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Patrick McGovern

@planetpatman.bsky.social

Planetary Scientist, Husband, and Father. Was hockey player, now sedentary blimp. Board/strategy gamer with minimal playtime. Tsundoku Master. Opinions are mine alone.

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Paul Byrne@theplanetaryguy.com · 2h ago

Presenting at this meeting of the National Academies' CAPS meeting in a few minutes. I'll be talking, with Vicky Hamilton, about recommendations we made for NASA's research and analysis programs in the 2023 planetary science Decadal Survey. www.nationalacademies.org/projects/DEP...

Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Sciences - Meeting No. 1 on Planetary Research Program Metrics

This is an open session meeting of the Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Sciences to discuss its task on metrics for the Planetary Research Program. The Statement of Task for this study is as f...

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David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 4h ago

"Nolan could have used Shakespearean English with British Received Pronunciation accents, but that would have just made the film sound less familiar and wouldn’t have been any closer to Homeric Greek." 90% of the chud reaction to the language just wanted posh british accents

Eric Scott@captainfossil.bsky.social · yesterday

Today is "Soft Rains Day" for those who remember this haunting 1950 Ray Bradbury piece. It's classic Bradbury, eerily accurate w/ its predictions in some respects (looking at you, Alexa), and well worth a few moments of your day to read if you're so inclined.

Lisa Kadonaga@tapirtrouble.bsky.social · yesterday

Soft Rains Day. "Today is August 4, 2026, in the city of Allendale, California. Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills." RIP Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012

There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o'clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o 'clock! as if it were afraid that nobody would. The morning house lay empty. The clock ticked on, repeating and repeating its sounds into the emptiness. Seven-nine, breakfast time, seven-nine! In the kitchen the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh and ejected from its warm interior eight pieces of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunny side up, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two cool glasses of milk. "Today is August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, "in the city of Allendale, California." It repeated the date three times for memory's sake. "Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills." Source: https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf
Patrick McGovern@planetpatman.bsky.social · yesterday

Oooo what’s this? A lifelong Mets fan from <checks notes> Westchester County gets to live his dream of playing for his childhood favorites?!? Must be fake news, cuz as @asrivkin.bsky.social will tell you Westchester County is Yankees Territory ™️ 🧐 www.mlb.com/news/sammy-s...

From die-hard Mets fan to their new No. 11 prospect: Meet Sammy Stafura

Sammy Stafura was on the team bus from Greensboro to Rome on Monday afternoon when he saw a tweet saying his favorite team, the Mets, were trading reliever Luke Weaver. Then Stafura saw that Weaver wa...

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John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's incredible is how little folks understand about academe. Peer review is brutal. Academic Q+A is Troy level slaughter. Bros attacking a lady academic for a fair review would shit themselves on stage after a paper and break down into toddler tears after their first conference paper w a mean Q+A.

Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 6d ago

this week I learned that the singularity is when a human being fails to air gap hacking software (either accidentally due to incompetence or intentionally for marketing and media exploitation purposes)

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 6d ago

FIFA has a funny set-up where every country gets exactly one vote which means small countries are way overrepresented and you can hang on to power by promising little giveaways to those countries and their reps. Thankfully no similar system exists in the United States government, that would be bad

Riding With Robots@ridingrobots.bsky.social · last wk.

One of NASA's twin Mars-bound ESCAPADE spacecraft captured Earth and the Moon from 363K miles (584K km) away. In visible light, both appear as slim crescents. But switch to thermal infrared and it’s a different picture... 1/2

Against black space, Earth appears at left as a thin white-green crescent lit along its right edge. The Moon, slightly smaller and dimmer, sits at upper right as a matching tan crescent lit on the same side. Only a sliver of each world catches sunlight; the rest of both disks is lost in darkness.In infrared, Earth glows with heat represented by warm colors, while the Moon remains mostly dark.
Josef Aschbacher@josefaschbacher.esa.int · last wk.

My teams have completed all necessary checks and testing of the Cebreros station. After careful review, we have declared the antenna GREEN for nominal operations as of 27 July.

Josef Aschbacher@josefaschbacher.esa.int · 2w ago

Based on current information, the Cebreros station appears to have remained unharmed. My deepest thanks go to the Spanish emergency services whose efforts helped protect the site as wildfires approached. Left: 24 July 19:57, Right: 25 July 07:54

Mika McKinnon@mikamckinnon.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m still thinking about this. The Deep Space Network is such core infrastructure. It’s huge, international, not very flashy, and utterly vital. I tried to place stories on it for years and rarely succeeded. Funding was always touchy. For repairs…? But without it, our space robots can’t call home.

Andy Scollick@andyscollick.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex at Robledo de Chavela municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain on fire. Burgohondo wildfire. 📷 via Infues Avila