Secular humanist, ex astro-physicist, sarcastic bugger Attempting to explain physics from first principles
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Relinked my scale of the universe tweets
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Any questions please ask
I know it's just hyperbole
But trying to contain the power of one exploding sun in the size of a man is instant black hole.
Even if you imagine that away, any sudden motion, twitch or hiccup would be catastrophic.
The Golden Sentry Serum gives him "the power of a million exploding suns", meaning he’s bulletproof, faster than the eye can track, and strong enough to snap Bucky’s Vibranium arm and fold John Walker’s shield without blinking.
He doesn't just have normal telekinesis, he controls matter at the subatomic level. That’s why he can effortlessly grab Ghost even while she’s phased out of reality and heat up weapons in people's hands!
As seen when he transitions into The Void, Bob has massive telepathic and psychic powers, allowing him to project people's darkest regrets directly into their minds and trap an entire city in living shadow.
Even if you somehow atomize his body (like Molecule Man did in the comics), Sentry can literally rebuild his own molecules from nothing and come right back to life!
He has Super Soldier serum multiplied by 100,000, making him a walking Infinity Stone whose only limit is The Void inside his head.
#Marvel #MCU
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If they kept their mass they couldn't:
Ride an ant
Climb on people without them noticing
Carry a tank
Throw a blob of goo that once was a person
Ride on a plastic train
In Ant-Man and the Wasp, they carry an entire shrunken laboratory around like it's a suitcase.
But wait, didn't they establish that Ant-Man retains his mass when he shrinks?📺📺📺
If that is the case, shouldn't that lab still weigh as much as a full-sized building?
So how are they casually carrying it around?
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Simon retweeted
A mathematician is giving a lecture and says, "It is obvious that…."
Then he stops, stares at the board, and thinks silently for ten minutes.
Finally he brightens up and says, “Yes! It is obvious.”
Simon retweeted
As the RNLI has cropped up again, here is Bill Bryson’s quote:
“I had never really stopped to consider what an extraordinary thing the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is. Think about it. A troubled ship calls for help, and eight people – teachers, plumbers, the guy who runs the pub – drop everything and put to sea, whatever the weather, asking no questions, imperilling their own lives, to try to help strangers. Is there anything more brave and noble than that?”
I very rarely cry, which is a pity. As an adult I can count on the fingers of one hand the no. of times. I was watching the Netflix documentary on the Costa Concordia. A middle aged member of the crew was walking along a corridor. As the ship was on its side he was walking on doors, one of which swung open. He fell a considerable distance, breaking his leg. He could do nothing but wait & hope.
Two days later rescue divers, still thinking the effort worthwhile, entered the ship at great peril to themselves. Surfacing, they found him.
‘What’s your name?’
‘Mario’
‘I’m Francesco. Don’t worry. You’re safe now’.
He cried telling this story years later. I cried too.
The same way that the 280 parts per million pre industrial CO2 allows all life on earth to exist
A tiny fraction of a huge thing is still very big and can have a very big impact
Will the Green Party explain how mankind’s minuscule net contribution to atmospheric CO2 (less than 1 atom per million per decade) can dramatically change climate? Of course not. Because it’s total baloney
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London has a lower homicide rate than 179 on 200 largest cities in the USA
It ties with Chula Vista California, pop 274,000
The largest US city with a lower homicide rate than London is
Plano Texas pop 291,000
That isn't the argument being discussed.
London having a lower homicide rate than the three US cities with a comparable population doesn't make the original false claim true, and moving the goalposts doesn't make you right.
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Indiana Jones had German troops in Egypt in 1936, while it was under British control
In uniforms which weren't adopted until 1940
And features an aeroplane which never existed
Great film but not in any way historical accurate
Troy was a historic city, that historically fell. You can visit it. UNESCO site.
This is like saying "Indiana Jones' is fiction, so who cares if the Nazis dress in Samurai costumes with laser swords or Egypt is depicted as a mountainous ninja kingdom.
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This is missing the point, AF is simple enough to have a set of instructions for most circumstances. Because it resets every 10 seconds. Imagine a game that didn't reset. Second play, your playbook just squared! Next play cubed. Permutation explosion
That's football and rugby
How thick is the English Premiere League Arsenal's playbook compared to the NFL Seattle Seahawks' playbook?
Soccer teams do at least diagram out ahead of time what to do on corner kicks and free kicks, right?
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Nobody thinks we can influence the climate more than the sun
The sun raises the earth's temperature from 3K to 288K
There's an equilibrium between the energy the earth receives and the amount it radiates into space
Increased CO2 decreases energy radiated increasing temp by 0.5%
De zon: straal 696.340 km, massa 1,989 × 10³⁰ kg, volume van 1,3 miljoen aardes, houdt de aarde in haar baan met 29,8 km/s. Kern: 15 miljoen K, 4,3 miljoen ton/sec omgezet in energie.
