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Feet dangling over Earth at 28000 km/hr. Don’t look down! (Kidding - definitely look down, because Earth is stunningly beautiful).
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RIP Sir Patrick Stewart ❤️
ALT Fanart drawing of Captain Picard and Gandalf playing a game of 3D chess. Written above are the words, "Engage with a friend today. You never know how time will pass." In honor of Sir Patrick Stewart (RIP ❤️) and his public friendship with Sir Ian McKellen.
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A squirrel farting in the bath is the start to the weekend you didn't know you needed.
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ESCAPADE is an epic interplanetary mission that may inform future spaceflight to the Red Planet.
Our team has been dedicated to making the science mission a success for more than four years.
Our twin spacecraft – Blue & Gold – are about to fire their engines to execute a trans-Mars Injection maneuver to propel themselves to Mars.
Read more about our commitment and contribution to this science mission for @NASA & @ucbssl here: rocketlabcorp.com/missions/e…
Want to make interplanetary history with us? Our Space Systems team is hiring. See all open positions here: rocketlabcorp.com/careers/
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END OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE? DEMS COULD ACT AFTER STATE LEGISLATIVE GAINS
Democrats’ new trifectas in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin, and Nevada could let them push the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact past the 270-electoral-vote threshold needed to take effect.
The compact currently covers 222 electoral votes. Adding the five states’ 61 votes would bring it to 283. Once active, participating states would award their electors to the national popular-vote winner rather than the candidate who won their state.
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✅ Neutron’s Stage 1 Forward Dome has been built and cured.
The dome has come off the AFP machine as planned and completed its heat and pressure processing cycle to cure the carbon composite material.
Next step: analysis and material tests to confirm quality and strength, before it moves to the next phase of Stage 1 tank assembly.
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See you soon, Mars.
Our twin spacecraft – Blue & Gold – are about to execute a trans-Mars Injection maneuver to propel themselves to Mars.
Since launch 12 months ago, the spacecraft we designed and built for @NASA and @ucbssl for the @escapade_mars mission, have been in space making small course corrections.
Now that Earth and Mars are aligned, each spacecraft will ignite their engines for about 9 minutes each, to begin their journey to the Red Planet to study its atmosphere.
Blue’s engine burn takes place: Saturday 7th November
Gold’s engine burn takes place: Monday 9th November
Learn more about this epic scientific mission here: rocketlabcorp.com/missions/e…
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Electron's 100th mission. It's almost time.
"The Mountain God Rises" will carry a QPS-SAR satellite for @QPS_Inc to a 575km LEO from Launch Complex 1 no earlier than Saturday Nov 14.
Launch window opens:
🚀6:30pm NZDT
🚀05:30 UTC
🚀2:30pm JST
🚀12:30am Eastern
🚀9:30pm Pacific (Nov 13)
I hear maga zombies saying America elected a bunch of communists on Tuesday. The vast majority of Americans don't want communism, including Democrats. The only way Dems won that big is by building a coalition that crosses party or partisan lines. Communists don't win in America.
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At #Xplor2026, one of Québec’s leading industry events organized by the @AEMQ_ , $NMG CEO Eric Desaulniers joined a panel on critical minerals project financing and shared NMG’s experience in reaching FID for the Matawinie Mine, under construction since May 2026.
Over the course of its development, $NOU.TO has built a strong and diversified base of leading strategic partners, investors and customers, including Panasonic Energy, Eni, the Canada Growth Fund and Investissement Québec.
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BREAKING: HOLY SMOKES! Democrats now control enough states to effectively abolish the Electoral College through the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
Republicans did NOT have this on their bingo cards...
Under the Constitution, states control their electoral votes and are allowed to decide how they are allocated during presidential elections. Currently, almost every state gives its votes to whoever wins the state.
In practice, the current system means that a candidate can win the national popular vote, but lose the election because small states like Wyoming exert undue influence on the outcome. That state has 3 electoral votes with a population of just 577,000 people. California has 54 electoral votes and a population of 39.5 million people. So a vote in Wyoming is essentially 3.8 times as valuable as one in California.
Since 1992, Democrats have won the popular vote seven out of nine times.
Under the NPV, states that join agree to give their electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote, not just their own state. So a state could go red on the map, but if the Democrat wins the national vote, they still get that state's votes. And vice versa of course.
The crucial mechanism is that the compact doesn't trigger until the member states have a combined power of at least 270 electoral votes, the number needed to win the White House. So far, 18 states plus D.C. have joined, totaling 222 electoral votes. We only need 48 more.
Now is the chance to pass this measure in every state possible. Democrats won both houses of the legislature in Wisconsin for the first time in 18 years (10 electoral votes). We won the Pennsylvania state Senate for the first time since 1993 (19 votes). We now have a trifecta in Michigan (15 votes). And we won the governor’s race in Nevada (6 votes).
10 + 19 + 15 + 6 = 50.
222 + 50 = 272.
And if we hold our lead in the Arizona Senate, that number could climb as high as 283, more than enough to trigger the compact.
In addition to removing an imbalance in our system that favors Republicans, this novel approach would fundamentally change how candidates run their presidential campaigns. Currently, they are incentivized to ignore most of the country. If you live in a “safe” state, red or blue, your vote for President is basically decided before you cast it. Campaigns spend their time and money in a handful of swing states while the rest of us watch from the sidelines. If the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is adopted, they'll have reason to hit every state because they're aiming to win the largest swath of the country as a whole, not just certain states.
States have until July 20, 2028 to join the compact in time for the next presidential election.
We can fix our democracy. The time is now.
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