Kyle

two cartoon characters are talking about who is driving and how can that be Alt: GIF from Clerks: The Animated Series, in which two cartoon characters are surprised that a bear is driving a car

Bear is driving! How can that be?!?

Good luck, babe 😆

My friend's book debuts today, available via ebook or paperback! Check it out!

I am *so* excited to see this mission launch! Earlier this year I spoke with several #NISAR scientists about how this satellite is going to change the game, and it really is going to be a data powerhouse for understanding the Earth system. 🧪🛰️❄️🌳

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Liftoff! The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar mission has launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre. #NISAR will scan the entire globe twice every 12 days to measure changes in Earth’s ecosystems, cryosphere, and land surface.

“It’s orbiting magic.” —Alex Gardner, NASAJPL

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I've been waiting for #NISAR to launch for many years... looking forward to what it can provide the world of earth observation!

Have a safe ride uphill!

a cartoon of a man talking on a phone with the words we got movie sign Alt: A man and two robot puppets on a shaking space station with flickering lights with the words we got movie sign. This is Joel, Crow, and Tom Servo from MST3k.

Will the protagonist have to keep their sanity with the help of their robot friends?

I remember reading about comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacting Jupiter in the newspaper and seeing clips on the news. (I may still have some of those articles in my scrapbook!) Absolutely wild to see an impact scar on Jupiter the size of the Earth!

I thought about posting about exactly this yesterday.

Most EV guidance is "just charge at home/work." If that doesn't work, advice goes downhill quickly into "join your HOA board and change the policy" or "buy a different house" territory. Between family, work, and school... not practical for me.

#asteroid #Apophis, at naked-eye brightness (mag 3.1) races across Barcelona's night sky on the evening of Friday, April 13, 2029 as it comes closer to Earth than our geosynchronous satellites.

This is amazing, thank you

“Do you know of any challenge in the history of humankind that was successfully overcome that began with pessimism and defeatism?

There isn’t. So optimism is a choice.”

— Christiana Figueres, who knows what it looks like to tackle seemingly impossible challenge – and succeed!

A four panel illustration. Panel 1 shows a host star, which looks like an orange globe with flares coming out on various sides. There is a blue line with arrows forming a spiral around the star. At 2 o’clock in the outer spiral, furthest away from the star, there is a blue planet. Panel 2 shows the same star and lines, but the planet is now at 7 o’clock and closer to the star. It is a little stretched out toward the star. Panel 3 shows the same star and lines, but the planet is fully engulfed by the star, with big flares coming out where the planet and star collided. Panel 4 shows the aftermath, with a very transparent cloud of blue dust spread out from the star. A dark orange horizontal ring of material circles the host star.

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has observed the engulfment of a planet by its star – thought to be the first observation of its kind!

Read more 👉 esawebb.org/images/plane...

🔭 🧪

Magnifiques aurores filmées depuis l'ISS par l'astronaute Don Pettit

Who do you really trust to carry the next message in a bottle?
And will anyone be left listening when it comes back?

Some of his readers have asked Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social why his technology news site, Tech Dirt, has been covering politics so intensely lately. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.

NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions

Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week.

"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"

I haven't been on much recently and just found out. My condolences, Gene. Hope you're well.

A close-up view of a large observatory telescope dome under a brilliant night sky filled with stars. The dome is partially open, with soft orange lighting illuminating the exterior. Distant mountains are silhouetted against the horizon.

#TourESO 📹🔴 Only 5 minutes left until we embark on a virtual tour of ESO's La Silla Observatory! Are you joining us? 🙂

Streamed here https://buff.ly/3EYIpFH

📷 Y. Beletsky/ESO

I've told this story about my early education on fascism before but not on Bluesky.

I vividly recall doing a project in school about history. Maybe I wanted to do the Korean War because I was a big MASH fan. That I don't recall.

My physics teacher arranged for me to do a live interview... 🧵

I stand with the trans community. Pass it along.

Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out.

Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation.

Say equity, which a just society should pursue.

Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.

Star Trek did say the 2020s were gonna be a little rough

Happy Black History Month! Here is my favorite story about a Black American you may not know about: Robert Smalls. He commandeered a confederate ship and sailed himself, his family, and the other enslaved crew and their families to freedom. THROUGH waters controlled by the Confederacy.

Go Bills!

remember, the blitzkrieg is intended to make you feel like there is nothing you can do about it; that’s the only reason to go forward in this haphazard and sloppy manner all in the first week

and the choice of that strategy tells you they are afraid you *will* do something about it

GUEST ROOM | A Plea for the Museum of the Earth The Museum of the Earth, however, is in imminent danger of closing its doors. After more than 90 years of contributions to paleontological research and over two decades of service to the Ithaca and Co...

A nice piece on PRI and the Museum of the Earth by a current Cornell student who has been touched by PRI's work. See related link in the first comment.
cornellsun.com/2025/01/20/g...

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King

I don't post very often, and yet I'm gaining handfuls of followers each day. I think there's a massive bot/sock puppet thing going on here that nobody's talking about yet, but will probably cause site credibility issues in the months ahead.