In email to X staff, Musk says "user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and we're barely breaking even"; sources: banks plan to sell their debt in X (Wall Street Journal)
An amazing thing: most of the starlight you see is less than 4000 years old—just a tiny pocket of our galaxy, which is 100,000 light years across and only one of billions/trillions.
The most distant thing you can see by eye is Andromeda. That light is 2.3 million years old in a universe 600x older🔭
Oh, so photons released by a gigantic gas ball traveled through the vacuum of space for 25 years and just hit the cells of my retina with enough energy to change the conformation of proteins in my eye cells and send a signal to my brain?
sounds fake but okay
October 22, 2024 at 2:15 AM
An amazing thing: most of the starlight you see is less than 4000 years old—just a tiny pocket of our galaxy, which is 100,000 light years across and only one of billions/trillions.
The most distant thing you can see by eye is Andromeda. That light is 2.3 million years old in a universe 600x older🔭