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Constantly linking everything back to Ukraine and Ukrainians reminds me of a political platform that once rose to prominence in a powerful European state. Fueled by conspiracy theories, it found an easy scapegoat for the country’s setbacks. It did not end well

submitted 28 days ago • 37 comments

Senator Mark Kelly was my Commander on the Space Shuttle Discovery during my trip back to Earth. I know him well - that's him holding my newborn baby. I have tremendous respect for him as a leader and as a patriot. I would never, ever question his dedication to our country.

submitted 28 days ago • 13 comments

BREAKING: French satellite company Eutelsat is replacing Starlink and plans to send approximately 40,000 communication terminals to Ukraine Their stock has rocketed 390% in the 3 days as Tesla, Starlink, SpaceX and X continue their F R E E F A L L

submitted 28 days ago • 160 comments

Meanwhile, far from Earth... The space between stars is full of gas and dust that is normally dark & invisible to us. But a flash of light from a 350-year-old supernova has lit up the interstellar medium -- revealing it in all its strange, swirling glory. 🧪🔭 webbtelescope.org/contents/new...

submitted 65 days ago • 31 comments

Executive orders: The value of pi is immediately reduced to 3 to make math easier. The sun will now revolve around the Earth just because.

submitted 73 days ago • 13 comments

I think it's both funny and sad that in recent years, the Oscars implemented all these "representation and inclusion guidelines", but have no problem nominating a Russian actor who has done ACTUAL pro-Kremlin propaganda. How tone-deaf can the Academy be?

submitted 73 days ago • 19 comments

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll discuss how Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania cut the cord on Russian energy, further reducing their reliance on the Kremlin. At the same time, the Baltics set an example for EU countries like Slovakia and Hungary whose leadership still worships Putin. 1/24

submitted 73 days ago • 14 comments

Tesla launches new Model Y in North America and Europe

submitted 74 days ago • 4 comments

"Interesting." Elon Musk

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Solar overtakes coal in the EU, and gas declines for 5th year running

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

China installed a record capacity of solar and wind in 2024 – in numbers

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Tak gwiazdy przyczyniają się do powstania nowych gwiazd i planet To, co widzicie na zdjęciu nie jest artefaktem, a strukturą tworzoną przez układ podwójny, znajdujący się 5000 lś od Ziemi ©️NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, E. Lieb (University of Denver), R. Lau (NSF NOIRLab), J. Hoffman (University of Denver)

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll discuss the Kremlin’s toolbox at sea. Recently, we have seen several sabotage operations allegedly conducted by Russia & its allies, especially in the Baltic Sea region. Since 2023, there have been several underwater cables cut by ships’ anchors. 1/18

submitted 76 days ago • 11 comments

"Masculine Energy"

submitted 78 days ago • 287 comments

Hyundai launches new Creta Electric SUV in India, starting at just $20,000: Meet the new EV

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

don't worry America. I still have tiktok here in Canada and can assure you, you're not missing anything important.

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

The top electric cars in this winter range test will surprise you

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Here's my plot of the estimated Ship trajectory

submitted 81 days ago • 5 comments

SpaceX executed an amazing launch-tower catch of its Super Heavy booster during today's Starship flight test, but the upper stage broke up during its ascent. That breakup created a glittering hail of debris and led the FAA to divert air traffic... cosmiclog.com/2025/01/16/s...

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

The Starship upper stage on today’s flight appears to have suffered what SpaceX calls a “rapid unscheduled disassembly”: it broke apart more than eight minutes after liftoff, shortly after the booster made a successful return to the launch site. spacenews.com/starship-upp...

submitted 81 days ago • 3 comments

As Biden heads out, $43.7M goes to 25 EV charging accelerator projects

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Tesla boycott is gaining momentum in Germany due to Elon Musk’s meddling in politics

submitted 81 days ago • 6 comments

At long last, Blue Origin's New Glenn made it to orbit -- and on the first try too. We didn't get a booster landing, but that was always icing on the cake www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

What does our galaxy look like from the outside? This is our best answer yet, based on 2 billion stars examined by the amazing Gaia space telescope. 🧪🔭 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

submitted 81 days ago • 3 comments

W Unii Europejskiej transport drogowy jest jedynym ważnym sektorem działalności gospodarczej, w którym emisja CO2 wciąż rośnie od 1990 roku. Niewykluczone jednak, że właśnie jesteśmy świadkami zmiany tego trendu

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Two lunar landers shared a launch to the Moon, with SpaceX serving as the matchmaker. spacenews.com/falcon-9-lau...

