OKAY it's time for me to GET OFF BLUESKY and my phone and START ACTUALLY WORKING for real this time

ngl when someone gets really mad at a movie take I feel happy because just for a moment we're living in the world we should have been

dhuartson: Don't let anyone talk you out of spending $15 on a new hobby. That $50 will be the best $400 you ever spent.

This is not wrong.

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Image taken of Meteor Crater by the NASA Earth Observatory. It is a simple bowl-shaped crater ~0.737 miles (1.186 km) across. It is notably not circular but rather a bit polygonal - it looks a little more like a square.

The Manicouagan reservoir (also known as the Manicouagan Impact Structure) in Quebec, a massive crater formed by a Late Triassic impact by a meteor 5 km diameter. The crater is a multiple-ring structure about 100 km (60 mi) across, with the reservoir at its 70 km (40 mi) diameter inner ring being its most prominent feature. It looks cool as shit. The lake and island are clearly seen from space and are sometimes called the "eye of Quebec"

A computer-generated gravity map of the Bouguer gravity anomaly showing the immense Chicxulub crater, which resulted from an asteroid impact that is thought to have contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Instead of doomering about the NASA budget proposal, I am going to focus on the fact that it's Earth Day and the Earth has many excellent impact craters. My top 3 are Meteor Crater, Manicouagan, and (of course) Chicxulub, but there's a whole lot of excellent craters out there.

A number of space science organizations offered support for Isaacman's nomination because he is a proponent of space exploration and claimed he would support science. But now that science is on the chopping block -- and human spaceflight isn't -- he is volunteering to give NASA the DOGE treatment.

I thought this point Eric made about how libraries are early introductions to a social contract was really interesting, too:

Video showing the testing of the fairing ejection for the Soviet N1 Moon rocket.

Thanks to Yuri Shakov

This is SUPER COOL. When and where would this have been?

I want to be excited when my phone rings because someone I know is calling me

NO YOU DO NOT DESERVE AN AWARD BUY A DAMN KEYBOARD UNCLE

hello to everyone else included in the "anti-ai ai haters" blocklist the technical advisor of bluesky just followed 🫡 it's an honor just to be nominated

A self portrait of a young Albrecht Dürer his Hair and beard are lovely, his double is open and his shirt is pushed down. He's giving the viewer a come hither stare. It's a lot from someone who's been dead for 500 years.

Homer Simpson voice: "stupid sexy Albrecht"

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."

“AI is here, so we have no choice but to accept it”

so are immigrants and trans people, but I guess that’s a skill issue

As it turns out, NASA has to code the rocket as a hat that the astronauts all equip in their inventory's head slot in order to ride it

a man in a suit and tie is running down a street Alt: Steve Carrell in a suit and tie (from The Office) running down the street by a mobile radar speed reader.

Here's a compromise about the house of representatives:

We triple the size, but we only let the first 435 representatives into the chamber debate or vote on any given issue.

Votes are announced by a computer at random times with a loud siren, and we film the reps trying to book it to the chamber.

Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series

If you don’t stop in mid-sentence to check a thing and then three hours later you’ve learned the entire history of canned food but not finished the sentence, why even be a writer?!

This is almost always how I picked non-news topics for blog entries. There's something I don't understand or a question I can't answer without research, so I do research until I understand it well enough to explain it

I've been watching this initiative develop as a member of the SETI Institute Science Advisory Board and it is so refreshing to work with a scientific research institution that also consults and supports ethicists, linguists, sociologists, philosophers, & other humanities researchers

SETI Institute Launches Discovery and Futures Lab to Explore the Human Dimensions of Life Beyond Earth New initiative bridges science, society, and the future of discovery in astrobiology and SETI

Press release on the new SETI Institute Discovery and Futures Lab: www.seti.org/news/seti-in...

Congratulations to @notnotrocketscience.com for launching the Discovery and Futures Lab at the @setiinstitute.bsky.social ! The Lab "unites experts in astrobiology, SETI, social science, ethics, law, communication research, futures studies, and more" to prepare for discovery of life beyond Earth

Rich has the power! Awesome news.

Ah thanks

There won't ever be a better canonical Holmes. But bring on all the AUs and pastiches, I'm here for them

Got your best shots ready for this year's edition of AstroCamera? 

Awesome, submit them by 4 May!
Check out last year’s winning shots 🏅👇

AstroCamera is an #astrophotography competition organised by the Hevelianum science centre (Poland) and supported by ESO. 

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Where did he say this? Want to send to a friend in health policy but need the source info

If it's been a while since you've watched Granada Holmes, I recommend a rewatch to see how very asexually gay Jeremy Brett played the character