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Badibulgator

@badibulgator.bsky.social

Sur Cielbleu personne ne sait que je suis un chien. Curious about astronomy, computing, and other nerdy things. Recovering flerf herder. Also on https://mastodon.social/@badibulgator

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Danny Fearns@dannyfearns.bsky.social · 16h ago

Good morning Bluesky ☀️ My grandad told me he saw the Titanic - from the outset he warned all the people that the ship would sink, but nobody listened to him. He knew he was right and didn't give up. He warned them again & again, until eventually they kicked him out of the cinema.

The Titanic sinking under a moonlit sky.
Javier Colmen@elcano.bsky.social · 13h ago

Se avisa a individuos con un CI menor o igual a 40 y suelen votar extrema y ultraderecha, que el próximo día 12 de agosto, habrá apagón total, por si queréis ir echando ya la culpa al Gobierno de coalición. JDC

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 17h ago

"Well you can't win them all on astronomy events" Heroic efforts by all the live-streamers on YT! Sad that there was nothing visible to see, but here's hoping @eso.org detected something. We wait with excitement for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images of the moon's new crater! 🔭

A picture of the moon, 7 minutes after impact with no visible plume
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 5d ago

"Will I be able to see the crash?" Probably not, but that doesn't mean friends in the Americas shouldn't try (daylight for those in Europe): look to the eastern limb of the Einstein crater. The @eso.org VLT will observe it & NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is taking before and after images! 🔭🧪🛰️

Catfish@stlcatfishmike.bsky.social · 23h ago

The idea of multiple universes implying that the longer a civilization survives possessing the ability to annihilate its self the weirder it gets because it becomes increasingly improbable for it to survive is something I think about a lot.

Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary)@bowiesongs.bsky.social · yesterday

in re Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" (which, in the original Martian Chronicles, occurs on today's date), I didn't realize the very first published version of the story, in Collier's magazine, was set in April 1985. (the current edition of Martian Chronicles now sets it in 2057).

the complete text of Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" in Collier's, 6 May 1950
Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterday

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

ESA Space Science@science.esa.int · yesterday

12 August: for over one minute, day turns to night 🌑 thanks to a total solar eclipse. But will it be visible from your place? Check out these maps to find out. If you're close to the path of totality, but not within it, it is totally worth the travel! 1/2 🔭 🧪 #EuropeanSolarEclipse

Map of Earth shown as a globe, with the focus on its northern hemisphere. A red, C-shaped arc marked 'total eclipse' reaches from northeast Russia, past the North Pole, Greenland, Iceland and the Iberian Peninsula. An orange oval surrounds this arc, marked 'partial eclipse', covering most of Europe, Canada and parts of the USA, the western edge of Africa and the northeastern corner of Russia.Spain and Canary Islands map showing total solar eclipse path on 12 Aug 2026 with totality band and darkness contours
Don Davis@ddavisspaceart.bsky.social · 3d ago

51 years ago I painted a trio of Viking related works for NASA HQ including the widely reproduced one of the landing on Mars. I have reimagined the Landing portrayal in updated form using digital methods of visualization and painting. I chose the same angle but with reality replacing anticipation.

This oil painting portrays the Viking 1 landing on Mars, which appeared in countless publications. The story of this work is relayed in an earlier post and is shown here for comparison with the new portrayal of this very view, showing the event as it would have appeared. This 1975 anticipatory painting was done with oils on a gesso smoothed 16 X 20 canvas panel, using traditional art methods including a tracing paper guide featured earlier. This work shows in retrospect my ideal of the 'spirit of space art', showing something of a summary of what is known of the subject while conveying what it is about the subject's known or theorized attributes that I find visually compelling. The new digital painting updates that visual impression with one based on our current knowledge. The new digital work was also done at the same size as this one was for possible printing purposes, 16 by 20 inches at 300 DPI. #Sciart In 1976 the pair of Viking spacecraft orbiter/lander combos were sent to Mars. Before Viking, Mars was still largely a place of our imaginations, an unknown that we wrote stories about then studied from Earth and space. The dominance of cratered terrain on the portions of Mars photographed by Mariners 4, 6 and 7 gave an initially Lunar impression of that world, which changed during the development of the Viking lander after Mariner 9 revealed the planet. The first landing was aimed for a flat flood plain, judged as a decent place to search for life. The landing date was July 4, however the intended site appeared too rough for comfort in the high quality orbiter photos, causing the landing to wisely be delayed. A smoother site further 'down stream' was found using photo and radar data. The landing proceeded quite nominally, a magnificent achievement that apparently accounted for what it had to and made it the first time. The first photo from the surface was a look at a footpad to see how solid the 'footing' appeared. Then a moderate resolution panorama of the surroundings was obtained, first showing the rocks, hills, dunes-and bright sky. The latter was my biggest surprise as a space artist. The adjustments to the color balance of the later photos were gradually narrowed down. The ubiquitous dust is planet wide, suspended in the air and coloring the sky a luminous tan ochre. This digital painting shows the view a meter above the surface seeing the lander briefly kicking up dust less than a second before touchdown with the footpads 1.4 meters high. The landing rockets were designed with many nozzles to disturb the surroundings as little as possible. The nearby disturbed dust resembles in color that of the sky. We are 6 meters away from the center of the lander. field of view is 60 degrees, we are looking Northwest with the Sun and Earth off the frame to the left. This is a digital art update of the pre mission oil painting I did for NASA HQ 1n 1975. #Sciart
Pierre Beyssac@pierreb.bsky.social · 4d ago

Très intéressante interview de Wikimédia France, qui entre autres explique pourquoi le pseudonymat en ligne doit absolument être préservé. Et qui a dû bosser beaucoup pour éviter de se prendre une balle perdue par la loi majorité numérique, en gagnant une exemption explicite.

Jules@juleswp.eurosky.social · 4d ago

« "Le savoir est avant tout une affaire d’êtres humains": comment Wikimédia France veut faire basculer le Web vers un autre modèle, avec l'aide aussi des politiques »

Sean Carroll@seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 6d ago

Wheeler creates a wormhole and uses it to send Everett and Bohm back in time to the Fifth Solvay Conference. Bohm teams up with de Broglie, while Everett and Heisenberg get into a knife fight in a Belgian beer hall. Schrödinger tries to intervene but is taken out by a cat. Einstein enjoys waffles.