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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 51m

How would we know? Hasn’t happened here! (Unless we count the whales?)

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Mike Freeman @mfreeman.bsky.social · 2h

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Book of Rules: My band GROOVADELICS covering a Heptones tune a few weeks ago… #reggae GROOVADELICS youtu.be/O9c6aPci6KI?...

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GROOVADELICS Book of Rules

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 13h

Are well-behaved, leashed dogs allowed on the patio?

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Book of Rules: My band GROOVADELICS covering a Heptones tune a few weeks ago… #reggae GROOVADELICS youtu.be/O9c6aPci6KI?...

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GROOVADELICS Book of Rules

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 30/09/2026

Oh my. The aurora borealis, seen in ultraviolet light from space. Our planet, putting on a show ✨

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 30/09/2026

We cannot become numb to this. Reporting via CNN

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yes - publishers will try to get you to do what they are already familiar with. I’m glad you stuck to your guns & wrote what you wanted. I look forward to reading it!

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mark Sykes describes just how much funding is being withheld from NASA's Planetary Research & Analysis programs: blog.planetary-research.org/2026/09/25/r... (With the context of how what Congress has ordered has already been well below what the National Academies recommended.)

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just came across this cool artifact: “Viking Lander Biological Instrument, Life on Mars” matchbox. (“The most complex instrument ever flown “) From a party in Pasadena for first Mars landing in 1976. Handed down to me by the late, great Shirley Arden (Carl Sagan’s long time executive assistant). 🧪

Picture of a gold matchbox with black design of a little Martian bug holding a spear and sword, with the lettering: VLBI, the most complex instrument ever flown.

Other side of the matchbook .The little Martian dude with “TRW” and “Life on Mars?”

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026

EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here’s my band GROOVADELICS covering Toots and the Maytals last Saturday: youtu.be/MelRWApaZnM?...

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GROOVADELICS- 5446 Was My Number

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here’s my band GROOVADELICS covering Toots and the Maytals last Saturday: youtu.be/MelRWApaZnM?...

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yes, your substrate is undoubtedly distinct. And perhaps that’s determinative. But you feel you know enough about what makes a mind to find this distinction gives you complete certainty that complex software cannot make a mind?

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

How do you know? Do you know what makes a mind? Or how it works? Or what happens when we create a sufficiently complex machine that recognizes patterns, connects information and iterates in novel ways? If so, you are the only person on Earth who does.

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

For one and all who need to hear this, me included

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“There is nothing new under the sun. But there are new suns.” — Octavia Butler 🧪

A JWST image of the “pillars of creation”

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“There is nothing new under the sun. But there are new suns.” — Octavia Butler 🧪

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Fun conversation with @starstryder.space on @cosmoquest.org about searching for life on Mars and elsewhere and the legacy, and fond memories, of the Viking missions. youtu.be/dKrgLRCe9H8?...

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Viking: Chasing Astrobiology then and now with David Grinspoon

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It is fascinating to see Jacob Coxon attacked from the left “He’s making it up to boost share values” & the right “He’s making it up to force regulation”. Anyone who doubts AI could cause existential risks lacks imagination. Anyone who thinks they know the level of! risk is overconfident. So…(1/2) 🧪

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

(Nobody really thinks it’s likely returned samples could harm or destroy life, or spacecraft could harm an alien biosphere. But can’t say risk = 0, & consequences could be dire. So assume the worst, isolate samples, clean spacecraft, avoid contaminating possible habitats, often at great expense.)

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is a classic case where the precautionary principle should apply. In my field, with Planetary Protection, we observe international protocols and take extreme measures to guard against possible risks which are, objectively, much more improbable. It’s the sane and responsible approach. (2/2) 🧪

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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Andreas Sieber @andreassieber.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#Nepal needs $5bn to rebuild from the #floods. Oil giants Exxon, Chevron & Shell made $36.5bn profit in the past quarter alone. The #LossandDamage Fund can provide only up to $20 million in emergency support. Shared thoughts with @stuti.bsky.social on why this is a test for #climatejustice.

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Nepal floods disaster offers crucial first test of world climate fund

Nepal wants up to $5bn to rebuild after devastating floods – a figure that is 200 times what’s on offer. Stuti Mishra explains where that leaves the Himalayan nation

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’ve been getting about one of these per week for decades. Haven’t noticed a recent uptick. And yeah they’re almost all from men. I keep them in a file labeled “kook”. Can’t possibly read them all and sometimes I wonder if hiding in the kook file is some genuinely important insight. But I doubt it…

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thank you @exploratorium.bsky.social for hosting my talk Thursday on “Shaping Earth’s Future” What a cool museum and great audience. 🙏🏼 🧪

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thank you @exploratorium.bsky.social for hosting my talk Thursday on “Shaping Earth’s Future” What a cool museum and great audience. 🙏🏼 🧪

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There’s no legitimate purpose for ICE to have this information. There are a ton of nefarious ones, though.

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Schnozzy @thewizardofschnoz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Americans need to understand their place in the world. American decisions are leading to higher costs globally. Your idiot is screaming in our faces too. Australia in an affordability crisis fuelled by your democratic cancer and illegal wars We don't have the vote, please start voting better.

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Aww the great and powerful Gloria Steinem has died. I’ll never forget hearing her speak when I was a grad student in Tucson, and she asked “Workers of the world, who is doing your laundry?” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...

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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92

She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

47 years ago today the magnificent ringed planet Saturn was visited for the first time by a spacecraft from Earth: NASA’s Pioneer 11. 🧪🔭

Saturn, half lit, and a sliver of ring, looking in vast darkness, photographed by Pioneer 11.

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’m doing 2 presentations at Exploratorium in San Fran Thurs 9/3 part of "After Dark: Pale Blue Dot" 7:30 PM “OUR PLANETARY FUTURE: How can we go from just changing Earth to caring for it?" 8:15 "Ask an Astrobiologist Anything" discussion. Hope to see you! www.exploratorium.edu/visit/calend...

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After Dark: Pale Blue Dot | Exploratorium Museum Event

Take a step way back and see our planet in context: a tiny yet dynamic system in a vast cosmic neighborhood.

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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After Dark: Pale Blue Dot | Exploratorium Museum Event

Take a step way back and see our planet in context: a tiny yet dynamic system in a vast cosmic neighborhood.

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

There are 2 huge threats to the survival of our democracy. They are related but distinct. Once we rescue our country from the attempts by Trump & his cronies to subvert elections, we will be left with the task of clawing power back from oligarchs & corporations. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...

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‘The Least Transparent Midterm’: How Dark Money Is Washing Over the 2026 Election (Gift Article)

At least $1 billion from anonymous donors is flowing into the midterm elections. Dark money is not new, but it now permeates nearly every major contest.

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Found it: www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2...

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Why I’m not watching, though I’m so excited about this telescope. Can’t take the promotion of the fascists mixed in with the wonder…

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s odd, and a little disappointing, that @barbmcquade.bsky.social (whom I admire greatly) would assume that everyone is reporting differently from her on this because we must just “believe what we read on social media posts”, when we’re actually reporting on what we see directly on Google Maps.

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Also odd, and a little disappointing, that Mcquade (whom I admire greatly) would assume that everyone is reporting differently from her on this because we must just “believe what we read on social media”.

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

That’s odd, Barb. Mine switched to “America” so I promptly deleted the app. I wonder what’s going on to give us different results?

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