https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/moon-landing-private-spacecraft-second-time-week-rcna194919 For the second time in less than a week, a privately built U.S. spacecraft will attempt to land on the moon. The robotic lander, dubbed Athena, was developed by the Texas-based company Intuitive Machines. It launched into space on Feb. 26 and has spent the past week journeying to the moon. At roughly the size of a dishwasher, the six-legged craft aims to touch down at a site in the moon’s south polar region, then spend a week looking for the possible presence of water ice below the lunar surface. The landing is scheduled for Thursday at 12:32 p.m. ET. NASA TV will broadcast a live stream of the event beginning at 11:30 a.m. ET. Less than one hour away. https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/intuitive-machines-2-lunar-landing/

Dayum.

https://www.foodandwine.com/bushmills-secrets-of-the-river-bush-46-year-old-irish-whiskey-11691643 Irish whiskey has, for centuries, been duking it out with Scotch whisky for bragging rights as to where the water of life or uisce beatha, as it’s known in Gaelic, was first distilled. Whoever got there first, whiskey has been made in Ireland for a very long time, possibly as far back as the 12th century. Which makes it even more impressive that Bushmills, the world’s oldest licensed whiskey distillery — dating back to 1608 — is issuing Secrets of the River Bush. Aged for 46 years, it’s the longest-aged Irish single malt ever released.

@LuFins-Dad said in Manchin wlll not seek reelection: He was never going to seek re-election against Justice. Manchin is the 2nd favorite West Virginia politician, but Justice is #1, and it’s not close. https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2025/01/10/this-former-billionaire-and-new-us-senator-is-now-broke/ In mid-January, when West Virginia Governor Jim Justice II was sworn into the United States Senate, the former billionaire became one of the nation’s poorest senators. How can that be?After all, for nearly a decade until 2021, Forbes figured Justice to be worth as much as $1.9 billion, the richest man in the Mountain State, thanks to a lifetime amassing a fortune in coal and real estate with gems like the historic 710-room Greenbrier resort in West Virginia’s Allegheny Mountains, with a golf course that has hosted annual LIV and PGA Tour tournaments. But a closer look at Justice’s finances reveals that his empire is severely troubled. The Greenbrier is suffering from years of neglect and may now be worth less than half the $1 billion value Justice long claimed. His coal companies, led by Bluestone Resources, still mine about 500,000 tons per year, but that’s down from 2 million tons a decade ago. They likely generate $150 million in revenue and have an enterprise value under $200 million. Those are substantial assets, but Justice’s liabilities are much greater. According to Forbes estimates, he is in hock to the tune of more than $1 billion in the form of personally guaranteed bank loans, debt, court judgments and environmental liabilities. By Forbes’ reckoning, the new Republican senator has a net worth of less than zero.Justice's attorneys and spokespeople have not responded to Forbes' repeated requests for comment. Justice’s attorneys and spokespeople did not respond to Forbes’ requests for comment.

@LuFins-Dad said in $400,000,000: This is like the Target boycott. It’s not affecting a damn thing. Looks like there is a new Target boycott. Doubt it will do anything, but #shrug 40-day Target boycott begins following company’s DEI diversion Trump’s term has been marked by an effort to end DEI Target in January announced it would scale back efforts Georgia pastor wants consumers to ‘fast’ from retailer this Lent https://www.newsnationnow.com/business/40-day-target-boycott-lent-dei/

Assuming he survives the passing without a perforated bowel.

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It’s all that hot air coming off the Gulf of America…

Pop or metal it still sounds like 1980. I like it better than the original though.

Need to fix it nationally otherwise you wait forever for one side to unilaterally disarm.

Tate is sort of like the flip side of gender ideology. It’s what happens when you reduce a human down to chimpanzee-level logic and social reasoning. I think the interesting part is that we’re struggling with the epistemological basis for understanding ourselves. Anyways… back to Tate

@Mik that’s why you were on both lists…

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No games were changed by the congressman’s press release.

@jon-nyc said in How do you feel about invading the Kingdom of Denmark?: If we attack Denmark they’ll invoke article 5 and then we’ll be forced to go to war with ourselves. ….and not for the first time, I might add.

When she shows up to audit everyone else: [image: 1741185077985-9caf22c7-0a37-47cf-870e-d1b75a77c818-image.png] When she shows up to audit Jon: [image: 1741185100260-2a95eec6-9b53-4e51-9bad-206a33f3a3f6-image.png]

I eat loads of fish so I’ve never even given it thought.

Incredibly well written for a 14 year old girl..

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/science/vesuvius-brain-glass-study/index.html Glass rarely forms naturally from organic materials. However, in 2020, researchers discovered a black, glassy substance inside the skull of a person killed during the eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Now, the scientists say they have worked out the sequence of events that likely killed the victim and led to the formation of the unique and puzzling glass, thought essentially to constitute fossilized brain tissue. and A new analysis of samples of the glass found inside the skull and spinal cord suggests that the person’s body tissue must have been heated to above 510 degrees Celsius (950 degrees Fahrenheit) before cooling rapidly to allow the glass to form in a process known as vitrification. and The young man’s skull and spine likely protected the brain from “complete thermal breakdown,” allowing fragments of the unique organic glass to form.