Chad Bender

Damn! You finished the book! What are you going to do with your free time now?

Picard resistance tip: Occasionally there are times when you must draw a line and refuse to budge.

They're fun! 😬

Well, that should shut down some "questionable" lines of inquiry. Probably won't though...

Pretty sure "what deck has the lie flat seats?" is the only relevant question at our age.

This is great. Just sent to the office printer for my own personal copy.

"They make the best mirrors in the world" - That right, we do.

Cannot say I like this post...

Re-upping! Let me know if you have any questions!

Good to know.

Yep, my experience is that urgent care is rarely able to actually do things they claim to be able to do. Maybe if you have a head cold, they can prescribe. But for an actual injury, makes more sense to go to the ER.

To be clear, I'm certainly not faulting the type 3 team. I'm sure they are quite skilled. But they shouldn't have been put in that situation without the air and ground support that comes with bigger teams .

An official says a historic Grand Canyon lodge has been destroyed by wildfire Grand Canyon National Park Superintendent Ed Keeble said the Grand Canyon Lodge, the only lodging at the North Rim, was consumed by the flames.

I really hope that the answer is not that we lost a major historic NPS lodge because we were too cheap to pay to save it. apnews.com/article/gran...

As we saw in fires down by Tucson a few years ago, those Type II (and I) teams bring huge amounts of resources that can make substantial differences in outcomes. I wonder how much imbecilic federal budget cuts have impacted the number of teams available to deploy this year.

I'm quite saddened to learn that the Grand Canyon North Rim Lodge burned today in the Dragon Bravo fire. (inciweb.wildfire.gov/incident-ann...). A Type III team has been assigned since July 4; today a Type II team has been assigned. Sadly, too late for their additional resources to do much good.

This is quite fun. Don't give up early.

That looks ... uncomfortable ...

No, obviously I read to quickly. Dec in decimal degrees.

Wait, there are people not already doing this? Do their fits headers really require string parsing? I love a good regex, but sometimes it's just excessive.

This is extremely worrying. The work done at IPAC is critical to the field of astronomy in the US and worldwide.

Shout-out by Science of this neat HPF paper!

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.

NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

Pulsar planets

Last week, NASA and NSF released their FY26 budget requests. We list the detailed impacts on the astronomical sciences in this blog post, and share how you can take action today.
aas.org/posts/news/2...

@policy.aas.org

Turns out it is hard to be a big tent party...

Aerospace Industries Association Letter to Congress regarding NASA FY 2026 budget request
www.aia-aerospace.org/wp-content/u...

NASA is our best US brand name. Proposed cuts to NASA will destroy our position of leadership in space science and exploration ! Tell Congress: Save NASA Science congressweb.com/PlanetarySocie… #

Trump threatens to eviscerate NASA The Presidential budget proposal is a death sentence for the space agency

I am furiously, flamingly, incandescently, *supernova-levels* of angry right now.

Trump is trying to kill NASA science. And hoo boy, do I have something to say about it.

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/trump-thre...

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