# Science Social Trends & Public Discussions — 2026-10-05 15:40 UTC > **Category:** Science > **Status:** Trending Up > **Timestamp:** 2026-10-05 15:40 UTC (2026-10-05T15:40:00Z) > **Canonical URL:** https://cryptitalk.com/2026-10-05-15-40/non_crypto/science > **Overview Brief:** https://cryptitalk.com/2026-10-05-15-40/non_crypto.md --- ## 10-Minute Category Volume & Sentiment - **Total Posts:** 19 - **Total Impressions:** 333.5K - **Bullish / Positive:** 8 - **Bearish / Negative:** 1 - **Neutral:** 10 --- ## Engagement Analysis Total Engagement - Comments: 309, Retweets: 439, Likes: 2041, Impressions: 333452 --- ## Cited Discussions & Public Evidence ### Discussion #1 by @TheEconomist > **Author:** [@TheEconomist](https://x.com/TheEconomist) > **Metrics:** 805 likes · 307 retweets · 233 comments · 265.7K views > **Posted:** 2026-10-05T06:40:01+00:00 > **Source Link:** [https://x.com/TheEconomist/status/2106997821589086441](https://x.com/TheEconomist/status/2106997821589086441) > > "It is extraordinary that India, still a relatively poor country, can achieve something as selfless as protecting other creatures. We explain how it became remarkably good at animal conservation" ### Discussion #2 by @nntaleb > **Author:** [@nntaleb](https://x.com/nntaleb) > **Metrics:** 1.1K likes · 120 retweets · 56 comments · 57.7K views > **Posted:** 2026-10-05T14:45:41+00:00 > **Source Link:** [https://x.com/nntaleb/status/2107120045100818935](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/2107120045100818935) > **Visual Context:** A book cover of "The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life" by Avinash K. Dixit and Barry J. Nalebuff, featuring a rock, lined notepad, and scissors—objects that visually illustrate the classic "rock, paper, scissors" game, the quintessential game theory scenario whose limitations the caption critiques. > > "Game theory is a yuuuge scam, a field for bullshitters to write performative papers & cite one another. It doesn't generalize from "small world" models to "large world". @stephen_wolfram showed (#RWRI lecture) that when one uses automata "dominant strategies" s.a. tit-for-tat" ### Discussion #3 by @reddit > **Author:** [@reddit](https://x.com/reddit) > **Metrics:** 52 likes · 0 retweets · 1 comments · 5.2K views > **Posted:** 2026-10-05T15:36:26.246000+00:00 > > "TIL when Spitfire and Hurricane engines kept cutting out in dives during WW2, the fix was a simple washer in the fuel line designed by Beatrice Shilling, an engineer who also raced motorbikes at Brooklands at over 100mph. It became known as "Miss Shilling's orifice"." ### Discussion #4 by @LabPadre > **Author:** [@LabPadre](https://x.com/LabPadre) > **Metrics:** 51 likes · 3 retweets · 1 comments · 1.5K views > **Posted:** 2026-10-05T15:21:34+00:00 > **Source Link:** [https://x.com/LabPadre/status/2107129073101148433](https://x.com/LabPadre/status/2107129073101148433) > **Visual Context:** A rocket ascends dramatically into the sky, leaving a plume of smoke and steam visible through a six-pane window as the sun sets brightly over a sandy landscape. The view captures SpaceX's Flight 14 from a unique window perspective at Starbase, showing the launch's fiery trail against the golden hour sky. > > "We listened to our viewers and stepped up our Starbase Window Experiment for Flight 14. Something different happened. Can you guess how it went? @elonmusk" ### Discussion #5 by @reddit > **Author:** [@reddit](https://x.com/reddit) > **Metrics:** 7 likes · 0 retweets · 1 comments · 700 views > **Posted:** 2026-10-05T15:38:45.153000+00:00 > > "Tanzania's first officially protected wildlife corridor is giving elephants a safer route between their historic habitats, with 529 already recorded using it. 368 landowners gave up land for the 14-km corridor, which is also being restored with 100,000 native trees." ### Discussion #6 by @NeuralSpaceIO > **Author:** [@NeuralSpaceIO](https://x.com/NeuralSpaceIO) > **Metrics:** 4 likes · 1 retweets · 2 comments · 694 views > **Posted:** 2026-10-05T15:00:03+00:00 > **Source Link:** [https://x.com/NeuralSpaceIO/status/2107123658737189028](https://x.com/NeuralSpaceIO/status/2107123658737189028) > > "IN IMAGES || The walkway rests on nothing: it is suspended from the cliff by anchors sealed into the rock. Each cantilever takes up the weight of the deck and transfers it into the massif." ### Discussion #7 by @SpaceTelescope > **Author:** [@SpaceTelescope](https://x.com/SpaceTelescope) > **Metrics:** 9 likes · 3 retweets · 0 comments · 681 views > **Posted:** 2026-10-05T15:17:06+00:00 > **Source Link:** [https://x.com/SpaceTelescope/status/2107127951439384961](https://x.com/SpaceTelescope/status/2107127951439384961) > **Visual Context:** An 'Artist's Concept' illustration depicting a black hole in space with a glowing accretion disk, the starfield, and a cosmic jet or streak of light crossing the scene diagonally. > > "NEW: A surprising chemical clue has broken open a Hubble cold case from 1999. Astronomers now suspect the mystery signatures in the data are from a second-generation planet that formed from gas and dust ejected by a dying star: news.stsci.edu/46WpciV" ### Discussion #8 by @reddit > **Author:** [@reddit](https://x.com/reddit) > **Metrics:** 3 likes · 0 retweets · 0 comments · 300 views > **Posted:** 2026-10-05T15:39:42.218000+00:00 > > "We may have found the first direct evidence of a ninth major planet in the Solar System | "if this pair of faint pinpricks does in fact represent a single, slow-moving object in our Solar System, we may have just got our first observational evidence of Planet 9"" ### Discussion #9 by @DirilisHaberTR > **Author:** [@DirilisHaberTR](https://x.com/DirilisHaberTR) > **Metrics:** 2 likes · 0 retweets · 0 comments · 287 views > **Posted:** 2026-10-05T13:45:06+00:00 > **Source Link:** [https://x.com/DirilisHaberTR/status/2107104798235369578](https://x.com/DirilisHaberTR/status/2107104798235369578) > > "Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan: "Ay Araştırma Programımızın bir parçası olarak, geliştirdiğimiz ay uzay aracının üretimini, montajını ve entegrasyonunu tamamladık. Şimdi sistem düzeyinde çevresel testler gerçekleştiriyoruz."" ### Discussion #10 by @intifaki7206 > **Author:** [@intifaki7206](https://x.com/intifaki7206) > **Metrics:** 3 likes · 1 retweets · 0 comments · 141 views > **Posted:** 2026-10-05T14:09:04+00:00 > **Source Link:** [https://x.com/intifaki7206/status/2107110827467714882](https://x.com/intifaki7206/status/2107110827467714882) > > "Cumhurbaşkanımız Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: "Türk Milleti olarak, Gök Bilimlerinde fevkalade zengin bir birikimi tevarüs ediyoruz." 77. Uluslararası Uzay Kongresi (IAC 2026)" ### Discussion #11 by @eagameover > **Author:** [@eagameover](https://x.com/eagameover) > **Metrics:** 1 likes · 0 retweets · 0 comments · 125 views > **Posted:** 2026-10-05T14:48:45+00:00 > **Source Link:** [https://x.com/eagameover/status/2107120817318269001](https://x.com/eagameover/status/2107120817318269001) > **Visual Context:** An X-ray image of a human heart with the text 'Old hearts become biologically younger when transplanted into younger people'. > > "Scientists just discovered that old hearts become biologically younger inside younger bodies. A fascinating study from Harvard University suggests that the biological age of an organ is not set in stone, but rather a flexible state influenced by its surrounding environment. By" ### Discussion #12 by @Big_Discoveries > **Author:** [@Big_Discoveries](https://x.com/Big_Discoveries) > **Metrics:** 4 likes · 2 retweets · 0 comments · 113 views > **Posted:** 2026-10-05T14:53:21+00:00 > **Source Link:** [https://x.com/Big_Discoveries/status/2107121975273394209](https://x.com/Big_Discoveries/status/2107121975273394209) > > "How