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Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

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He never cared about the science or exploration or safety aspects of human spaceflight. It was always about enriching himself & “colonizing”. It’s absolutely more obvious now, but if you’ve followed the space industry at all for the past ~15 years, the greedy & petty narcissist was always there.

submitted 13 hours ago • 10 comments

New buoys listen for critically endangered right whale sounds off Massachusetts coast

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Just because Jason doesn't like Freddy anymore doesn't mean he's suddenly good for campers, you know?

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

9 out of 10 agencies targeted by DOGE for layoffs are liberal-leaning. Every single proposed GOP budget increase goes to conservative agencies. They're not cutting fat—they're performing ideological surgery with a chainsaw.

submitted 20 hours ago • 25 comments

[mumbles to self] There must be sign in my files that's applicable. Ah, here we go.

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

big distinction here between “does the USG need space x?” (Y) and “does space x need elon musk?” (N), and USG has many, many ways to make that second question excruciating for space x if they choose to

submitted 19 hours ago • 33 comments

Science in the US is on a damaging trajectory that could take decades to recover from, and it doesn't seem like the nation's leading scientific organization is rising to meet that challenge.

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

The entire internet right now.

submitted 21 hours ago • 46 comments

I know I’m gonna wake up tomorrow and regret my jokes because the whole thing is gonna turn so sour and so dangerous so fast

submitted 20 hours ago • 18 comments

so the private Japanese Hakuto 1 lander crashed into the moon after the computer began ignoring its altimeter data due to a mission profile change and it appears Hakuto-2 has failed as well Moon eats another one

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now

submitted 21 hours ago • 228 comments

A reminder that you CAN just go out and donate money to get a species name for yourself from Scripps, and most importantly they have a glamour shots catalogue of the animals you can get for free perusal

submitted 21 hours ago • 6 comments

Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.

submitted 20 hours ago • 164 comments

bsky right now.

submitted 20 hours ago • 46 comments

Meanwhile...

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this is very deep lore

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

if you are terminally online STAY ON LINE

submitted 21 hours ago • 20 comments

"You’re punching a generation-size hole, maybe a multigenerational hole, in the scientific and technical workforce. You don’t just Cryovac these people and pull them out when the money comes back. People are going to move on.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/prop...

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it causes a point defect in the crystalline lattice of the polycule, which is ultimately the mechanism by which you can make things like transistors

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

i got a betamax tape digitized by a guy in town, and his garage office gave me the most incredible wave of 80's/90's BBS era copying-disks computer hangout vibes… it was overwhelming and deeply nostalgic. he had a video toaster mousepad. it was $25 including the flash drive and turned out great.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

#OPAG - Final day of the OPAG meeting will monitor some of the sessions here.

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Just got this, looks like LPSC 2026 will be hosted but NOT by NASA as it had since the conference's inception. USRA/LPI will pick up the baton and run with it. www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...

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very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

submitted 1 day ago • 279 comments

Alright mojarras, let’s get in formation, prove to us you got some coordination… #yellowfinmojarra #mojarra #formation #stop #stare #move #school #insync #synchronizedswimming #otoliths #spatialcontrolonfleek #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

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Your moment of calm. (Yeah, I'm basically gonna love bomb you with the Oregon coast all week.)

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The June photo from @bugeric.bsky.social's and my calendar for this year is this shot of male and female Eastern Collared Lizards taken in Carter County, Missouri last May. #lizards #herpetology #EasternCollaredLizard

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Emerald Lucille Lovebird 🦜whishes all, peace.🕊️ #TheDailyLovebird

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Does this mean I'm famous now? Woah. All I did is want a cool thing for folks. :D arstechnica.com/appl...

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Well this is maybe the best thing to have happened to me in this neighborhood ever #SpreadLove

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

The blimps flying over downtown Cleveland today!

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The cuts would be “devastating for NASA science”, says Paul Byrne at Washington University in St. Louis “You’re talking about turning off healthy spacecraft and killing stuff that’s in the pipeline. You can’t just turn these things off and back on again.” www.newscientist.com/article/2482...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

NASA is facing the biggest crisis in its history | New Scientist | “You can’t just turn that stuff on again later”

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bummer news. I've never been there but I grew up reading their catalogs as a kid because my dad occasionally got them in the mail. I really hope they meet their goal and can continue.

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