Emily Lakdawalla, Uranus Expert

Tonight, I was looking at water.noaa.gov to see where the US is flooding. My 11-year old pointed to the ongoing major flooding in North Dakota, and I said "Oh, that's Devils Lake. It's always flooding there." They asked "Why?" and a rabbit hole yawned before me.

Ugh me too

I almost posted the Sorceress first but I had to go with the Fellowship of the Time Bandits

I’m more into homeowners dissociation tbh

Me Grimlock wanted more big legs not more bug legs

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

Welcome to the bandwagon

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Mid air fueling

Picture of planes historians will call just friends

I’m sharing this about three months late, but please feast your eyes upon this incredible Illuminated Omens place setting by @cassieoh.bsky.social. Some of my favorite GO fanwork ever and I get to use them every day 🥰

#GoodOmens

Dense boob solidarity 🤜

Oh very good. I had one of these!

Oh dear

I recently (well a few years ago) upgraded from my Pfaff to a Husqvarna sewing/embroidery machine and it’s lovely

Would you like to buy a chainsaw for razing forests to the ground or a computer-guided embroidery machine for creating the most delicately embellished garments? Because that’s what we make, says Husqvarna

Once again thinking about Aaron Paul dressed as Krysten Ritter's character from Breaking Bad.

everything is terrible but sometimes a 500-year old pen case has an inscription that's oddly comforting

This is how I access Bluesky

All my childhood Marguerite Henry reading is coming back to me…concave profile, short neck, upright short ears…there’s Arabian in that thar mare

Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

It’s not dumb, I’ve taught early middle schoolers and that’s exactly the age where they start to Logic and start innocently questioning illogical things adults tell them and it’s magical. Head pats for middle school Carli.

A bumper sticker that reads “Sweet Meteor O’Death for president”

This is a neat idea someone posted in reply to my repost of your great idea: bsky.app/profile/wxma...

Double the awesome!

Direct detection of an asteroid’s heliocentric deflection: The Didymos system after DART NASA’s DART mission changed the orbit of the Didymos system, revealing insights into the physical traits of its two asteroids.

Article in Science Advances by Rahil Makadia et al, “Direct detection of an asteroid’s heliocentric deflection: The Didymos system after DART” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Spacecraft's impact changed asteroid's orbit around the sun in a save-the-Earth test, study finds A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun.

I missed this news last week: the DART impact not only changed Dimorphos’ orbit around its primary Didymos, but because of the volume of material blasted entirely out of the system it minutely altered Didymos’ orbit as well. Writeup by Marcia Dunn for AP: apnews.com/article/aste...

The SMILE Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer unboxing at Europe's Spaceport

paging @pareidolia.bsky.social

The Smile spacecraft has arrived at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.

www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

🧪🔭 @esa.int @science.esa.int @operations.esa.int

One of the mysteries of our time

This is a lovely idea

From the Weird community on Reddit: Two massive deep-sea oarfish recently washed ashore in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. According to legend, this rare creature, often called the “doomsday fish,” only rises... Explore this post and more from the Weird community

Some shit is about to hit the fan. Not one, but two oar fish washed ashore.

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