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Marshall Eubanks @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social · 11h

New iron-bearing compounds identified as potential water reservoirs near Earth’s core (This is good news for Venus terraformers, as Venus should have this too.) idw-online.de/de/news877034

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New iron-bearing compounds identified as potential water reservoirs near Earth’s core

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Franklin Ratliff @rocketplane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@genejm1017.bsky.social @dsfpspacefl1ght.bsky.social The sat deployment does absolutely nothing towards the HLS goals of this vehicle. Nothing at all. They do not have a reusable rocket. They do not have a lunar rocket or lander. They have an LEO sat dispenser. That's not what NASA bought.

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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the fact that those five "terrorists" in Britain got out on bail really undercuts the THREATS EVERYWHERE!!!!! coverage that CNN is still trying to sell.

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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 28/09/2026

Just in case it wasn’t clear, when they say the U.S. Government’s paying for this, that’s YOUR taxpayer dollars they’re using. I’ll say this as many times as I need to: it is ILLEGAL to use American taxpayer dollars from the government to pay for candidates’ or parties’ political ads.

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no_tag_error @richardkeppler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Correct. Too rich to be held accountable. And to the rubes in flyover country, they’re sorcerers, creating artificial life. So the life itself must be liable, not the corporations or individuals.

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no_tag_error @richardkeppler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I was working at Symantec in Santa Monica 25 years ago in the live virus lab with about 100,000 real viruses. It was very easy to prevent their “escape”; no network connection to the outside. No physical media could leave.

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'll also come back to ESOC to be with the operations team when the images come down and do some live processing. Watch this space and the @esa.int channels for the images tomorrow evening CEST :)

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Coming up tomorrow, ESA's Juice spacecraft will fly past Earth for another gravity assist! I had the fantastic opportunity to help planning the JMC shots this time around. We're trying a bunch of new things with this camera, so I'm really excited to see how they'll turn out. 🔭🧪 #planetsci

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Iran’s IRGC Navy says it seized a second US REMUS 600 underwater drone conducting surveillance in the Strait of Hormuz. Specialists are now extracting data from the drone.

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Marshall Eubanks @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Irving Finkel investigates the Amarna letters www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MZq... Finkel investigates the Amarna letters www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MZq...

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Irving Finkel reads the Pharaoh's private mail | Curator's Corner ep 100

YouTube video by The British Museum

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Chase Million @millionconcepts.com · 25/09/2026

VP of Firefly quoted here referring to "subsidized cost-per-kilo model" for launch wrt SpaceX. Is everyone coming around to the fact (or finally willing to state publicly) that Falcon 9 was never as cheap as claimed, and that SpaceX has been doing venture backed predatory pricing for a decade?

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The Era of Cheap, Price-Per-Kilo Launch is Over, Launchers Say

PARIS — Space launch competitors think it’s time for a new model of pricing in the launch market. Against the backdrop of SpaceX winding down the Falcon 9

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Over the last few months people who like to say things like “don’t be a chart pervert” have become obsessed with this particular chart, because it looks how they want and they think it supports their narrative. But it’s actually a weird measure that doesn’t really reflect how people are doing.

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SpaceNews @spacenewsinc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Rocket Lab downplays importance of NASA business as it pursues Mars mission protest Even as Rocket Lab protests a NASA Mars contract, the company is downplaying the role the agency plays in its overall business....

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Rocket Lab downplays importance of NASA business as it pursues Mars mission protest

Even as Rocket Lab protests a NASA Mars contract, the company is downplaying the role the agency plays in its overall business.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“We need to move past these tiresome bureaucrats and wonks, and enter the age of pure feeling” when has this ever gone badly

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Let’s move past this chart era” an all timer

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 24/09/2026

Yes. I think the consensus among US elite pundits and senior politicians that the way to protect liberal democracy is *not* to punish elite figures who violate its rules is wrong. A norm starting at least with the Watergate pardon. The opposite is true. You need to enforce the law and Constitution.

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Marshall Eubanks @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Discovery of radio emission from the exoplanet β Pictoris b We detect rapid, recurring, and highly circularly polarized bursts, as well as persistent emission, at frequencies of 0.85 to 3.5 GHz. We identify the emission as cyclotron maser radiation arxiv.org/abs/2609.16720

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Discovery of radio emission from the exoplanet $β$ Pictoris b

Planetary magnetic fields shape atmospheric escape, mediate interactions with stellar winds, and encode information about planetary interiors, yet they have not been directly measured for planets beyo...

