On his primetime Fox News show, Jesse Watters reported that CNN issued a gag order against the Trump campaign before the presidential debate. This is unheard of, but we are in a new era where politicians and media hacks can cancel Americans’ free speech rights. The CNN debate moderators are Trump haters: “CNN just slapped […] The post CNN Put a Gag Order on Trump’s Campaign Pre-Debate appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

It’s no secret that life can get pretty darn tough at times. On our worst days, sometimes all we want is someone to cheer us on. Luckily for Michela, she has two adorable cheerleaders in her corner every day. Well, a lot of days, anyway. That’s because she has two little kids. During a recent run together, this mom was happy to discover that they created a motivational chant together, all to encourage her! Best of all, Michela didn’t realize at first that this was what they were doing. While pushing them in a stroller, she was wearing headphones (at a safe volume so she could still be aware of her surroundings, of course). She could tell her kids were having fun, presumably singing, but it wasn’t until she took off her headphones that she realized exactly what they were saying… find out for yourself in the wholesome video below! @michaela_gmc Sometimes you just need a little motivation while you run… #runner #fyp #workout ♬ original sound – Michaela In unison, these siblings chanted, “Go mama, go! Go mama, go!” in the sweetest voices ever! It’s no wonder this grateful Mom chose to take the time to capture this moment. Who wouldn’t want to have this memory to look back on in the years to come? While on a Run, This Mom’s Kids Surprise Her With an Encouraging Chant “Sometimes you just need a little motivation while you run…” Michaela writes in the caption of her viral post. “I do this too. Anytime I get weak I hear my daughter chant and it refuels me and I just take off,” another parent shares in the comments. “I ran with mine as soon as it was safe to put her in a stroller and we didn’t get rid of it till she was like 6,” another person adds. “Some of my favorite memories.” You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post Mom Takes Off Headphones During Run & Hears What Her Kids Are Chanting… appeared first on InspireMore.

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In June 1944, the German V-2 rocket became the first object to ever reach space. Over the last eight decades, humans have experimented with several different designs to get stuff into orbit and launch ever further into deep space. With revolutionary rockets having been tested recently or imminently taking flight, it is important to understand how they work.The principles of rocketry are actually cardinal ideas in physics, but it is their application that requires more thought. First of all, objects with mass tend to resist being put in motion, but once in motion, they will continue moving as long as there’s no friction or drag. We are talking about inertia here. And then there is Newton’s third law of motion: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Together, they form the theoretical base for any rocket launch.How do rockets get to space?Let’s start looking at the practicalities. To get up and into space you need to be moving fast. If it is a matter of crossing the Kármán line at 100 kilometers (61 miles) and coming back down, like Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, then you should be aiming for around 3,500 kilometers (2,200 miles) per hour. That is almost 1 kilometer per second. But if your goal is to get into orbit and stay there, you need to get faster or you'll fall back down. The way one stays in orbit is to be constantly falling back down toward Earth. You just keep missing the planet. The speed required to stay in low-Earth orbit is 8 kilometers (5 miles) per second.To leave the Earth’s gravitational pull for good, you need to go even faster. At least 11.2 kilometers (7 miles) per second. That’s equivalent to 40,000 kilometers (25,000 miles) per hour. How do rockets lift-off?No matter what speed you want to reach, you need an object that can generate thrust. And lots of it. Thrust depends on the speed of the exhaust gas and the mass of gas being expelled per second. So we move from the principles of physics to the chemistry of explosions.A schematic view of the components of a rocket.Image Credit: James Rodriguez © IFLScienceCalling it the chemistry of fire or of controlled explosions is splitting hairs. In basic terms, it is an exothermic reaction, one that releases heat and energy. It’s what powers your cells. It’s what powers a fire. It’s what powers regular combustion engines. You have a fuel, you have an oxidizer, and an ignition source.Rockets travel very high into the atmosphere, where the amount of oxygen (the oxidizer for all the other namechecked system use) is low. So rockets tend to bring their own oxidizers with them. Liquid oxygen tends to be the oxidizer of choice. But fuel varies. SpaceX’s Falcon rocket used rocket-grade Kerosene as fuel. SpaceX’s Starship instead uses methane. NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) and the upcoming European Space Agency’s Ariane 6 both use liquid hydrogen as fuel.A recent explainer video from the European Space Agency (ESA,) parallels the rocket behavior to that of an unknotted balloon. Pointing out the main difference, a balloon doesn’t just go up but it moves all over the place. The video makes another important analogy: balancing the rocket – thin and tall with the thrust coming out of the bottom – is like balancing a pencil on a finger. You need to be flexible.         IFLScience is not responsible for content shared from external sites.How do you control a rocket?The flexibility comes from having engine nozzles that can be moved, as well as other design elements such as fins. When a rocket begins to tumble uncontrollably, it usually means that those systems are not working and the rocket is either about to explode by itself or will be made to go boom by ground control. Another common feature in rockets is boosters. Not every rocket design needs them, because not every rocket has to generate the same amount of thrust. Boosters such as those on SLS and Ariane 6 use solid fuel – the fuel and the oxidizer are combined in a solid block that burns and burns. There’s no way to regulate thrust when it comes to the boosters, beyond shaping the surface area where the reaction occurs.The final salient characteristic of rockets is that they are usually built in stages. Going back to the principle of inertia, the more mass you have the more thrust you need to move it to the speed you want. But the more thrust you need, the more fuel you need to pack. So it is useful to get rid of a portion of the rocket once it has outlived its purpose. Some first stages are reusable, like in the case of SpaceX rockets.  In other cases, it is only the capsule that carries cargo or crew that is used over and over again.To make sure everything goes right, rockets are tested time and time again. There’s often a lot running on them – literally, when the mission they are launching is carrying astronauts. They do not call it rocket science for nothing.

