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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have no horse in that race, but I do love a good car crash (and mixed metaphors)

Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Genie AI theory: Classical genies granting wishes work maliciously to take the wish at its most literal or context-free to grant the wisher what they said rather than what they meant. LLMs do exactly the same thing because that's all they can do. Malice intended or not, the effect is often the same.

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Only if the dongle is unlocked by an auto-renewing monthly floating license key subscription.

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Name a non LotR character who could resist the One Ring.

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Absolutely. www.kiss.caltech.edu/final_report...

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Big fan of 2 Venuses. We may have to borrow this next semester. I have no idea what 16 engineers would do with it. Though hopefully the mix will include science folks.

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

100% So many lines. It's in my very small (absolutely subjective) Pantheon of Perfect Movies

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'd forgotten that - kind of a clincher there

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Jonesy. "I thought i heard singin'" "Estmate range 3000 yards, closin' awful fast."

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I first saw The Princess Bride a little less than 39 years ago, and am watching it again in an outdoor movie night outside a favorite wine store. Nearly twice as much life lived after as before, but it hits a lot the same.

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I know I'm wrong, but I would be tickled if she were illustrating an intro geology textbook and that's s crop of a subduction diagram. With elves.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 13/08/2026

The wealthiest man in human history—who clearly performed several Nazi salutes on Inauguration Day 2025—is directly responsible for the deaths of up to 14 million people, including 4.5 million children, by 2030. He's not "quirky" or "weird" or "awkward". He's a fucking monster.

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

To their credit, the Sox excell at making people unhappy

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There aren’t that many other kinds of bread that actually break. People who build an identity dependent on enemies will always find them.

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

You are certainly skeeting as hard as you can to make that happen.

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Can life exist, full-cycle, in a planet's atmosphere? We know life spends time in our atmosphere, but does anything live there full time? How about Venus, other solar system planets, or exoplanets? How can we know? Atmospheres as Habitats, now in Astrobiology (open access) doi.org/10.1177/1531...

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Atmospheres as Habitats - Noam R. Izenberg, Diana M. Gentry, Rakesh Mogul, Kevin McGouldrick, Paul A. Burke, Paul K. Byrne, Stephen R. Kane, Tom A. Nordheim, Kevin B. Stevenson, Michael J. Way, Thomas...

The potential of planetary atmospheres as habitats is understudied and likely underestimated. Although planetary atmospheres can provide the fundamental physica...

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Is there a codex somewhere? For us?

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

*standing up on the plane* Here come old flat-top, he come groovin' up slowly He got ju-ju eyeball, he one holy roller He got hair down to his knee Got to be a joker, he just do what he please He wear no shoeshine, he got toe-jam football He got monkey finger, he shoot Coca-Cola He say, "I know you

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Dragaera clocks in at (or will) at 25-26 I think (counting the upcoming final 2). I think that's my limit.

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I don't think I am capable of reading 54 books of any one thing.

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

"Starmind." The name itself is practically the Platonic Ideal of hubris. And "Starship". Names that have not yet broken LEO. One never will by design, the other's greatest ambitions barely exceed the inner solar system.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 21/07/2026

The U.S. Secretary of Defense just stated that—so far—the war with Iran has cost $37.5 billion dollars. That's since February. That same amount is how much the United States spent on planetary science from FY2013 through FY2026 inclusive. Thirteen years of planetary science or five months of war.

The Curiosity rover on Mars. At about $2.6 billion, it buys you about ten days of Iran war.

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I made (and happily wear) a T-shirt with the first, but now I'm thinking of adding the second with the new font - it would increase the nerd factor by a nontrivial amount.

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Viking had that effect on a lot of us. It helped crystalize my 8-year-old obsession with Star Trek into something achievable. I have a feeling that the Apollo+Trek+Viking Venn diagram of influences looks pretty similar to a lot of 1960's-born spacefolks

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I need this music for personal reference

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Starliner, Virgin Galactic, Starship There are probably more, and I can't help but think the over-reach - the absurd mis-proportioning of those names is a problem for and with the modern human space era. Perhaps just the commercial side. Feels like the "XTREME" silliness of the 90's

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It matters as far as overpromising and underdelivering is concerned, but not in the final analysis. Musk will never land a live human on Mars.

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

We've got 50 years to get back to it. Sounds like a long time, but with the damage being done today, it ain't. Still have to try.

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Musk embodies the Platonic Ideal of a James Bond villain. The biggest problem with that is we have no actual James Bond.

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

We would need several thousand of our sensors to power the spacecraft, and that would exceed our mass allocation.

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Most Gen Xers I know would not have chosen that moniker. Just like we would not have chosen a lot of things

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

There are (bacterial) life forms on Earth that may live millions of years. There is, apparently, a rather fine line between dead and immortal.

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Reminds me of the "Moon's haunted" meme. Defo makes ye want to blow it up

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

That's one of the best things I've ever seen

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Til fairly recently I would have been happy to have nostalgia win and restore Pluto. Even happier if nostalgia had restored Ceres. These events make me actively disinterested in reclassification of any kind.

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Russ Vought is a sociopath and should have treated as such decades ago

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I will admit I mistook smudges on my laptop screen for divisions at least twice.

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Post your favourite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/02/2026

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across. If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers. If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The largest number of satellites launched at once to date looks like 143. Up that to 150, and launch once *every frickin day* it will take 18 years to get a million satellites in orbit. That is simply not going to happen.

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Russ The Tedious Ghost @russ41.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Star Wars (et al) (1977 and on) Superman (1978) Star Trek (TMP et al) (1979 and on) The Blues Brothers (1980) Time Bandits (1981) Raiders of the Lost Ark (et al) (1981 and on) Blade Runner (1982) Tron (1982) Aliens (1986)

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Age verification? I made my first fortune one hot and dry day in Lemonsville

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Planetary Noiz @planetarynoiz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Use Pages. It'll import from and export to Word. Slight learning curve and translation formatting to do, but it's free on Macs, and a fully functional program.

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