Profile avatar
asteroiddave.bsky.social
R&D Operations Engineer - Catalina Sky Survey (UofA LPL), Planetary Defense, Programmer, Comet & Asteroid Hunter, Rockhound, Photographer / Storm Chaser, Flood Guru, Naturalist, Atheist. www.rankinstudio.com (personal site) Saguaro Observatory (V11)
700 posts 1,438 followers 375 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 14 Comments 36

This is what happens when you let morons take over during a contrived moral outrage panic.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The President's Budget Request is trying to slash NASA by almost 25% (~ $6 billion), it calls for a 13% increase in defense spending (~ $117 billion) to over $1 trillion! A billion seconds is 32 years. A trillion seconds is 32000 years. We can afford NASA as is. Please sign this. 🔭🧪

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Canceling OSIRIS-APEX, a paid for spacecraft on its way to the biggest news asteroid of 2029, makes no sense and damages our ability to conduct planetary defense.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

The Presidential Budget Request to Congress wants to cut NASA by almost 50%. They also want to hand the DOD a 1 trillion dollar check, a 13% increase. This will not only devastate the science industry in the US, it'll set us back decades. Elections have consequences, and it's not just "politics".

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

A glacier partially collapsed in Switzerland, burying the village of Blatten in a huge landslide of ice, rock, and mud after residents had been evacuated. Scientists called the collapse of the glacier “unprecedented” in the Swiss Alps.

submitted 5 days ago • 513 comments

New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team! Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05... Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 13 days ago • 16 comments

Take cover in Huntsville AL!

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Got a Gaseous Tritium Light Source (GTLS). It uses a radioactive isotope of Hydrogen (H-3) and slowly decays into Helium 3 emitting electrons. It will stay glowing for up to 15 years.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Huge tornado about to impact Plevna, Kansas. #tornado #tornadoemergency Emergency Warned via NWS.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

#MSH45 | The Blast Let's back up for a moment. 3.3 billion cubic yards of rock and ice crashing downslope, the landslide buries the North Fork Toutle Valley in debris up to 600 feet deep. Behind it, A turbulent cloud of ash, pumice, superheated gas, and pulverized rock.

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

Gotta watch this video closely. Very crazy example of a major strike/slip fault rupture from the large Myanmar quake. Look in the background past the gate after the shaking starts. Almost unbelievable energy release here.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

First snake of the year and first time seeing this species. Variable sand snake, Tucson AZ.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

EXTREME HEAT IN NORTH AFRICA 46C in Algeria and Mali with minimums up to 35C 44C in Libya Next days we will see up to 48C in Africa and 49C in Asia with dozens of thousands of records pulverized from Algeria to China in every country By far the most extreme event in world climatic history

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

PC upgrade. First custom water cooling loop done.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments