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"You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here. You're beginning to think that the tube is reality, and that your own lives are unreal. (...) " From the movie NETWORK
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Durch die Nacht mit Alice Rohrwacher und Werner Herzog ?
Have they ever met?
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Ich wollte Sagen des klassischen Altertums auf audible beziehen und war schon in hab acht Stellung (das meiste was ich dort konsumiere ist englischsprachig und mit wenigen Ausnahmen sind die Bücher die nicht von den Autor*innen selbst gelesen werden beinahe nicht aushaltbar für mich beim Hören 😮💨).
Aber...ich sag nur einen Namen: Matthias. Ponnier.
Germany has been a wasteland for entertainment for 90 years but there's one thing in this country that's been A+ : actors who specialize in reading stuff out loud or do voice acting.
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Germany has been a wasteland for entertainment for 90 years but there's one thing in this country that's been A+ : actors who specialize in reading stuff out loud or do voice acting.
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The most interesting content on social media is hands down art that's at least 400 years old, my fave being medieval marginalia.
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If the access to an almost infinite cloud of music is teaching me anything it's this:
Some of the world's most successful performers write the absolute dullest songs in the history of mankind while some dilletants and hobbyists or just straight up small artists are out there producing banger after banger.
I'm so glad we can appreciate it all.
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a little bunny looking at the stars in case you're having a bad day.
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What if I had known that 80% of the time I spend with friends in my thirties IS a Maya Rudolph in AWAY WE GO-level experience???? 🫣
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Gillian Anderson's social media manager: "ooohhh I got a good one" *cashes in on a meme* *giggles*
X-files stan and Twitter inhabitant: "yet another proof of a human rights violation"
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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1
The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.
So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.
So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.
Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.
And the probe is working again.
From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.
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Basically spent the whole last week raging against some systems -_-. Tiresome and it sometimes feels kinda lame tbh.
No wonder the show with these two main characters turned me on:
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We really do need to bring back the word "trolling" and warning ppl not to feed the trolls
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Transforming Fabric into Flesh, Tamara Kostianovsky Fuses Cruelty and Beauty
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Setting Sail to Travel Through Space: 5 Things to Know about our New Mission
Our Advanced Composite Solar Sail System will launch aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from the company’s Launch Complex 1 in Māhia, New Zealand no earlier than April 23, at 6 p.m. EDT. This mission will demonstrate the use of innovative materials and structures to deploy a next-generation solar sail from a CubeSat in low Earth orbit.
Here are five things to know about this upcoming mission:
1. Sailing on Sunshine
Solar sails use the pressure of sunlight for propulsion much like sailboats harness the wind, eliminating the need for rocket fuel after the spacecraft has launched. If all goes according to plan, this technology demonstration will help us test how the solar sail shape and design work in different orbits.
2. Small Package, Big Impact
The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System spacecraft is a CubeSat the size of a microwave, but when the package inside is fully unfurled, it will measure about 860 square feet (80 square meters) which is about the size of six parking spots. Once fully deployed, it will be the biggest, functional solar sail system – capable of controlled propulsion maneuvers – to be tested in space.
3. Second NASA Solar Sail in Space
If successful, the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System will be the second NASA solar sail to deploy in space, and not only will it be much larger, but this system will also test navigation capabilities to change the spacecraft’s orbit. This will help us gather data for future missions with even larger sails.
4. BOOM: Stronger, Lighter Booms
Just like a sailboat mast supports its cloth sails, a solar sail has support beams called booms that provide structure. The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System mission’s primary objective is to deploy a new type of boom. These booms are made from flexible polymer and carbon fiber materials that are stiffer and 75% lighter than previous boom designs. They can also be flattened and rolled like a tape measure. Two booms spanning the diagonal of the square (23 feet or about 7 meters in length) could be rolled up and fit into the palm of your hand!
5. It’s a bird...it’s a plane...it’s our solar sail!
About one to two months after launch, the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System spacecraft will deploy its booms and unfurl its solar sail. Because of its large size and reflective material, the spacecraft may be visible from Earth with the naked eye if the lighting conditions and orientation are just right!
To learn more about this mission that will inform future space travel and expand our understanding of our Sun and solar system, visit https://www.nasa.gov/mission/acs3/.
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