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Thank you to everyone involved in the successful Artemis II mission!
I very much needed this.
2025 was a terrible year for me, so I'm hoping that 2026 won't let me down.
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I reached that age so long ago that I can't remember when it happened.
Crafton man reaches age where he can routinely point out where things used to be. More at 11.
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This is delusional and you should hold suspect anyone who says otherwise
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Who is solely responsible for the increased inflation over the past several months?
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That’s a strike
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That really takes me back.
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Worth it 🫡
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Go far and wide with @NASARoman! NASA’s next space telescope will be joining Webb in L2, a million miles away to join us and your name can come too!
Get your boarding pass to send your name with Roman as we work to create the most complete picture of the universe yet: my.nasa.gov/specialevents/s/…
ALT A person holds a large, purple "boarding pass" for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in Goddard's large cleanroom wearing a full white cleanroom suit. The boarding pass has the detector logo for Roman, an artist concept image of Roman, as well as a QR code, the telescope, and the NASA logo. "Roman Telescope" is written where the name would go.
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Bro snuck GU under "major post-Einsteinian ideas" like wouldn't notice
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Overnight closures of I-279, HOV lanes scheduled next week for demolition of Jacks Run Bridge ebx.sh/kg22MT
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Science-George retweeted
I was in grad school that fall, and I have a vague memory of surfing the early web and finding a reference to this pizza place where you could order from the web. I think I even visited the site but saw that it wasn’t anywhere near me. I had no idea of its significance then.
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In the summer of 1994, the internet was a quiet place. There were no secure shopping carts, no digital wallets, and no Amazon. Most people viewed the web as a giant digital bulletin board.
But a small group of twenty-somethings working at Pizza Hut headquarters in Wichita, Kansas, wanted to try something crazy.
They built a crude, gray website called "PizzaNet."
To test it, they set up a computer in a local pizza shop. If a customer lived in Wichita, had a rare internet connection, and knew the specific web address, they could type in their name, address, and select a medium pepperoni, mushroom, and extra cheese pizza.
The website didn't even have a way to accept credit cards. The order just popped up on a screen in the kitchen, the cooks baked it, and the delivery driver collected cash at the door.
In late August 1994, a customer actually placed an order. The screen beeped, the pizza was made, and history was quietly altered. It is widely considered the very first commercial purchase ever made on the public web.
Within a year of that single pizza delivery, Amazon and eBay were founded.
Today, global e-commerce is a multi-trillion-dollar industry that delivers everything from groceries to cars directly to your doorstep. But the entire digital economy we rely on today kicked off because someone was sitting at home in Kansas, staring at a computer screen, and really wanting a slice of pizza. 🍕💻
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Cc: @SpockMomResists
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The first participant has been treated in a landmark clinical trial of cellular reprogramming, which aims to rejuvenate aging cells
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It's time to get your boarding pass for @NASA’s next space telescope!
Send your name a million miles away with @NASARoman and be a part of our telescope legacy: go.nasa.gov/43ycyov
ALT A person holds a large, purple "boarding pass" for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in Goddard's large cleanroom wearing a full white cleanroom suit. The boarding pass has the detector logo for Roman, an artist concept image of Roman, as well as a QR code, the telescope, and the NASA logo. "Roman Telescope" is written where the name would go.
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