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Brazil and China are moving forward to deepen their partnership in space-related matters by progressing with the construction of the Joint Radio Astronomy Technology Laboratory. The project involves the participation of a state-owned defense company known as the China Electronics Technology Group Corporation. The two nations are also advancing the construction of South America’s largest radio telescope, known as “BINGO.” But China is not an innocent space explorer, but rather a dangerous adversary seeking to improve military capabilities in the U.S. area of influence.

CARL is a special deep-space research vessel in tribute to the great astronomer Carl Sagan, honoring his lifelong quest for cosmic truth and extraterrestrial intelligence.set in year 3000 AD. 20,000 meters in length and powered by a dark matter engine,Its mission is to traverse cosmic storms, approach neutron stars, and other extreme environments to uncover the fundamental truths of the universe while seeking peaceful contact with advanced civilizations.

Americans have had enough of the bottom 2% of society ruining our lives “I'm gonna be so blunt. Because of the ghetto-ass activities that happened in Newport Beach — we are now going to see next year a more secure minimum confined prison in the area because of these f*cking parasites that should be locked up in a cage — This bottom 2% people of society cause all of our problems. I know you don't want to hear it. I know it might be mean, but they do. And if we just threw them all in jail, put them in mental asylums where they all belong, all of our problems would go away — but tax the rich, the billionaires. No, Elon Musk isn't taking a sh*t outside of a 7-Eleven and stealing sh*t” I agree with every word. Our society and way of life is being ruined by the bottom 2% of society. We don’t have to live like this, these people should not get to destroy our lives and be parasites off the system The bottom 1% are leaching the welfare system causing astronomical taxes, then these same people cause chaos all throughout society

Elon Musk just named it. Starmind. One million AI satellites, each a flying data center wider than a 747, cooled by panels that glow their heat into the void. This is not Starlink. Starlink moves internet. Starmind moves thought. Each satellite, the AI1, carries 150 kilowatts of compute on a 70-meter span of solar cells, runs the model on board, and beams the answer down. No building, no grid, no water. The reason is in SpaceX's own IPO filing. The AI market it values at 26.5 trillion dollars hits a wall of electricity and water that Earth cannot supply at a sane price. Orbit erases both. The sun never sets up there, and a 147-year-old law does the cooling: in a vacuum, heat escapes only as infrared, so a panel facing the 3-kelvin void radiates it straight out, no water touched. Run that panel hotter and it sheds heat 16 times faster for double the temperature. What Earth data centers burn rivers to do, a glowing wing does for nothing. Musk flagged the problem himself, in the same filing. SpaceX cannot get enough chips to build this yet, and the fab meant to fix that, Terafab, ten times the size of Tesla's Austin gigafactory, may fail. The prototypes do not fly until 2027. Astronomers are already in revolt over a million new lights crossing the sky. Days ago, Masayoshi Son, who owns the whole AI stack on the ground, called space data centers pointless. Musk just named his and put a million of them on the drawing board. One man is reading his balance sheet. The other is betting on the laws of physics. The piece works out which one the void rewards.

History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortés William H. Prescott (1843; 1891 David McKay edition), Volume II If Volume I introduced readers to the astonishing world of ancient Mexico, Volume II is where the conquest becomes a full-blown collision of civilizations, religions, and empires. Prescott follows Hernán Cortés and his small Spanish force as they march ever deeper into the Mexican interior, accompanied by thousands of indigenous allies and guided by the indispensable interpreter Doña Marina. Every step takes them closer to the heart of an empire ruled by Montezuma II, a monarch increasingly haunted by omens, prophecies, and uncertainty about the strangers advancing toward his capital. What many people never learn is that Prescott does not describe the Mexica merely as warriors. He presents a civilization with laws, courts, schools, merchants, engineers, astronomers, poets, priests, and one of the most impressive cities ever seen in the Americas. Yet woven through every part of society was a powerful religious system centered on gods such as Huitzilopochtli, Tezcatlipoca, and the mysterious feathered serpent Quetzalcoatl. Prescott describes vast temple complexes, an organized priesthood, sacred calendars, fasting, rituals, and ceremonies that governed daily life. The most shocking event of the volume is the infamous Cholula massacre. According to the accounts Prescott follows, Cortés became convinced that a conspiracy had been laid against his army. At a signal, Spanish troops and their Tlaxcalan allies fell upon the city. Panic erupted. Nobles, warriors, and civilians were cut down as buildings burned and the streets filled with the dead. Prescott treats the episode as one of the darkest and most controversial moments of the conquest, a bloodbath whose memory would echo throughout Mexico. The march then continues into the mountains. The Spaniards climb toward the great volcanoes overlooking the Valley of Mexico, enduring cold, altitude, and dangerous terrain before reaching one of the most celebrated moments in conquest literature. Below them lay a breathtaking landscape of lakes, cultivated fields, towns, floating gardens, and, in the distance, the gleaming island city of Tenochtitlan. Nothing prepares them for the capital itself. Crossing the great causeways over the lake, they enter a city that left even hardened conquistadors astonished. Prescott describes broad avenues, canals crowded with traffic, markets overflowing with goods, palaces, gardens, temples, and a population numbering in the hundreds of thousands. At the center of it all stood Montezuma II. Prescott portrays him not as a fool, but as an intelligent and experienced ruler trapped between political reality and spiritual fear. Reports of strange omens, prophecies, and traditions concerning the possible return of Quetzalcoatl weighed heavily on his mind. Whether those traditions truly influenced his decisions remains debated, but Prescott believed they were a crucial part of the emperor’s hesitation. One of the most fascinating aspects of Volume II is that both sides believed they were acting within a divine drama. The Spaniards saw themselves as soldiers of Christianity carrying the Cross into a pagan empire. The Mexica interpreted events through their own sacred traditions, priests, prophecies, and gods. Neither side fully understood the other, yet both believed history and heaven were on their side. This is a clash between two sophisticated worlds, each possessing remarkable achievements, deep religious convictions, extraordinary courage, and terrifying capacities for violence. Volume II is the calm before the storm the tense, unforgettable march from Cholula to Tenochtitlan, where wonder, fear, prophecy, diplomacy, faith, and bloodshed converge before the empire’s fate is decided.

The Beijing Ancient Observatory is one of the world's oldest surviving astronomical sites — perched on the old city wall, instruments still in place. Take Line 2 to Jianguomen Station, Exit C, then 7 minutes on foot.

$1 in his fund in 1988 turned into ~$14M. 66% a year for 30 years. Zero losing years Jim Simons didn't hire bankers. He hired physicists, astronomers and mathematicians - "you can teach a physicist finance, but you can't teach a finance person physics." Renaissance ran on the patterns the rest of Wall Street called noise. 45-min conversation, free, interviewed by the man who runs the world's largest sovereign wealth fund.