Pat @Pat@qoto.org

Captain Kirk in space (for real)

Congratulations to Dr. Chris Boshuizen, Glen de Vries, Audrey Powers, and William Shatner for traveling into space on top of the Blue Origins New Shepard rocket. The Texas launch happened on the morning of October 13, 2021 14:49 UTC.

The 90-year-old Shatner, who played Captain James T. Kirk on the original Star Trek series, is the first Star Trek actor to go into space and the oldest astronaut to boldly go beyond the Kármán line (100 km above sea level).

Video: launch and flight
https://youtu.be/uEhdlIor-do?t=8555

Video: Shatner discusses his experience and how thin the atmosphere is
https://youtu.be/uEhdlIor-do?t=9971

#TruthBeTold

The truth is...

Bozo the Clown wasn't a single person, but several people who played the character. They include Michael Zamakhshari, Hank Werneckfarsborn, Roy Higgs, and others.

To differentiate between the various versions of the character, they are simply referred to as the Z Bozo, the W Bozo, the Higgs Bozo, etc.

#TruthBeTold
#clown #qed #qcd #qm #mass #confusion #electrifying #weak #strong #tv
#dumb #pun

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Created with #Mathlab by "Jahobr".

Source code: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_and_white_wiggler.gif#Summary

If the Earth was the size of an apple, the atmosphere would be less than the thickness of the apple's skin.*

The portion of the atmosphere that humans can inhabit and breathe in is only one-fifth the thickness of the apple's skin.

* - where the highest aircraft have flown <40 km (excluding spacecraft, of course)

#Earth #space #air #breathe #aircraft

#USA #masks #mask #vax #COVID19 #respirator #vaccine

I have one question for all of the anti-maskers and antivaxers in the US...

What have you achieved that was worth the lives of 700,000 Americans?

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Photo courtesy Ralf Roletschek (http://www.roletschek.at) per licenses at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:13-11-12-rechtsmedizin-berlin-charite-by-RalfR-20.jpg

#math #statistics #Afghanistan #war #US

Final totals
US military deaths in Afghanistan
by administration:

Bush 642
Obama 1737
Trump 63
Biden 13

source: https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/pages/report_ofs_month.xhtml
(defense.gov)

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The truth is...

New evidence points to the supposition that the CoVID-19 vaccine escaped from the lab.

#vaccine #virus #Wuhan #lab #China #COVID19 #coronavirus #CSPAN #LabSafety

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This mathematical model says that respirators could have stopped COVID-19 in the US...

This study by researchers at Harvard Medical School and other institutions says that if just 40% of the population had worn N95 respirators at the beginning of the outbreak in the US, then the epidemic would never have become established.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.210699

#COVID19 #masks #pandemic #vaccine #CDC #USA

This is an elastomeric respirator. These respirators provide the best protection and fit (other than units that provide a separate air supply, like SCBA (self-contained breathing aparatus) or PAPR (powered air-purifying respirator)). Elastomeric respirators are designed for reuse and the filters are replaceable. The most effective filters for these respirators are rated N100 or P100 (or P3 in Europe). The respirators usually have an exhalation valve to make breathing easier. If source control is desired, then the exhalation valve should be covered with separate cloth or filter material. (Being careful not to excessively impede breathing.)

#COVID19 #masks #pandemic #vaccine #CDC #virus

(This pic is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic license.
Attribution: Ryssby at English Wikipedia)

This is a respirator, also known as an N95 mask. These respirators have the filter built into the mask and are usually designed for limited use and disposal, although when supplies are short they can be reused as long as they still provide a good fit and are not clogged so as to make breathing difficult. They sometimes have an exhalation valve that allows exhaled air to escape directly without being filtered so as to make breathing easier. The unit in this picture also provides source control.

#COVID19 #masks #pandemic #vaccine #CDC #virus

Pic: Astronaut Kate Rubins wearing a respirator.

This is a surgical mask. It is designed to provide some level of source control, but is not designed to protect the wearer from airborne pathogens because it does not fit tightly to the face and allows some air to flow around the mask. The mask material is made of non-woven fabric, like melt-blown media, which can often filter smaller particles better than a simple cloth mask.

However, if you want to protect yourself from COVID-19, you must wear a respirator, like an N95 mask (or even better, N100).

#COVID19 #masks #pandemic #vaccine #CDC #virus

Happy Constitution Day!

The American Revolution and the (imperfect) Constitution we created from it was an outlier among political revolutions in history. Although some among the founders were in it for a power grab, most were sincere and we won freedom.

Here's how revolutions typically play out...

Revolutionary leader says, "oppressed, blah, blah, blah, injustice, blah blah, blah, corrupt, blah, blah, incompetent, blah, blah...<insert list of contemporary grievances> ... Therefore, give me absolute power because only I can fit this..."

(Sometimes that last part is disguised as, "power to the people and I'll decide what the people want." )

#USA #Constitution #amendment #potus #congress #scotus

#PoliticalScience - because this is a science instance, right?

Thea Van Harbou was not licensed to practice medicine in Argentina.

#metropolis #medicine #doctor #Dr #health #AI #silentfilm #scifi #sciencefiction

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The strangest video I've seen today (so far)

(sorry, video wasn't public in original toot -- retooting)

#Sabine #Hossenfelder #musk #neural #neuralink #tesla #brain

Play video: https://video.qoto.org/videos/watch/245e53dd-c63e-482f-9d0c-b47f4de88b56

copying this to the local timeline...

A poster was criticizing COVID-19 vax policy and said, "Go back and read the founding documents of this country."

So I did. (nibble)

Yes. There it is. Right there in the old DOI:

“…He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has forced us to submit of the penetration to our flesh, the inoculant necessary to subdue the plague. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation…”

#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun)
#TruthBeTold #history #DeclarationOfIndependence (#DOI) #USA #COVID19 #vax #vaccine

#TruthBeTold #history #ganymede

Seventy-three percent of college sophomores don't know that Galileo was the explorer who discovered the Panama Canal.

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****** BREAKING NEWS ******
--- video below ---
CDC Director confirms that the COVID-19 virus is sentient...

#short #satire #unfair #edit #masks #vaccine

In a recent interview, the CDC director confirmed that the COVID-19 virus is sentient. Maybe this is how it can tell which people are illegal aliens and which are US citizens.

(play video for details)

#CDC #COVID19 #satire #sardonic #unfair #edit #masks #vaccine

Play the video:
https://video.qoto.org/videos/watch/67d450ee-1c57-4791-b0c7-82d64f707ec5

#space #VirginGalactic #spacex #branson #bezos #spaceflight #spacetourism #rocket #blueorigin

Congratulations to the team at Virgin Galactic for a successful fight into (>50 mi) space of the first commercial passenger space vehicle.

(Sirisha Bandla, VP of Government Affairs and Research at Virgin Galactic, looks back at Earth from inside the VSS Eve spacecraft.)

Found this gif of a vector field on wikipedia. It was used to explain the Amperian loop model for a magnetic dipole.

I find it aestetically strangely calming (as well as an effective graphic for explaining the concept.)

The gif was created by user "Geek3". It's at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VFPt_dipole_animation_magnetic.gif

The page also includes the Python source s/he used to create the graphic.

#magnetism #science #art #electricity

#camera #joke #logic #TruthBeTold

The truth is...

When the invention of the camera was first announced in 1839, no newspapers or magazines included any photographs of the device.

(This toot was originally published Jan 6, 2020)
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(public domain image per SVG SILH)