NASA is 0.35% of the federal budget. In the ENTIRE HISTORY of NASA it has cost about the same as just the last 2 years of the DoD budget

He was very weary; the day had been long, and full of dragons.

Yes! Phone apps are designed with the means of communication coming first (text, call, email), then the person to contact. But users think person first, then method. My husband @hellogreg.bsky.social had to design mini-apps just so his elderly dad could reach people. hellogreg.org/posts/rontac...

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

Now that we had that spectacular launch, follow the Artemis II Orion capsule in real time here: www.nasa.gov/missions/art...

Our European Service Module solar arrays in orbit🌞 With these solar wings extended, Europe is now powering Artemis II ⚡

Reminder to next dem government: take all of SpaceX’s federal contracts and give the money back to NASA.

Hi there, I'm Barbara and I work on the Artemis II Lunar Science team. I'll be here for a couple hours while watching the preparations for launch and happy to take your questions! www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM...

Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is taking Indigenous culture past the Moon: his mission patch was designed by Henry Guimond, an Anishinaabe artist, incorporating one Indigenous perspective about the seven sacred laws, which are represented by animals. 🧪 #ArtemisII

Blinking your eyes in surprise that we’re heading back to the moon over 50 years later? Alex has an excellent starter-article to get you up to speed. (Email registration wall halfway down.) bsky.app/profile/alex...

YES YES YES It's *the* Moon (Luna), and *a* moon (any of the other ones)

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

ESA engagement doing its thing.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Gift article, please read! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/s...

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

I think a big problem with a lot of people these days is they think education is about learning facts but actually the purpose of education is to teach you how to think in the first place

March is Endometriosis Awareness Month. As we close out the 2026 iteration I will remind you that women’s health issues are underfunded and under-researched and many of us struggle for decades with no answers and no help. 5 days after my wedding last year I finally got mine…

In DC for my child's spring break; today was the pilgrimage to the Natural History museum. Had to tell child to stop me if I infodumped too much in the meteorite room, but he listened to it all with great patience (and some amusement).

Happy birthday, Vincent van Gogh! How many of these facts about Irises did you know?

Artemis 2 countdown clock is now counting down.

OK, no, I won't delete that, let's just pick this apart real quick: What I believe Silicon Valley has largely just... completely forgotten about is that people just want Shit that Works. I can tell they're forgetting about this because their shit keeps not working through no fault of mine!

The biological sciences make no statement whatsoever about how many genders there are

If this looks familiar to Curiosity and Perseverance fans, that’s because major parts of the design of Dragonfly are based on those rovers (including the plutonium-powered butt)

I used to work for NOAA. Which is basically NASA but for the oceans and atmosphere. Same exact thing. They have left nothing but wreckage. And every single damn person who voted for that monster is culpable. We all knew who he was.

NASA might have been the coolest organization on planet earth — a real life/larger than life organization that the smartest people in the world respected, kids dreamed their whole life of working for, & even Hollywood couldn’t make larger than it already was. So of course Trump ruined it in a year.

Re: my last reposts “Do not put money in the pocket of a woman who has sworn publicly to use it to disenfranchise vulnerable populations” is the smallest ask imaginable. It’s not oxygen, it’s not food. It’s television. You can do without. There are thousands of other shows for you to watch.

THIS IS GOING SO WELL... "Miller acknowledges the nod to tradition but picking bird of paradise to represent 2028 shows that LA28 isn't embracing sustainability at all." "Although he did have one nice thing to say about bird of paradise: "It is a pretty good rat habitat, so there's that."

Could we sneak in returning the Mars samples as well? Pretty please?

Words cannot express just how impossible this is. It sounds like a bad sci-fi movie plot that failed to consider the input of actual scientists and engineers.

Excellent op-ed by Senator Catherine Blakespear. Metrolink is facing a fiscal cliff, while hyper local interests hold up infrastructure critical to keep the trains running. Grateful for this leadership and looking forward to governance reform legislation! www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/03/20/o...

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part.

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

Which, geologically, isn’t surprising! But it’s still a relatively new and rare thing for planetary scientists to (sometimes) find what we expect to find when we form a hypothesis and send a spacecraft that can test that hypothesis with observations

The Republicans are saying the Democrats are blocking the TSA funding, and the Democrats are saying the Republicans are blocking the TSA funding, and this would be such a great time for a functioning media to report facts but would you look at that, they've been taken over by oligarchs and gutted.

Sunday Taquitos #20: War Is Peace Art by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social

Having now taught the ethics of space exploration to college first-years, upper-level STEM majors, graduate students, and professional dancers, I can now firmly say that anyone can have these conversations, and they can be incredibly generative in helping people recommit to alternative futures.

I’m begging these people to fund scientific space missions instead

The US and California also got completely lapped by India in rail electrification. The US has opened less than 200 STM in the last 10 years. India finished that in less than a month when it’s rolling program was delivering ~2700STM a year

It would be really cool if we could sample these rocks and send them back to Earth. Oh. Wait. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#UglyDogs If you don't want to sign up for a free account, here is a gift link via Mack. Thank you, Mack!

Thinking back on one of the weirdo convos that happened on here yesterday, I feel like I need to make sure everyone knows that those of us who think EVs are the future of cars are like... not at all married to lithium. We just think batteries are good! We're open to any kind of battery! In fact,

The golden legend - 1958 https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/20261

Some rather gnarly looking rocks near the Mars Perseverance Rover, imaged yestersol (Sol 1799) using MastCam-Z. flic.kr/p/2s23hvn

That US strategy in Iran in full:

In 1896, Florence Bascom became the first woman to work for USGS! She was also the first woman to earn a Ph.D. from @jhu.edu (in 1893) and created the geology program at Bryn Mawr College. She retired at age 74. #WomensHistoryMonth

Certain dudes are still upset with me when I said in 2012 that here in the US, being a straight white male is living on the lowest difficulty setting of life. From here on out I'm just going to refer them to these DOGE staffer depositions, and then tell them to go fuck themselves.

A trippy trio of swirls in the Gulf of Alaska. Just fascinating.