Gordan Ugarković

The "Tell us you're on Putin's payroll without telling us" challenge.

Damn, how did I forget that one, it's a classic.

Of course it was drones. Standby for an official report saying:

"Russian air defense forces successfuly shot down all 78 drones. Unfortunately, 'falling debris' caused fire in the refinery. Firefighters are working.
CYKA BLYAT."

Careless smoking, I'd bet.

And yet, he gets what he wants-media exposure about "aliens"

Sagan must be rolling in his grave.

Glad the Apollo 13 movie is getting reruns lately.
This scene is even more moving today: right, Tom Hanks playing Jim Lovell; left, cameo appearance by actual Jim Lovell (1928 Mar 25 - 2025 Aug 7).

Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell has passed at 97 www.nasa.gov/news-release...
One of my early young journalist memories was getting to interview him and Ron Howard on a red carpet in Austin for a screening of Apollo 13. I bragged about it for a while! (I'm the mop of brown curly hair)

YouTube video by ZADAR News Band Aid - Moja Domovina (HD 60 FPS)

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#30years

I'm pretty sure it's WAY more than a 169 Mt nuclear weapon. You sure you're not missing a factor of a million there?

Same.

I meant the color. Has that two-filter feel.

Two filter combo?

That's why I love 2010: The Year We Make Contact. While it doesn't revolve around Europa, the plot centers on it. I also think it's unfairly compared to its predecessor, Kubrick's 2001. 2001 was a masterpiece, 2010 is a very solid SF story. Both can stand on their own terms.

I predict the next interstellar object we detect will also be claimed to be an "alien probe" by Avi Loeb.

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What even is this?

I'm drinking myself to sleep.

Read ya later... maybe. My liver can only take so much.

Pretty sure there should have been an extra "I" somewhere there.

Don't mind me, just having a mild stroke.

More questions than I think want answered.

Needs way more tachyons. Also, the starboard power coupling. It's ALWAYS the starboard power coupling.

And by Titan being far top left, I *obviously* meant to say top right. Ignore the other me.

It really irritates me that I could find a better quality image in the 90s than I can now find on google. How far we've come.

I still can't get over the fact that I could have cleaned up some stuff from the image before releasing it to the UMSF forum. But after dozens of images, you're like... yeah, this is good enough, only 100 people will ever see it anyway.

I knew this was my composite before even reading the credits.

This went completely below my radar at the time, JPL had a press release about a VIMS scan of Saturn's rings in 2019 and used my mosaic as a base. Hell, they even credited me. I feel humbled and honored.

H/T to @tedstryk.bsky.social for inadvertently getting me to learn this.

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Funny, searching for that image I saw a JPL press release about a slice of the rings as seen by the VIMS instrument and they used my Cassini montage as the base image. I can tell it was me because I can see one of the blemishes I didn't care to clear up because... who's gonna see it anyway on UMSF?

Unrelated, but the one image (well, a montage) that I always loved from Voyager was that one with Dione dominating the foreground and Titan to the far upper left. I'm sure you know it. Can't really find a nice version of it now without massive watermarks splattered around it, though.

You wanna just see icons of apps with notifications below the clock on your lock screen?

Too bad, you don't get to have that anymore. Not only is it removed by default, there's apparently no way to get it back to how it used to be.

The enshittification is real (2/2)

After more than a month of deferring my Samsung tablet update to OneUI 7 due to comments online, I can only say: yes, it's a piece of shit.

So you've customized the UI to your liking? Tough luck, because we at Samsung have a whole department that focuses solely on overriding your preferences (1/2)

Most people to this day still think Neptune is a deep, deep blue color and, AIUI, it came from the media misunderstanding that it was an enhanced color VGR2 image, a fact that was somehow "lost in translation".

606 °C? Guess I'm not going to that one for summer vacation.

1930s Germany, now in real time over social media and in HD.

And, still, noone can do anything about it. Well, it was good knowing you. I guess that's one possible resolution of the Fermi Paradox.

Who'd have ever thunk that Kim Jong Un was NOT the craziest person with nukes around.