There have been questions over how cannabis use might affect someone’s risk of severe disease if they catch COVID-19, but a new study claims to be able to address some of the confusion. It seems clear that cannabis use is as risky as smoking when it comes to COVID, with people who used the drug at least once in the year prior to contracting the virus being significantly more likely to require hospital treatment.The study, from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, looked at the health records of 72,501 people who were treated for COVID-19 at clinics within a large Midwest healthcare system in a two-year period between 2020 and 2022.The data showed that people who said they’d used any form of cannabis during the preceding year before catching COVID were 80 percent more likely to require hospitalization and 27 percent more likely to need intensive care treatment than those who had not used cannabis. This was after adjusting for factors like vaccination status and other health conditions.As a risk factor for severe disease, this put cannabis use on a par with smoking tobacco.“There’s this sense among the public that cannabis is safe to use, that it’s not as bad for your health as smoking or drinking, that it may even be good for you. I think that’s because there hasn’t been as much research on the health effects of cannabis as compared to tobacco or alcohol,” said senior author Professor Li-Shiun Chen in a statement.“What we found is that cannabis use is not harmless in the context of COVID-19. People who reported yes to current cannabis use, at any frequency, were more likely to require hospitalization and intensive care than those who did not use cannabis.”While cannabis was associated with more severe COVID-19 symptoms, it did differ from smoking in one important way. There’s not yet enough evidence to show that cannabis use is associated with increased risk of death, whereas for smoking the link is clear: smokers are significantly more likely to die from COVID than nonsmokers.Some previous research had suggested that cannabis may provide some sort of protective effect against viruses like SARS-CoV-2, but these data from real-world patients do not support that hypothesis.“Most of the evidence suggesting that cannabis is good for you comes from studies in cells or animals,” Chen explained. “The advantage of our study is that it is in people and uses real-world health-care data collected across multiple sites over an extended time period. All the outcomes were verified: hospitalization, ICU stay, death.”“Using this data set, we were able to confirm the well-established effects of smoking, which suggests that the data are reliable.”While it looks as though cannabis use worsens outcomes from COVID-19, we’re still not clear on why that may be. The authors suggested a few theories, such as damage to lung tissue from smoking cannabis or a dampening effect on the immune system. It’s also not clear whether the way in which someone consumes cannabis makes a difference.“We just don’t know whether edibles are safer,” said first author and medical resident Dr Nicholas Griffith. “People were asked a yes-or-no question: ‘Have you used cannabis in the past year?’ That gave us enough information to establish that if you use cannabis, your health-care journey will be different, but we can’t know how much cannabis you have to use, or whether it makes a difference whether you smoke it or eat edibles.”He added, “I hope this study opens the door to more research on the health effects of cannabis.”The study is published in the journal JAMA Network Open.