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte: Article 5 is deliberately ambiguous, so we will never exactly tell anyone when Article 5 is exactly triggered or not, because we don't want to make our adversaries any wiser.

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OSINTdefender (MIRROR) @sentdefenderx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

U.S. Secret Service announcing road closures for Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the U.S. today. Original post

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026

i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is a good post, and a thing well worth pointing out. "There is no bottom" isn’t a slogan, it’s an empirical observation. There is—*literally*—nothing that’s out of bounds now for Republicans. If you can think of it, *yes*, they’re capable of it and it may actually happen now in your lifetime.

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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hey, let's temporarily lower prices for most of the country at the expense of New England and the rest of the world until we drain our PADD 1A entirely and then have to go hat-in-hand back to the world market where everyone is really mad at us. It'll be GREAT!

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The current position of the United States is: If you are a smaller, weaker country, we will conquer you and loot your resources. Law of the jungle, baby. Also: You are required to like us and treat us well and give us great deals, and we will be extremely upset if you treat us like a threat.

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Marshall Eubanks @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

USRA’s Lunar and Planetary Institute is pleased to announce that the 58th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) will be held in The Woodlands, Texas, at The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel and Convention Center from March 15–19, 2027.

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Marshall Eubanks @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The ESA spacecraft JUICE is approaching the Earth for its second Earth Gravity Assist (EGA) this weekend. Here it is detected from the ground from 7.14 million km away. britastro.org/observations...

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Observation by Nick James: JUICE incoming at 7.14 million km - BAA Image Library

JUICE incoming at 7.14 million km

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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

HiPOD: Rhythmic Layering in Arabia Terra These deposits are undergoing erosion, which has produced crenulations, pits, and jagged edges. Darker wind-blown ripples and debris has more recently covered and infilled portions of the layered deposit. uahirise.org/ESP_092890_1825

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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Happy 118th birthday, spacetime. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ Hermann Minkowski addressed the 80th Assembly of German Natural Scientists and Physicians #OTD in 1908, offering a radical four-dimensional reformulation of Einstein's theory of special relativity. Here is how he opened his address.

"The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. They are radical. Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality."
- Hermann Minkowski, 1908

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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Northern Pygmy-Owl is a tiny raptor 17cm British Columbia down through the US and into Mexico Nest inside a tree hallow. Female incubates for 28days Male diligently feeds her. Parents feed Owlets for 30 days in the nest They are fed 4 mores weeks while hopping in the trees until they can fly.

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Marshall Eubanks @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ranking occultation opportunities Making choices since we can’t do every event that comes along. (by Marc Buie) occsci.substack.com/p/ranking-oc...

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Ranking occultation opportunities

Making choices since we can’t do every event that comes along.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Based on a real life story with one of the most incredible pieces of Casting in film history, this isn’t just one of the best British films of the 80’s it’s one of the best post-war British films ever. THE KILLING FIELDS (1984) Haing S. Ngor

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Starship Celtica ☀️ @starshipceltica.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A NEW CRATER ON THE MOON: "McGetchin" crater has been photographed. Here are two examples: #1, #2 and a finder chart. spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload... spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload... spaceweather.com/images2026/1... spaceweather.com

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Starship Celtica ☀️ @starshipceltica.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sea Ice Today ❄️ National Snow and Ice Data Center nsidc.org/sea-ice-today

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/09/2026

But - by definition - it can't contain any of our future surprises, because it's just trained on the things we already know, and if we knew about something, it wouldn't be a surprise anymore.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/09/2026

With LLMs, we have invented a machine that uncovers the statistical regularities in our seemingly irregular world, and we have learned that the roughness is rarer than our intuition led us to believe.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/09/2026

And also: the fact that you can use a statistical lookup table to predict what words someone is going to say doesn't mean you *understand* them, a fact that you will learn the minute that person says something *surprising*, like "I want a divorce."

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/09/2026

This is an obviously repellent idea and you have to feel for this guy's poor wife.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/09/2026

Some weeks ago, I recorded a podcast with a host who was a giant AI booster who claimed that since he could predict what his wife was going to say, and the LLM-powered predictive typing on her phone could predict what she was going to say, that her phone understood her the way he did.

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