One dad was overwhelmed with emotion when his daughter told him she was pregnant, but he had no idea that this occasion was about to become a double pregnancy announcement! Emily Grace Walker shared the sweetest video on social media of her and her sister letting their father in on their good news. His reaction was everything they’d hoped for and more. This man clearly cannot wait to be a grandpa! Emily’s sister was the first to share the news during this double pregnancy announcement. She and her partner surprised the man with a cute teddy bear carrying an important message. Dad burst into tears when he realized what his daughter was trying to tell him! @emilygracewalker6 My sister and i telling dad we are BOTH pregnant ♬ original sound – Emily Grace Walker Next, it was Emily’s turn. She, too, had a present for her father. It was a t-shirt that read, “Best Grandpa Ever!” At first, the man thought this was in reference to the other woman’s news. When Emily revealed that it was actually a double pregnancy announcement, Dad fell back onto the couch and covered his face, completely overwhelmed! While her father was recovering from the (albeit positive) shock, his daughters shared some further details. Their due dates were only three weeks apart, with Emily expecting to give birth in December followed by her sister in January. Dad was so thrilled for both of them, he couldn’t stop crying. What a precious family moment! Commenters absolutely loved the way these two sisters delivered their double pregnancy announcement. They also thought this sweet grandfather-to-be’s reaction was the best! Screengrab from TikTok “Oh my heart,” wrote one user. “Protect him at all costs. He’s going to be such a great grandpa!” A few joked that, with two grandchildren being born around the holidays, Grandpa will probably be spending a lot on gifts during that time of year. “That poor man’s bank account near Christmas from here on out,” one person wrote. All jests aside, it’s wonderful to see a dad get so excited about his new grandchildren! A double pregnancy announcement was definitely the right choice for these sisters. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Dad Is Struck With Joy Finding Out His Daughter Is Expecting… But He Never Expected What Happened Next! appeared first on InspireMore.

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America’s longest-serving active rocket is about to retire – and today, it is flying the last national security mission. The payload is classified. USSF-51 is a United States Space Force mission, and liftoff will occur from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The rocket is owned by United Launch Alliance and this is their 100th national security mission. Of these, 58 flew on an Atlas V.The rocket has been launched 100 times, with the last launch being the much-delayed liftoff of Starliner, which took astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore to the International Space Station. Starliner and its astronauts are currently stuck there after having experienced some problems en route to the space station.        “The Space Force Atlas V team has an amazing record of serving our National Security Space lift needs,” USSF Col. Jim Horne, senior material leader for SSC’s Launch Execution Delta, said in a statement. “We have always worked extremely well with this team, and this mission, our last launch with the Atlas V, is looking great!”Today’s flight will be the 101st Atlas V launch. Liftoff is expected at 6:45 a.m. EDT (10:45 GMT). Today also marks the 273rd flight of Centaur. This is the upper stage of the rocket that has been flying since 1963. Many famous missions traveled on Centaur: Mariner and Viking to Mars; the Pioneer probes and the Voyager spacecraft, too. More recently, InSight and Perseverance traveled on it.There are 15 more commercial and non-defense are planned by the United Launch Alliance for Atlas V after this. The rocket will be replaced by the Vulcan Centaur in the future.

Could we be trapped inside a simulated reality, rather than the physical universe we usually assume? What if there was a way to find out once and for all if we’re living inside a computer? A former NASA physicist named Thomas Campbell has taken it upon himself to do just that. Scientists at the California State Polytechnic University (CalPoly) have gotten started on the first experiment, putting Campbell’s far-fetched hypothesis to the test. And Campbell has set up an entire non-profit called Center for the Unification of Science and Consciousness (CUSAC) to fund these endeavors. The experiments are “expected to provide strong scientific evidence that we live in a computer-simulated virtual reality,” according to a press release by the group. Needless to say, it’s an eyebrow-raising project. As always, extraordinary claims will require extraordinary evidence — but regardless, it’s a fun idea. Campbell’s experiments include a new spin on the double-slit experiment, a physics demonstration designed to show how light and matter can act like both waves and particles. Campbell believes that by removing the observer from these experiments, the actual recorded information never existed in the first place. That’s instead of current quantum physics suggesting the existence of entanglement that links particles across a distance. In simple terms, without a player, the universe around them doesn’t exist, much like a video game — proof, in Campbell’s thinking, that the universe is exclusively “participatory.” Back in 2003, Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom published a paper titled “Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?” Basically, his idea was that if we progress far enough technologically, we’ll probably end up running a simulation of our ancestors. Give those simulated ancestors enough time, and they’ll end up simulating their own ancestors. Eventually, most minds in existence will be inside layers of simulations — meaning that we probably are too. Campbell’s hypothesis takes a different tack than Bostrom’s “ancestor simulation,” arguing that our “consciousness is not a product of the simulation — it is fundamental to reality,” in CUSAC’s press release. Source: futurism.com The post Ex-NASA scientist doing experiment to prove we live in a simulation appeared first on Anomalien.com.

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