Maar jij, klimaatstrijder, gelooft dat je meer invloed hebt op het aardse klimaat dan de zon.
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This is depressing from a "scientist"
1.5C average global temperature rise
Europe 15C above average. Of course other places have lower than average temperatures
You put extra energy into a chaotic system like the atmosphere you get bigger extremes
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Sigh
Obviously not mentioning the snowfall was in the mountains is deliberately misleading
But 1.5C global temperature rise doesn't cause a 15C excess in one location without other locations being cooler than average
Climate change means more extremes in weather
Idaho, Montana & Wyoming in America all face heavy snowfall this weekend. Why doesn’t BBC report this intense winter storm in June? Can’t they explain how it fits the global warming story?
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I will assume this is genuine confusion
The average global temperature rise is 1.5C
If Northern Europe is 15C above average temperature then of course other parts of the world are below average
Climate change drives more extreme variations
Want to manufacture a global climate emergency?
It’s easy: just delete Southern Europe from your dataset.
While the media runs a coordinated meltdown over a standard two-week summer stretch in England, France, and Germany, look at what’s actually happening in Europe's traditionally warmest regions.
Take a look at the real data for Valencia from 2000 to 2026.
The historical average for June sits at 34.3°C (the blue line).
But look at the far right of the chart for this year, 2026.
The temperature has plummeted all the way down to 32.0°C, well below the baseline.
But you won't see this chart on the news.
The strategy relies entirely on rigging the data pool: cheery-pick a tiny geographic window, filter out the cool regions that ruin the narrative, and declare a hot afternoon a global catastrophe.
This is pure geographical narcissism masked as science. Because the major media empires and political institutions happen to sit in London, Paris, and Brussels, they project their local afternoon sweat onto the entire planet.
They’ve rigged a linguistic trap where the narrative can never lose: when Western Europe gets hot, it’s a systemic planetary failure, but when the Mediterranean runs cold, it’s just background noise to be ignored.
Real analysis looks at the whole map.
Propaganda just hunts for whatever local thermometer is high enough to justify the day's headlines.
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So he's suggesting we evacuate children from the cities to the countryside
Shift our industry to producing air conditioners as fast as possible
And introduce a black out after dark
Seems a bit much
‘In 1940 we got through the Battle of Britain, I think we can get through a few days of warm weather.’
Chairman of the Campaign for Real Education Chris McGovern despairs at thousands of schools across the country shutting during the heatwave.
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The US spends $5.3 trillion on healthcare with 1.9 trillion of that govt spending
Scaling to uk population that's
1 trillion and 400 billion
Compared to the 255 billion below. There are many issues with the NHS but it is cheap
Hot take that will get me crucified in the UK 🇬🇧💀:
The NHS costs $255 billion a year. That’s more than the entire national budgets of Egypt, Bangladesh, and Pakistan combined - three countries running health, education, defence, and everything else for 550 million people - and they’re still $40 billion short of matching what Britain spends on “free” GP appointments and hip replacements for 65 million.
It’s not a health service. It’s a bureaucratic Godzilla in a hospital gown, devouring the economy one billion at a time.
The UK can’t tax its way out of this. You can squeeze the rich until they flee (they already are), hike taxes until no one bothers earning (getting there), and the beast will still be hungry next fiscal year, asking for another 5%.
The NHS isn’t free. It’s just invoiced to your grandchildren.
Break it up. Privatise it. Sell it off in pieces over 10 years. Use the proceeds to pay down the debt before it hits 200% of GDP and Britain becomes a museum of its former self.
“But healthcare is a right!” Sure. So is food … and Tesco seems to manage without a £200 billion state bureaucracy and an 18-month waiting list for a sandwich!
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I'll assume this a genuine question
Increasing CO2 decreases the energy radiated by the Earth increasing the energy in the Earth's atmosphere. Temperature is a measure of this.
But increasing energy really means the atmosphere is moving more, and extremes become more likely
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Simon retweeted
Those who follow me are probably aware I’m not a big fan of Tom Bombadil.
I think he stops the story dead in its tracks in the books, is an unwelcome deus ex machina, and Peter Jackson was smart to keep him out of the films.
ALL THAT SAID, this one single post I saw (and show below) has almost made me reverse my stance on Tom.
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A number of responses here are shocked, shocked! that I could say that Alexander was only great at killing, but if you challenge them to say what else he was great at...they mostly sputter.
So was Alexander great at things other than warfare and killing? 1/
