Larry Hamilton

Backyard telescope view of the Flaming Star nebula, filaments of red and faintly blue glowing gas around a bright star.

Good article! As someone who grew up on science fiction often looks at the sky, I wistfully reached this conclusion long ago. Even human travel to the near parts of our solar system raises challenges that I'm not sure our firefly civilization will last long enough to solve.

Interstellar travel is impossible and aliens haven't visited Earth, physicists say “There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” Richard Feynman’s reflection lingers because it feels personal.

Another truth most humans are just to dumb to grasp.

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The MAGA who regret voting for Trump, will 100% vote for the next Trump regardless of how much of a racist bigot he is.

They haven't actually learned their lesson. They're just mad they're getting hurt too.

These people didn't vote FOR Trump, they voted AGAINST vulnerable communities.

Once more with feeling…

Dog looking down a path in white forest.

Sky takes me for walks every day.

This is what happens when oligarchs control the *news*

As a boomer, I agree. Still can't shake my discouraged surprise, though, at how many of my generation forgot all we learned in the 1960s.

Just emailed my senators advocating impeachment for the sake of survival.

Success and information thanks to nifty & it seems very accurate website transit-finder.com

There's a food truck near me that sells only smashburgers and poutine. I experimentally tried the poutine for the first time a few weeks ago and was amazed how good it tasted -- winter comfort food.

Kim Jong-un and Xi Jinping smiling together

Xi: Did you hear?

Kim: No...

Xi: The Americans are moving air defense systems out of South Korea!

Kim: What? No way!

Xi: Yes!

Kim: Amazing. How'd you do that?

Xi: I didn't do anything. They started a war with Iran, told themselves it'd be easy, and didn't do the math on interceptors.

Kim: Ha!

Just bought gas, $0.30/gallon higher than last week at same station. Is maga seeing this?

Rond blanc sur fond noir. Sur le rond blanc se trouve des taches noires, dont une série parfaitement alignée.

L'image-mystère d'hier montrait une taches noire sur une boule. Vous en voulez encore ? Pas de problème 😉

D'après vous, que voit-on sur cette image ?

N'hésitez pas à mettre vos propositions en commentaire, je posterai la réponse en fin de journée.
C'est à vous !

I should do this today.

Cartoon by
Emad Hajjaj

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

My dog thinks licking out an empty ice cream carton is a cosmic treat. Vanilla only, I hope that's ok.

Jamelle Bouie clearly and quite publicly works very hard to be informed and even-handed and anyone talking about him as if he’s not doing either of those things should shut the fuck up and definitely be widely ignored

"You don't have any lines here," from Ben Vereen's character in the dying scene, became a catchphrase I've often told myself. Great movie.

Just wanted you guys to see “Riding in a golf cart fatly”

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.

Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.

Watching video of Hillary Clinton at that worthless GOP deposition reminds me that even tho I'm a lefty and supposed to hate her, I don't. And I think she would've been an amazing president

The glibness. The indifference. The carelessness. The utter lack of planning for a war against a country of 90M. The sickness of a man who acts on whim that will kill thousands not hundreds. The horror of a regime that enables this sickness. The broken body politic that votes in such malignancy.

For all that it's a technical decision, demise of the ISS seems emblematic of something, doesn't it?

I'd love to see that here (US NH).

A good way to demonstrate your unserious nature is arguing that “Kamala would be doing this too.”

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of February!

White-light filtered photo of Sun, with Tiangong visible as a trail of small dots across its face. Several prominent sunspot regions, appearing much larger than the space station, are visible as well.

Chinese space station Tiangong transiting the Sun (w/sunspots) as seen this morning from my backyard. Smaller than the International Space Station, Tiangong is visible but hard to resolve with small telescopes. About 5.5 arcseconds in angular size and 0.75 seconds duration for this transit.🔭🧪

Again, I will be strongly engaged in the primary process for the Democratic Party's nominee for President in 2028.
But I will support whoever wins, even if it's not my preferred candidate.
The stakes are too high to be selfish.

Color slide with orange-painted propeller aircraft including single-engine Otters, C-47, and P2v) on sea ice, with green Quonset hut in foreground and icy mountain ranges beyond.

Sea-ice airstrip and Quonset huts at McMurdo Base in Antarctica, November 1958. Parked aircraft include single-engine Otters, C-47 (military DC-3), and a P2V Neptune. Mt Discovery is the high mountain (2680m) in distance. Warren Hamilton photo.