Space Archaeology
@spacearchaeology.bsky.social
Space archaeology, xenoarchaeology, exoarchaeology, aviation archaeology, aerospace archaeology, space heritage, technosignatures, SETT, SETA, SETI, science fiction, [NB: uses Amazon affiliate links]
Calling my #astrophotography chums in the Americas: will you be staying up late tonight with your telescopes trained on the Einstein Crater? Impact: 02:34 EDT; 4 tonnes of Space-X metal (15m x 4m diameter) travelling 5400mph Expected: 50km high plume containing ~1Mkg of debris 😲🔭
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! 🔭🧪🛰️
Elon Musk's Starlink, alone, at planned full deployment, would have 29 TONS of debris re-entering the atmosphere every day. That's one car hitting the Earth somewhere every hour. Add in Amazon's Kuiper and Eutelsat's OneWeb projects and that's just a huge disaster waiting. pirg.org/edfund/resou...
Environmental harms of satellite internet mega-constellations
Fueled by satellite internet companies, the number of satellites in orbit is skyrocketing. The environmental risks may be massive.
pirg.org
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
That SpaceX Falcon 9 debris that will impact Einstein crater on 5th August: 4 metric tonnes mass 8,000 kph velocity 17 meter impact radius 100km altitude ejecta Equivalent to 3 tonnes of TNT
Drifting SpaceX rocket heading for accidental collision with moon
Scientists and sky gazers will watch intently as rocket’s upper stage slams into lunar surface on Wednesday
theguardian.com
On August 5, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is predicted to crash onto the Moon. What has crashed on the Moon before? The very first human object to touch the Moon - Luna 2 in 1959. A probe, 3 bombs, and a rocket body! 🧪 🔭
1959: Luna 2 (USSR)
YouTube video by International Astronautical Federation
m.youtube.com
The SETI Institute's Wow! Literary Award invites writers and poets working in literature, speculative fiction/sci-fi, experimental poetry, and philosophy to submit original, unpublished creative work that reflects and expands on the SETI Institute’s “Intelligence and Consciousness” research area...
Our fab Patreon supporters now have access to our conversation with the Pima Air and Space Museum's CEO, Scott Marchard, 'live' from the cockpit of the Museum's B-36 Peacemaker as the aircraft begins its restoration after nearly 20 years in the sun. www.patreon.com/theaviations...
"chemical technosignatures—operationally, compositional patterns better explained by an idealized “processed” template (endmember) than by the empirical distribution of natural rocks"
@cosmos4u.bsky.social · 4d agoA Calibrated Bayesian Search for Potential Chemical Technosignatures in Polluted White Dwarfs: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... -> Seeking Technosignatures in Polluted White Dwarfs: aasnova.org/2026/07/15/s...
"Even the researchers in “The Call of Cthulhu” needed a bit more than a few dreams before they concluded Cthulhu was sending them."
Diana Pasulka Can't Answer Simple Joe Rogan Query: "How Do You Know It's True?"
Yesterday, Diana Pasulka appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience to promote her new book, which I reviewed earlier this week. The interview did not go well for Pasulka, who seemed surprised that...
jasoncolavito.com
"In the isolated thickets of a faraway planet, a linguist lies dead … But no one wants to talk: not the prospectors searching for mineral wealth, not the archaeologists trying to piece together a ruined city … and certainly not the indigenous people whose language the dead woman was researching."
Amazon.com: Testament of Leaves: 9781958880302: Gilman, Carolyn Ives: Books
Amazon.com: Testament of Leaves: 9781958880302: Gilman, Carolyn Ives: Books
amazon.com
Back when Skylab was falling to Earth in 1979, I was predicting there may come a time there would be so many satellites in orbit, then dropping, a special daily forecast would be required. 🔭 🧪
Natalie Bennett@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 5d ago"Study for the Federal Aviation Administration concluded by 2035, debris from SpaceX satellites alone could kill or injure someone every two years." Into orbit doesn't mean safely away #Pollution #PublicHealth www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/w...
Earth and space are no longer separate domains. Space junk should be managed as a more-than-planetary interconnected system extending from the spacecraft cemetery at the bottom of the ocean, through the atmosphere, to all Earth and lunar orbits. 🧪 🔭 #SpaceJunk
13,000 tonnes of space junk clutters Earth orbit. Here’s how it could be cleaned up
Properly addressing the problem of space requires work across three fronts: technology, policy and philosophy.
theconversation.com
“Even a single collision can generate thousands of fragments, creating a cascade effect that threatens other spacecraft and, in the worst case, could render certain orbits unusable” Why space urgently needs a clean-up #spacedebris www.aerosociety.com/news/keep-ou...
obsessed with the font on IKEA's clam chowder packaging. this is what's in the freezer on the Nostromo
A SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon next week, and scientists aren't sure what to expect www.space.com/astronomy/mo...
A SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon next week, and scientists aren't sure what to expect
"Watching this one gives us a rare chance to open up ejecta-plume science and calibrate those models against a real event, which matters for every future thing we deliver to the moon."
space.com
A widely used definition of space junk: any object in space which does not now, or in the foreseeable future, serve a useful purpose. 🧪 🔭
SpaceX rocket that exploded shortly after takeoff destroyed land & wildlife: Concrete chunks had left craters a foot deep & were strewn across tidal flats, almost four acres of state park burned, 7 bobwhite quail eggs & a collection of blue land crabs incinerated. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
SpaceX Blast Left Officials in Disbelief Over Environmental Damage
Fish and Wildlife Service biologists expressed frustrations in emails obtained by Bloomberg.
bloomberg.com
Connected under the Milky Way: new exhibition shares Indigenous astronomical knowledge from Australia to South Africa
Connected under the Milky Way: new exhibition shares Indigenous astronomical knowledge from Australia to South Africa
The Yamaji-Wajarri people studied the wide-open skies of their country for millennia before being host to one of the world’s largest radio telescopes * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Carlleen Dingo’s earliest memories are of looking up at the inky black skies above Australia’s north-west coastline, awash with planets, stars and galaxies. Geraldton, or Jambinu, is a coastal town 600 kilometres north of Perth, known for its wildflowers, red earth, fierce winds, undulating sandy dunes. But at night, there’s another world on display. Continue reading...
theguardian.com
"In maybe the best moment of the panel, the team revealed that Spaceballs would be the first film in a cinematic universe called the Almighty Schwartz Saga, aka the ASS. They even revealed plans for an ASSwhole with a massive selection of screens that went by so fast, we couldn’t catch them all."
Substrate-Agnostic 3x: Biosignatures, Technosignatures, Ecologies astrobiology.com/2026/07/22/s... #astrobiology #Biosignature #Technosignature #SETI
Substrate-Agnostic 3x: Biosignatures, Technosignatures, Ecologies
[physics.gen-ph] Substrate-agnostic perspectives are currently attracting increased attention. For example, it has become customary to refer to agnostic biosignatures to reflect the range of alternati...
astrobiology.com