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Pat MacEwen @patmac53.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

www.planetary.org/planetary-ra... - A one-hour-long webcast on what kind of drones, robots, and sensors look to be most useful in exploring caves and lava tubes and such on the Moon and Mars and other parts of our solar system.

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2026 NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts Symposium: Part 1 — Nuclear…

Researchers at the 2026 NIAC Symposium share their bold concepts for exploring the most inaccessible places in our Solar System, from the Moon's…

Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 02/10/2026

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What will our world feel like when the Climate collapses? Sci-Fi authors partnered with artists and scientists to imagine. They created the prototypes of our uncertain future #ManufacturedEcosystems is funded by @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca New Frontiers in Research books.lib.uoguelph.ca/manufactured...

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Manufactured Ecosystems

Manufactured Ecosystems offers seven visions of ecosystems services in the future by science fiction writers from across Canada and North America. Featuring stories by Chinelo Onwualu, Jennifer Gougé,...

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Pat MacEwen @patmac53.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj3H... - This video runs long: an hour and 14 minutes, but pays close attention to the three hottest prospects for finding life within our own solar system: Europa, Enceladus, and Titan. Has a transcript option is you want to read it instead.

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Techer Live: JPL and the Search for Life Beyond Earth

YouTube video by caltech

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Pat MacEwen @patmac53.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“The PRIMA mission is humanity’s next window into the deep universe. It will unveil the obscure across cosmic time to better understand the formation of planets, stars, black holes, and even how water on Earth came to be,” said Nicky Fox, ass. admin. Science Mission Directorate, NASA.

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Pat MacEwen @patmac53.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

www.nasa.gov/news-release... - Cross your fingers, and hope for luck re budgetary cutbacks! "PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics)...is a space telescope in a new class of NASA astrophysics missions, called Probe Explorers, within the agency’s longstanding Explorers Program.

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NASA Selects Far-Infrared Telescope as First in New Mission Class - NASA

Editor's Note: This release was updated on Sept. 24, 2026, to reflect current international partners.

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Pat MacEwen @patmac53.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

scim.ag/4g00wLw - This matters. California grows a fourth of the entire country's produce, and without reliable water sources (snowpack, rainfall, rivers, subterranean aquifers and reservoirs) we could all find ourselves in a hole when it comes to groceries. Take a look at where Lake Mead is.

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A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return

Satellite data reveal in unprecedented detail how groundwater reservoirs permanently lose their ability to store water

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Pat MacEwen @patmac53.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Guess where else has volcanic activity??? Europa!!

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Pat MacEwen @patmac53.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

www.sciencenews.org/article/fire... - More about that amazing new extremophile they've found in Lassen Park, near the volcano! This piece describes the work being done right to nail down how and why this particular amoeba is so resistant to high heat...

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Meet the ‘fire amoeba,’ a record-breaking survivor of extreme heat

Incendiamoeba cascadensis can replicate at 145° F, breaking the heat tolerance record for eukaryotes, a domain of life that includes plants and animals.

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Pat MacEwen @patmac53.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

science.nasa.gov/science-rese... - An amoeba is quite a bit more complex than bacteria. It's a one-celled life form with a nucleus that contains chromosomes as well as mitochondria that contain bacterial DNA. Cells like it were the start of multicellular life on this planet. Could it happen again?

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NASA-Funded Research Finds Complex Life Defying Record Heat - NASA Science

Lee esta historia en español aquí.

Pat MacEwen @patmac53.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not a fan of AI in sooo many ways (my stories have been scraped too, with never a hint of acknowledgment let alone payment), but some things it does exceedingly well, like finding a whole new footing for genegineering!

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Pat MacEwen @patmac53.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Perseverance captured this striking rock formation with dark, branching layers spreading across the Martian surface. Its unusual shape resembles a giant spider, but it is a natural geological feature rather than an actual creature.

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Pat MacEwen @patmac53.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/... - This could open a whole new subsection of genetic engineering ... and using it to design bacteriophages? Could be a whole new approach to making new antibiotics, cuz phages that have infected not-quite-virulent bacteria so often turn them virulent.

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Claude scans 200,000 enzymes, uncover CRISPR-like system in phage DNA

950 Claude agents searched DNA for 21 hours and uncovered an enzyme system with unusual CRISPR-like repeat arrays.

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Pat MacEwen @patmac53.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That rover was perfectly named!

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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report

www.opb.org/article/2026... - Don’t buy the presidents BS on data centers. According to this report, they employ an average of 26 people per center but use a whopping 23% of the state's electricity. Which they want US to pay for. Twice over, cuz they're gonna charge us for the end product too.

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A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.

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Edited for length. Source: Echoes of Unbound Curiosity

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A Martian day runs longer than ours, so this machine has been grinding across all that for longer than most of us keep the same phone. Layered rock slabs scattered everywhere, hills aglow on the horizon; the sun hanging low and pale. Too bad nobody's standing there to see it. No one but Curiosity.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

5,000 days on Mars, and the nuclear-powered Curiosity rover is still out there sending postcards. NASA just dropped a fresh view of the Red Planet, shot by the rover to mark its 5,000th Martian day on the job.

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Reposted by Pat MacEwen

This is what they've done.

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Toys can do marvelous things... I used to carry an Eeyore hand puppet around in my photo bag when I was a CSI - He's simple to work as a puppet, fits any kid-sized hand, and NOBODY's afraid of him. Let that kid play with him, or the intruding noisy sibling... then do what you must and the kid's OK.

Whether you think in terms of 5 or 6 cats, however, I'd mind the weather report, cuz Polo is Baja Borne and: "Farther north, large swells and dangerous rip currents could reach Southern California, while tropical moisture moves into the Southwest, all the way to New Mexico!

So to quite a few hurricane pros, that qualifies as Cat 6! (and the fact that it happens to bear my name is a total and complete coincidence!!) Honest!

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Back in 2015, Hurricane Patricia was the most powerful tropical cyclone on record worldwide in terms of max sustained winds. Also the 2nd-most intense on record worldwide in terms of pressure, with a minimum atmospheric pressure of 872 mbar, just behind Typhoon Tip's 870 mbar. On this same path...

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Um, not so fast...Yes, "Polo went from 90 mph to 160 mph in roughly 15 hours. "Parts of southwestern Mexico could see 4 to 8 inches of rain, with isolated amounts near 12 inches, bringing a serious threat of flash flooding and mudslides. BUT 5 is no longer the highest category.

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Mrmbb333 STRONGEST STORM ON THE PLANET: POLO SOARS TO CATEGORY 5 Polo just reached the top of the scale. After being a tropical storm with winds of just 40 mph roughly a day and a half ago, Polo has strengthened into a Category 5 hurricane with sustained winds of 160 mph.

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The whale was spotted in San Francisco Bay the day before it showed up a mile south of the Rio Vista Bridge. The Marine Mammal Center knows this one via 15 sightings over 24 years... Rio Vista's been here before, with Humphrey in 1985 and Delta and Dawn in 2007. Both of those stories ended well.

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A whale in the Sacramento River! "A group of salmon anglers near Rio Vista were expecting a bite... What they got... was a humpback whale rising next to their 21-foot boat... 60 miles inland from the Pacific. One thought he was looking at a submarine. Video hit every NorCal feed within hours.

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Pat MacEwen @patmac53.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Active Norcal Re: 🐋 A Whale in the Sacramento River

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www.livescience.com/space/extrat... - Sounds a bit pipe-dreamish to me, but so were interstellar visitors like Oumouamoua, until we built tech that could spot them. Definitely a basis for a different take on alien invasion/first contact stories, don't you think?

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Tech from long-lost alien civilizations may be hiding in moon dust, scientists claim — and they have a plan to search for it

Researchers propose that tiny technological remnants from extinct alien civilizations could have landed on the moon after traveling through interstellar space. And it may not take long to find them, t...

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"It turned out concerns about her work had been raised... a decade earlier. "What finally stopped her was an intern. In September 2023, a student on a research project noticed missing information in a case Woods handled... She was put on leave within weeks and then resigned."

The God Complex. Her need to play God. It beat out her responsibility to EVERYONE ELSE to do her best on every case. She's done damage to every other CSI's credibility as well as innocent people and the victims of perps who weren't caught when they could have been. 10 years? Not NEARLY enough!

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That question she asked: "What's going on in my brain that's making me do this?" It has an answer:

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"In three murder cases already headed to trial, prosecutors cut plea deals for lighter sentences rather than risk putting her DNA work in front of a jury. Her defense? ""I don't really know why I was doing it," she had told investigators. "What's going on in my brain that's making me do this?"

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"She pleaded guilty in June to perjury, forgery, cybercrime and attempting to influence a public servant. Prosecutors dropped 100 other charges in the deal. Colorado is now retesting evidence in more than a thousand cases..."

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"An internal report later found...concerns about her work had been raised... a decade earlier... "What finally stopped her was an intern. In September 2023, a student on a research project noticed missing information in a case Woods handled... She was put on leave within weeks and then resigned."

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"Woods spent 29 years at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, where she was the star DNA expert with a reputation for closing cases faster than anyone. Investigators have...found 1,045 of her cases were tainted. More than 400 were sexual assaults. One murder conviction has already been thrown out."

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This infuriates me! "A Colorado DNA analyst deleted male DNA in 32 sexual assault cases, then reported none was found. She was just sentenced to 10 years... as Yvonne "Missy" Woods was handcuffed and led out, people whose cases ran through her lab shouted, "LIAR! LIAR! LIAR!"

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Arctic warming fuels 2 distinct climate regimes in Siberia that could wake up a methane 'sleeping giant'

www.livescience.com/planet-earth... - What d'you mean 'COULD' wake up a sleeping giant? For more than 20 years now, we've had lakes in Siberia that no longer freeze over in winter because they are being stirred year-round by methane. And in some parts, there are giant craters from methane blow-outs!

livescience.com

New research finds that western Siberia is becoming wetter as the world warms, while eastern Siberia seems to be getting drier. And both these conditions are fueling a rise in methane emissions, spell...

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Where on Earth is safest from global catastrophe?

www.livescience.com/planet-earth... - I have my doubts about their answer, which is.... Australia! If (and only if) climate change brings out some significant greening of Oz's outback do I think this might be the best choice to sit out a Black Swan event. You?

livescience.com

Researchers have worked out the safest, most resilient country to be in during an apocalyptic event.

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Source: www.facebook.com/reel/1674649...

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I'm trying to post a reel concerning "The Truth about Einstein" by Lauren Hill. I will include the FB link for it but I was told that I have now been banned for another 3 months from reposting anything on FaceFart because I am violating their community standards. By trying to tell the truth.

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