Over the past couple years, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has continually smashed its own speed records. And in the next year, it will continue to break more records.

The agency's well-fortified spacecraft is swooping progressively closer to the sun, and during each pass, picks up more speed. In 2018, soon after its launch, the probe became the fastest human-made object ever built, and by 2024 it will reach a whopping 430,000 miles per hour.

At such a speed, one could travel from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., in 20 seconds.

The spacecraft recently reached 394,736 mph. //

Space weather researchers have some weighty questions. They want to know why the solar wind accelerates after it leaves the sun, reaching up to 2 million mph. They want to grasp why the corona (which reaches 2 million degrees Fahrenheit) is so much hotter than the sun's surface (it's 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit). And they want to understand how extreme space weather, caused by different types of solar explosions, can behave and ultimately impact Earth. //

On the outskirts of the corona, the spacecraft is relentlessly exposed to brutal heat and radiation, and in September 2022 it flew through "one of the most powerful coronal mass ejections (CMEs) ever recorded," NASA said. Yet the craft remains in great shape. That's largely thanks to a 4.5-inch-thick carbon heat shield that's pointed at the sun. The shield itself heats up to some 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit, but just a couple of feet behind the shield, the environs are surprisingly pleasant.

"Most of the instruments are working at room temperatures," Raouafi said.

President Joe Biden says 24 million Americans "suffer from food insecurity!"

News anchors were shocked that there is "food insecurity in the richest country in the world!" ABC hosts turned "insecurity" into "hunger."

But in my new video, Rachel Sheffield, who researches welfare policy at the Heritage Foundation, explains, "Food insecurity is not the same thing as hunger. It just means that they had to rely on cheaper foods, store-brand alternatives ... or reduce variety."

Really? The alarm about "food insecurity" is based on that? Well, yes. Even the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in its fine print, admits that "for most food-insecure households, the inadequacies were in the form of reduced quality and variety of food rather than insufficient quantity." //

Expanding welfare seems to be the government's goal. "We've spent more on the War on Poverty than all the military wars combined in the United States without any success," says Sheffield.

Really? More than all our wars combined? Well, yes. We've spent $23 trillion on the War on Poverty. So far.

"Actually," says Sheffield, "it's been a success in one way. It increases dependence on the federal government." That's what bureaucrats consider success.

The handouts are good for the people who dole out the money. They're good for politicians who get to look like "good guys."

But they're bad for poor people.

Before government handouts began, private charities helped people escape poverty. They encouraged people to learn how to take care of themselves. Work gradually lifted people out of poverty.

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Gretchen Carlson @GretchenCarlson
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Ordinary people didn’t have AR-15s before 2004. They’re not some time-honored American tradition, they’re a recent mistake that we could fix and save thousands of lives in the process.
Ben Shapiro @benshapiro
No, I Won’t Give Up My AR-15
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The debil Blue State Deplorable
3 hours ago edited
Also, the FBI reported around 364 deaths, in 2019 from rifles, all rifles not just ARs.
The same report showed 600 deaths from personal weapons (hands, fist, feet, etc.).
1476 deaths from knives and cutting instruments.
The report can be found here.
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8.xls //

Public Citizen Blue State Deplorable
an hour ago
Lets not even try to compare the number of deaths and disabling injuries caused by drunk drivers with the firearms deaths.
I'm sure in the minds of the Bent Left the firearms deaths are Orders Of Magnitude greater, when in fact the opposite is the true picture. //

Robert A Hahn
2 hours ago
She's dumber than she looks. After getting ratioed to Hell and back, as outlined above, she came back with this doozy:

"In 1992, AR-15s composed 21 of every 100 guns made in the US. By 2020 almost 1 in 5 guns made were AR-15s."

