As a gentle reminder: Do not go to the window after a bright light or loud boom*. Glass injuries were a major effect of the 500kt Chelyabinsk meteorite 2013 Feb 15. *there may be more or other booms that implode your window ASS TO THE BLAST, TIMMY!

I loved the Flying Karamazov Brothers, the lively juggling troupe my friends introduced me to in the Eighties. So I definitely want to read Howard Jay Patterson's JESTER PRINCE. In bookstores 19 July. The linked site even features a blurb by David D Levine!

I cannot tell you how many golf balls we found using an ROV in the Pacific over the years, but even 50 nautical miles out to sea it was way too many.

I’m curious. Have any fighters announced they’re pulling out of the 14 June “UFC Freedom 250“ event yet?

How big was tonight's Blue Origin New Glenn explosion? George Herbert, who is more tuned into Rocket People chatter than I am, offers some rough numbers in this thread. Rule of thumb: 1.2 kilotons of TNT equivalent. This is conservative, so maybe smaller.

Logging into Gmail, I see: "Gemini is now part of Google Workspace." Any tips on how to turn this off?

It’s strange that all of the knowledge I’ve gathered and expertise I’ve developed on the 250th commemoration over the past decade is gonna be basically useless in a month. Someone put me on TV before it’s too late.

XKCD #3249. Randall Munroe never tires of making neutrino jokes. But then, it's conceivable that the #neutrino is the easiest particle to tell jokes *about*. #physics 🧪

This is my diagnosis, and I’ll get a doctor’s note if I have to. Duke, Logan, Furter, Phibes…it doesn’t matter.

From this video one gets a good idea of the size of Al's synthesizer. (HT @leah.myatproto.social.)

Love to celebrate 250 years of American democracy with gladiator fights and chariot races and putting the leader's face on coins. Very good, democratic stuff.

I'd have thought that the graphics people at a publication that calls itself SPACE DAILY would know the difference between Perseverance and a Lunokhod. Or the difference between tan Mars and gray Luna. But I guess I was naïve. #Lunokhod #Perseverance #Moon #Mars

Do not let the White House convince you that they are dictating what happens for the 250th. They're doing a bunch of stuff, but it's all fleeting spectacle. There is genuine, thoughtful, history-focused programming happening all over the United States. Get offline and go find it.

Go out! Look up! Enjoy the Moon! Watch how it changes from night to night (I've had a great view of the first quarter Moon from the garden the last couple of nights). Do not worry about 'special' events like a mini blue strawberry latte hedgehog Moon. Just go and look whenever you like! 🔭

Great article by Ethan Siegel, explaining a decision by #CERN ‘s advisors to proceed with a huge new electron-positron accelerator complex, the Future Circular Collider. At some point, I expect, this project will be given a better name. (Suggestions welcome.) #physics 🧪 #accelerators

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"Scan To WIN And Refresh Your Fandom!" --Case of Patriotic Soccer Ball Diet Coke I just bought I suppose my #Fandom could always use some refreshing. It's just not a word one would have seen on a Coke package when I was a neofan. Somewhere, Forrest J Ackerman is smiling.

I've got to admire the cleverness of the stunt CBS is pulling to raise its late-night ratings tonight. 📺

Happy 60th birthday to the SLAC Linac, the longest linac in the world! In 2022, I had the privilege of working an internship at this accelerator optimizing beta functions for LCLS.

INTERSTELLAR (2014)

#Authors #SelfPublishing Does anyone know of a print-on-demand platform that includes dust jackets with its hardbacks?

99 years ago today, on 20 May 1927, a silver Ryan monoplane departed from New York, with Charles A Lindbergh at the controls. THE SPIRIT OF SAINT LOUIS touched down in Paris on 21 May, to worldwide acclaim.

I too have a new model for gravity. It’s a subscription model, and you can get in at the low low price of $1 per g per minute.

by the way, here's the English version: www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Daaaah.... daaaah..... daaaaaaah..... DUN-DAAAAAAH!!!! (boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom)

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Underwhelmed by the #NASA Psyche-flyby images of #Mars? I zoomed in & artificially turned it peachy-pink for you 😘 Thanks to Mars' gravity assist, #Psyche is now on its way to a metal-rich 280km-wide potato-shaped asteroid where "lifting a car would feel like lifting a large dog" ETA: Aug 2029🧪⚛️🔭

vimeo.com/1192785015 Animation crossfading between a canal map of Mars, and a modern CGI map, so you can see how the "canals" line up with real features. By me. 2 views, above North and South poles of Mars.

