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submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

submitted 10 hours ago • 160 comments

The websites run by the Lunar and Planetary Insititute for the science community Advisory Groups to NASA are down "in response to guidance given by NASA leadership." Outer Planets: www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/ Mars: www.lpi.usra.edu/mepag/ Moon: www.lpi.usra.edu/leag Asteroids: www.lpi.usra.edu/sbag/

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Tomorrow Sunday morning, the Philippine MARs will take to the skies one last time, aiming to depart from the bouy in Sproat Lake around 9:00 AM PDT heading to San Francisco. Against all odds, the team behind her has worked tirelessly to prepare her for this final journey to Arizona.

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

I learned a new word for font and typesetting geeks: “Keming” is really bad kerning. Like when you can’t tell rn apart from m. It came up in conversation about a recent MS Excel update.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have someone write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.” - Milan Kundera

submitted 23 days ago • 46 comments

One of the most useful things NASA does is host the NASA Technical Report Server, NTRS, a vast technical archive on how to be a space faring species. In olden days these reports existed in hardcopy at dozens of corporate and academic libraries, but now it's centralized. Has anyone made a copy?

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

“As NASA continues to review and ensure compliance with presidential actions, we are requesting that you please pause all meetings and activities of Planetary Science Analysis/Assessment Groups.“ #PlanetaryScience

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

Guys. If Elon Musk controls communications with the entire civil service, & he controls the payment systems of the US Treasury, he’s quite a long ways in to running a coup.

submitted 22 days ago • 25 comments

One of the best pieces of evidence that UFOs are not from outer space is that we've gotten really good at detecting even quite small things anywhere in Earth's sphere of influence. (Well, technically only in the anti-sunward side, but still...)

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

You know what is, to me, a modern cathedral? A flagship science mission spacecraft. 100% hand built, utterly unique, labored on by thousands, made with precious materials, lodged in people’s hearts forever even if they never see it again, producing awe and inspiration.

submitted 27 days ago • 12 comments

No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you. Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.

submitted 27 days ago • 341 comments

Here's a little tip I learned some years ago. If you can take a photo of Orion, try to get the image out of focus like I did just now. You can really see why Betelguise (top left) is such a well known red giant star. #astronomy #astrophotography

submitted 28 days ago • 87 comments

Boy, do we miss this kind of brilliant, calm and humane man, heading towards the 21st c. "There's two kinds of dangers - Carl Sagan"

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

C. S. Lewis spoke unkindly of space enthusiasts in his 1943 book Perelandra. The head of the British Interplanetary Society wrote to him to disagree. They eventually agreed to meet at a pub in Oxford to discuss. Lewis brought along a fellow prof who'd written a bit of fiction himself. And so...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

My fellow Coloradans, it would only take a tunnel twice as long as the Eisenhour Tunnel to go under Berthoud Pass. It would cut ten miles and half an hour off the trip to Winter Park, Granby, and the west side of Rocky Mountain National Park. The state got a bid for this in 1956.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

A friend just told me a remarkable customer service hack. If he calls a big company and is routed to an overseas call center answered by someone whose accent is too hard to understand, He hangs up Calls back Presses 2 for Spanish And gets a US-based bilingual agent who is fluent in English.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

If I wanted to donate to an environmental organization to protect wildlife and habitat, but not one that was going to block nuclear energy or controlled burns for wildfire prevention, which ones should I be looking at?

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

I've seen a lot of launch photos before. I've never seen one light up the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse. x.com/i/status/188...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Latest discovery of water on Mars

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

If I wanted to donate to an environmental organization to protect wildlife and habitat, but not one that was going to block nuclear energy or controlled burns for wildfire prevention, which ones should I be looking at?

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

ANCIENT ROMAN: looking at shirts labeled M L and XL excuse me these sizes are backwards

submitted 35 days ago • 16 comments

Did someone mention Blue Sky? New Glenn showing off its plumage on its first flight.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

This was my favorite view during the New Glenn launch tonight. Seven perfect blue shock cones. Awesome to get to orbit on the first launch.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

This is absolutely wild.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Tonight was the Mars occultation with the moon and I am very excited to have captured the exact moment when Mars reemerge from behind the moon!🌕 #Moon #Mars #Occultation

submitted 40 days ago • 16 comments

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social

submitted 41 days ago • 66 comments

As we end the second quarter of the 21st century, it amazes me how many minor things were critical infrastructure for much of the 20th century but are disappearing since 2001. Coins Postage stamps Phone books Checks Car keys Phone cords Broadcast television Magazines What else?

submitted 41 days ago • 4 comments