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On a BlueSky sabbatical. Find me on my blog.

An authorship puzzle Exploration of nature and natural history in India

Who is D R? She/He wrote a column in The Bombay Chronicle in the 1940s called The Open Air.

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This is a 🧵 in which I aim to persuade you to support @freelibsnet.bsky.social and, if your finances permit it, to take advantage of the many fabulous offers in its #LibraryLove fun(d)-raiser.

Good conversations on blogs and social media like we used to have in the 2000s now seem to have moved to semi-private WhatsApp and Telegram groups somewhere in the 2021-22 period. Now, they seem to have moved on from there as well. Where have they gone?

Notes on <em>Evangelion</em> <em>Evangelion</em> thoughts—anti-religion, pro-psychology, character development, otaku genre.

Read this gwern essay - gwern.net/otaku-essay

Then watched Evangelion on Amazon Prime.

Two Visions for the Future - Bangalore International Centre Justice, Rights and Ethics in <em>The Sentence</em> RSVP <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfmM-c6u6PZ_hRjmewT0wEVHCO4oBUWLgPzUQQIiwHJtZYmiA/viewform?usp=pp_url" target="_blank" rel="...

Bangalore folks: if free on Saturday evening, please drop by to the Bangalore International Centre at 6 30 for a discussion with Shrabonti Bagchi about THE SENTENCE, and more:

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Given kids, the dark forest theory makes a lot of sense as a way to exist on the Internet.
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Overview: Station Arrivals Father Time has a funny way of sneaking up on us. It’s somehow been nearly four years since NASA announced the Commercial LEO Destinations (CLD) program, its plan to replace the International Space St...

Michael Sheetz roundup of US private station efforts - Overview: Station Arrivals
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CNSA and Pakistan's SUPARCO MoU, paving way for Pakistan rover to fly on the Chang'e-8 lunar south pole landing mission in 2028. www.app.com.pk/national/sup...

Congratulations to Bellatrix Aerospace on their tenth anniversary - www.linkedin.com/posts/bellat...

Genex Space on LinkedIn: #beyondearthworkshop #humanspaceexploration #indouscollaboration… Beyond Earth - An Indo-U.S. Human Space Exploration Workshop: &#39;Empowering the Next-Gen Space Pioneers&#39; This workshop is brought to you as part of the Space…

For Indian students, class 8 to 12, in Bengaluru. www.linkedin.com/posts/genexs...

The audiobook for my upcoming book 'THE NEW NUCLEAR AGE' is announced now for April 2021 (worldwide). Audible details here: www.audible.com/pd/The-New-N...

Skyroot Aerospace on LinkedIn: #vikram1 #plf #rocketscience #engineering #openingspaceforall ⚡️The test bed is buzzing! Our space mechanism and integration teams are running through a series of system checks, simulations, and analyses on our carbon…

Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram 1 payload fairing - www.linkedin.com/posts/skyroo...

Some grants and progress details on ISRO relevant projects from RRI Annual Report 2023-2024.
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1. Pre recorded audio message:
  2. Greeting Message & limited TM in APRS Packet format: 
 3. Pre loaded SSTV Images

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BGS ARPIT is turned ON  from 10:52 UTC FEB 4th. The payload will be kept ON continuously for global coverage. Pls submit your reception reports to info@amsatindia.org or vu3tyg@yahoo.co.in

Object  : POEM-4
NORAD No  :  62461
Frequency    : 145.870 MHz (IARU Coordinated)
Mode : NFM Data

US deports Indian migrants in military plane, official says President Trump uses military for immigration agenda, including deporting migrants to India, costing at least $4,675 per person.

A U.S. military plane is deporting migrants to India, a U.S. official said on Monday, the farthest destination of the Trump administration's military transport flights for migrants.
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India macro fundamentals strong, rupee not depreciating against any currency other than U.S. dollar, says Nirmala Sitharaman Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman defends Indian rupee stability against U.S. dollar, citing strong macroeconomic fundamentals amid criticism.

India macro fundamentals strong, rupee not depreciating against any currency other than U.S. dollar, says #NirmalaSitharaman.
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Apparently nothing new from NVS 02 either. Here, recorded over South America on 2025-02-02, 01:55:44 UTC at ~31200 km altitude.

It changes the definition of what it means to be in the middle class. You see a group of people moving from paying tax to not having to pay tax because they have moved to the lower class. Something fundamental has shifted.

I think one way to look at the increase of the zero tax to 12 lakhs or whatever it is, is to say that you need that income level to survive in India. You may not have money left over for saving or investing below this income level.

The "Science" in Contemporary Global and Indian Science Fiction - a talk delivered at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) on 30 Jan 2025:

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#EVA92 - More banter coming from Wilmore and Willams about today's EVA. ( Observations: I've seen some things in the media specifically the Indian media about vast concerns for Wilmore but specifically for Willams. Hope this happy banter between these two right now puts an end to all of that.)

Pradeep's Space Newsletter #66 Reflections on the GSLV Launch GSLV-F15

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Cryo stage cut-off, satellite separated. GSLV-F15 NVS-02 mission successful. 100th launch completed from SDSC.

ISRO GSLV-F15/NVS-02 successfully lifts off. Hot stage separation of stage 1-2 done successfully. Now the cryo stage is taking it to the geostationary transfer orbit.

LAUNCH of India's NVS-02 nav satellite on GSLV flight F15 from Satish Dhawan at 0053 UTC Jan 29

LVM3 M5: AST SpaceMobile expects its next spacecraft to leave facilities in Texas as early as March for a launch from India
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