Gretchen the Math Whiz. //

cupera1 Raoul Bilbao
4 hours ago
From 2019

• Twenty-eight people are killed every year by lightning.
• Roughly 2,167 Americans die annually from constipation.
• On average, 951 people are killed by their lawnmowers while another 4,193 are killed by farm tractors and other agricultural equipment.
• Murderous toasters kill 45 people per year.
• Eleven teenagers die every day while texting and driving.
• An estimated 40 people die every year while skateboarding.
• Roughly 10,206 are accidentally strangled to death while they sleep, and for those who survive the night, another 10,386 will die every year falling out of bed.
• As per the FBI, rifles of every variation — including but not limited to the scary AR-15 — killed 215 Americans in 2019. But another 1,533 were killed by knives, and 651 people were beaten to death by hands, fists, feet, etc.
• In 2015, 5,051 people choked to death while eating.
• Americans average 62 deaths per year by bees, wasps, and hornets.

Musk explained he was worried that Twitter was having a "corrosive effect on civilization." Part of the problem was where Twitter was located, he said. Right near where the X headquarters is located, "It's a zombie apocalypse," Elon revealed. "It's crazy," he said.

"But you have to ask yourself, what philosophy led to that outcome? That philosophy was being piped to Earth. A philosophy that ordinarily would be quite niche and geographically constrained... so that sort of fall-out area would be limited, um, was fatefully given an information weapon...what is essentially a mind virus to the rest of Earth. And the outcome of that mind virus is very clear if you walk around the streets of downtown San Francisco. It is the end of civilization."

He's taken on the "woke mind" virus in the past, but this explains why he thought Twitter was such a threat because it would propagate this to the whole world. //

Mythinformed @MythinformedMKE
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“Republicans were suppressed at ten times the rate as Democrats.”

Joe Rogan and Elon Musk discuss Twitter 1.0 operating as a far left arm of the government.

3:28 PM · Oct 31, 2023 //

Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11
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MUST WATCH: Elon Musk tells Joe Rogan that George Soros "fundamentally hates humanity" and that he advances agendas that "erode the fabric of civilization."

Musk also points out that Soros' key skill is spotting arbitrage opportunities. He saw that it was a better return on the value for money in investing in the local DA races. He said Soros realized you don't have to change the laws; you just have to change how they are enforced.

4:13 PM · Oct 31, 2023 //

DC_Draino @DC_Draino
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Elon and Joe Rogan both agree that the modern Leftist movement is a “Death Cult”

4:41 PM · Oct 31, 2023

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As the trailer tells it, “Sully” goes beyond the flight 1549 accident itself. This is the proverbial “untold story” of everything that happened afterward, and how Sullenberger, the man, endured it. It explores some of the skepticism and second-guessing that dogged the investigation. Did Sullenberger and Skiles do the right thing by aiming for the Hudson? Is it true they could have, or should have, made a U-turn and glided back to La Guardia? Is it true that one of the plane’s engines was still functioning?

Sure, all of that is interesting stuff. To a point. Forgive me, but of all the harrowing things that have happened to planes, pilots, and their passengers over the years, this is the best the movie-makers could come up with? Why don’t we have a John Testrake movie? Why don’t we have a Bernard Dhellemme movie? Who, you ask? John Testrake was the captain of TWA flight 847. In 1985, he and his passengers were hijacked by Hezbollah militants, forced to fly back and forth between Algeria and Beirut, then held captive for two weeks. Captain Dhellemme, like John Testrake before him, was also the central character of one of the most riveting hijackings of all time.

And others too. Chances are you’ve never heard of them — maybe because their planes didn’t come splashing down alongside the world’s media capital.

I can’t help thinking about Al Haynes, the United Airlines captain who, ably assisted by three other pilots, deftly guided his crippled DC-10 to a crash landing in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1989. A disintegrated engine fan had bled out all three of the plane’s hydraulics systems, resulting in a total loss of flight controls. Using differential engine power to perform turns, all the while battling uncontrollable pitch oscillations, that Haynes and his crew were able to pull off even a semi-survivable landing (112 people were killed; 184 survived) is about as close to a miracle as you can get.

How about Donald Cameron and Claude Ouimet, the pilots of Air Canada flight 797, who managed — barely — to get their burning DC-9 onto the runway in Cincinnati in 1983? It took so much effort to fly the plane that they passed out from exhaustion after touchdown.

