sometimes people forget just how small Belgium is

a computer generated image of a planet with the letter o in the middle ALT: a computer generated image of a planet with the letter o in the middle

so when the USS Discovery spore jumps do people in the outer saucer gets pinned to the wall like one of those carnival rides

blue wave ❌
blue tsunami ❌
blue wall of water from that black hole planet in Interstellar ✅

squidward??

found out about Artemis II’s splashdown the best way possible: watching a livestream as part of a science fair project at our elementary school

GO NASA GO ARTEMIS WOOOO

doing rm -rf / on a bloomberg terminal

they should have front brake lights on cars so I know if an oncoming car is going to stop or run the yellow light when I’m turning left

when you’re an academic and go to a zoom meeting that has to end after 40 minutes because of the time limit

can’t wait to find out if the moon is really haunted

This might be just me, but it’s a bit telling that the best words we apparently have for expressing our awe of the cosmos is still those of Carl Sagan from almost 50 years ago

What does this say about our current society, culture, and outlook on science and space exploration?

🔭 Paper day, and it’s a big one! We have found the most metal-poor object known in the universe. It’s a star, and it comes to us from our nearby friend the Large Magellanic Cloud. Out in Nature Astronomy today: rdcu.be/fbylI

Crystal clear ice on the shores of Lake Erie

I’ve driven dirt roads that are smoother than paved roads in toronto

>DC suburb has best cherry blossom display outside of downtown
>no sidewalks

Thank you for your kind words, Hari

He was my thesis advisor too. His enthusiasm, energy, and never ending stream of ideas was infectious. He (along with Mark Allen) were huge influences on my life and career. I will miss him. Thank you for posting.

Thank you Andy

I’m glad you got to experience those Yuk events! Very memorable times

Yuk was new faculty when I was an undergraduate studying planetary. It always felt like he was unchanging and ageless. He made so many contributions while remaining positive and joyful. Truly will be missed.

Thank you, Sarah. He was indeed

A cartoon of Yuk I drew on a white board at Caltech, a long time ago

Goodbye, Yuk, and thank you for everything. I will miss you and your #yukyungstyle

All my thoughts to Yuk’s family and the Caltech community for this heavy loss. I hope there are arrangements for Yuk’s current students and postdocs. If not, then we as former Yuk Mafia[tm] members should step up and fill the void the best we can to get his mentees over that finish line

It’ll be a while until I fully process all this. Every time I see his name in a condolence message I still think he is contacting me for a new collaboration or asking me to send a file. It’s odd that it’s now tied to matters of mortality

I hope he knew how much I appreciated him and how much I owe him. I hope I expressed this clearly over the last 16 years with my actions and our conversations

There is truly never enough time

In the last week I struggled with emailing him my encouragements and thanks. I did not want to send a message that sounded like I was saying goodbye. I never did send that email

But above all, he was a pillar that I leaned on throughout grad school, when I left home for the first time and lived in a foreign country where I knew no one. He was there to support me when I lost family to cancer, and he was there when I married the love of my life

It’s hard to put into words the impact he has had on my life, throughout grad school and resonating even now. His influence went far beyond my career, and touched my life philosophy and the company I keep. He has obviously affected my research direction and goals, as well as my mentoring style

I still remember a conversation where he advised me on health and exercise. He told me he hiked every Saturday and would “sleep like a snake” every afternoon. He said that he planned to live until 95, and of course I believed him, because he was Yuk

Yuk was a giant in the field and a force of nature at Caltech. In many ways he was larger than life, fueled by his eternal curiosity and child-like wonder. It honestly felt like he would always be around

Caltech Mourns the Passing of Planetary Scientist Yuk Yung Yuk Yung, professor of planetary science and JPL senior research scientist, passed away on March 16.

My PhD advisor, Professor Yuk Yung, has passed away.

The suddenness of this - I had only become aware of his illness a week ago - is shocking and it’s surreal that he’s gone.

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