Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

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https://www.europesays.com/1714834/ A Ukrainian soldier in Kursk with the call sign “Koval” shot and disabled a russian T-90M tank with a rocket launcher, stopping it from harassing him. For his courage and heroism, the soldier was awarded the honorary badge of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Golden Cross. #Ukraine #UkraineWar #UkraineWarVideoReport

While waiting for the bus, I had one earbud in (never two unless I’m in a very safe place) and a man walked up to me, on the side where I had the earbud. He tried to tell me something and I didn’t make it out. He gestured for me to remove my earbud and I almost did and then I remembered

A man I don’t even know doesn’t get to claim my attention like that. I just pointed to it and said “I can’t hear you” and ignored him trying to keep talking to me.

Of course I don’t know if he needed directions or something totally benign but if so he can go into a store and not approach a woman waiting for a bus at 10 pm

Invent Monopoly, do not collect $200...

Lizzie Maggie's "Landlord's Game" and how an anti-capitalist board game invented by a woman became an uber-capitalist game that profited a man: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-landlords-game/

Today the Parker Solar Probe will get 7 times closer to the Sun than any spacecraft ever has, going faster than any spacecraft ever has - 690,000 kilometers per hour. WHEEEEEE!!!!!!!

But the really cool part is what the newspapers are barely talking about: what it's like down there. The Sun doesn't have a surface like the Earth does, since it's all just hot gas. But it has an "Alfvén surface" - and the probe has penetrated that.

What's the Alfvén surface? In simple terms, it's where the solar wind - the hot gas emitted by the Sun - breaks free of the Sun and shoots out into space. But to understand how cool it is, we need to dig a bit deeper.

After all, how can we say where the solar wind "breaks free of the Sun"?

Hot gas shoots up from the Sun, faster and faster due to its pressure, even though it's pulled down by gravity. At some point it goes faster than the speed of sound! This is the Alfvén surface. Above this surface, the solar wind becomes supersonic, so no disturbances in its flow can affect the Sun below.

But it's even cooler than that, because "sound" in the solar wind is very different from sound on Earth. Here we have air. The Sun has ions - atoms of gas so hot that electrons have been ripped off - interacting with powerful magnetic fields. You can visualize these fields as tight rubber bands, with the ions stuck to them. They vibrate back and forth together!

You could call these vibrations "sound", but the technical term is "Alfvén waves". Alfvén was the one who figured out how fast these waves move. Parker studied the surface where the solar wind's speed exceeds the speed of the Alfvén waves.

And now we've gone deep below that surface!

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King of the morons. Blazingly stupid.

Trump actually said, during the press conference - “The United States and Italy are bound together by a shared cultural and political heritage dating back thousands of years, to ancient Rome."

He lacks any factual knowledge of history or America. He absurdly claims we’ve been here for thousands of years and that the USA has had a relationship with ancient Rome. Truly, a disgrace.

Source:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/donald-trump-raises-eyebrows-by-saying-us-has-been-bound-with-italy-since-ancient-rome-a4263566.html

@karlauerbach @shuttersparks There's a point where we can make contact.

@shuttersparks 77th birthday of the transistor?!! Oh boy, let's have a party. We can meet at the junction.