Marc Postman

Hopefully they have turkey onboard the station. Safe travels Chris!

We had to make a dessert with whip cream and the blender broke. No problem I said. I’ll just grab the power drill, bend a hanger wire into the right shape, and we’ll be in business. Four days later we were still cleaning up residual cream splatter.

Congratulations!

Yes

Image of the progress pride flag flying at our ESAC site in Spain.

Image of the progress pride flag flying at our ESRIN site in Frascati, Italy.

Image of the progress pride flag flying at our ESEC site in Belgium.

Image of the progress pride flag flying at our ESOC site in Darmstadt, Germany.

Today is #LGBTQinSTEMDay 🌈

ESA proudly joins the STEM community in celebrating the unique contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals.

The Pride Flag will fly across ESA sites as a reminder of how far we’ve come, and how much more there is to do.

#SpaceForAll

Thanks. Good to know. Have a happy and healthy holiday.

If I had that much disposable cash I would definitely make a bid.

Yes.

That new show is amazingly good.

Purple planets!

This work uses only a very small, non-representative subset of supernovae—some of which are not even spectroscopically confirmed as being Type Ia —and crucially relies on an obsolete version of supernova measurements from circa ≈ 2010. The SN community doesn’t give it serious weight.

Sounds like a good time for jury nullification

Mayor Mamdani.

The truth is out there.

I’m surprised they didn’t try to contact the pink panther.

The truly disturbing part is his comments followed his saying he would like a third term and was then trying to demo how healthy he was.

If we can rename military bases we can rename ballrooms when the 🍊 leaves. Better yet, just demolish it and restore some class.

NYT buries the lead yet again. The biggest challenge the refer to is governing NYC. This challenge would be present regardless of which candidate is elected. NYT: Don't make it a left vs right issue. NYT is really going downhill.

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This week in particular. Now onto binge the new season of the Diplomat.

I predict we’ll easily break last year’s record.

That would have been spectacular to hear.

Agree 100%. We were there on Thursday evening. It was a remarkable performance (with the bonus of 3 encores!).

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Medbeds were also a plot element in the sci-fi film Elysium.

U.S. taxpayers are now covering the cost of outright political denigration on federal websites. www.hud.gov

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In the event of a U.S. government shutdown, STScI will extend the James Webb Space Telescope Cycle 5 proposal submission deadline for affected scientists. Details: https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news/jwst/2025/jwst-cycle-5-deadline-extension-in-case-of-government-shutdown #NASAWebb 🔭 🧪 ☄️

Jackson to Andrews for the touchdown.. beautifully done.

True.

The Ravens did a pretty good job of stopping them last weekend.