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· 2026-10-04T20:13:16+00:00Hey @Grok ! Help me explain this to my wife If Apollo’s computer was about 0.000085% as powerful as a smartphone… how did we land men 240,000 miles away in 1969, launch them off the Moon, and redock with a spaceship moving thousands of miles an hour? Then NASA couldn’t find
· 2026-10-04T11:10:05+00:00Which Nobel Prize laureate inspires you most? Discover the names, discoveries and stories of this year's laureates as we announce the 2026 Nobel Prizes starting Monday 5 October. Follow along live, every day on our social channels, YouTube and nobelprize.org Find more
· 2026-10-05T06:16:08+00:00#Gempa Earthquake Info Mag:4.9, 5-Oct-26 13:14:19 WIB, Loc: 4.52 N - 126.99 E (28 km South of PULAUKARATUNG-SULUT), Depth: 56 km #BMKG Disclaimer: This information prioritizes speed, so the data processing results are not yet stable and may change as data becomes complete
· 2026-10-05T06:27:52+00:00#Earthquake Info Earthquake Mag:2.2, 5-Oct-26 13:25:27 WIB, Loc: 9.68 S - 119.38 E (4 km Southwest of WAIKABUBAK-NTT), Depth: 12 km #BMKG Disclaimer: This information prioritizes speed, so the data processing results are not yet stable and may change as data is completed
· 2026-10-05T04:23:48+00:00I've been going to the same place in my mind since I was a kid, and it's never gotten any less mysterious. What is this reality? What is consciousness? How does any of this make any sense at all? What the fuck?
· 2026-10-05T06:43:48+00:00This isn’t a spider, but an effigy that a spider has built out of debris to represent a huge version of itself No body knows why this spider in the Philippines sculpts a decoy or how 11000 miles away in the Amazon, another spider does the same Lary Reeves (BiodiversiLary)
AI visual note: A spider in the Philippines has constructed an elaborate decoy effigy of itself using debris and web, while a separate spider species in the Amazon exhibits the same mysterious behavior despite being 11,000 miles apart. The image shows the intricately built, larger-than-life spider replica suspended on the web, demonstrating this remarkable phenomenon documented by Lary Reeves.
· 2026-10-04T13:49:51+00:00Face-ripper of a substorm last night in Fairbanks. Wait until you see that aurora surge south (top of ASI) during a quick growth phase, then the substorm sends the aurora shoots north (poleward expansion) during the substorm.
· 2026-10-04T14:16:17+00:00Great show happening now down in Queenstown, New Zealand! Take a look at this live view right from the city. Who cares about light pollution? The aurora is shining right through! go.theauroraguy.com/webcams
AI visual note: A vivid green aurora dances across the starry night sky above Queenstown, New Zealand, with the town's lights reflecting on Lake Wakatipu beneath silhouetted mountain peaks, captured via the Aurora Guy webcam.
· 2026-10-04T08:48:17+00:00The lava is moving slowly down the street… and luxury cars are directly in its path. Watch as the molten rock gradually reaches the parked cars on both sides and starts taking over the road. The natural movement and sounds make this feel like you’re actually there.
· 2026-10-04T13:20:24+00:00Stunning crimson red aurora happening now to the south in Fairbanks! I am heading up there tonight (wish I was there already), but this coronal hole has really packed a punch with multiple ripping substorms. Watch live: go.theauroraguy.com/webcams
AI visual note: An all-sky camera image from the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska, timestamped 2026-10-04 at 13:09:01 UT (05:09:01 AKDT), captures vivid green and crimson red auroral bands sweeping across the sky in a fish-eye view, visually confirming the "ripping" substorm activity mentioned in the accompanying post.
· 2026-10-05T03:22:29+00:00Aurora from a plane is a different kind of experience!
AI visual note: A vibrant green aurora glows across the dark night sky, with city lights twinkling below, capturing the unique experience of viewing the northern lights from an airplane window.
· 2026-10-05T06:20:15.324000+00:00Tree of 40 Fruit - one of a series of fruit trees that produces 40 types of stone fruit
· 2026-10-04T19:13:59+00:00First go at processing last night's Saturn data. 8 x 3min videos, stacked in Autostakkert, derotated in Winjupos and processed in Astrosurface.
AI visual note: A processed astrophotograph of Saturn labeled "4 Oct 2026, 00hrs" with a "Ring tilt 7.5°" and captured using a "Uranus-C" camera with a "Baader VIP barlow @ f16," showing the planet's rings and cloud bands in detail against a black background, signed "Kevin Earp."