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Air pollution and brain damage: what the science says - Epidemiological studies have linked dirty air to dementia and other brain disorders. Now researchers are trying to determine how pollutants do their damage www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

EV growth rose again in 2024, despite media & political lies saying otherwise

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Biden pushes through $635M in EV charger grants before Trump’s return

submitted 84 days ago • 2 comments

Don Pettit is a national treasure. arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

submitted 83 days ago • 5 comments

Polish Presidency in the EU. Brussels.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Toyota the largest auto industry funder of climate deniers in US – report

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Defence spending -% of gdp @economist.com

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

NEW VIDEO!!! [re-uploaded] See what’s new and what’s different about SpaceX’s new #Starship debuting on Flight 7!!! - https://t.co/Af703QmYVp https://t.co/dp4MhLlB13

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Były bankier Morgan Stanley dostrzegł oznaki kryzysu finansowego w Rosji Były bankier Morgan Stanley Craig Kennedy w swoim newsletterze „Navigating Russia” opisał tajny schemat finansowania rosyjskiego sektora obronnego, który – jego zdaniem – już stworzył warunki sprzyjające kryzysowi (1/17)

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

There are a lot of really neat payloads on the next Intuitive Machines lander, including a 'hopper' that will explore a permanently shadowed crater for the first time! arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

submitted 88 days ago • 4 comments

New pics just in from planet Mercury! Yesterday, the BepiColombo probe made an ultra-close flyby & took images with its monitoring cameras (selfie-cams), so you see the spacecraft in the frame. Next year it will enter orbit around Mercury and begin full science. 🧪🔭 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

submitted 88 days ago • 3 comments

A reminder that Los Angeles had its hottest summer in history last year. Southern California has received just 2% of "normal" rainfall during the current "rainy" season. These fires are a direct result of a warming & drying atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels. We are in a climate emergency.

submitted 89 days ago • 184 comments

Ford’s electric Mach-E outsold the gas-powered Mustang for the first time in 2024

submitted 88 days ago • 2 comments

Whoop, there it is! Tesla's first redesign of the Model Y. What are your initial thoughts?

submitted 88 days ago • 36 comments

Tesla’s energy storage business continues to boom

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Newly discovered: A pair of supermassive black holes (40 million times as massive as the Sun) cuddling in a distant galaxy. "Cuddling" in this case means they're about as far apart as Voyager 1 is from Earth...which is really close for such monster objects. 🧪🔭 science.nasa.gov/missions/swi...

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments

Interpreting the star czar and his comments on Artemis and the Moon. arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

submitted 94 days ago • 42 comments

Massive data leak at Volkswagen exposes 800,000 EV drivers

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

Of all the planets, Venus does the best job hiding its secrets. No clear view of the surface. No stripes or storms or spots. Just a thick veil obscuring an enigmatic, Earth-size world right next door. 🧪

submitted 99 days ago • 6 comments

🇺🇸 🚀 Późno, bo późno, ale New Glenn w końcu odpalił silniki! Blue Origin poszło z tą rakietą starą drogą projektową i zapłaciło za to masą czasu. W końcu jednak New Glenn będzie miał okazję pokazać, co potrafi. Debiut powinniśmy zobaczyć na dniach. Ujęcie od Jeffa Bezosa. 1/3

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

Currently reading Cyrano de Bergerac's "States and Empires of the Moon." In it he writes about all the stars as other suns, each with its own planets, scattered through an infinite universe. And this was in 1650, just 4 decades after the invention of the telescope. 🧪🔭

submitted 101 days ago • 40 comments

Electrek’s EV of 2024: The Volvo EX30

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments