Chris Lee

Even better Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton 🙈☺️

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But… but… but i’ve just bought my “Aliens are coming” protection armour from the Internet? They assured me the world’s leading scientist had confirmed “they” are coming … 😱😜

Great shot. Personally i have not had that much success with winjupos making an appreciable difference for the effort!

It happens everywhere because no one values software delivered content. Same in music etc.

I guess my point is that misogyny was rife in physics across UK departments, i’m just not so sure it was at the Nobel selection team vs what they had on the table? I see cock-up vs conspiracy…

I did not say Bell-Burnell was absent from Physics, only that Bohr continued to develop and extend his Nobel area research to high levels as time progressed so that might have been a contributing factor in his award. I cannot comment on what contribution Bell-Burnell was then (not) allowed to make.

Yes but in his case he was co-creator of a key validation with a similar young researcher. The Nobel people may have concluded the relationship was not the same across the Pulsar team? It probably helped that Bohr went on to take his work further over the years preceding the award announcement?

I understood it was common policy at the time to award to the team leaders who planned, designed and interpreted the research that led to discoveries. Indeed i believe other junior male researchers were also ignored over the years? Nobel changed that policy in the 80’s?

The belief that return to the Moon would just happen with the “right strategy” is false. Space journalists never asked why return? and at what cost? There is no clear case outside TV fantasies. If China had not decided to have a crack, this debate would be over for Govts. Private sector or nothing.

@pomarede.bsky.social i must express my admiration for your efforts here. Your team videos of the Laniakea region are a joy to explore, as is the music!

Well it's done. 3 talks delivered on the past, present and future of our Galaxy. A privilege to have the retirement time to research and present them to audiences that enjoy the subject matter.
But my Marvin jokes could do with some improvement! #u3a #astronomy #space #scifi

Even more surprising is that they can’t even be arsed to mention the key UK scientists involved on the mission who built one of the imagers and the team developing key data algorithms, all funded by UK tax payers. But that’s regional journalism for you. Fine as a local article but not a national.

Yeah but the way this is all working out you will be on your own! Apart from Marvin of course.

As the Honorary auditor of @royalastrosoc.bsky.social for next year i could always ask how the Society might be addressing this challenge?

And i assume no follow up about why?

I would imagine the usual “low ball” questions and follow ups from the moderator…

He is the gift that keeps on giving, scary as that might be…

I would have said it has become an irrelevant conference vs others but with the demise of “USA Space” as a place of partnerships including the Space Symposium outside a defence space world, then it means IAC comes back up the league.

That voiceless “eyes” gunfight scene is a classic! Only bettered by Bob Hoskins and Pierce Brosnan in “The Long Good Friday”

It is a long way and a lot can happen. Media of course fans flames. As usual they’ll big up the fight and then try to undermine everyone at some future point just to start the cycle of fear over and over. Fear sells. Hope does not.

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Interesting question. Satellite galaxies are usually called companions although M31 itself is sometimes referred to as our sister galaxy 🤔

Funnily enough I imaged M32 and M110 separately since I felt they deserved their own time in the Sun. However... on reflection after taking a look at them I feel I would have been better adding more time on M31 core 🤣🤣🤣

Super shot!

Oh you ARE having fun!!

so very vivid! 👏

Playing around with #Saturn by adding a small 1.5X Barlow to my camera optical train. Seems to catch just a touch more detail than without. 5mins video and best 10%... #astro #astrophotography

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A curious article. Paraphrasing - Yes they all get along (duh). No it’s not a race with China (but it is). We are excited (obviously!) Our eyes are better than imaging sensors (yeah sure but a lot more expensive!). We We just want to inspire kids. (There are better safer ways!). 🤷🏻‍♂️🤔

Not so sure there are any science objectives in space exploration that are worth the risk of a life (certainly not from Apollo or ISS), while many claims around spinoffs are vastly overstated vs “what would happen anyway” and yet achieved at huge cost. I have yet to see an objective assessment.