Well, at least this clown looks the part.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

Today in 1976, 50 years ago, the Viking 1 lander touched down on Chryse Planitia, Mars, and became humanity's first long term outpost on another world (the Venera Venus landers lasted an hour or two, Viking 1 lasted over 6 years).

Watching England-Argentina, not sure what England's coach was thinking. Messi and Argentina are going to score late in the game. Every time. Focusing on defense instead of scoring was not bright. In football, there is something called prevent defense, which doesn't work. This is is soccer's version.

Left: Venus, 1 March 1982 Centre: Titan, 14 January 2005 Right: Boston, 15 July 2026

Today in 2020, I photographed Comet Neowise from downtown Knoxville. With the pandemic raging, it was fascinating to see people all take pictures of it from around where they live instead of traveling to exotic locations.

This keeps happening. I'm actually in Alaska right now. It's also happening back home. Other than a flight layover in 2025, I haven't been to Texas in many years. I want to know what is wrong with Bluesky's location system, and why it is that the Texas legislature feels like it can bother people.

First proposal submitted where I am a Co PI. This is quite a challenge. I've been involved in proposals and projects where I am in charge and not in charge. Being in charge but with others is probably my weakest area, but this is a project that isn't going to work another way. Details if selected.

History repeats itself first by tragedy, second by farce. www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-...

'This was not easy', Trump says while signing Iran MOU at Versailles

President Trump signed the Iran memorandum of understanding at the Palace of Versailles during dinner hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron. The signing of the interim agreement to end hostilitie...

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Where Spain?

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

Joe Rogan wants One Million Dollars.....seriously, he's turning into Dr. Evil.

alexis simpson@amutepiggy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

my man looking like the baby from the Teletubby sun grew up to be an alcoholic

Pete is right. Don't be stupid.

Psycho Pete@psychopete.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ll add Roku to the fox boycott but it does not mean you should get rid of your existing Roku. That money is already spent. Just need to withhold new money. Just don’t do your subscriptions through Roku and don’t buy new Roku TVs. psychopete1.substack.com/p/psycho-pet...

Company, shmumpany. The oligarch Musk has the power.

East Anglia Bylines@eastangliabylines.co.uk · 2mo ago

The comparison is striking: SpaceX's share of the launch market may now exceed the share of Asian trade once controlled by the East India Company. Researchers say history should give policymakers pause.

The Surveyor 1 spacecraft touched down on the Moon #OTD in 1966. It was the first soft landing by a US spacecraft on an extraterrestrial body, an important early step towards future crewed missions to the Moon. 🧪 🔭 🚀 Images: NASA/JPL

Cloudy Mars: Olympus and Tharsis, ESA Mars Express HRSC Massive 220MP image on Flickr ➡️ flic.kr/p/2seL8ss 🔭🧪 Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 2025-08-02 North is down HR242_0000 ND3+GR3+BL3 Notes: Cool cloud formation over the North Pole and a dust storm-like feature over Olympus Mons!

The Psyche Mars flyby images remind me of Triton. I think it's because Mars and Triton are the only two worlds we've visited with thin, normal altitude atmospheres that are still able to produce clearly visible features such as clouds blowing downwind (even if Triton's may all come from geysers).

This is a composite of the Moon, Mars, and Earth I made. The Moon and Earth are from Artemis II, and Mars is from the Psyche mission. Each image was taken *in the last six weeks*

Here is a mosaic from the close approach images. flic.kr/p/2sdCjqp For location reference I marked the area in MUTED (a nice Mars map website) muted.uni-muenster.de?x=76.063&y=6...

This is a weird moment in my career. I am intentionally being vague on details, but a grant to interlink our humanities program with a core course, including curricular and extracurricular things, was my main project until February, when I was warned to not do anything else until further notice.

Mars - Clouds over Terra Cimmeria - ESA Mars Express HRSC Full size 5k image: flic.kr/p/2sdpsHP 🔭🧪 Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 2025-07-24 South is up HR211_0000 ND3+GR3+BL3

This unassuming little crescent is actually something cool: It's a crescent Mars, seen by NASA's Psyche spacecraft as it approaches the Red Planet for a gravity assist flyby next week. Details: go.nasa.gov/4tsCLPQ

This is am amazing. Now if they could just get it close to Amalthea! Does anyone connected to Juno know if this might happen?

Daniel Pomarède@pomarede.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NASA’S Juno Misson Captures Jupiter Moon Thebe The spacecraft captured this view of Thebe, the second largest of Jupiter’s inner moons, during a close pass on May 1, 2026. science.nasa.gov/photojournal... 🧪🔭

Detection of an atmosphere on a trans-Neptunian object beyond Pluto: www.nature.com/articles/s41... -> Outer Solar System Object Has an Atmosphere But Shouldn’t: www.nao.ac.jp/en/news/scie... -> A small object past Pluto may have a thin atmosphere: www.sciencenews.org/article/atmo...

Detection of an atmosphere on a trans-Neptunian object beyond Pluto

Nature Astronomy - A stellar occultation campaign reveals a thin atmosphere around the plutino 2002 XV93, showing that even a modest-sized trans-Neptunian object can host an atmosphere, perhaps...

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HiPOD: A Mysterious Fractured Depression on Mars While we have learned so much about Mars after over 50 years of exploration with spacecraft, there are some features that continue to be mysteries. https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_071541_2200 NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #NASA

6:32:06 PM on Tuesday, April 21, 2026, over the North Pacific Ocean.

Well, isn’t this a sight for sore eyes! 😍 Our beloved Hubble appears in this amazing image from one of Vantor's WorldView Legion satellites. It was 36 years ago today that Hubble was launched in the bay of the Space Shuttle Discovery from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Credit: Vantor.

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

Strange seeing the eclipse photos from a few years ago (2024) pop up in my memories just after seeing the Artemis II eclipse. We watched from Paducah, Kentucky.

One is Pluto's moon Charon. One is Earth's moon, the Moon (aka Luna) A little shift in perspective, and even the most familiar objects in space look surprising and new. 🧪🔭

Oh this is a fun view. The Orientale basin on the limb of the Moon as seen through an Orion capsule window. You can see, especially at around 7:00, lines of impact craters marking the giant splat of ejecta that was thrown out of the crater during the impact. www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...