@frankhorowitz.bsky.social
(Sort-of) Retired research geophysicist. "Assume a spherical C̶o̶w̶ Earth."
The letter from reader A.H. in Newberg OR (quoted in this webpage) is well worth your time to read.
www.electoral-vote.com/evp2025/Item...
From a FOAF.
26.08.2025 15:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Paraphrased from @hcrichardson.bsky.social quoting somebody on her politics chat yesterday.
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Mar-a-Lago???
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Given that the House Appropriations Committee just passed a resolution to rename Kennedy Center’s Opera House in Washington, D.C. after First Lady Melania Trump, I hereby submit an "alternative fact".
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Download full resolution as on Flickr player it's not working properly: www.flickr.com/video_download.gne?id=53762353551 See license below. Credit: Raw Data:NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI Processing: Andrea Luck CC BY Animation created with colourised near infrared images processed from: mast.stsci.edu Some disclaimers: An animation of three near-infrared images of Uranus captured by the JWST Space Telescope with assigned representative colors. During processing, I aligned the rings separately to reduce the bubbling effect caused by different inclinations, making the planet appear to rotate on an almost flat plane. NASA/ESA JWST Webb Space Telescope Instrument: NIRCAM Target: Uranus Frame 1) Full size image: flic.kr/p/2pwQ1en Time: 2023-02-06 Filters: F140, F300 Product IDs: jw02739-o003_t002_nircam_clear-f140m jw02739-o003_t002_nircam_clear-f300m Proposal PI: Pontoppidan, Klaus M. PI Institution: JPL Proposal ID: 2739 www.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/get-proposal-info?id=2739&obser... Frame 2) Full size image: flic.kr/p/2pnVhGY Time: 2023-09-04 Filters: F140, F300, F210, F460 Product IDs: jw02739-o011_t002_nircam_clear-f140m jw02739-o011_t002_nircam_clear-f210m jw02739-o011_t002_nircam_clear-f300m jw02739-o011_t002_nircam_clear-f460m Proposal PI: Pontoppidan, Klaus M. PI Institution: JPL Proposal ID: 2739 www.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/get-proposal-info?id=2739&obser... Frame 3) Full size image: flic.kr/p/2oUiuJJ Time: 2024-02-06 Filters: F182M, F410M, F210M, F480M Observation ID: jw02...
Video: Uranus observations over 1 year - NASA/ESA JWST Space Telescope - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2pUN7Ec
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I love maps! Even ones that are wildly unrecognizable as such to the casual observer. Also, the dynamical systems jargon -- e.g. "basins of attraction" -- mixed in made me go hmmmm. (In a good way, I assure you. Geographical maps as dynamical systems. )
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And here you thought that the Earth, Sol, or indeed even the Milky Way might be significant?
Introducing the Laniakea supercluster. 1E17 Solar masses.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayj4...
(H/T to the inimitable @tbray.org, and another one of his "long links" blog posts for the pointer to this.)
Hi folks: Facebook appears to be taking down my posts. Please remember they are available for free here (no paywall), and can be received by email (also free-- just don't put in your credit card information). I guess if I'm being banned I'm doing something right?
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80 years ago today, Sylvester debuted in the Looney Tunes short ‘Life with Feathers.’
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a simple drawing of a small brown cat poking its head in a doorframe. it is thinking, "please be chill about this. please".
#catcrumb
25.03.2025 06:15 — 👍 391 🔁 105 💬 0 📌 2Incredible moon rise behind the Extremely Large Telescope @eso.org
A stunning video taken on 13 March by our colleague Juan Beltrán, who works at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, not far from the ELT.
#astronomy
Three light-years tall pillar of gas an dust known as the ‘Mystic Mountain.’ Located in the Carina nebula, infant stars buried inside it fire off jets of gas that can be seen streaming out from its peak.
(M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team)
#nebula #space #cosmos #astrophysics #stars
Pritzker: You know, I was asked the other day if I could say one thing to Donald Trump, what would it be? And I said, “What does Putin have on you?”
Everybody rational understands that Putin is trying to rebuild the old Russian Empire. And Donald Trump is literally handing it to him.
This is insane
21.03.2025 01:18 — 👍 31223 🔁 9001 💬 3797 📌 1256In case you find your anger flagging, this should revitalize it
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Maybe these slow rotating weirdos are binary star systems! Find out more in this @aunz.theconversation.com article by Iris de Ruiter theconversation.com/mysterious-r... 🔭🧪
12.03.2025 21:15 — 👍 40 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 1As a professor of English, allow me to try, humbly and with the proper respect, to offer an appropriate response to the President’s address:
Fuck you, you fucked-up fuck, and fuck all the fuckers who willingly fuck with you, especially. You can all fuck all the way off, and then fuck off some more.
Weather forecasts?
We don't need no stinkin forecasts!
</sarcasm>
thinc.blog/2025/03/03/t...
A blog post about my trip to Antarctica.
frankhorowitz.gitlab.io/FrankSite/po...
An iceberg in Antarctica that kinda looks like Bart Simpson!
Bart Simpson!
In an iceberg!!!!
Asteroid 2024 YR4's probability of impacting the Earth in 2032 has now _decreased_ by a factor of 10 to about 0.3%.
It ain't over, but the soprano is warming up.
cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/detai...
Here are 70 clones of #asteroid 2024 YR4 that do hit Earth, highlighting the impact risk corridor. There are some big cities along that line: #Bogota, #Lagos, #Mumbai.
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Wherein Elon says the quiet, corrupt part out loud:
He intends to steal the private IRS data of his political enemies.
How soon before he does the same to his economic competitors?
Or you?