Or consider the predicament facing American Eagle captain Barry Gottshall and first officer Wesley Greene three months earlier. Moments after takeoff from Bangor, Maine, their Embraer regional jet suffered a freak system failure resulting in full and irreversible deflection of the plane’s rudder. Struggling to maintain control, they returned to Bangor under deteriorating weather. Visibility had fallen to a mile, and as the 37-seater approached the threshold, Gottshall had to maintain full aileron deflection — that is, the control wheel turned to the stops and held there — to keep from crashing into the woods. Theirs was pure seat-of-the-pants improv. A fully deflected rudder? There are no checklists, and no procedures, for that one.

Me, I’ll take a daylight ditching in the Hudson over any of those three.

For the record, U.S. Airways 1549 was one of a [half-dozen] of intentional “water landings” involving a commercial airliner in the modern era… ...

It’s really not fair that I can give them a pass for using a 747 in the first place, yet be offended by which variant was depicted. Here I am complaining because they used the wrong kind of the wrong plane.

Still though, if you’re going to show a plane at all, at least show one that actually existed at the time. Not bothering to do so is laziness. The choice of going with a 747 instead of a DC-8 can at least be argued on dramatic grounds. Going with a model that hadn’t been invented yet is simply incoherent.

You mean to tell me that with the millions of dollars lavished on the production of a major film, that Affleck and company couldn’t have gotten hold of an actual, chronologically correct 747 (it would have been the -200 variant) for a couple of simple runway scenes? At least a few 747-200s are still flying, and I’m sure the owners (cargo companies mostly) would have been happy to lease one out for a few days. Dozens more are mothballed in the deserts of California and Arizona, within driving distance of Hollywood, any one of which could have been painted up in the appropriate colors.

Speaking of which…

Earlier on, I was impressed that they got the period livery for British Airways exactly right, including the typeface used in airport signage. There’s also a very quick shot of the tail section of an Iran Air 747. Here too, though you don’t see it for more than a second, the livery is correct.

But then, with Swissair, they blow it. The colors shown, with the black and brown striping and the full red tail, weren’t used until 1980. They’ve got the wrong plane and the wrong paint job.

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You only go to war for two reasons. Either you know you're going to win, or you know that you're going to lose if you don't. //

it is very clear that Hamas has won a stunning strategic victory and reset a political environment in which it had been marginalized. This is not without a historical analog. //

The Saudis seem to be looking for an exit from plans to normalize relations with Israel by suddenly demanding a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders. This demand effectively kills the Abraham Accords unless the Saudis eventually walk it back. //

I have no doubt that Israel will root Hamas out of Gaza. But I do have doubts about what it means for Israel.

The Hamas narrative will be that it, alone had the courage to attack Israel when most thought the Palestinian cause was lost. It was the organization that moved Palestinian statehood back to the front burner of international issues. They will claim that they, not Mahmoud Abbas' flaccid Palestinian Authority, have earned the right to govern all Palestinian territories. We know from past experience that the Palestinians will generate a flood of martyrs and heroism from this to inspire and radicalize Palestinians outside Gaza.

The media that shamelessly ran to trumpet a hospital bombing that never happened will package each story of a dead Gazan into a major tragedy while the dead of October 7 and 8 will be shoved aside. //

unless Israel is very careful, it will emerge from this war with the Palestinian Authority run by Hamas-like forces, in a very weak position to resist "land-for-peace" demands from the West, and with the diplomatic relationships in the Arab world made possible by the Abraham Accords in rags.

Sure, internet connectivity aided aid workers. But it also aided Hamas. Most of the press in Gaza seem to have a personal interest in seeing Hamas emerge victorious and armed Hamas terrorists (as an aside, why is it that no one mewling about the Geneva Conventions ever wants to mention that Hamas terrorists are illegal combatants and not covered by the Law of Land Warfare?) use internet and cell connections to plan terrorist attacks, monitor the progress of the IDF, and coordinate combat operations. //

Ukraine Reporter @StateOfUkraine
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An astoundingly simple three-move checkmate of Western civilization:

1. UN & Israel must ensure safety of Gaza civilians.
2. Civilians shield Hamas, hiding in its secure tunnels.
3. Hamas attacks Israel, as Israel must not target Hamas because of civilians
   MEMRI @MEMRIReports
   Hamas Official Mousa Abu Marzouk: The Tunnels in Gaza Were Built to Protect Hamas Fighters, Not Civilians; Protecting Gaza Civilians Is the Responsibility of the U.N. and Israel #Hamas #Gaza
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   4:11 PM · Oct 30, 2023 //

The meddling in Israel's entirely just chastisement of Hamas will result in more Israelis and Gazans dead because imposing limits on violence in warfare does not add to the humanity of essentially inhumane activity. It merely drags it out to ensure more and more people are killed; factually, Sullivan is wrong when he says, "It does not lessen Israel’s responsibility under international humanitarian law to distinguish between terrorists and civilians, and to protect the lives of innocent people." Additional Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions says:

The presence or movements of the civilian population or individual civilians shall not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations, in particular in attempts to shield military objectives from attacks or to shield, favour or impede military operations.

The International Criminal Court statute covers the same ground.

Utilizing the presence of a civilian or other protected person to render certain points, areas or military forces immune from military operations” constitutes a war crime in international armed conflicts. //

The reason for White House meddling is apparent. The Biden administration is heavily infiltrated by Iranian agents who are developing US policy for the Middle East....

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC
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Now more than ever, we must emphasize the importance of separating people from governments.

Antisemitism is disgusting and unacceptable. We have a responsibility to defend our Jewish brothers, sisters, and siblings from hatred. No movement of integrity should tolerate it. Ever.
1:30 PM · Oct 30, 2023 //

Jewish New York politico Dov Hikind, an ex-Democrat Assemblyman who has been a frequent critic of AOC since the start of her time in Congress, was not buying it. At all:

You think this will give you cover for when historians write about the insane period when certain members of Congress spewed the talking points of Hamas?

You don’t get to foment Jew hatred 364 days of the year and condemn it once and then receive absolution for fueling violent antisemitism!

There was also this reminder about how AOC could have voted to help Israeli civilians during another time when it mattered - but didn't:

Joe Concha @JoeConchaTV
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In a related story, AOC was against U.S. funding for the Iron Dome, which has saved countless Israeli lives.

"I have heard from many people my whole life that antisemitism is growing, that the Holocaust — while we say we will never forget — many have forgotten. And the swiftness with which the global population has seized upon the massacre of Jewish civilians living inside of a border — the swiftness with which the world has stepped up to redefine terrorism, to redefine statehood, to redefine the right of a people to exist — nothing has prepared me, or any of us, for this. //

it is clear that there is a strain of antisemitism that is alive and well. //

"This is not acceptable. It's not normal. We should not normalize it. There is no excuse for calling for a genocide of an entire people. Period. Full stop. //

universities that cannot find a way to unanimously, undeniably, irrevocably denounce any organization that celebrates the massacre of Jewish people. Many universities cannot figure out how to unequivocally state that organizations that incite violence and hatred by calling for an end to the Jewish people are not welcome to receive funding from the government of that university. This is astounding. //

I just finished watching Mayim Bialik's recent post about how she sees things, and it took October 7th for her to see things. And...I'm just so...I don't know...I don't understand why it has taken so long for people to see what a lot of us have been screaming for the last four years, especially — and I hate to say it — especially the progressive Jews in America.

"You thought marching with these leftist organizations meant that you were one of them and that they supported you. You failed to read the charter of Black Lives Matter, that had antisemitism written in it from the beginning. You failed to notice the antisemitism at the Women's Marches by Linda Sarsour on stage — one of the people on the board of the Women's March.

"You failed to listen — you failed to see. And what? Now you see? Now you're awake? You're disappointed in the world? I'm disappointed in you. I'm disappointed that it had to take a massacre of the Jewish people for your eyes to be opened. //

Bialik appears to be undergoing a rude (and heartbreaking) awakening. I understand the desire to seek peace and to hope for the best — I share in it, even. Yet Nazarian's response serves as a poignant reminder not to be so quickly dismissive of those who warn of evil's swift approach, notwithstanding those sentiments.

