In 2000 a Cambridge professor published a paper in Nature about this desk toy. 26 years later physicists are still arguing about how it stops
It's a heavy steel disk on a mirror. As it loses energy, it spins faster and louder, and then it stops dead, all at once. Turn the sound on
The professor was Keith Moffatt. His math said the wobble speeds up toward infinity in a finite amount of time, the kind of infinity physicists usually only talk about inside black holes
Something has to stop it first. Moffatt blamed the thin cushion of air under the disk. Others spun it in a vacuum and blamed friction instead
In March 2026 a team from Harvard posted new measurements and sided with the air, at least for the final moments
The toy was invented in the late 1980s by Joseph Bendik and named after Leonhard Euler, who worked out the math of spinning bodies in the 1700s
A steel disk, a mirror, and 26 years of disagreement over the last second of its spin
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Earthshine.
Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch captured this video of Earth outside the windows of the Orion spacecraft during the second flight day of the mission. Orion was roughly 33,800 miles (54,500 km) away from Earth when @Astro_Christina took this video.
"Cosmos is both a history of the scientific enterprise and an attempt to convey the soaring spiritual high of its central revelation, our oneness with the universe." -Ann Druyan
Interested in UFOs or just pursuing a scientific worldview.. check out Cosmos.
Replying to @ProfCarlSagan
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
(Episode -1 "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean" )
Original Release Date; October 1, 1980
(Video Source; Cosmos Studio @carlsagandotcom )
Sky full of stars.
Following a successful lunar flyby, the Artemis II astronauts captured this breathtaking photo of our galaxy, the Milky Way, on April 7, 2026.

ALT A starfield filled with thousands of stars and shining clouds of dust. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Credit: NASA
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Replying to @AlchemyAmerican
His testimony is way more factual than any journalist or film-maker opinion. Charles is as legit as they get from the 1960s of Dreamland personnel
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The unidentifiable, identified!
Beyond Skinwalker Ranch claimed this wiggling light in the sky was a genuine UFO. But a Metabunk investigation (thanks @flarkey, MonkeeSage, and NorCal Dave) proved it was just a plane
@EverydaySpy, @paulbeban,@BrandonFugal
It sounds like this "playful" ufo, shown in "UFOs: Then and Now", late 90's.
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🚨 NEW: To maximize transparency, the National Archives has released new records related to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). These records come from @ODNIgov, the Office of the @SecDef, @FAANews, and @NRCgov.
Explore the UAP Collection: archives.gov/uap
@DoD_AARO
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UFOs flying at a 45°angle, tilted on their side, making abrupt turns and incredible accelerations
👉youtu.be/RaLHSw_Xp2M
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Watch Firefly land on the Moon! After identifying surface hazards and selecting a safe landing site, #BlueGhost landed directly over the target in Mare Crisium. A historic moment on March 2 we'll never forget. We have Moon dust on our boots! #BGM1
Moon Landing - Firefly Blue Ghost Makes History
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As originally identified by @flarkey, this video (from Chris Bledsoe) of an "orb" passing in front of the Moon is actually the ISS. When recreated in Stellarium with NORAD TLE data, and Bledsoe's location, everything lines up perfectly,












