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Physicist at large. Speaker. Writer. Mono-instrumentalist. orcid.org/0000-0003-4608-8397 Avatar: Bill Heterodyne, smiling & tipping his boater, by Phil Foglio. Banner: Me, infinitely reflected in mirrors.
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In reviewing THE LEGEND OF OCHI (tl;dr: pretty good film), @briantallerico.bsky.social writes: "Dafoe is the raging fury at the film’s center, using that wonderfully expressive face as only he can." Who else does he imagine using Willem Dafoe's wonderfully expressive face, but not as well? 🤨😆😳😔😠😉

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This Sunday, Lucy (the spacecraft) will visit the asteroid Donaldjohanson, which is named after the paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson, who discovered Lucy (the fossil) in 1974 🔭🧪 www.nasa.gov/missions/luc...

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@emdwarf.bsky.social links to a preprint, “New Constraints on DMS and DMDS in the Atmosphere of K2-18 b from JWST MIRI,” the finding everyone is talking about, or will be soon. Dimethyl sulfide & dimethyl disulfide are potential “biosignature” molecules; the exoplanet K2-18b seems to have them. 🔭

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Buster Keaton in Three Ages (1923)

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This is a nice illustration of how satellite instruments work -- you can see that there are three lower resolution color bands (red, blue, green) and a higher resolution panchromatic band (monochrome).

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As a branch of literature that by its nature imagines alternatives, science fiction is well suited to challenging hegemonic ideas. What is a notion that is inculcated deeply into the public psyche, that is largely unquestioned by most people, do you think SFF needs to undermine?

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Psst…5 years from today is Jupiter Orbit Insertion for Europa Clipper. Everyone should mark their calendars.

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Jonathan McDowell (a.k.a. Planet 4589) is a towering figure in astronomy and space safety. But he's not actually retiring; he's just relocating!

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Speakers of English! Which is preferable: "It's an old trick, but it might just work." "It's an old trick, but it just might work." ?

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

Cool photo of the classic Ferry Rocket - does anyone know any more about this exhibition? Any more photos?

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Here's a VERY Rare Book! Dare I say.... a UNICORN? How could I (almost) miss that it's #NationalUnicornDay? #volvelle #interactive #popup #NewberryLibrary i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

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That's an OK temperature for spring in Ontario but why is there a minus sign in front of it?

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