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🚨: You’re 400 million times closer in size to the observable universe than to the Planck length. Let that sink in. [Universal Zoom]
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🌟How a star’s color is determined based on temperature:
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🚨: Zooming into a whole new solar system being born
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🚨: You’re closer in size to the entire observable universe than to the smallest possible scale of reality—the Planck length—by roughly 400 million times. Let that sink in.
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🚨: For the first time in history, women outnumber men in NASA’s newest astronaut class
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🚨: The true color of the Sun shown from space The Sun isn’t orange, it’s white. It appears orange because Earth’s atmosphere scatters light waves.
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🚨UFO FILES: Apollo 12 astronauts reported seeing mysterious “streaks of light” while trying to sleep in deep space. During post-mission medical debriefings, Charles “Pete” Conrad, Richard “Dick” Gordon, and Alan L. Bean all described flashes of light appearing in complete darkness with their eyes closed. NASA later concluded the strange phenomenon was likely caused by cosmic rays passing through their retinas and visual system — meaning the astronauts were literally “seeing” radiation in space. The NASA medical team considered whether similar phenomena reported by Apollo 11 Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin had been attributable to exposure of the retina by cosmic rays. NASA later determined that the phenomena reported by the Apollo 12 flight crew were internal to the astronauts’ vision rather than external light sources.
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#BREAKING 🚨: The Pentagon will release new UFO files tomorrow or early June.
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Who are we?
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#BREAKING 🚨: 4 alien species have been pulled from crashed UFOs, ex-government researcher claims
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🚨: Earth has officially reached half of its total lifespan, and will eventually be consumed by the sun. Earth is 4.5 billion years old, and it’s estimated lifespan is 9-10 billion years.
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Big difference though: You can stand next to one and not die.
🚨: Comparison of the rotation speed of the Pulsar J1748-2446ad with the flapping of a hummingbirds wings. A hummingbird can flap its wings approximately 50-80 times per second. Whilst Pulsar J1748-2446ad, the fastest known pulsar, can rotate 716 times per second.
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The video on the left? A video from the UFO files released today. The painting on the right? The famous 1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg. Is this a stretch or am I connecting some dots here? #ufofiles
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🚨 UFO BOMBSHELL @TimBurchett says... the real “Holy Crap” moment is still coming! and the first drop of UFO files is only a “drop in the bucket.” STAY TUNED!
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PISS PLANET FOUND JWST discovered Epsilon Indi Ab — a Jupiter-sized beast 7.6x Jupiter’s mass with an ammonia-rich atmosphere that literally smells like piss.
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Replying to @forallcurious
“No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."
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The scary part is not that Type I is impossible. It’s that we already live under a star dumping absurd power on us and still organize ourselves like energy scarcity is a law of physics.
“We're currently harnessing less than 1% of the Sun's energy available on Earth. One way to look at civilization is through progress on the Kardashev Scale. A Type I civilization has harnessed all the power available on its planet — and we’re not there yet. We’ve probably used less than 1% of Earth’s total energy potential. A Type II civilization harnesses all the power of its star. The Sun is overwhelmingly the largest source of energy in the solar system. Everything else combined amounts to almost nothing in comparison — roughly a trillionth. So effectively, future energy rounds up to solar. From a Kardashev perspective, nearly 100% of energy use will eventually come from the Sun.” — Future Investment Initiative Conference, October 29, 2024
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The zoo hypothesis is interesting because it assumes restraint, not absence. An advanced civilization might see us the way we would see a violent tribe with nuclear weapons, observable, fascinating, but not yet safe to approach.
The Zoo Theory The Zoo hypothesis suggests the universe feels silent not because it’s empty or dangerous, but because advanced civilizations are intentionally avoiding contact—quietly observing us like animals in a zoo, waiting until we reach a certain level of intelligence or development. Have we already caught their attention with signals like Voyager 1, or are we still too primitive for them to reveal themselves?
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Pillars of Creation are famous columns of gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula where new stars are born—thousands of light-years tall and constantly shaped by radiation from young, hot stars; Image source: NASA. 🌌📸 #space #nasa
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