big is the Sun compared to Earth? [ thebrainmaze]" ### Discussion #13 by @reddit > **Author:** [@reddit](https://x.com/reddit) > **Metrics:** 1 likes · 0 retweets · 15 comments · 100 views > **Posted:** 2026-10-05T15:40:00.298000+00:00 > > "ELI5: is there more water in ice or liquid Okay imagine i got like 2 litres of water in 2 containers, one of them i freeze into ice and the other is just liquid. Ice expands, idk why or how but it expands So if im thirsty will i get more water in my mouth using ice or liquid" ### Discussion #14 by @Big_Discoveries > **Author:** [@Big_Discoveries](https://x.com/Big_Discoveries) > **Metrics:** 5 likes · 2 retweets · 0 comments · 82 views > **Posted:** 2026-10-05T14:51:55+00:00 > **Source Link:** [https://x.com/Big_Discoveries/status/2107121611392291154](https://x.com/Big_Discoveries/status/2107121611392291154) > > "Earth from Orbit in 8K" ### Discussion #15 by @JayAlammar > **Author:** [@JayAlammar](https://x.com/JayAlammar) > **Metrics:** 0 likes · 0 retweets · 0 comments · 80 views > **Posted:** 2026-10-05T15:42:31+00:00 > **Source Link:** [https://x.com/JayAlammar/status/2107134345739632935](https://x.com/JayAlammar/status/2107134345739632935) > **Visual Context:** A scientific figure displays spectrograms comparing single rumbles versus chorused rumbles across six vocalization context types: Cadenced, Contact, Coo, Greeting, Let's-Go, and Little-Greeting. > > "Fascinating! Elephants talk with deep rumbles, alone or overlapping like a choir, and this research found the sounds carry a rough clue about what's happening (meeting up, staying in touch, deciding to move), whether it's one elephant or many. In a chorus, each elephant uses" ### Discussion #16 by @Aysel1453RTE > **Author:** [@Aysel1453RTE](https://x.com/Aysel1453RTE) > **Metrics:** 1 likes · 0 retweets · 0 comments · 18 views > **Posted:** 2026-10-05T14:47:24+00:00 > **Source Link:** [https://x.com/Aysel1453RTE/status/2107120474882761196](https://x.com/Aysel1453RTE/status/2107120474882761196) > **Visual Context:** A Turkish infographic titled 'IAC 2026 ANTALYA SAHA ISTANBUL' explains the 'MİLLÎ UZAY PROGRAMI NEDİR?' (What is the National Space Program), featuring an astronaut illustration and logos from TUA and the Presidency of Communications. > > "Bugün başlayan IAC 2026, 108 ülkeden binlerce katılımcıyı Antalya’da bir araya getiriyor. Türkiye’nin Millî Uzay Programı kapsamında ortaya koyduğu hedefler, uzay alanındaki çalışmalar ve geleceğin teknolojileri dünyanın önde gelen uzmanları tarafından ele alınacak." ### Discussion #17 by @Aysel1453RTE > **Author:** [@Aysel1453RTE](https://x.com/Aysel1453RTE) > **Metrics:** 1 likes · 0 retweets · 0 comments · 15 views > **Posted:** 2026-10-05T14:52:58+00:00 > **Source Link:** [https://x.com/Aysel1453RTE/status/2107121876514259357](https://x.com/Aysel1453RTE/status/2107121876514259357) > > "Cumhurbaşkanımız Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: "Türkiye, kendi uydusunu tasarlayan, geliştiren, üreten, test eden ve uzayda işleten nadir ülkelerden biridir." 77. Uluslararası Uzay Kongresi (IAC 2026)" ### Discussion #18 by @MadMagicSOL > **Author:** [@MadMagicSOL](https://x.com/MadMagicSOL) > **Metrics:** 0 likes · 0 retweets · 0 comments · 3 views > **Posted:** 2026-10-05T15:39:44+00:00 > **Source Link:** [https://x.com/MadMagicSOL/status/2107133645614133441](https://x.com/MadMagicSOL/status/2107133645614133441) > > "Replaying trajectories doesn't guarantee learning for robots" ### Discussion #19 by @benwehrman > **Author:** [@benwehrman](https://x.com/benwehrman) > **Metrics:** 0 likes · 0 retweets · 0 comments · 0 views > **Posted:** 2026-10-05T15:40:00+00:00 > **Source Link:** [https://x.com/benwehrman/status/2107133712215486674](https://x.com/benwehrman/status/2107133712215486674) > > "The Torus Field, Visualized [IG: soul_on_ice_]"