By reading Brett Holman's Airminded.org blog only sporadically, rather than assiduously, over the years, I risked missing truly wonderful items, such as this one. From 2019, all about Aerial Trains.

Google should be paying you to be Ngrams official spokesjockey.

Well, I guess the Psyche spacecraft has passed her [pauses to consult reference book] periareon by now. Fair sailing, Psyche! We have three years to figure out "What are the words for apoapsis & periapsis when a spacecraft orbits the asteroid also called Psyche?" See you on 5 August 2029! 🔭

If you could see in the UV, and looked at Saturn, its aurorae would look like this

A niche question for #BookSky: if I want to self publish a book-length work, are there any realistic options beyond Amazon? I’d rather not feed the dream-eating machine, but also want a chance at an audience (It is not a serious work) In gratitude, some jellies:

Now that's an impressive emergency landing!

New name: Operation "Not The Sharpest Tool In The Shed"

I sleep better, and I presume NASA does too, knowing that Steve is among those shepherding the precious Psyche spacecraft through its Mars encounter. He's done this sort of thing all over the Solar System. Thread. 🧵 🔭🛰️

I prefer this place to the other one, but I don't have many followers here yet. Help me with the odd share if you like what I do. Ta.

Quantum optics, quantum cryptography, laser tweezers and Michelson interferometer

When shopping for new furnace filters, I always needed to scribble down dimensions on a scrap of paper: 1 inch by 16 inches by 25 inches. But one day I recalled #ArthurCClarke 's words about his monoliths. Now, at the hardware store, I have no trouble remembering 1 squared x 4 squared x 5 squared!

Scanned a picture I took of Halley on 3/21/86 from Kona, HA with my 35mm camera. The "teapot" is at center, with Baade's window steaming out the spout. Pluto was in the "teaspoon" for the NH encounter. SGR A* is near the right edge. I was on both the New Horizons and Event Horizon telescope teams.

Hey, @missiontopsyche.bsky.social, are you thinking about making some Bluesky posts as your Mars flyby approaches? #PlanetarySci

My dad has been gone 35 years, but today, when a bottle of A1 Steak Sauce went dry, I did what he would have done: Reach for a bottle of French's Worcestershire Sauce Dribble a spoonful or so into the "empty" A1 bottle Swirl it around vigorously Pour A1-Worcestershire hybrid onto my food Discard

If, like me, you've been curious about the drills Honeybee Robotics has been building for NASA's Dragonfly mission, you might enjoy this video. Dragonfly's a #Titan lander that can #drill down and convey samples to its chem lab. Being a whirlybird, it can then relocate, to drill another day. 🪐🟠🚁 🔭

Completing my latest edition of portraits of #astronomers Cecilia Payne-Gaposhkin (1900-1979) 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🎢🔭 #histsci who discovered the most common elements in our sun, the stars and in fact the universe at large in her brilliant doctoral thesis. Regular matter is mostly hydrogen and helium. #printmaking

A few of the dinosaur models at the Sainte Genevieve, MO Museum Learning Center. These are the work of artist and avocational paleontologist Guy Darrough.

This unassuming little crescent is actually something cool: It's a crescent Mars, seen by NASA's Psyche spacecraft as it approaches the Red Planet for a gravity assist flyby next week. Details: go.nasa.gov/4tsCLPQ

Yes! All the instruments will be turned on, and there will be coordinated observations with other assets already at Mars. That said, the only critical objective is the gravity assist itself.

"Core of Solar System's largest moon may still be forming." I, too, struggle to get tasks finished, so you have my solidarity, Ganymede.

From The Mysteries of Nature and Art (1634) publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-my...

Today is a good day to pitch your local outlet something about the canvas hack. Put TIMELY in the subject line. Describe yourself as an educator in a few lines (two sentence!). Then make an argument.