Ukraina vil fire på sine krav. Det handler om mer enn fred eller våpenstillstand nå, det er å forsøke å håndtere fremtidig sårbarhet og handlefrihet (suverenitet som det gjerne kalles).
Miksi Putin haluaa niin kiivaasti Donetskin, jota Venäjän armeija ei ole onnistunut valloittamaan vuosien sodankäynnistä huolimatta? Kyse on paljon suuremmasta asiasta kuin yhdestä maakunnasta Ukrainan itäosassa. Putin ei aloittanut sotaa vain saadakseen haltuunsa lisää ukrainalaista maa-aluetta, vaan palauttaakseen Ukrainan Venäjän vaikutuspiiriin ja estääkseen sen kehittymisen itsenäiseksi, länteen integroituneeksi valtioksi. Tämä on ollut Venäjän strategisen ajattelun ytimessä jo pitkään. Donetsk on tässä kokonaisuudessa poikkeuksellisen tärkeä useasta syystä. Ensinnäkin alue on ollut historiallisesti yksi Ukrainan taloudellisista ja teollisista keskuksista. Donbasin hiilikaivokset, terästeollisuus, konepajat ja energiantuotanto olivat aikanaan keskeinen osa Neuvostoliiton teollista perustaa. Vaikka sota on tuhonnut valtavasti alueen tuotantokapasiteettia, Donetskin taloudellista ja historiallista merkitystä ei pidä vähätellä. Venäjän näkökulmasta sen hallinta merkitsisi samalla Ukrainan taloudellisen perustan heikentämistä. Vielä tärkeämpi on kuitenkin sotilaallinen ulottuvuus. Ukrainan hallussa olevat Slovjansk ja Kramatorsk ovat osa vuosien aikana rakennettua puolustusvyöhykettä, joka suojaa Ukrainan sisäosia Venäjän etenemiseltä. Kyse ei ole vain kahdesta kaupungista, vaan kokonaisesta puolustusjärjestelmästä, jonka rakentamiseen Ukraina on käyttänyt yli vuosikymmenen. Jos Ukraina luovuttaisi nämä alueet ilman taistelua, Venäjä saisi haltuunsa strategisesti arvokkaita asemia, joiden valloittaminen sotilaallisesti voisi vaatia vielä vuosien taisteluita ja valtavia tappioita. Samalla Ukraina menettäisi yhden tärkeimmistä puolustuslinjoistaan, eikä vastaavan rakentaminen lännemmäksi olisi yksinkertaista. Tämä voisi avata Venäjälle huomattavasti paremmat lähtökohdat myöhempään hyökkäykseen syvemmälle Ukrainaan. Donetsk on myös osa Venäjän omaa turvallisuusmaantiedettä. Alueen hallinta kasvattaisi Venäjän hallitsemien alueiden syvyyttä ja suojaisi sen Itä-Ukrainaan rakentamia sotilaallisia huoltoyhteyksiä. Laajemmassa kokonaisuudessa Donbas liittyy myös Etelä-Ukrainan miehitettyihin alueisiin ja Krimille johtavaan maayhteyteen. Taloudellisten ja sotilaallisten kysymysten lisäksi Donetskilla on Putinille valtava poliittinen ja symbolinen merkitys. Kreml on vuodesta 2014 lähtien rakentanut kertomusta Donbasin venäjänkielisen väestön suojelemisesta ja alueen kuulumisesta niin sanottuun venäläiseen maailmaan. Vuonna 2022 Venäjä julisti koko Donetskin alueen liitetyksi itseensä, vaikka ei sitä kokonaan hallinnut. Koko alueen haltuunotto antaisi Putinille mahdollisuuden esittää sodan lopputulos historiallisena saavutuksena. Venäjän vaatimukset eivät silti rajoitu Donetskiin. Kreml on vaatinut myös Ukrainan Nato-jäsenyyden torjumista ja sen sotilaallisen toimintavapauden rajoittamista. Yhdessä alueluovutusten kanssa nämä tavoitteet voisivat jättää Ukrainan tilanteeseen, jossa sen taloudellinen perusta, puolustuskyky ja mahdollisuudet päättää omasta tulevaisuudestaan olisivat nykyistä huomattavasti heikommat. Tässä mielessä Putin voi saavuttaa neuvottelupöydässä jotain, mitä hän ei ole kyennyt saavuttamaan taistelukentällä. Siksi mielestäni olisi virhe tulkita Donetskin vaatimista vain Putinin tarpeeksi saada sodalle jonkinlainen "kunniallinen päätös". Putin voi olla valmis lopettamaan sodan ilman, että hän luopuu alkuperäisistä tavoitteistaan. Siksi Donetskin kysymys on paljon suurempi kuin miltä se kartalla näyttää.
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Replying to @staunovo
Seems to depict Borr Prospector 5 sinking off Gabon this night.
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“It's not enough to talk only to Kyiv; we need to talk to the whole of Europe, which fully supports Kyiv,” Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said an interview with state television on Sunday. themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/2…
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