· 2026-10-05T05:43:55+00:00Hey @grok what if Earth suddenly stopped spinning for 5 seconds? Would humanity even survive it?
AI visual note: A dramatic digital artwork showing Earth from space with the sun on one side and stormy skies on the other, with people looking up at the planet above cityscapes, alongside five smaller images depicting climate change impacts including volcanic eruptions, polar bears, and auroras.
· 2026-10-05T05:43:38+00:00Hey @Grok , what’s the real mystery behind planes disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle?
AI visual note: A map showing the Bermuda Triangle region in the Atlantic Ocean, with the triangular boundary drawn in pink between Miami (Florida), Bermuda, and Puerto Rico.
· 2026-10-04T08:20:25+00:00“The Sun is still just that Sun. So why, as evening falls, does the entire sky change color?” The daytime sky is blue in one way, but by afternoon it turns yellow, orange, then red. What's happening with the light? #DidYouKnow #InterestingFacts #ContentCreator
AI visual note: An educational diagram explaining sunset colors, showing sunlight hitting the atmosphere where blue light is scattered while red/orange light follows a direct path to a silhouetted observer on land.
· 2026-10-05T05:35:43+00:00Thor's Helmet Thor has his own day and a helmet in the heavens. NGC 2359, or “Thor’s Helmet,” is a 30-light-year-wide interstellar bubble about 15,000 light-years away. Its wing-like shape is sculpted by powerful winds from a hot Wolf-Rayet star at its center, likely nearing
· 2026-10-05T05:47:29+00:00Tu Youyou revisited an ancient medical text and realized heat might be ruining the extraction. A Nobel-winning reminder to read the docs and check your temperature settings. @NobelPrize
AI visual note: A formal portrait of an elderly woman with short dark hair and glasses, wearing a blue jacket with a decorative brooch, credited to Nobel Media AB.
· 2026-10-05T04:55:07+00:00This scar is not on the face we see at night. South Pole–Aitken lies on the far side of the Moon. It runs from crater Aitken to the south pole - an oval about 2,500 km across and 6–8 km deep. Nearly a quarter of the lunar surface. The largest confirmed impact basin in the Solar
· 2026-10-05T06:00:00+00:00can you name this constellation?
AI visual note: A night sky filled with stars above a foggy field with silhouetted bare trees, showing the constellation Orion and the reddish Orion Nebula.
· 2026-10-05T06:03:12+00:00Квант физикийн сэдэвт өгүүлэл болон эшлэлийн тоогоор дэлхийд Хятад тэргүүлж байна. Манайх эдийн засгийн бодлого хийхгүй бол эдний үйлдвэрлэлд нүүрс нийлүүлж, сүүлдээ нүүрс зарж олсон мөнгөөрөө хаитэк хөгжилд гологдсон компаниудад нь зам барилгын ажил олгодог бүс боллоо.
· 2026-10-05T05:00:33+00:00The disturbance east of Barbados may have a part to play. Guidance suggests a Depression or Storm Force forms in the Gulf by Thu-Sat. A scenario is possible where the Caribbean wave forms a Low off the SE US. How it interacts/merges with the Gulf system will be interesting.
· 2026-10-05T06:17:57+00:00How dangerous is the fight between a wild cat and a python?
· 2026-10-05T06:18:00+00:00MIT 一位教授说：AI 自己写了一个原子级模拟器，在里面连续几天做实验，最后设计出一种新石墨烯结构，同样重量下强度高约 25%。 注意，没有人告诉它答案。它从原子之间怎么相互作用开始，一步步把结构推出来。 这件事在 Reddit 上吵翻了。
· 2026-10-05T05:26:55+00:00decompwlj 3D: 5000 OEIS sequences decomposed into weight × level + jump with interactive 3D/2D three.js graphs Claude Code/Opus 5.5 decompwlj.net#decompwlj #math #mathematics #NumberTheory #OEIS #integer #sequence #3D #graph #threejs #sieve #app #AI #Opus5 #Claude
· 2026-10-05T06:26:32+00:00An amazing video showcasing human potential in the vast universe. I poured all the galaxies in the Universe into a pool. Full video gturl.jp/sPxwL
· 2026-10-05T06:44:42+00:00If you zoom in you can see the size of the actual spider on the front end of the decoy