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#TruthBeTold #nasa #asteroid #ass #hemorrhoid #extinction
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NASA’s planetary defense spacecraft mission (DART) has successfully altered the trajectory of the asteroid Dimorphos and they have determined that it will not hit the Earth. The asteroid is about 170 meters in diameter and if it hit Earth it would have caused immediate massive casualties on impact with a crater more than a mile in diameter and likely spewed dust and debris into the atmosphere effecting the climate for years.

The success of the mission means we will not have to face the same fate as the dinosaurs - - at least this time.

Here’s the full briefing:
https://youtu.be/Zhzn0U2m5wQ?t=13

(Public domain image of the Barringer Crater)
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#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)

It should have been called the Godot Constant.

#UVcatastrophe #time #QM

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Happy Mental Health Day!
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"NASA will host a media briefing at 2 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Oct. 11, to discuss the agency’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission and its intentional collision with its target asteroid, Dimorphos."

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-provide-update-on-dart-world-s-first-planetary-defense-test

For the historical record (or for anyone not in on the joke), someone just bombed the Kerch Bridge on Putin's birthday, and the freedom-fighters in Ukraine posted this video of Marilyn Monroe just to rub it in. (The bridge was a pet project of Putin's)

This one is 100% correct. The spacecraft missed Didymos because it was supposed to miss Didymos. The mission was to hit the smaller, companion asteroid in the system, P-Didymos.

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #film #movie #food #revolution #technology #deception #future #medicine #dystopia #flying #motorcycle #twins #johansson #action

Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

The Island (2005)

The beginning of this film kind of reminds me of modern food laboratories or food manufacturers for some reason. It’s very similar to the film “Never Let Me Go” (2010) except this one is much more of a real scifi with lots of high tech, special effects and action.

For 21st-century films, each of these films have a lot of racial bias. I don’t remember seeing any black characters at all in Never Let Me Go. Screenwriters (and novelists who want their work picked up for the screen), know that Hollywood producers are racist and will often choose settings for their stories that are exclusively white, like European historical dramas or, for example, a mid-twentieth century English boarding school. That way when Hollywood gives the green light, the producers know that black people will not be cast for the leads. That’s racist.

The Island was set in the future and could have had black characters in the leads, but they just chose not to. There were a few minor black roles in the film, but they were deemphasized. There was, however, a reference to historical racial oppression at one point in the narrative.

(Fair use image from The Island)

#FTW

Loss of Sensation (1935)

Happy Birthday, Mr. President...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dud_DfNlbWQ

Beans, beans, the wonderful fruit.

The more you eat, the more you
tweet.

#musk
#MastoPrompt
#SmallPoems
#Poetry

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Russa didn't "annex" Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.

Russia *tried to annex* Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.

I feel so special... today the newspaper printed my horoscope. :>

The more self-doubt someone has, the more objective is their view of reality.

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #film #movie #climate #revolution #technology #oil #future #nordestream2 #smokers #ocean #wet #scuba #diving #costner #jetski #action

Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

Waterworld (1995)

Over a quarter of a century ago, this climate-change movie was way ahead of its time. When it was first released, many critics panned this wonderful film simply because the oil industry controlled so much of the economy and the media at the time. If it was released today it’d get glowing reviews.

It was an expensive movie to make because of all the underwater scenes, which required highly specialized cameras and gear to films. The special effects were also top notch. And those elaborate sets must have cost a fortune. Today it would be much easier to produce.

It’s kind of campy and the premise (that the entire Earth is covered with water due to climate change) is complete nonsense, but it’s still fun to watch.

The magazine for the Automobile Club of America (AAA) this month is featuring the Galápagos Islands, for anyone who may want to drive there to observe the islands’ unique wildlife.

https://www.ace.aaa.com/publications/travel/international-destinations/galapagos-island-cruise.html

#TruthBeTold #nasa #asteroid #ass #hemorrhoid
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NASA’s asteroid-hunter spacecraft misses Didymos…

DART, the spacecraft mission designed to test whether we can defend ourselves against asteroids crashing into the Earth, has missed the asteroid Didymos. Didymos is the larger of two asteroids of a binary minor planet system discovered in 1996.

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#bash #coding #programming #linux #sh

What's is the best way to do an infinite loop in BASH?

Here are some ways to do an infinite loop in BASH, using the no-op builtin (:) inside the loop…

while :;do :;done

while [[ hellnotfrozen ]];do :;done

for ((0;;));do :;done

for ((;;));do :;done

until [[ ! hellnotfrozen ]];do :;done

until [ ! hellnotfrozen ];do :;done

The first “while” loop is the most compact in terms of characters to type, and it doesn’t require the shift key like the “for” loops do – to type the “(())”.

The first “until” loop and the last "while" loop use the BASH compound command for conditional expressions and are more verbose, but they're self-commenting and much more readable and comprehensible. The "until" loop is the fastest executing (using my crude benchmark tests).

The second “until” loop uses the builtin BASH “test” command instead of the compound command, but it executes much more slowly than any of the others.

Why should you never, ever shoot a video with your phone in vertical format?

Because people don't look like this: