“Máax ba’ate’el, jach yáanal.” (No one walks for you, only your steps move you forward.) — Mayan proverb

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  • A surprising discovery from a tiny grain of asteroid Ryugu has rocked scientists’ understanding of how our Solar System evolved. Researchers found djerfisherite—a mineral typically born in scorching, chemically reduced conditions and never before seen in Ryugu-like meteorites—inside a sample returned by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission. Its presence suggests either Ryugu once experienced unexpectedly high temperatures or that exotic materials from other parts of the solar system somehow made their way into its formation. Like discovering a palm tree fossil in Arctic ice, this rare find challenges everything we thought we knew about primitive asteroids and the early mixing of planetary ingredients.
























  • But this was a natural disaster. Nothing could have prevented it (other than people not living in a flood plain–that’s another conversation though). This exact same thing would have happened, at the exact same time even with Harris in office. It’s a rain storm, and a flood valley, which by the way, has been flooding like this for thousands of years. So we can’t even blame this one on global warming.

    Exhaustion or not, implying that 9-year olds deserve to die slowly in a flood in the middle of the night is one of the more hateful things I’ve heard anyone say lately. 9-year olds didn’t vote for any presidents. It’s sick, and I’m glad she faced immediate feedback for it.

    She’ll eventually find a good job again. But those children won’t come back. And their families will forever be feeling this loss.

    Maybe it’s because most of Lemmy doesn’t have children. I do though. Thinking of how scared those children had to be when all of this was happening, makes me sick to my stomach.

    And I don’t get what Lemmy is so “exhausted” about. The average Lemmy commenter makes way more than the average person in the US. You all bitch about rich people, while making 80 to 100K a year. Newsflash: that’s actually rich.