every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours

Every day is a good day to head into the mountains.

Thank you! 😻

Picked up my 30th Potentially Hazardous Asteroid last shift. This one is interesting. In a retrograde comet-like orbit with a period around 26yrs but showing no activity at ~1 AU from the sun. Likely 1km + in size with Earth MOID = 0.0275 AU. Now published as 2025 VP.

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

Planes usually carry enough fuel for an extra hour of flight time, but making them fly at 6k feet cuts that considerably so if there's a ground stop and diversion, a plane forced to do this could run into serious trouble.

A 3-tonne Chinese rocket stage (CZ-3B Y67 stage 3, object 44867) launched in Dec 2019 and abandoned in orbit, made an uncontrolled reentry over eastern Florida at about 1120 UTC Nov 8 and was widely observed.

Good thread.

Some of the most dramatic human-induced changes to the nature of life on Earth occurred before the dawn of agriculture — damage that remains etched into ecosystems planet-wide.

"a bruise on her face"

Charlotte is good people and she's doing a good thing. I threw some cash their way, and if you can too, please do.

I read The Double Helix as an undergraduate. I was a science major at a women’s college taking molecular biology. Our professor taught us that Watson & Crick screwed Rosalind Franklin over. So I read the book to learn more. I’ll never forget how reading this passage made me feel.

🔭 A Full Moon at Perigee Image Credit & Copyright: Betul Turksoy star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...

Morning Glory’s natural #Glow for today’s #BlueSkyArtShow. #iPhonePhotography #Macro #BloomScrolling #EastCoastKin

there, i’m better now

The mountains of California are beautiful day and night.

Let's ruin the night sky some more... www.scientificamerican.com/article/alar...

this would be my guess, too

Everyone wants to know why the hell Jackson would uphold the DOJ’s request to withhold SNAP benefits, here’s one possible reason:

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Watson and Crick intentionally misrepresented the extent to which they relied on Rosalind Franklin’s work, which they were given by her former boss without her knowledge.

“a possible future with no food”, in the richest country on the planet.

The latest FAA operations plan comes into effect at the top of the hour. “SEVERAL MORE STAFFING TRIGGERS HAVE BEEN ADDED SINCE THE LAST PLAN.”

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These must’ve been fun drives! Relatively high tilt on loose regolith with differentially articulated suspension.. rover planners would’ve been a little nervous here, but definitely earned their pay.

#AdAstra Rick Hauk nasawatch.com/astronauts/r... #NASA

I put this together because it's critically timely and I recommend taking a look. Hover over a county for closure risk, uninsured, poverty, and rural classification. In short, if they really do murder health care, Texas and Georga and Mississipi are f**ked. it's basically the list you'd expect.

I see James Watson has died. What did Watson discover? Rosalind Franklin's lab notes. Only we spell it 'S-T-E-A-L' these days.

This is my brother's research!! He's worked incredibly hard on it the last several years. I'm proud. Science matters! Research matters! "Time of day determines cancer immunotherapy efficacy through a circadian clock–dependent chemokine axis."

NTSB #5X2976 Briefing 3: · 37 seconds after takeoff thrust applied the CVR records a “persistent bell,” which continues until the end of the recording 25 seconds later. · Bulk of left engine pylon still attached to left engine as it separated from the aircraft.

This is a simply stunning image.

The indifference displayed by Congress over this should be deafening. The skies are getting dangerous. You can't expect air traffic controllers to continue to work for free, work overtime, and live with the stress of not being able to pay their bills.

A thread on Lise Meitner, born #OTD in 1878, who co-discovered nuclear fission and worked out the mechanism behind it. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬

I love that you can just casually stroll along a path and discover the homes of sea creatures that lived & strived on Earth before Saturn had its rings. Deep time is even more intriguing (in some ways) than deep space.

Interstellar #comet 3I/ATLAS is making its way through our #solarsystem and you can see it in the #nightsky! Read more and see a #starmap below: www.space.com/stargazing/a... #comets #skywatching #stargazing #stars

Hit the wrong button. Meant to retweet this, not reply. Second try. Here's a link to the Space News story about the FAA restricting launches and reentries to certain times of the day because of the shutdown, with the relevant paragraph of the FAA order attached.

Brought to you by the "Sanctity of Marriage" party.

This is so fucking sad, and desperate families are definitely going to be disregarding these instructions. It's so easy to just dilute it a little or to fortify it with rice cereal.

Andy Stofan, Former NASA Lewis Center Director and Space Station AA Passes Away spacepolicyonline.com/news/andy-st...

Road trips will be making a comeback this year. Not just passenger traffic at these airports - cargo flights will be impacted as well. Supply chains weakened by tariffs & tariff uncertainty will start snapping under the pre-holiday load.

Absolutely heart wrenching account from inside the Adelanto Detention center. A few excerpts:

Sad news.

Happy to have been interviewed for and featured in this recent National Geographic article: www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...

As a millennial woman, my powers of ruination are doubled mwahahaha 😈

A storm will track north of the Great Lakes Friday with widespread rain showers across the Eastern U.S. along and ahead of its cold front. A Pacific storm will continue moving across the Northwest U.S. into Friday with additional low elevation rain, gusty winds, and mountain snow.

When the gibbous #moon hits your eye like a glowing #orb...you know you're looking at our #space #photooftheday. Read more about this #image on our #website! #image #picoftheday #photo #astronomy #nasa #spacephotos #spacephoto #science #spacescience #picture #photography

Cool visualization of the magnetic cusp electrodynamic environment that the NASA TRACERS is studying. Better understanding it could help us prepare for solar flares.

Typhoon Kalmaegi strengthened as it crossed the South China Sea before making landfall earlier today in Vietnam as a Category Three equivalent storm.

Readers in Arizona, Michigan, & Georgia! Your senators have been getting a LOT of dedicated pressure to end the shutdown, without fixing healthcare. If you have a minute, go ahead & give them a call! Their job is to respond to constituents & they're mostly hearing from GOP voters rn.