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Robotic solar system exploration, night sky photography, exasperating earnestness. Opinions my own.
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No Comet in This One - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2jkzB8i

worst thing about working in aerospace is you never get a break from musk

The party of freedom and liberty is installing conformity czars to adjudicate compliance to the party’s definition of valid scientific inquiry. Land of the free…

Lovely Mastcam mosaic captured yesterday by Curiosity. And look at this tiniest little butte up there! ▶️ zoom app zoomhub.net/MV4oG ▶️ science plan science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-45... #Mars May 22, 2025 - Sol 4547 🧪🔭 Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

Or as @wsj.com puts it, “Open for business.”

"Billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE team is expanding use of his AI chatbot Grok in the US federal government to analyze data, said three people familiar with the matter, potentially violating conflict-of-interest laws and putting at risk sensitive information on millions of Americans."

The inspiring @arielwaldman.com explorers.com/ariel-waldman/

Steady Light - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2nF8kVq

Check out this incredible video of a tornado filmed from an FPV drone! Definitely check out the full video on YouTube - I literally just stared at my screen for a few minutes in total awe and disbelief.

An Owl at Night

MSL 4541 ML-360 © NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/NeV-T 360-VR - www.360cities.net/image/msl-15... Gigapan - www.gigapan.com/gigapans/237... GIGAmacro - viewer.gigamacro.com/view/f4bl9va... Gigapan Website - www.nev-t-gigamacros.com #Mars #science #NASA

Hey, let's outlive these ghouls ok? Let's witness their demise together

From NASA: More postcards from the planets! 📸🪐 Views sent home this month from NASA spacecraft all across the solar system. - Perseverance selfie on Mars - Juno view of Jupiter (processed by @kevinmgill.bsky.social) - Lightning storms captured from aboard the space station by Anne McClain

Final lines for my next #dinosaur #extinction pin design. #sciArt #DinoArt #enamelpins

As someone who has relied on SNAP to put food in the fridge, I'm incredibly proud of the work we're doing at @dataforprogress.org to shine a light on how disastrously unpopular cutting nutrition assistance is

Spiral Jetty - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2jFXcNV

Dragonfly and Titan’s Mysteries: check out this new post by NASA Science science.nasa.gov/solar-system... #Dragonfly 🧪🔭

🚨This is not just a ban on new students. 6,800 current overseas students now have to leave Harvard. That is 6,800 people panicking today. Many will no doubt be in tears, their lives & education upended because of the spite of one man.

They want to shut us up They start with threats They’ll use violence if that doesn’t work

I recently visited the ALMA observatory in Chile. While I was poking around the telescopes, ALMA researchers released amazing new views of planet-forming disks around young stars. These are the most detailed images yet of new solar systems being born. 🧪🔭 public.nrao.edu/news/exoalma/

I know this was an unexpectedly long thread but I guess ultimately what I was trying to say was that we put something like $25 Billion into #NASA but get back about $75.6 Billion in economic activity in return. The 2026 "Skinny Budget" aims to disrupt that, with potentially catastrophic results.

“who are Republicans spending time with online and what do those people believe” is a story that the media has completely ignored for years and we might be in a different place if the public was actually aware how many of those people are outright Nazis

Crypto isn't currency. It isn't even an asset. It is a financial virus designed to privatize money, let corporations run chit-based company stores, and cut nations & central banks off from their own money supply. Regulated stablecoins are a way for the parasite to get easier control of the host.

Ariel, moon of Uranus, transiting the disk of of the planet on July 26, 2006. Its shadow can be seen on the Uranian cloud tops. This is a view from the Hubble Space Telescope's t Advanced Camera For Surveys now-defunct High Resolution Channel.

it seems too obvious to say out loud, but here we are: there is no functioning, stable, humane society without humans

I stayed up late working with an awesome team to submit this proposal to @esa.int's F-3 mission competition. Folks are often proprietary about their mission ideas, but I love this one and will share it with you: We want to fly through Mercury's super-thin "atmosphere" and bring that sample home!

Yuuuuuup. Ideas have never been the issue. The key is picking which ones are worth writing about, and which are worth writing will change with the specific author. I wrote a whole fucking novel about the moon turning to cheese. I assure you, ideas are the easy part. Execution is what matters.

These are crimes. And we need to say so.

For my NOAA colleagues: H/T @cdelawalla.bsky.social

Jupiter’s Northern Folded Filamentary Region during Juno’s Perijove 72 earlier this month. There’s a lot going on here so I zoomed into a few highlights. flic.kr/p/2r5VEiy flic.kr/p/2r5VQ8o flic.kr/p/2r5VQ8d flic.kr/p/2r5QmRx

An osier-odoured stream that draws the skies Deep to its heart; and mirrored eyes in eyes:— Fresh hourly wonder o'er the Summer land Of light and cloud; and two souls softly spann'd With one o'erarching heaven of smiles and sighs From Sonnet XII by Rossetti

An osier-odoured stream that draws the skies Deep to its heart; and mirrored eyes in eyes:— Fresh hourly wonder o'er the Summer land Of light and cloud; and two souls softly spann'd With one o'erarching heaven of smiles and sighs From Sonnet XII by Rossetti

People keep asking why The Onion is doing well right now, and it's simply because we just refuse to kowtow. I cannot stress enough how good it is for your business and your soul be strong and even fun in the face of the ongoing horror and bullshit. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

Cleanly broken by a 900 kg, nuclear-powered Martian robot #Mars May 15, 2025 - Curiosity Sol 4541 🧪🔭 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

Every now and then, magnetism and math and molecules forget to hide themselves and auroras shine out between the cracks. Causey Reservoir, Utah on May 16.

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Las #Pléyades y el Sol TELESCOP= #SOHO INSTRUME= #LASCO DATE = 2025/05/19 umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/pub/lasco/la... NASA/ESA/j. Roger

I cannot emphasize this enough: Please do not use AI tools as therapy. Not only is it not a good replacement for actual therapy, but your chat logs could be shared with the government, and I don't think you need a reminder that especially right now in the US, that could put you in danger.