I've been to two talks by Br. Guy Consolmagno of the Vatican Observatory. At the 1st one he shared the stage with his former grad student, Clifford Stoll. Well I say "shared"

I noticed pluto dot tv just advanced from Warriors' Gate to Warriors of the Deep. Earlier today they went from the Keeper of Traken to the Keys of Marinus. However it works, it's good to have a system.

TIL about the 69,999 Catastrophe. The 5-digit satellite numbering scheme (often referred to as the NORAD Catalog Number or SATCAT) is expected to reach its practical upper limit of 69,999 around July 2026. www.celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen...

But thank you for it! I got interviewed for CBC news a few years back about a space debris event over Saskatchewan too. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Don't look at the destruction of science at NASA, look over here 👇 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pluto

I was just contacted by a reporter asking for comment about the whole Pluto planet thing. Hanging on by a thread over here.

7-inch thick glass 🤔

Hell's teeth, Auntie Vanesser ect ect

Pane di pasqua. But you don't have to be religious to celebrate springtime with eggies.

Before April Fool's Day is completely over, here's the story of the Upside Down Library. (It's located less than a mile from the Logopolis bypass location @radiofreeskaro.bsky.social ) youtu.be/41i_CxDqoIA?...

I got just enough time to watch the new @tastinghistory.bsky.social

Project Hail Mary, worth the watch

Dr Ade is doing her Canadian funded post-doctoral fellowship in my lab. I can attest that she is an exceptional scientist who studies the immunology of age and teaches immunology and not someone who builds robots. Madness.

@flightthroughentirety.com Turn Left: the subtext of the title hits differently, depending if you live in a country where it means turning into or against the flow of traffic.

Bond villain scream

On this day in 1861, Confederate VP Alexander Stephens delivered his “Cornerstone Speech.” In it, he declared that the Confederacy’s cornerstone was white supremacy & that slavery was the “natural & normal condition” of Black people. Here’s a great @hcrichardson.bsky.social piece about the speech.

Slightly late for Pi Day but we did make and pre bake the crust yesterday. Coconut cream from scratch.

If you've flabbered your gast, you should see a doctor about that.

Join us for Why Do We Look Up at the Heavens? with the “Pope’s Astronomer” Br. Guy Consolmagno—an inspiring night of cosmic discovery! ✨🔭 Live Event in Toronto Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/why-do-we-...

@mbalazo.bsky.social a podcast episode about election night would be so dull

roughly 2000-2000,000 AU from the sun lies a theoretical cloud of billions of denim particles. this is known as the Joort Cloud

Join “The Power of Planetariums: Past, Present, and Future” and learn how a 21st‑century planetarium could support learning, tourism, and community in our city and beyond. Details and free tickets: www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-power-...

I don't have to respond, I can just hit 'like' and save us all a bit of time.

classic garron trick

@flightthroughentirety.com I just got to the Lazarus Experiment, and amid the Mark Gatiss and James Whale discussion nobody mentioned Gatiss wrote a biography of Whale. This will not stand

Stop trying to make nitrogen on Mars happen. It's not going to happen.

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

I don't light up these types the way I used to any more, fun times

Why the US can't build icebreaker ships this century: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-the-us-cant-build-icebreaking

Tell me Mavic Chen never did any Grey Poupon commercials, because he really should have

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43997/... Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink;

Deffo will watch

Y'ALL I GAVE THE COOLEST TALK OF MY LIFE TODAY. Rubin's super detailed, hi res images on a state of the art LED planetarium? YES PLEASE. I didn't want to leave. Seriously could have just basked under that dome all night. 🔭

"What is that dugga doo you're listening to?" says @tgebriggs.bsky.social

The fight on top of Reichenbach Falls would have been better if Holmes had been wearing a rubber horse mask and stood around blowing an airhorn and making gang signs after defeating Moriarty