Planetary Noiz

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across.

If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers.

If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

The largest number of satellites launched at once to date looks like 143. Up that to 150, and launch once *every frickin day* it will take 18 years to get a million satellites in orbit.

That is simply not going to happen.

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Star Wars (et al) (1977 and on)
Superman (1978)
Star Trek (TMP et al) (1979 and on)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Time Bandits (1981)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (et al) (1981 and on)
Blade Runner (1982)
Tron (1982)
Aliens (1986)

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I made my first fortune one hot and dry day in Lemonsville

Use Pages. It'll import from and export to Word. Slight learning curve and translation formatting to do, but it's free on Macs, and a fully functional program.

Small steps. If you can live without it for a month, maybe you won’t go back

Whelp. I've been on Facebook since what, 2012? I've deactivated. At the end of Feb, I'll decide on deletion. It's been a way to keep touch with some communities and a pastime, but other, less destructive places than Meta and its cronies are more worth that time and effort.
#resistandunsubscribe

Inconvenience is the smallest of prices to pay. I believe in the message - this admin doesn't respond to outrage, it responds to numbers, and money. Drop the profit, drop the economic output, and things change. We've seen that from this admin multiple times. It works. Resist and Unsubscribe.
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As part of an economic protest action, I'm going to be deactivating my FB account, and possibly canceling. Plus: dropping Amazon prime, Audible & more. The rationale is represented well in a short video here:
resistandunsubscribe.com
It's gonna be a huge, but very 1st-world, pain the ass.
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Change a letter, ruin a film.

Star Wart

forward that serves science, the current and next generation of scientists and engineers, planetary exploration, and NASA.
I look back at the hard won accomplishments of the Venus community and VEXAG in the last 15 years, at VERITAS, DAVINCI, and EnVision to come, and have pride and hope.

As emeritus Chair of VEXAG, it saddens me deeply to see the end of NASA support for the planetary science assessment/analysis groups. It doesn't surprise me, however. The writing was on the wall for a long time.
The AG communities are strong, and I believe many, if not all, will find a way 1/

Painful humor aside. I think it’s an incredibly important dose of perspective. The way I see WWII as ‘not my history, but a culturally dominant living history’ is the way today’s teens see the Reagan era. Only worse because history moves much faster these days

Additional data point: As of the 959 abstract mark, 824 were for in person.

Weathering budget cuts: Lessons from NASA The current uncertainty and cuts to science funding affect universities, research facilities, and laboratories across the United States, but this situation is not unprecedented. Under pressure to fund...

My first editorial in @science.org was published today: what to do (and, importantly, what NOT to do) when your grants are suddenly cut or research funding is uncertain. Please read and share!

#AcademicSky #Science #Astronomy

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Might crack a thousand by midnight Central. Might not. Lowest of the previous 11 years looks to be 1750 in 2024 (1900 in 2025)

Seen it. Your claim is bull.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

No abstract from me
What is the sound one hand
refusing to clap?

I'm just sad we all have to choose to sleep in - or refuse to get in - the bed LPI/USRA made.

A reply to my own question Re: LPSC 2026 abstracts.

As of 2:30pm today abstracts are around #1915. <100 or so since the first deadline passed, and if the numbering started at #1000, then the total may come in at N<1000, and I think very likely N<1200

Today is revised deadline for LPSC 2026. Are there any updated abstract counts? Highest # so far?

Any action on this year's total?

Sounds low. I know there's a multi-year plot out there somewhere

I got to watch live footage of the dead Ceaușescu in a Budapest living room in 1990. I usually don’t care for sequels, but I’ll reserve judgement

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)