i can't believe 911 had the Perfect opportunity to do a buddie blood transfusion in the middle of disaster and they SQUANDERED it i keep thinking about this it's literally haunting me what a waste of a perfectly good bleeding out eddie
like crucially the hospital was in lockdown so if buck and harry had have found eddie they probably wouldn't have been able to Get to the blood so would have had to improvise and well buck would have probably been like Harry you go ahead to the basement and get the doors open. because Obviously buck is the one staying with eddie. and he manages to slow the bleeding but eddie has lost A Lot of blood. and buck's telling eddie to hold on, you gotta hold on. harry's gonna get the doors open and we're gonna get you a doctor and some blood and you're gonna be Fine! and eddie who is fucking Out of It is like, don't think i'm gonna last that long, bud. and then buck's like, Wait ☝️ i'm a universal doner because of course he is. and calls maddie and josh like is there a Supply Closet i can get to in this lockdown and miraculously there is! of course there is. and so buck has to leave eddie to find whatever you need to do a blood transfusion! with great difficulty btw. like he's holding eddie's face in his bloody hands like, you gotta fight, eddie. you gotta promise me. promise me you'll still be here when i get back. promise me. please please please. Eddie please you gotta promise. i'll be five minutes, just hold on. and eddie's closing his eyes like, okay. and buck's shaking his face like, promise, eddie. you gotta stay awake. and eddie's staring up at him hazy like, yeah. promise. i promise. not going anywhere. got too much to—too much i gotta say. words slurred and a little delirious. and buck presses his forehead to eddie's and says, save it till i get back okay? and eddie's nodding like, okay. and well anyway when buck gets back eddie is drifting out and buck's Panicking like, no no no, eddie. eddie. you promised, you Promised. and eddie comes around like, sorry. kinda hard to—to keep my eyes open. and then focuses on buck's face and smiles and says, easier now. and buck's eyes are Stinging but there's no time for that, and he's like, need you to stay awake, okay? just—just keep looking at me. what was it you wanted to say? and eddie's frowning. says, i can't remember. and buck says, that's okay. and, hey eyes on me, okay? when eddie's eyes start fluttering shut again. and eddie opens them again and looks at him and says, you're so beautiful. and buck laughs wetly and says, think that's the blood loss talking. and eddie's shaking his head, drifting again. and buck's saying, hey, hey, stay awake. you—you gotta stay awake, eddie. need you to talk me through this, yeah? keep looking at me. and eddie's nodding and looking and looking and looking. because wow buck is So beautiful
everyone forgets that buck is a TWO-TIME college dropout. he was kicked out of an unspecified college before he got kicked out of community college for spending his tuition on a motorbike. we stan an undiagnosed king <3
@semperama NAVY SEAL BUCK AUS MY BELOATHED. like buck spent so much of his late teens/early 20s being a chameleon trying on new identities in an effort to square peg himself into a round hole of belonging (as it were) and the seals was the one attempt that he learnt something CRUCIAL from, i.e. that he didn't like it
This image captures the Tarantula Nebula in all of its cosmic glory. Astronomers study nebulae like this one to learn about how elements form and disperse throughout the galaxy, seeding space with planetary building blocks.
Clouds of dust and gas called nebulae speckle our galaxy. Some are ferocious cosmic factories that churn out baby stars by the hundreds of thousands, while others are grave markers of stars long dead. Astronomers study them to learn about how stars and planets form, and how ingredients are recycled in space.
But all that dust is difficult to see through, and nebulae are often so large that today’s most powerful space telescopes can only realistically study tiny patches of them. That’s where our soon-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope comes in.
This video of the Eagle Nebula showcases Roman’s superb resolution and wide field of view. It begins with a Hubble image of the famous Pillars of Creation superimposed on a ground-based image. The view then zooms out to show the full field of view of Roman’s Wide Field Instrument. Roman’s images will have the resolution of Hubble while covering an area about 100 times larger in a single pointing.
Roman will pair a large view of space with infrared heat vision. That combination is a game-changer for studying nebulae.
Here’s how it usually works. Ground-based telescopes take large but somewhat blurry images of a nebula. Then space-based observatories like our Hubble and James Webb space telescopes zoom in on small patches to show us the details of particularly interesting regions. But with Roman, we’ll get the big picture and incredible detail all in one.
That saves astronomers a lot of time, which opens up new avenues of exploration. For example, instead of spending several months stitching together hundreds of individual images of the Orion nebula with Hubble or Webb, Roman could cover it in a matter of hours in just a few snapshots.
Roman’s vast surveys will give us a census of stellar nurseries, where fledgling stars are being born from parent clouds of gas and dust. Studying these nebular nesting grounds will reveal millions of stellar embryos, newborn stars still swaddled in shrouds of dust, toddler stars that throw tantrums and flare unpredictably, and young stars that may have planetary systems forming around them.
A single Roman survey of our Milky Way galaxy will capture thousands of nebulae, unveiling planet formation and the full lifecycle of stars like never before. That includes their spectacular final acts.
This Hubble image showcases the Hourglass nebula, a young planetary nebula located about 8,000 light-years away.
Garden-variety stars like the Sun live fairly placid lives, casually churning out heat and light for billions of years by fusing hydrogen into helium. That nuclear process creates a lot of energy and outward pressure. For a long time, it’s held in check by the inward pull of gravity. But when a star runs out of fuel to fuse, gravity takes over.
Their cores shrink so fast that their outer shells of gas are left behind, which puff out and transform into unique and often psychedelic works of art called planetary nebulae (so-called because they looked similar to planets in early telescopes). Heftier stars meet more dramatic fates, with a runaway reaction that leads to the star’s detonation: a supernova explosion! Both result in nebulae that look like kaleidoscopic dreamscapes.
This image of supernova remnant W49B combines X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory in blue and green, radio data from the NSF’s Very Large Array in pink, and infrared data from Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in yellow.
Star deaths create conditions so extreme that it can form new elements. The iron, oxygen, magnesium, silicon, sulfur, and nickel that together account for around 96% of the Earth's bulk were flung into space by supernova explosions. And some of the elements that make up your DNA, like carbon and nitrogen, were forged by smaller dying stars. You are literally made of stardust!
Roman will help us learn more about how elements were created and distributed throughout the galaxy, all while exploring many other cosmic questions.
This artist’s concept visualizes visible light in blue, showing how its short wavelength means it will easily run into dust particles. Longer wavelength infrared light, visualized in orange, can more easily pass through dust.
Roman’s infrared vision is key, because it will allow astronomers to see through the dust that often blocks telescopes that view other types of light. It’s hard for visible light to penetrate this dusty haze because the particles are the same size or even larger than the light’s wavelength. Since infrared light travels in longer waves, it hardly notices the tiny particles and can pass more easily through dusty regions.
By seeing through dust, we'll get a far better view of stars and other objects that are in nebulae and the cosmic structures that lie behind them. Astronomers will soon be able to chart our galaxy like never before!
An artist’s concept based on the final design of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
We’re only about a month out from launch, and so close to a completely new understanding of the universe and our place within it. Follow along with Roman’s road to launch at nasa.gov/roman, and virtually tour the Roman observatory here.
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Hey. If people aren't aware, Microsoft admitted they know who you and where you are at all times and will give your info to the police.
They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.
Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.
You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.
This article specifically notes:
For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesn’t care which VPN you use, only that it’s still the same Windows installation.
GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.
Other important quotes:
What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows “surveillance software”.
Two things back that up:
There’s no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Apple’s advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Android’s works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.
Then there’s activation. Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, notes that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and gets identifiers back, the same tokens later used for Store access and licensing: “It’s impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].” Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.
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