Sure, but if you moved the team to the opposite side of the country, their current record would put them 1st in the Pacific division. (Honestly, this is an indictment of the Pacific, not a Red Wings endorsement--they haven't looked like a playoff team for the last couple months.)

Ah good, now that the space mission has ended successfully, when almost every major event I've experienced over the last two decades has taught me to be ready for disaster, I can cook dinner.

Feels relevant #Artemis

There is nobody under the age of 55 who remembers seeing astronauts return to earth like this

Here's what it'll cost for this administration to pretend they can fast track a Moon base while we're really staring blankly into the middle distance, waiting for a human landing vehicle to materialize. It would be so easy to do all of this robotic science alongside new human missions

The Red Wings should've simply played like this for the last couple weeks imo

More moons appeared in the catalog today. I didn't take new screenshots, but last month's are still basically right. Just imagine 14 more around Jupiter and 7 more around Saturn. Might as well imagine a few dozen more while you're at it, 'cause I don't think this is going to stop any time soon

The worst part about being an astronaut is probably the moment in your mission when you suddenly realize that you have to come back and live on this planet with the rest of us.

For added perspective, Trump’s devastating cuts to US science equate to something like just 3 weeks of military spending due to war he started. (Seems like $1B a day or so is what’s been estimated for the war). So sure. Gut US science for a couple extra weeks of war…

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More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

In the post-launch press conference for Artemis II, one of the admin-level people is excited to hear the comparison of SLS vs. Shuttle. Joke's on them- it's been so long that none of the Artemis astronauts ever rode on Shuttle, so no true comparison can be made

LOL - dashare.zone ADMIN

your grandparents voting for reagan

Nothing screams “we’re just winging it” like having to buy oil from Iran while in the middle of a war with Iran.

Here's my idea: Only relocate them at moments in history when specialized equipment needed to move them safely is operational, rather than after said equipment has been scrapped or sent to museums. If you wanted an orbiter that badly, you simply should've written a better proposal 15 years ago.

Ah yes, I have great faith in a spaceship that hasn't orbited the Earth being the one to ferry astronauts to the Moon

Guess I'll put them in tomorrow's planetarium shows

Pluto rant postscript: I guess we gotta start printing up "when I was a kid, there were sharks" t-shirts now?

It's been 20 years- can we stop pretending that the IAU planet definition was meant to be universally valid and scientifically rigorous? It's to help the IAU determine things like discovery credits, naming rights, and data cataloging responsibilities, not to gauge scientific importance of objects

That’s more than half the annual budget of the National Science Foundation.

I maintain that Jupiter is to blame for the series of events that led us to where we are today. Without that planet, there would be no human suffering (and also no humans)

my plan

More #BetterKnowAnAsteroid news: the DART mission alerted the orbital period of the whole Didymos-Dimorphos system around the Sun by... wait for it... 0.15 seconds. The much larger change to the orbital period of Dimorphos was the primary goal, and this was an added effect from the ejecta produced.

I am hoping your thirst for #2024YR4 is not yet slaked! Here’s the #JWST blog’s take on things, plus we look forward to a more technical note coming our next week!

While we've been thinking about YR4, people continue to use #DARTMission data to come up with amazing results! Congrats to Jessica Sunshine et al. for the linked paper (and linked press release explaining it)! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

There's so little joy in our world these days, and now, there is even less. #BetterKnowAnAsteroid

Oh yeah we should definitely put AI in charge of our military's arsenal. And if it hallucinates a few targets while also guzzling electricity and water, that's very cool and not a problem at all

Reminder you can just watch all the PWHL’s games on YouTube. No cable, no streaming needed. Here’s tonight’s game www.youtube.com/live/T4JKvp-...

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

'I don't get why people are so negative about things. We're just excited to be props at one of the biggest nights of politics and propaganda in this country.'

I just love late-stage capitalism so much! A company whose name I don't recognize, and who I don't remember giving my personal information to, has sent me a letter about a data breach that may have exposed my sensitive information to hackers. What a cool occurrence!

If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times. I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Just think- they are people in this world who, when stopped in their car fourth in line at a stop light, will step on their gas pedal before the people in front of them have. It's a silly thing to do at any time, but doubly so when I'm right in front of such a person.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIXED FEELINGS?

Based on other recent government file releases, I assume we'll learn that UFOs are just various rich men committing crimes

On this day, my planetarium presenters usually play an animation that flies along the Voyager 1 trajectory while Sagan's reading of the Pale Blue Dot excerpt plays, punctuated with this image at the end. Word in the street is that we moved some audience members to tears today (which is the goal tbh)

Look out heliocentrism, you're next.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

New sensibilities in curling? What're they doing, throwing the stones overhand?

The most American thing I think of is commercializing the Olympics, and if I could buy the jacket the women's hockey coach is wearing, I would. It looks like the logo that was used in 1984, but on a white jacket?

does anyone else remember when the 2022 Super Bowl had so many crypto ads people were calling it the Crypto Bowl and then crypto just absolutely fucking tanked? anyway

They were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think whether they should

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

From NOAA Satellites: The arctic blast that put much of Florida into a deep freeze also created these mesmerizing cloud streets caught by bsky.app/profile/noaa.gov 's GOESEast. Learn more in our #SatelliteSnapshot: bit.ly/3NVBiT5

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

started / going

If you wanna watch a really big rocket roll very slowly out to the launch pad in Florida, live, go here now m.youtube.com/watch?v=nrVn... It’s the Artemis II mission, aiming to launch in the coming weeks to send humans to the Moon for the first time in over half a century 🧪