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Hermeochemist, Interstellar Dust Buster, and Cosmic Organist. Professor @SESEASU asteroid 5992 Opinions are my own. pronouns: he/him/his
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NYC friends: Go buy art!

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Mainstream media soon: Trump's nominee for NASA Administrator embraces the outdated "geocentric" model of the Solar System instead of the widely accepted "heliocentric" model. Democrats are critical but Senate Republicans say he is just "asking qustions".

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🚨The kids in larchmont are doing rage songs🚨

submitted 1 day ago • 231 comments

The only king I recognize

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Going down a rabbit hole on 1977 album "Beach Boys Love You". Basically a Brian solo record. It's bizarre and brilliant and terrible all at the same time. "Take it one little inch at a time now Till we're feeling fine now I guess I've got a way with girls" Whatever you say, Brian

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I had a brief conversation about Cheech and Chong with Branford Marsalis while he was waiting in an Ithaca bar for his car to show up.

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Excited to see that black people performing country music are only eligible for 3/5ths of a Grammy

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So when Robert Wyatt got kicked out of Soft Machine, the psych-prog band he had started, he moved to France and started Matching Mole (from "Machine molle" French for Soft Machine). Meanwhile SM moved to more instrumental jazz-rock ... The soldier unlawfully quartered in my house: please kill me

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

So in the last two days,a beloved uncle, a scientific hero, and two musical heroes have all died. What a week and it's Wednesday.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Nice! NASA canceled their budget town hall so planetary society is going to do one instead.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Can Newsom deploy the CA National Guard to protect people from... checks notes ... the National Guard?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Our global petition to save NASA science closes this Thursday, and we’re just shy of 15,000 signatures! Every name counts, this petition will be hand-delivered to members of Congress. Add yours today, Save NASA Science. planet.ly/petition

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

Could LA institute some kind of congestion pricing scheme but just for Fed vehicles? You know, charge something like 1M$ per day to drive an ICE vehicle on city streets or something?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Every time I hear this song I think of the popcorn scene at the end of Real Genius #GenX

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Delighted and amazed to see a long time friend and colleague on a US coin! Vera was an amazing human and I am so lucky to have known her.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

More people voted for Trump in 2024 in California than in Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming combined

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Some of y’all can’t handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

So knives out Catch the mouse Squash his head Put him in the pot

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Alternate take: no she wasn't and you are a bigoted asshole with bigoted asshole opinions

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I'm sure this is fine

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Last night of daughter's visit and she reminds me that Tori Amos' Little Earthquakes was our long time cribbage accompaniment music. Man, this record still hits me hard. m.youtube.com/watch?v=HSYr...

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NASA has had a profound effect on all of our lives as it advances science and technology. It is also a beacon of unity and hope for the entire world, inspiring us to grow as a species as we look to the stars. It is imperative that the US continues this leadership.

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Our statement on the full FY2026 NASA budget proposal: www.planetary.org/press-releas...

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

*speechless horror* (Guys the NASA Exoplanet Archive is in this box. My job is in this box.)

submitted 15 days ago • 35 comments

Lovely evening to watch a 50 year old Columbo episode on a big screen

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China has sent a probe on an ambitious mission to grab rocks from a near-Earth asteroid and return them to Earth before making a final visit to a distant comet. https://go.nature.com/43JtQ1Q

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment