Stares directly into camera: loser behavior

The HiRISE team notes the passing of two esteemed friends and colleagues: Deputy Principal Investigator emerita Candice Hansen-Koharcheck and Co-Investigator Paul Geissler.

More about Candice: www.psi.edu/staff/profil...

More about Paul: www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

Nahla Ake is convincingly how one might be after three centuries of dealing with undergraduates.

NASA's Artemis II Crew Launches To The Moon (Official Broadcast) YouTube video by NASA

Hi there, I'm Barbara and I work on the Artemis II Lunar Science team. I'll be here for a couple hours while watching the preparations for launch and happy to take your questions!

www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM...

*dies a little more inside*

Is this some sort of attempted “Nemesis” reputation washing?? Or is it when Picard gets cloned without consent, how could that be political?

And instead speaking of good science fiction, the best post-war monster movie in English is getting a reissue on physical media!

Picking who cries in The Martian is politics my dude!

(I will let this go perhaps never because if he’s trying to be ‘factual’, I know the people he’s trying to write about and they don’t act that way!)

Oscar-winner Ryan Coogler recalling how a college writing professor pushed him to become a screenwriter & the possibility of #Sinners being taught in film curriculums someday:
“I have so much respect for professors…for dedicating their life to future generations & making sure their minds are solid.”

I gotta get a Medium so I don’t make big threads complaining and think/write more!

In contrast to the author panel yesterday that explicitly called out the “feeling with your whole body” books getting treated differently and how we may be in a feelings book (horror is a feeling too!!) renaissance

Some scifi reader is making snide remarks about romance and lit fic

A very nice volunteer asked us what the big draw was for a scifi panel with multiple generational talents

First Tucson Festival of Books in years and I’m overhearing so much genre-on-genre fiction violence

Some sort of Trill/symbiont car-crash sort of thing?

It was 20 years ago today...

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrived at Mars with the best camera ever sent to another planet: HiRISE! A massive thanks to all our team @uarizona.bsky.social , JPL and @baesystems.com who keep this adventure going on strong. 😃 #uahirise

I tell people that if the government is covering up the existence of aliens, NASA is absolutely not involved, because astrobiologists can't keep a secret to save their lives

It took a lot of work at both JPL and HQ to make it happen this year.

For relevant, interested folks, please apply! I’m one of the science mentors. Feel free to ask questions!

What’s important is I *found* an email and data file from 2021 and the paper will be done this year!

What’s unimportant is the year this project started and how many institutions myself and a coauthor have been at during it!

It’s fine!!

“If I were human I believe my response would be, ‘go to hell’”

*gets skeptical look”

“If I were human” (shrugs)

Everyone has art in their office, even Kirk has an orca whale ink sketch

Lose an empire due to over-mining, throw in some Shakespeare and Sherlock Holmes, “Only Nixon could go to China”

Sometimes I rewatch movies and realize “oh thats why I’m that way”: Star Trek VI Undiscovered Country

WOMEN👏DON’T👏WANT👏CHOCOLATES 👏FOR 👏VALENTINE’S 👏DAY 👏THEY 👏WANT 👏MERRIAM-WEBSTER’S 👏COLLEGIATE 👏DICTIONARY 👏TWELFTH 👏EDITION 👏

NASA’s Artemis II plans to send a crew around the Moon to test equipment and lay the groundwork for a future landing Several robotic spacecraft orbiting the Moon can take detailed pictures of its surface, so why send people around the Moon? A planetary geologist explains the benefits.

Got to write up a short Artemis II explainer for @theconversation.com!

(It has been updated per the testing overnight resulting in a launch delay)

Except, you know, nothing is higher stakes than teaching.

This essay is probably already getting ratio’d, but I’d like to join by staring into the camera Office-style from the American Southwest: canals and big roads exist outside of Rome and capital E empires, my buddies!

No one:

Me: How many artworks about the Navier-Stokes equations is too many?

Other innocent people, just looking for pretty prints, maybe some nice animal linocuts…

Me: Let me try to tell you about fluid dynamics and partial differential equations…

I was logged into LEAG when Walter Kiefer made the announcement personally, so that was fun! It was practically 5pm eastern

I’m a coauthor on some that were submitted today and only the in 1700s, which seems low for original submission day?