Huge discovery, totally outdoes JWST’s work this year! ;) http://xkcd.com/2717
Actually cannot believe this. After 13 years, Sony/BMG have decided to take down Rick Astley's "Never gunna give you up" due to a dispute with Youtube over ad royalties.
It's completely blocked globally. Actual end of an era.
This story about a newly-elected Republican house member lying about basically every detail of his background is bonkers. Probably would have been a good idea for the Times to look into this before the election, though? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyregion/george-santos-ny-republicans.html
RT @xkcd@twitter.com
(Thread) In the first What If? book, I answered a question about cooking a steak by dropping it from space. At one point, I commented—jokingly!—that if anyone put a steak in a hypersonic wind tunnel to gather better data, I’d love to see the video.
Well, I have good news.
Just remember when Elon Musk says he is for “free speech”, he means the speech he likes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2022/12/14/twitter-suspends-account-tracking-elon-musks-private-jet/
Some technical problems at Griffith with the high magnification optics but the final few seconds of #Mars' ingress made it into the live stream - thank you so much for this service! Especially since we in Europe had to wait for another 2 1/2 hours for 'our' ingress. ;-)
A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.” - Steven Crane