Maxwell's equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents. - Carl Sagan
Maik Meyer ☄️
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Comet hunting in plate vaults & libraries, Meyer comet group, orbit linking & calculating, cometary history, MP (52005), author, currently working on revision of Cometography 1, comet observing, www.comethunter.de ORCID: 0009-0004-8545-9458
Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterdayToday, 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.
☄️ 169P/NEAT last night close to the globular cluster M13. The first image is tracked to the stars and shows the comet as a very faint trail at the center (maybe invisible due to compression). However, the 15 mag comet is clearly visible when stacked at the comet's motion. 🔭 S50 image.
Tonight's comet photometry observing plan. Note the close approach of 169P to M13. ☄️🔭
Maria Mitchell was the first professional female astronomer in the US.🔭 * First American to discover a new comet, 1847 ☄️ * First woman elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences & the American Assoc for the Advancement of Science She was born #OTD in 1818. #WomenInSTEM #astronomy
🔥 “I’m so sick and tired of you old people not giving a shit about what we’re telling you. We don’t have a future. We’re telling you what we need and you don’t give a damn.”
Fourth division football in Germany has already started and it's so relieving to watch a game without hydration breaks and halftime nonsense. ⚽
Soccer Player's Epic Fail on the Field
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Germany, same country that gave the world Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Porsche, Audi & Volkswagen, has just seen battery electric vehicles become the best-selling powertrain for the first time. In June, BEVs outsold petrol, diesel, hybrids & plug-in hybrids individually, with BEV sales up 78% year-on-year.
In the birthplace of the car, EVs are now king: BEVs outsell gas cars in Germany
In June, for the first time, electric cars outsold each other powertrain in Germany, with sales up 78% since last year.
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Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
"Arabia" and "Europe" might both be somebody's "west", from the same root as "Maghreb". A word family.
It's no longer just a passing #heatwave; it's a persistent state, made more than five times more likely by the impact of human-driven #climatechange. @climatecentral.org
UK drought now extends across Wales with headlines about the driest July in records that stretch back 190 years. How do we know how much it rained in Wales in each July back to 1836? Answer - a volunteer army: www.bbc.co.uk/news/science...
UK's rainfall records rescued by volunteer army
We now have a clearer idea of when these islands were sodden or parched going back almost 200 years.
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The question now is who will replace Infantino and how will they reform Fifa. Removing Infantino is necessary, but it is not sufficient. Uefa and the rest of football must not blow this opportunity to clean up the game. www.thetimes.com/sport/footba...
Uefa to boycott World Cup in protest against Fifa sell-off
European governing body takes decision at crisis meeting in move that will likely trigger a collapse in Gianni Infantino’s scheme to sell stakes in tournament to private investors
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Film you’ve watched more than six times Hard Mode : No Star Trek, Star wars, LOTR, any Marvel, Disney or Ghibli
James Petruzzi@hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 7d agoFilm you’ve watched more than six times Hard Mode : No Star Trek, Star wars, LOTR, any Marvel, Disney or Ghibli
Hello, Mr Merz????
Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 7d ago++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
Im Jahr 2025 wurde in Deutschland erstmals mehr Strom aus Wind- und Sonnenenergie erzeugt als aus fossilen Brennstoffen. Quelle: Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, 2026.
A new Sekanina paper has dropped. 🔭☄️ arxiv.org/abs/2607.25939
Orbital Motion and History of Sungrazing Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS)
We report results of our extensive computations of the orbital motion of comet C/2026 A1, including its integration back to the fourth century and parallel integration of 1000 virtual clones. We focus...
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Attitude of now at least 28% of Germans: "We don't give a shit about climate protection. We want prosperity!"
FT reporting that Joshua Kushner, brother of Jared, wants to lead this deal…which underscores yet again that the World Cup hydration breaks and half-time show were the thin end of a Trumpian wedge to dominate the business of the game. Grift everwhere you look. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
World Cup: Uefa furious at reports Fifa plan to sell stakes in tournament
European football's governing body Uefa reacts furiously to proposals from Fifa to seek private investment in its competitions, including the World Cup.
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"This is more than just a niche issue for astronomers. This is an issue that's going to affect the quality of life for everybody on Earth." https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/private-companies-could-ruin-the-night-sky-for-the-entire-world-and-international-law-cant-stop-them
Private companies could ruin the night sky for the entire world, and international law can't stop them
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) can single-handedly approve space projects that will change the night sky around the world. The international community can do very little against it.
space.com
Der Islamismus braucht die AfD und die AfD braucht den Islamismus. Beide sind sich darin einig, dass Frauen, Queere und andere einfach weniger wert sind. Beide nehmen dankbar an, dass ihre Mitglieder durch den anderen radikalisiert werden.
Just saw the first episode of the fourth season of #STSNW and I have to say that the story was hanebüchen. This almost forgotten German word perfectly describes my impression. Maybe preposterous is a good English counterpart.
Seinfeld: Outrageous, Preposterous
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