Peter Gao

if we are all stardust then are rabbits stardust bunnies

willing to bet money that there won’t be a second fifa peace prize

@gcugno.bsky.social and I had a wonderful discussion with @goastromo.bsky.social for @setiinstitute.bsky.social LIVE about our work on the circumplanetary disk around CT Cha b!

nope I’ve tried

The sound is broken on my gas station pump tv screen and I’ve never been so thankful

a woman in a black dress says it - it - the f - it - flam - flames ALT: a woman in a black dress says it - it - the f - it - flam - flames

I used the word “diversity” in my NASA proposal and apparently that’s a no-no

Fair - I would like it if the crew didn’t take over controls

let’s just say if I were you I wouldn’t go near one of the dishes at DRAO

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The starship Destiny from Stargate Universe, made with the design software SolidWorks, viewed from behind

The starship Destiny from Stargate Universe, made with the design software SolidWorks

The starship Destiny from Stargate Universe, made with the design software SolidWorks

a few more

The starship Destiny from Stargate Universe, made with the design software SolidWorks

The starship Destiny from Stargate Universe, made with the design software SolidWorks, viewed from behind, close up

The starship Destiny from Stargate Universe, made with the design software SolidWorks, viewed from above

The starship Destiny from Stargate Universe, made with the design software SolidWorks, viewed from the side

with Stargate coming back this seems like a good time to show off the Destiny I made in SolidWorks (of all things) many years ago during a summer internship

I was supposed to be using it for designing radio dish parts

Trump’s reaction to Mamdani makes perfect sense when you realize that the one thing Trump is consistent on is his need to be liked and accepted by other New Yorkers

Worse. The plane’s crew has locked us out from being able to control the tinting and has set it to max dark

I want to see outside!

blue tinted airplane window with no window shade

worst windows ever

those looks of disappointment from the aisle and window seaters when I tell them I’m in the middle seat

heard an interview with Hakeem Jefferies and I’m sorry to report that he sounded exactly like chatGPT trained on Democratic talking points

is it too much to ask for the Dem leadership to sound like actual humans

it’s unfortunate that gen z had to touch the stove but I’m glad they’ve come around

You just know he’s had this clip saved in a gif folder for MONTHS

Manhattan viewed from the Brooklyn Bridge

the great thing about democracy is that no matter how much power and wealth gets concentrated in the top 0.1%, when it’s voting time every billionaire still gets only one vote

congrats NYC

pendulum is swinging back

it’s a reading-proposals-in-bed sort of day

<candidate> is the most common type of postdoc in the galaxy and yet their origins remain uncertain

HIRING <candidate> WOULD CONSTITUTE A CLEAR ADVANCEMENT FOR YOUR DEPARTMENT

people like bolded sentences in ref letters right

going from writing JWST proposals to writing reference letters is interesting because the hype train doesn’t stop I’m just hyping up people instead of ideas

In Cycle 2, I was co-PI of the largest volume limited survey of nearby white dwarfs with #JWST. Our first result is out! Out of 56 white dwarfs, one showed a possible candidate companion between projected separations of 0.5"-2" or roughly 10-40 au. 🔭 #astrosci
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a man wearing a shirt with the word super on it Alt: Closing laptop meme

#JWSTCycle5

a close up of a cat 's face with its mouth open and eyes closed . Alt: screaming cat meme

30 HOURS TO GO

fun with cropping