Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)

Happy birthday!

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I'm excited that it's National Fairy Bread Day! But perhaps you can salvage your true blue status by making one of these:

How Cold War foes became close colleagues — until toilets got in the way It was November 20, 1998, and a rocket wasn't an unusual sight in this remote part of Kazakhstan. But today's cargo was a piece of history that would have seemed impossible just years before.

'...as [the ISS] nears the end of its life, the space race is changing again and likely with it the end of the internationalist space era'.
#ISS

'ILLEGIBLE: A doctor's prescription should be illegible. The same applies to any signature. This indicates that one is overwhelmed with correspondence.'

- Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s

I've done this one! Very unexpected ...

What football will look like in the future Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong.

In 2017, sb nation posted this article. Start scrolling and follow the journey. You’ll be surprised. Yet another example of how spacecraft are intertwined in our culture. www.sbnation.com/a/17776-foot...

Yes, clearly not that!

Thank you, William. It was a while ago, of course, but I only just thought of posting this piece to my blog.

This is a beautiful short read. Exactly at the intersection of so many things that hold my attention. Bravo Dr Space Junk.

Kuwait's first Earth station, Umm Al-Aish, opened in 1969. 🔭

You're in my bibliography of space archaeology! 🏺

Of course!

Such a lovely piece. May I plug my own chapter exploring these ideas? www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv...

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“They should have sent a poet” refers to no one so much as it does about Dr. Alice Gorman talking about space robots.

Yuri Gagarin signing an autograph for a young fan.

Yuri Gagarin signing an autograph for a young fan.

Monochrome drawing (fine-point marker?) of a nighttime scene with a hovering alien spacecraft. A person on the ground is holding up a handful of cash and yelling I WILL LITERALLY PAY YOU TO ABDUCT ME

I'm trying to find the person who drew this. Does anyone know?

What can you do?

‘Continue administering justice with complete independence, even in difficult circumstances.’

Nicolas Guillou is a brave and principled guy.

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Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system' Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on ...

The judge who authorised the ICC's arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant is now shut out from modern life as a result of US sanctions.

He has been blacklisted by financial systems and technologies (Visa, Apple, Google, etc)

Paywall bypass: archive.ph/d8NmT

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Bouncer: I'm going to have to ask you to leave.
Me: Why?
Bouncer: I don't know who you are and this is my trampoline.

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We’ve entered the deep whoosh part of the evening.

In which I write about my correspondence with an officer on the front lines during my time in Ukraine.

#ALAP

May those men rot in hell.

The map's form: music
It shows: winds
Its purpose: to indicate lines of power

And some silver spray paint? Or aluminium foil? And then a pic please?

The death of a spacecraft Originally published as part of the Day of Archaeology . now archived with the Archaeological Data Service. July 30, 2016  drspacejunk Day o...

The death of a spacecraft: Philae's social significance.

🏺 🧪 🔭 #PlanetSci

Do other planets really have diamond rain? — Spacepod Dr. Sabine Stanley answers. For more about planetary insides, check out her book, " What's Hidden Inside Planets ".

New episode! Do other planets really have diamond rain? Dr. Sabine Stanley answers.
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#astronomy #planetsci

Synchronisity! I just repaired this little guy! It’s an original Sputnik 1 musical model gifted to me after a lecture years ago. As I wanted to set it up today, it made no sound but a little tweak was all that was needed. Now it sings again!

This is wonderful! Do you know what the song is?