In the 1960s, a direct flight to Neptune would have taken nearly 30 years. That was longer than most spacecraft could survive. Reaching the outer planets seemed almost impossible. But one engineer, working quietly with a pencil, found a way around this problem. Gary Flandro, a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was asked to study how spacecraft might travel to the distant planets despite the limits of rocket technology at the time. Fuel was scarce, and engines were not powerful enough for such long journeys. Flandro turned to a clever idea from physics called a gravity assist, sometimes known as a planetary slingshot. The concept is simple in principle. When a spacecraft passes close to a large planet, the planet’s gravity pulls it in and then flings it forward. In doing so, the spacecraft steals a tiny bit of the planet’s motion around the Sun. The planet slows down by an amount too small to notice, but the spacecraft gains a huge increase in speed without using any fuel. With only paper, pencil, and the limited computers of 1965, Flandro calculated the future positions of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. What he found was remarkable. In the late 1970s, these giant planets would line up in a rare formation. This alignment would allow a single spacecraft to travel from one planet to the next, gaining speed at each step. This opportunity appears only once every 176 years. Flandro showed that a spacecraft could use Jupiter’s gravity to reach Saturn, then use Saturn to reach Uranus, and finally use Uranus to reach Neptune. This chain of boosts would cut the travel time to Neptune from about 30 years down to just 12. This elegant piece of mathematics changed everything. It became the foundation for the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 missions, both launched in 1977. Thanks to this precise planning, the two spacecraft sent back the first close images of the outer planets. They later continued their journey beyond the solar system, becoming the first human-made objects to enter interstellar space. All of it began with a simple insight, worked out by hand, that turned an impossible journey into a reachable one.

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A man working as a welder at SpaceX for $28 an hour has just become a millionaire. Juan Hernandez, who came from Mexico, welded rockets for SpaceX at $28 an hour. SpaceX gave him $10,000 in stock when he went full time in 2015, and he bought more with every paycheck for 10 years. $SPCX is now trading at $167, making his shares worth over $1 million.

I spoke to Politico about the reintroduction of AICOA. If packaged with OAMA and AMERICA, the three bills narrowly target monopolistic practices that are raising costs in e-commerce, app stores, and digital advertising.

Elon Musk didn’t become a trillionaire until age 54 Relax, you still have time

This is not coming. IT'S ALREADY HERE. Apple and the Metropolitan Police have been running this quietly for months. IMEI numbers of stolen phones shared directly with Apple. Apple bricks them remotely. no reactivation without your password. ever. the results in London are real: reactivations of stolen iPhones dropped from 80% to under 20%. Westminster saw a 45.8% drop in phone theft. 14,000 fewer stolen phones in a single year. It works. Nobody is arguing that. The announcement is just Apple making it the global default. everywhere. for everyone. now the question nobody is asking: Apple just confirmed that a system already exists where law enforcement hands them a list of devices and Apple disables them globally. the infrastructure is live. it's proven. it scales. today the list is stolen phones. This is the same Apple that will probably scan UK devices on government request. the same Apple that caved to the Online Safety Act. the same Apple that is being pressured by the same government to break Signal-level encryption. they now have a remote off button for every iPhone on earth. and we know it works because they already used it. the kill switch is real. the first use case is always good.

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Apple says it won't release its new Siri in the EU. The EU's most senior tech official has a message for them: nothing in our rules is blocking you. That's your own decision. "We don't want monopolies in the European markets." @HennaVirkkunen, EVP for Technological Sovereignty, Security, and Democracy at the @EU_Commission. #WebSummitRio

Good news from the US today. AICOA, a bill that cracks down on anticompetitive practices from Big Tech was re-introduced in the Senate with bipartisan support. My quote in the Senate press release explains why @ProtonPrivacy is supporting this legislation: judiciary.senate.gov/press/r…

Freedom is coming to digital platforms worldwide!

Big Tech abuses their market power 2stifle competition restrict consumer choice raise prices online American consumers pay the price Sen Klobuchar&I introd American Innovation& Choice Online Act 2ensure the worlds largest digital platforms play by the same rules as everyone else

iphone mirroring is banned because the EU want apple to let OTHER SERVICES DO THE SAME THING and apple REFUSE

Contrary to the astroturfing campaign Apple is running right now against the EU, the DMA is producing real results for little tech founders while increasing consumer choice. The latest example👇

Congress is stepping up to give United States developers a chance against platform monopolies like Apple! Developers in the EU, Japan, and Brazil are now free to compete with Apple; it’s about time to have these rights here.

Massive anti EU compliance game going on right now, these accounts are boosted

Interest pro-Apple/anti-EU astroturfing operation happening rn