E' qui davanti a me, in questo momento.>>
Fece un cenno di assenso con il capo, come se la persona dall'altra parte potesse vederlo.
«Okay, glielo passo.>>
Bill tese verso Jim il telefono. Jim si avvicinò alla scrivania e rimase in piedi di fianco al monitor del pc aperto sul sito web del Ranch. Accostò con cautela la cornetta all'orecchio. Anche se completamente diversa, la voce che lo accolse era nella sua mente molto simile a quella di Lincoln Roundtree.
Tutte e due appartenevano al passato.
«Ciao, Jim. Sono Cohen Wells.>>>
<<Buongiorno, Cohen, come va?»>
<<Bene, anche se diventa sempre più una guerra far quadrare la
vita e i bilanci.>>>
<<Ho sentito in giro che adesso è lei il proprietario del Ranch.>>
<<Già, sembrerebbe di sì. Ho dei grossi progetti su quel posto.
Vedremo. Il confine tra un pazzo visionario e un ispirato uomo d'affari è molto sottile e indefinito.>>
Il concetto lasciava adito a pochi dubbi. Ma Jim faceva fatica a vedere il signor Cohen Wells come un pazzo visionario.
«Ho saputo di tuo nonno. Mi dispiace molto. Era un grande uomo.»
Fra cento anni di tutto questo non parlerà più nessuno...
«Sì, era un grande uomo. Uno dei migliori.»>
«Già. Brutta storia. O bella, se consideri che tutti ce ne dobbiamo andare. Almeno non ha sofferto un'agonia in qualche letto d'ospedale con dei tubi attaccati alle braccia.>>
Lasciò un istante a Jim per permettergli di metabolizzare quanto aveva appena affermato.
«Mi ha detto Bill che hai intenzione di noleggiare il nostro elicottero per la mattinata.>>
«Sì. Ho una cosa da fare per mio nonno.>>
Cohen Wells non chiese cosa dovesse ancora fare Jim Mackenzie per il povero Richard Tenachee e Jim non ritenne opportuno
Prima uscita: 11 settembre 2007
Editore: Dalai editore
Pagine: 495
Trump told Italian broadcaster La7 about his conversation with Italy's PM Giorgia Meloni: "She’s probably happy I talked to her. I didn’t have to talk to her. She begged me to take a picture with her. She wanted a picture with me so badly. I wouldn’t have taken it, but I felt sorry for her.”
Responding in a video post on Instagram with the caption “Italy and I never beg," Meloni said “some things deserve an immediate response.” “Donald Trump’s declarations are totally invented,” she added. “Frankly, I am stunned. I don’t know why the US president behaves this way towards his allies. It’s not the first time it’s happened, I can only say it’s unfortunate he doesn’t show the same determination towards the west’s enemies.”
This overweight, barely ambulatory 80-year-old mass grave of overcooked hamburgers, mushy-brained, hopelessly confused, infinitely vulgar and crudely misogynistic, seething with malevolence and bitterness and unfocussed anger at the vast waste of his life, dictator-lover despised and laughed at by the majority of Americans and, even more intensely so, most of the rest of the world, still thinks he is some sort of eternally desirable hot commodity, Vampire Lestat from Queens. Such is the bottomless depth of his darkly suffering id, his pathologically narcissistic need for being adored, wanted, feared.... like Stalin, like Mao. Pathetic.
Essere padre è semplice, ma fare il padre significa presenza, pazienza e dedizione sempre!Grazie per esserci sempre papà e per essere quello che sei♥️
La gioia più grande per me è vederti con i nostri bambini🥹 sei un nonno eccezionale, quel nonno presente, pronto in ogni momento a prenderti cura, dare sostegno, giocare..esserci sempre e nulla di questo è scontato…
This artist’s impression pinpoints many cosmic voids –– relatively empty bubbles of space.
The universe is home to trillions of galaxies, each chock full of smaller cosmic objects like stars and planets. Since galaxies gravitate together in a web-like pattern, there are also immense open spaces called cosmic voids in between. In those growing, gloomy places, dark energy dominates.
Galaxies in this animation are structured a bit like a Hoberman sphere (a lattice-like toy ball that expands and collapses), growing farther apart as the universe expands.
Zoomed out maps of the universe show that galaxies often cluster together in bright city-like regions. Each cosmic metropolis is connected to others by interstate highways – vast filaments of dark matter, gas, and dust, along which additional galaxies can be found. This large-scale structure is called the cosmic web.
Way out in the boondocks – far from the galaxies and filaments – are the cosmic voids. They’ve been growing larger for billions of years, emptying out as gravity pulls matter elsewhere.
This animation visualizes the early universe, when the cosmic was full of a hot plasma soup.
Cosmic voids were born when the universe looked extremely different than it does today. Instead of being speckled with stars and galaxies, the cosmos was filled with a sea of plasma (charged particles) that formed a dense, almost uniform fluid.
There were slightly denser kernels of matter, like a single ounce of cinnamon sprinkled into about 13,000 cups of cookie dough! Since the clumps had more mass, their gravity attracted additional material. Those areas grew and grew, drawing more matter together to form stars, galaxies, and galaxy clusters as the universe expanded over billions of years. Meanwhile, the spaces in between became ever emptier.
A simulation of large-scale structure forming under the influence of gravity.
Cosmic voids aren’t completely empty, though. They do have sparse galaxies, though they seem to have delayed development. Since there’s less matter, there’s weaker gravity pulling things together so stars and galaxies form more slowly. And those galaxies are isolated so they’re less likely to interact with others, which fuels growth in denser places like galaxy clusters.
But voids are mostly filled with things we can’t see. They contain a thin mist of dark matter along with a relatively larger amount of WIMPS (weakly interacting massive particles) like ghostly neutrinos than we find elsewhere in the universe. Since there’s not very much stuff in voids to create gravity, a different force reigns supreme: dark energy, the mysterious cosmic pressure that seems to be speeding up the universe’s expansion. Since cosmic voids are influenced primarily by dark energy, they offer clues about its behavior.
Astronomers haven’t thoroughly studied cosmic voids yet, but our upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be wide-eyed enough to reveal those desert patches of space like we’ve never seen them before. Studying them will show how the universe is put together and how dark energy is pushing galaxies apart.
If you could fly through the cosmic web at hyperspeed, you might see a view like this simulated one!
So far, scientists have found around 1,000 cosmic voids. Roman’s 3D surveys should find tens of thousands more, both large and small, scattered throughout earlier cosmic eras than previous large sky surveys could see. That means we’ll be able to watch how the most vacant places get even emptier over billions of years. And astronomers can trace any changes in dark energy’s might by seeing how it stretches voids, where dark energy dominates, across cosmic time.
Follow along with Roman’s journey to launch at nasa.gov/roman.
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Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate
And though I oft have passed them by
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.
Breaking News from the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics: This is Nazgul, he is a 2-year old Czechoslovakian wolfdog who joined the last part of the women's cross country team ski sprint qualifier. He lives nearby with his owner, a relative of an Olympic official. His owner thinks he was upset being left at home and likely escaped to follow them to the event. He didn't bother the athletes or affect their runs. He even crossed the line and triggerred the photo finish camera. He is described as stubborn but very sweet. 13/10 Certified Good Boy and also a bit of a rascal.
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