№ 34. Realist. 〔 Dreamer. Engineer. Thermo. 〕 NH³ fool. Oil Planet https://xitter.cf/t.co/YzZ2evcwMm Numero treinta y cuatro [email protected]
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La prueba del algodón para saber si alguien sabe realmente cantar, es escucharlo desnudo de efectos, con una guitarra acústica o un piano. Pocos pasan esta prueba hoy.
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ICE has now separated over 145,000 children from their parents. If this fact doesn’t deeply disturb you, your morals are broken and you are certainly no fucking “Christian.”
Ed Sheeran tickets on sale? Looks like I might be booking a concert soon 😆
edsheeran.com/
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SOMEONE BUILT THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE IN YOUR BROWSER.
YOU CAN FLY THROUGH IT RIGHT NOW.
no download. no app. no account.
you open the tab and you are in space.
it's called Galaxium. galaxium.app.
scroll out from Earth. Mars. Jupiter. Saturn with real rings. past Pluto. past Voyager 2, still flying since 1977. into the Milky Way. you hit Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of our galaxy. the light bends around it. real physics.
click any object. it flies you there.
126 points on Hacker News. people are not bookmarking it. they are flying through it.
just a website that lets a normal person leave Earth for a few minutes.
we built the internet and somehow one of the best things on it right now is still:
open tab.
fly into space.
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right next to the Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge
fucking diabolical
BREAKING: SpaceX has just announced a massive $100 BILLION Starship launch site in Louisiana, the largest capital investment project in the state’s history.
The new high-cadence site in Vermilion Parish will:
• Create 3,000+ direct jobs and thousands more indirectly
• Support Starship launches at massive scale
• Include propellant production and power generation
• Have vehicle processing facilities, an airport and deep-water shipping capabilities
SpaceX says the goal is for Starship to eventually launch thousands of times per year, making rocket launches as routine as airplane travel.
Another major step toward scaling Starship and making humanity multiplanetary.
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Kathy George Lassiter captures this morning's latest achievement in flight over where it all began...
How many degrees have we as evolved humans clocked the galactic orbit?
**Roughly half a degree** — specifically about **0.45° to 0.5°**.
Here’s the straightforward calculation:
- One full galactic orbit (galactic year) ≈ **225–250 million years** (a commonly used central value is ~230 million years).
- Anatomically modern *Homo sapiens* appeared roughly **300,000 years ago** (based on the oldest well-dated fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, ~315,000 years old, with the broader emergence of our species around 300 ka).
Fraction of the orbit completed:
300,000 ÷ 230,000,000 ≈ 0.0013
In degrees:
0.0013 × 360° ≈ **0.47°**
Using the edges of the ranges:
- With a 225-million-year orbit → ~0.48°
- With a 250-million-year orbit → ~0.43°
Even if you take a more conservative figure of ~200,000 years for fully modern human anatomy, you still get only about **0.3°**.
### Perspective
In the time modern humans have existed, the solar system has advanced only a tiny fraction of one degree along its path around the galactic center. For comparison, the full width of the Moon in the sky is about 0.5°, so we have moved roughly the angular size of the Moon across the galactic “sky” during our entire species’ history.
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SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell just laid out the official launch roadmap for Starship, and the cadence is about to go vertical
Here's the timeline:
• Flight 13: Launch is roughly a month away
• Flight 14: The big one. SpaceX intends to attempt a full orbital injection
• Post-Flight 14 Cadence: SpaceX plans to transition to an unprecedented launch rate of flying every single month
Shotwell confirmed they expect Starship to be fully operational in orbit by the end of this year. The regulatory approval from the FAA remains the primary bottleneck, but the manufacturing and engineering pipeline is completely locked in
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This woman discovers the ultimate Karen antidote while visiting Texas. Now, she says she never encountered any in the entire state until she got to the leftist conclave of Austin, where she had to endure three separate Karens. What’s her secret?
Fake a French accent and roast her to her face.
‘Are you one of those Karens we’ve seen online? With that haircut? From California?’
Karen shrinks, gets embarrassed, and walks away.
Pro tip: Europeans are ‘more cultured’ so they instantly self-destruct. Austin in shambles 😂🇫🇷
Now, not sure this all went down like she says it did, but who else is trying this next time?
I think I've watched this a dozen times already. Can't wait for Starship Go for launch ✅️
