Planetary Noiz

Abolutely! I think Time Bandits is 10+ for me

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Space 1999 Eagle Transporter

Where have I seen this concept before?

“When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labeled 'made in Germany'; it will not be marked with a swastika; it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course, 'Americanism'.”
Halford Edward Luccock, 1938

(This quote is an amplification of a post farther down in the thread)

Introduce yourself with 5+ concerts you’ve seen:
Triumph / Survivor / Harlequin (1st concert ever)
The Who
Suzanne Vega
Grateful Dead
Jethro Tull
Indigo Girls / Matthew Sweet
U2

Generally can't or won't afford it these days.

It had its shaky moments, but it was such a great ride. Blew me away at the time.

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, Charlie Brown

Enough to not go? Not send an abstract? I’ve been thinking about those repercussions

The battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party and the American right is coming down to a war between Nazis, Nazi apologists, and Fascists.

Mamdani is going implement Sangria Law.

All wine must have fruit in it, and all fruit must be in wine.

Mimosas are illegal.

Agreed- let’s do in the next week or so

It is.

When I was young the College Republicans were trying to convince me of the reality and evil of political correctness as anything other than a scare term. Those Reaganites may have wanted to undo the Civil Rights Act, but didn't laud hitler and gas chambers even in their most fevered club gatherings.

Say it isn't so, Larry!

This is the new null hypothesis, right?

There is something comically poignant about the idea of "a line in space" as being meaningful. Even metaphorically, it suggests thinking in one dimension too few.

Serious questions as one who fully supports 100% renewables: Of the objections of cognoscenti I know, the biggest 2 are that the storage problem for intermittent sources is unresolved, & that renewables are not up to the task of spike demands or sustained ebbs (e.g. cloudy mid winter-time heating).

I'm shocked you stopped at one hole.
Unless you didn't

Always loved that version, too

What a goob. That's a song, not a band.

Sketch by JT Keane of a talk at 2025 LPSC (True Polar Wander of Venus as an explanation for misaligned parabolas). Impacts on Venus loft material into the atmosphere. As the material falls back through the atmosphere, winds push it downrange — forming a parabola. This parabola should point west... but old parabolas aren't. Perhaps Venus reoriented! Parabolas are effectively paleo-west indicators. Old, misaligned parabolas might record TRUE POLAR WANDER.

Our new survey of parabolas on Venus, and evidence for True Polar Wander at ~1°/Myr is now published! (TLDR @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social was right. nananana BAT region) agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

technologically advance a band

The Bipropheads

So many people forget that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own.

It’s only a quote from a superhero movie, but for me it’s one if the most memorable lines from any of those. Especially these days as the invasion is happening here in real time under different flags.

technologically advance a band

AI Feel Love

Human rating- no
In-space refuel- no
Uncrewed lunar landing- no
Moon-earth round trip with earth landing- no

Starship won’t land humans on the moon by end of ‘27. Or ‘28, or ‘29.
And Musk will kill astronauts before any successful lunar mission happens.

In the world of unsurprising news, this is one of the most unsurprising.

Musk will *never* land live humans on Mars.
And I still lay odds 90% he will kill astronauts before landing humans on the Moon.

I read this with interest - my first encounter with your writing. Is it not that this particular wizard is inscrutable because its processes are proprietary? The AI business model requires keeping the box black. There is a non-virtuous motivation preventing us from *actually learning* from AI.

We do have a a fair amount of pretty clouds, and the atmospheric science from Venus Express and Akatsuki. If only VERITAS and DAVINCI actually fly (I'm less worried about EnVision).

Well, no coverage of Venus surface other than radar is plentiful - and the best of that is over 30 years old.