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Will need development of much more powerful engines for such a mission to be viable. #Voyager1 isn't quite a light day away yet, takes 23 hours for a signal from Voyager 1 to reach #Earth, over 20 #lightyears takes 20 years, 40 light years takes 40 years.
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Amazing how long it takes to finalise election results in #USA.
MS NOW: Democrat Mary Peltola's lead in the Alaska Senate race has now increased to 4,250 votes.
She now has 49% of the vote total, leads Sullivan by 1.8% — with 84% of all votes reported.
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#BenjaminNetanyahu is trying to stay in power by muddling through, his existing coalition doesn't have a majority, on top of that it appears that #Shas and the #UnitedTorahParty are defecting to #GadiEisenkot.
🚨 Netanyahu warns of major challenges ahead, calls for national unity
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will continue working to establish a national unity government, arguing that the unity Israelis demonstrated during the war can also overcome political divisions.
“We saw it on the battlefield and in charitable organizations. Religious and secular, left and right, fought side by side,” Netanyahu said.
📸: Moti Castel
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#TheDonald seems to forget that the war with the #JapaneseEmpire carried on until August 1945, #VEDay #VJDay.
Today is Remembrance Day, when we pause to remember the horrific sacrifices of war made on our behalf by the generations that came before. Donald the draft dodger has demanded that we do not use that name. As with so much else, he should be ignored.
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He'll probably be impeached at some point by new #USCongress, but would require 12 #GOP Senators to vote for comviction for anu action against him to be taken.
House GOP leaders successfully killed a push to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — a surprising show of unity from a divided Republican Party after last week's midterm drubbing. cnn.it/3UNato0
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He doesn't say exactly what it was he creared the lowest cost of, and the people buying fuel know what they pay for it and the staristics also show that the cost has been going up, accelerating indeed, during his administration.
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So far as Vietnam goes, that was over 50 years ago now, the people in charge on both sides are all dead, of course if it turned out there was anything out of order about the #medicaldraftdeferrals he got, he might be impeached for that.
Trump deflects from Hegseth by calling "for the people that ran the Vietnam war" to be impeached instead
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They're dead, so whatever anyone thinks of the #VietnamWar, they can't be impeached.
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Before of course he was claiming that #GOP had bad results because he wasn't on the ballot.
Trump questions midterm elections integrity after previously accepting results bbc.in/4iGFRhf
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Might wonder how the #votingmachines could somehow be skewed in favour of #Democrats in so many long term #GOPstrongholds?
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It's still the largest single party and nationally still the only party able to form a government.
"This has been a very catastrophic outcome for the ANC," says party secretary-general Fikile Mbalula.
South Africa's governing party won 30.76% of the vote in local elections, down from 46% in 2021 – its worst result since the end of apartheid. bbc.in/4sWD4ny
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I vaguely remember this.
"The Hulk, but he's Sherlock Holmes and he turns into animals!" That's Manimal, Glen A. Larson's 1983 cop show that sadly only lasted eight episodes. But... people still remember it. That's the power of a hook.
Simon MacCorkindale had moved to the US in 1980 to pursue his acting career, but his cerebral, upper class style wasn't landing him too many parts. But the role of Professor Jonathan Chase seemed perfect for him: the English globetrotting scientist who somehow mastered the 'ancient arts' of species transformation from long hidden knowledge. Like Sherlock Holmes he became a consulting detective, but with the power to become any animal - usually a hawk or panther - to pursue villains.
Melody Anderson was also having problems landing roles after the 1980 movie Flash Gordon. Brooke Mackenzie was a glamorous streetwise cop in Manimal, and Anderson gave it her best shot, but the dialogue was cheesy and the plots rather plodding. But she and MacCorkindale looked good together, the show was unusual and it hit the sweet spot between science fantasy and police procedural so hopes were high.
They shouldn't have been. What's the point of the gimmick? Why is a panther essential for crime fighting? Where's the character arc? The prosthetics took a long time to do, the plots made no sense, the humour was crowbarred in. People stayed for the hook, but it wasn't catching anything. Running it opposite Dallas was disastrous, and CBS paused the show after only five episodes with the other three rushed out a month later.
But... like Street Hawk and Automan fans remembered it. Hooks work. People like futuristic things. TV shows with whizzy graphics and synthesizer soundtracks get attention. I'm not sure it would work better if you brought it back with modern CGI, but imagine a show with Manimal, Street Hawk and Automan all together!
Actually don't imagine it. It would be terrible, Some ideas are best left as fan fiction and bong dreams...
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As #VPOTUS he has the problem that he is associated with #TheDonald, he probably won't get the support of #swingvoters, if he tries to go for the #swingvote then he may not get them and may lose #MAGA.
Republicans’ crushing midterm defeat has raised doubts about JD Vance’s potential 2028 presidential bid.
On election night, a longtime confidant texted Vance suggesting he consider sitting out the race.
Some of his allies now believe no Republican can win the presidency in 2028, while Vance himself remains undecided about running.
Source: WSJ
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Is true that #StephenMiller has been pushing military action on #Iran all along, now #WhiteHouseChiefofStaff and #TheDonald knows that on one hand new #USCongress next year will put restrictions on him, at the same time he may want to replace #PeteHegseth after any such action.
🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage says he expects Donald Trump to dramatically increase military action in Iran
"I can see it. I can feel it. I'm looking at the staff changes that have taken place just in the last 48 hours"
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He'll want to do cabinet changes in time for the current #USSenate to approve them, the new Democrat led Senate will probably insist on some Democrat appointments, quite possibly to defence, or maybe compromise candidates.
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#BenjaminNetanyahu is desperate to hold on to power, I think he would do anything that he thinks could achieve that.
This is truly alarming. Netanyahu was planning to execute a Mossad operation in Iran several days before the Israeli elections, despite the objections of the military.
Thankfully the US got word of it and stopped him.
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A celebration, how could a celebration be punishment, even incarceration, that's not celebration, a celebration is something recognising something good, something that went wwll, what #StephenMiller said, just seems ao warped.
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#StephenMiller has been pushing all of the policies that caused bad results for the #GOP in the #midterms.
BREAKING: Susie Wiles is out as White House chief of staff and will be replaced by Stephen Miller. nbcnews.com/politics/donald-…
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