Brytek
2 hours ago
As the heart breaks for the hostages and murdered victims, it hardens towards Hamas. The more they push fear and terrified hostages in our face our hearts break but harden more, hardened to what needs to be done. //

anon-ymous99
37 minutes ago
Strange…I’ve heard not a peep about the Geneva Convention, from the Euro elites and the domestic MSM and intellectual elitists, while they tut-tut about ‘innocent Palestinian civilians’ killed, or injured.
Tell me: How many hostages has the IDF taken?
…really? THAT few?
My. Zero is a pretty small number, isn’t it?

“Just as the US would not agree to a ceasefire after the bombing of Pearl Harbour or after the terrorist attack of 9/11, Israel will not agree to a cessation of hostilities with Hamas after the horrific attacks of 7 October,” he says.

"Calls for a ceasefire are calls for Israel to surrender to Hamas, to surrender to terrorism," he says.

“The Bible says ‘there is a time for peace, and a time for war’,” he continues, “this is a time for a war”.

“A war for our common future. Today, we draw a line between the forces of civilisation and the forces of barbarism.” //

Nobody wants to see civilians on either side of the conflict lose their lives or be otherwise harmed by the fighting. But those calling on Israel to halt its offensive against Hamas appear to live in fairyland, where everything just works out once Israel puts their guns away. The fact of the matter is that Hamas is a vicious terrorist group that has publicly stated that its goal is to eliminate the Jewish presence in Israel, and it is willing to sacrifice civilians in Gaza to do so.

In fact, Ismail Haniyeh, the group’s top dog, recently gave a speech on a Lebanese news outlet in which he declared that Hamas needs “the blood of women, children, and the elderly” in Gaza to inspire its operatives to continue the fight against Israel.

The Spectator Index
@spectatorindex
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BREAKING: Israel's defense minister says Hamas has two options 'surrender unconditionally or die'
1:19 PM · Oct 30, 2023

To put it simply, no matter what one's views on the Palestinian cause are, there is no scenario where Israel can continue to share a border with a terrorist government that has broken ceasefire after ceasefire over the years, with the last one taking the lives of nearly 1,500 people. //

Liza Rosen
@LizaRosen0000
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Hamas leader, Ha-mad Al-Regeb, calls for the genocide of Jews, and prays to Allah to help Muslims behead Jews: "Oh Allah, Enable Us to Get to the Necks of the Jews".

He explains that the conflict is not related to land disputes, but to the sins of Jews… Show more

11:40 AM · Oct 28, 2023 //

poedoldman
3 hours ago
A ceasefire stopped WWI and WWII. It came when the governments that started them surrendered. Surrender or die. Seems the ball is in Hamas' court and I'm pretty sure Israel would rather they opt for the die option. //

ConservativeInMinnesota
3 hours ago edited
Surrender or die are the same conditions we gave the Germans and Japanese during WW2. Israel is acting with the same proportionality that America did. Problem solved. //

TK421 anon-cdoc
4 hours ago edited
"The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war." - Benjamin Netanyahu, in a speech to the Knesset, 2006

Chris Paige
3 hours ago
Here's the problem: if you believe in qualified immunity for cops, you can scarcely argue against immunity for presidents. That is, the logic of qualified immunity is that lower level officials couldn't do their jobs if they could be sued by everyone/anyone for their errors - same w/ president. Basically, any local prosecutor can influence public policy by forcing every president to go through risks/costs of criminal trial whenever that prosecutor deems appropriate - that would force presidents to consider the risk of trial before making a decision. Are they doing what they think is right or are they avoiding trial?

You see the critical point here is that acquittal doesn't solve the problem. Lots of people wouldn't be willing to be branded a criminal & go to criminal trial even if they knew they're going to be acquitted - it's just too much power. Imagine if NY could put SCOTUS on trial for various crimes - who cares about the outcome? It would give NY too much influence over SCOTUS. Same thing here.