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LOOK AT THAT VIEW 🤩
Live webcast of Starship's 15th flight test starts now → teapawt.net/i/broadcasts/2brajgZlO…
For me, the best part of a Starship launch is the influx of cool characters who show up for it.
I met an aerospace engineer who drove 18hrs from Huntsville, a farmer who drove in from Missouri, and a bad ass firefighter who flew in from Idaho. All with a common thread.
Many insanely passionate people flood this area and it feels like an exothermic reaction with loads of good energy getting released💥
I never got to see a Shuttle launch, and was not here for the high altitude ship flights…so am beyond excited to see Starship return to the launch site after cruising around the world.
Godspeed Starship!!! 🚀
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Laundering Libel
Excellently written
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“The result is a loop: The narrative enters a legal proceeding; the proceeding generates consequences; and those consequences are then invoked to authenticate the narrative. That is the recursive structure of juridical narrative laundering, and it explains why the process does not require a final judgment.”
I think a lot about how SA fits into this bigger picture, and the Israel-SA-USA trifecta.
The ICJ has not found Israel guilty of genocide. But South Africa’s accusations are already being treated as fact.
That’s juridical narrative laundering: turning unproven allegations into apparent legal truth.
tabletmag.com/sections/israe…
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“The present-day seafloor of Aquaterra, Dobson argues, is the “least-known zone on earth”—less mapped than the floor of the deep ocean (or even the surfaces of Mars, Venus, and the moon).”
This is what I come here for 🙌
Terrific @TheAtlantic piece on archaeologists' and anthropologists' slowly dawning realization that now-submerged areas on the coastal shelf--swathes of land drowned when the glaciers melted--may be where much of our species' early history took place. (Link in reply)
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'What's a Seldon crisis?'
'Galaxy!' Mallow exploded angrily at the anticlimax. 'What the blue blazes did you do when you went to school? What do you mean anyway by a fool question like that?'
The elder man frowned, 'If you'll explain-'
There was a long pause, then, 'I'll explain.' Mallow's eyebrows lowered, and he spoke slowly.
'When the Galactic Empire began to die at the edges, and when the ends of the Galaxy reverted to barbarism and dropped away, Hari Seldon and his band of psychologists planted a colony, the Foundation, out here in the middle of the mess, so that we could incubate art, science, and technology, and form the nucleus of the Second Empire.’
'Oh, yes, yes—'
'I'm not finished,' said the trader, coldly. 'The future course of the Foundation was plotted according to the science of psychohistory, then highly developed, and conditions arranged so as to bring about a series of crises that will force us most rapidly along the route to future Empire. Each crisis, each Seldon crisis, marks an epoch in our history. We're approaching one now - our third.'
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Foundation, Isaac Asimov
Daniel Frohlich retweeted
Can i just say one thing about The United States of America real quick? (We’re on a flight home from two weeks in Asia and the Middle East).
We were driving across the Sri Lankan country side and I saw a guy on a John Deere tractor. I looked it up. John Deere, Largest agricultural equipment manufacturer on Earth. Started in 1837 in Grand Detour, Illinois by a man named John Deere.
I’ll keep going.
If you get on an airplane anywhere on this planet, odds are it’s a Boeing. William Boeing, 1916, Seattle Washington.
Go to any cafe on the globe and you can drink a Coca Cola. Created in Atlanta, Georgia by a man named John pemberton in 1886.
Everyone communicates using Whatsapp. Founded in Mountain View, CA in 2009 by two buddies, Brian Acton and Jan Koum.
Every vehicle is navigating the Globe using Google Maps. Google, started in the garage of Larry Page and Sergey Brin in Menlo Park California. 1996.
Pfizer distributes medicine in every single country on Earth. Charles Pfizer in 1849, Brooklyn, New York.
Amazon products are served in every single country on earth. Also started in his garage by a man name Jeff Bezos in Seattle Washington in 1994.
Half of the world’s population communicates on Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2004.
Our Qatar Airways flight attendant said she can’t wait to get to Dallas to go to Walmart to get vitamins for her family. Sam Walton, 1962, Rogers, Arkansas.
This list could literally go on for days. That should fill every American with tremendous pride for this country, its founders, its people, its opportunities, and its contributions to the planet.
Sure we have our flaws, but I can’t wait to get back to America and not drink sparkling water anymore (whoever invented that needs to be in prison), not have to use Kilometers or Celsius anymore, and sink my teeth into a Chick-fil-A sandwich (Truett Cathy, Hapeville, Georgia 1964)
God Bless America.
Daniel Frohlich retweeted
Many folks have felt this in dreams. Humans replicated it by tenacity and creativity.
Crazy idea. I would love to go visit these museums myself one day, but it’s also probably too much to handle. So…
What if you could sponsor a university student’s internship experience and make it something really meaningful and intellectually stimulating. I mean how much would it cost to get a smart and motivated college student to go visit these museums and see the ancient original artefacts…in real life not like just looking at pictures on a website. Document everything well and publish it on X. Do people already do this? I know of some cool accounts to follow (like the guys scanning Noah’s Ark) but this would be far more meaningful because it would be personal and as close to 100% trustworthy as possible.
I’d do something like this and call it:
First hand knowledge 😊
To qualify as a bona fide researcher, email Dr Ben Henry at papyrologyclassics.ox.ac.uk. Clearly state your specific research purpose, academic background or relevant experience, institutional affiliation (if any), and why the originals are needed beyond the free digital images on the Oxyrhynchus SDS site. Students should include a supervisor letter. Access is by appointment at the curator’s discretion.
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