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Listen.

EVERYBODY knows (or should) that you DO. NOT. STOP. in Vidor, Texas. 

It’s best to just run out of gas elsewhere. Whatever you do, black folks, DO NOT STOP IN VIDOR, TEXAS. 

There’s a good chance you’ll get lynched or just come up missing - and I’m not joking.

also do NOT stop in Harrison, Arkansas!!!! (relatively close to OK and MI) a nazi town with a BIG KKK organization.

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Athletes Go for the Gold with NASA Spinoffs

NASA technology tends to find its way into the sporting world more often than you’d expect. Fitness is important to the space program because astronauts must undergo the extreme g-forces of getting into space and endure the long-term effects of weightlessness on the human body. The agency’s engineering expertise also means that items like shoes and swimsuits can be improved with NASA know-how.

As the 2024 Olympics are in full swing in Paris, here are some of the many NASA-derived technologies that have helped competitive athletes train for the games and made sure they’re properly equipped to win.

The LZR Racer reduces skin friction drag by covering more skin than traditional swimsuits. Multiple pieces of the water-resistant and extremely lightweight LZR Pulse fabric connect at ultrasonically welded seams and incorporate extremely low-profile zippers to keep viscous drag to a minimum.

Swimsuits That Don’t Drag

When the swimsuit manufacturer Speedo wanted its LZR Racer suit to have as little drag as possible, the company turned to the experts at Langley Research Center to test its materials and design. The end result was that the new suit reduced drag by 24 percent compared to the prior generation of Speedo racing suit and broke 13 world records in 2008. While the original LZR Racer is no longer used in competition due to the advantage it gave wearers, its legacy lives on in derivatives still produced to this day.

Trilion Quality Systems worked with NASA’s Glenn Research Center to adapt existing stereo photogrammetry software to work with high-speed cameras. Now the company sells the package widely, and it is used to analyze stress and strain in everything from knee implants to running shoes and more.

High-Speed Cameras for High-Speed Shoes

After space shuttle Columbia, investigators needed to see how materials reacted during recreation tests with high-speed cameras, which involved working with industry to create a system that could analyze footage filmed at 30,000 frames per second. Engineers at Adidas used this system to analyze the behavior of Olympic marathoners' feet as they hit the ground and adjusted the design of the company’s high-performance footwear based on these observations.

Martial artist Barry French holds an Impax Body Shield while former European middle-weight kickboxing champion Daryl Tyler delivers an explosive jump side kick; the force of the impact is registered precisely and shown on the display panel of the electronic box French is wearing on his belt.

One-Thousandth-of-an-Inch Punch

In the 1980s, Olympic martial artists needed a way to measure the impact of their strikes to improve training for competition. Impulse Technology reached out to Glenn Research Center to create the Impax sensor, an ultra-thin film sensor which creates a small amount of voltage when struck. The more force applied, the more voltage it generates, enabling a computerized display to show how powerful a punch or kick was.

Astronaut Sunita Williams poses while using the Interim Resistive Exercise Device on the ISS. The cylinders at the base of each side house the SpiraFlex FlexPacks that inventor Paul Francis honed under NASA contracts. They would go on to power the Bowflex Revolution and other commercial exercise equipment.

Weight Training Without the Weight

Astronauts spending long periods of time in space needed a way to maintain muscle mass without the effect of gravity, but lifting free weights doesn’t work when you’re practically weightless. An exercise machine that uses elastic resistance to provide the same benefits as weightlifting went to the space station in the year 2000. That resistance technology was commercialized into the Bowflex Revolution home exercise equipment shortly afterwards.

Want to learn more about technologies made for space and used on Earth? Check out NASA Spinoff to find products and services that wouldn’t exist without space exploration.   

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#hmngh #goes insane

made for the hegemon edelgard zine a while back!

Ten years of "Beautiful Cinnamon Roll Too Good For This World, Too Pure"? Ooh, so close! 💖 Lena "Tracer" Oxton was first revealed on November 7th, 2014!

Jack Morrison when Gabriel Reyes wants to bring an arms smuggler, who has ties to Talon and is responsible for the deaths of dozens of Overwatch agents and Blackwatch agents, in for questioning:

"We can't risk something like this going public." "I can't officially sanction something like this." "I'll leave the final call to you, but ask yourself... in the long run, will this help Overwatch keep the world safe?"

Jack Morrison when his silly little cadet wants to be promoted to active duty and stop Null Sector's uprising despite orders from the prime minister and Director Petras to keep Overwatch out of London:

people who quote lines in the fic comments go to heaven btw. if you care

hi med! idk if you know about her yet, but there's a palestinian woman named Noury over on twitter who's also a jjk fan!! people have rallied around her love for Gojo, and a bunch of artists have drawn Gojo with sunflowers in honour of her.

Noury recently lost an eye and injured her drawing hand severely in an attack on Gaza. She's gotten surgeries for both and is in recovery right now. JJKtwt is currently trying to come together and muster up donations for Gaza, it's an event that includes artists, writers etc. I was wondering if you could share this link to help drum up some fandom support :)

https://x.com/yukitsukumother/status/1750753930060120372?s=20

oh yes i do know noury, ive been following her for months now and her tweets break my heart. I hadn't seen this though!

Please consider participating, i know i have jjk moots : )

Check out the tweet and jjk fans please do spread this around! It would be lovely to see!

WE’RE GONNA CRASH!!!!!

IT'S HERE ! Our very first edition of this brand new MCSM Fanzine is available to download for everyone on the neat little link below !

With a total of 78 pages, this fanzine gathered 37 people from the community for one big edition full of art, writing and love :D

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MCSM Fanzine | Winter 2024 by End3rM0cha

Don't forget to support all the artists/authors who worked on this zine ! They all worked hard and did an amazing job at bringing this project to life.

You can be sure more will be made in the future, to give everyone who didn't make it in a chance . Who knows maybe we can make the next edition an even bigger thing than this one ?

Thank you all for you patiente and trusting me with this project , this is the best way for me to show my appreciation for this community !

Yo sorry I've dead for like ever! I've been doing college things and it's been beating up. Additionally, I graduated college today! 🎉yippee🎉 I got my Bachelor's in English, so it's literally a degree to write💀 I think it's very funny. Expect more content eventually (hopefully on the sooner side)

I've got a "to-do" list of projects

-finish my zine piece (this is due imminently so I need to finish it, don't forget to look out for the zine when it drops😈

And in no particular order:

-finish more of my project sekai au (ironic considered the brain rot has shifted to MC:SM, not that it's obvious)

-chapter four of Descend Into the Dark

-and yet another cameo piece, hopefully featuring more cameos™️

Yippee‼️🎉🎉