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Composite image my father took of the August 21, 2017 eclipse.

"Dushyant Chautala Betrayed People": Ex-BSF Soldier Says, Quits His Party

Relativity Space Tests Its Aeon Engine at NASA's Stennis Space Center

I recently finished imaging the Dumbbell nebula. Here is a comparison of the same nebula imaged 1 year ago.

FYI You can monitor what the Deep Space Network is communicating with in real time.

My photo of the Tarantula Nebula - the most active star forming region ever discovered in outer space!

One of my favorite photos I’ve shot of a SpaceX launch

LPT: You’re never too old to have a piggy bank! If at the end of the day you have change in your pocket, toss it in a jar! It’s something that isn’t done as often as you think by people, and it adds up incredibly fast.

Brought to you by the Team Trees Gang

Comcast Slides Reveal It's Lobbying Against Plans to Encrypt Browser Data: Report

Amazon in detailed talks with car manufacturers to sell vehicles online

Gamer buys Fallout 76 add-on domain to criticise Bethesda

Trump administration may blacklist Chinese firms that routinely copy tech

Theory of quantum battery with zero environmental energy loss for long-term energy storage

Under Medicare for All, You Will Never Lose Your Health Insurance Ever Again - Seventy percent of Americans oppose bosses being allowed to change or eliminate an employee’s health insurance. That’s our strongest case for Medicare for All — you’ll never lose your health insurance again.

TIL Hanno of Carthage, the first explorer who wrote about Gorillas describes them as hairy, savage humans. His crew managed to capture 3 females alive but killed them and took their pelts, after they were deemed too dangerous to handle

We hate it bcoz we aint used to it

He must have planned it

LPT: If you’re a pc gamer and you have trouble using alt + tab to get out of full screen games, try using win + D to go straight to desktop.

A neural net solves the three-body problem 100 million times faster

US Navy Using Xbox 360 Controller To Operate New Attack Submarine

Facebook Axed Pro-Vaccine Ads, Let Anti-Vaxxer Conspiracies Slip Through: Legitimate health institutions are getting swept up in Facebook’s algorithmic crackdown against anti-vaccine misinformation.

Plated 5 trees#teamtrees

Kansas City, Kansas: Denny Hamlin does sick burnout

I found this in an attic at work, ball is covered in signatures. I know nothing about baseball. Can anyone tell me if this is legit or not? Also didn’t know what other sub to go to.

RedBull Rampage practice: Tyler McCaul sending arguably the biggest hit in the zone

TIL If college students work while going to college their employers can count up to $5200 of their pay as tuition reimbursement and make that amount tax deductible for the student. Only a few percent of employers utilize this.

She does have a point

Researchers discover a 'cradle of comets' beyond Jupiter

LPT: When using a website's help chat, be aware that the employee can see what you're typing as you type it (even before you hit send).

Feds blow door off safe, issue subpoenas as probe into Giuliani associates escalates

Who Wants To Be A Trillionaire? A look into the future of mining in space | GIANT LEAP Ep. 4

Came to Hyderabad for 5 days to surprise my gf. And she doesn't wanna see me as she is now texting her Ex

I love my dog

Millions of black people affected by racial bias in health-care algorithms

MIT engineers develop a new way to remove carbon dioxide from air

For Some Reason, We Can’t Find a Single Leftist Mark Zuckerberg Invited to His Dinners With Pundits From “Across the Spectrum”

Mark Zuckerberg is struggling to explain why Breitbart belongs on Facebook News

Twitter removes almost 1 million tweets in Kashmir, accused of bowing to Indian censorship

TIL 15 years after having been shot and left for dead during a forced march to a concentration camp, physicist Bruno Touschek initiated and drove the development of AdA -- the world's first antimatter storage ring.

TIL that during the chrysalis faze of metamorphosis, a caterpillar digests itself by releasing enzymes that break down all of its tissues. Specialized groups of cells survive the process and use the protein-rich soup to build the adult body parts of the butterfly.

Uh...Bork?

LPT: if you're buying a car from a dealership, do NOT buy it on your first visit no-matter-what

College football scores from 1918, not much has changed for Ohio State...

The Telescope of the Depths

Twitter removes almost 1 million tweets in Kashmir, accused of bowing to Indian censorship

[Wheezing intensifies]

It’s been a good run

Our love affair with chocolate is much older than we thought. World’s oldest chocolate was made 5300 years ago—in a South American rainforest

TIL that the Republican Party accidentally sent out a fundraiser invitation to Easy-E, and he trolled everyone by donating and attending a luncheon at the White House with George HW Bush.