Gene Milone

Spectacular sprites!

Inpressive! What smart telescope do you have?

Negligence on top of extortion, corruption, and incompetence. It is hard to keep track of all the levels of malfeasance.

Boulders are named? Aren't they by their nature subject to movement? There are a lot of boulders in the solar system --- the naming commission is going to be very busy ...
Are all the craters named?

Well we know this much: A major source of misinformation can never be relied on to tell the truth. And that goes for every agency, every office that has been corrupted.

BlueSky needs an abhor icon, badly.

Yep, still the same old most ignorant, stupidest, and craziest fool ever to stumble into the oval office.

When Hewish visited Yale Observatory in the '60s, he likely saw the visicorder used to record the fine structure in the decametric radio bursts from Jupiter that the Bethany arrays were observing. I believe that studying the interplanetary scintillation causing it was the main point of his visit.

Bluesky really needs to introduce groan and LYAO emojis.

Well, a newly discovered moon, anyway.

Rules? We don't need no stinkin' rules.

If the idea is to degrade U. S. science, this is another step to accomplishing that. Who or what benefits from this, exactly?

It is important to make this finding well-known. There are far too many still-living vax deniers who need to see this.

Serendipidy and coincidence aside, would there have been data gathered if Hewish had not planned and set up the operation?

A fine discovery, to be sure. But, to be fair, this was Anthony Hewish's project, equipment, and laboratory, and his was the responsibility for the success or faiure of the project. People tend to forget these aspects.

A possible brine lake on present day Mars? Even the prospect is exciting!

So in a real case, you hope beyond hope that a rare and maybe previously unrecognized condition does not throw the robot into a "safe mode?"

That is why there must be universal health care for everyone supported by everyone period

Well, you have to be in control of yourself before you can be expected to be in control of your government.

How about expanding hiring and training for medical staff, reducing pressure, and improving wages and working conditions, instead?

What, you expected something different after all the years of supporting Republicans? Remember the Bush-Cheney years.

That's scarcely different from now: If you don't have enough actual democrats elected, ignorance, stupidity, and insanity will be the policies supported by that Congress.

How about using one's great wealth to end disease and poverty and stay out of politics? That would be a more worthy goal for every billionaire.

Well if a certain group of federal employees, tasked with the responsibility of upholding the law, say, lacks the ability to do their jobs, then, perhaps, it is time to have them, in particular, laid off.

Schools are sources of science, civil, and social instruction. In a word, it is where civilization is taught. If severe limitations are placed on the science, history, and social studies to be taught, the whole enterprise is threatened. That's not how you spread knowledge; it's how to make fascists.

As for the newer technique of spreading powdered basalt on fields, a successful result depends on the original Ph of the soil as well as other environmental considerations.

and maybe their privileged health care.

Exciting! The jet popping up on a photo reminds me of the quasar 3C273 images I saw in Harvard plates in the days when it was known to be only a "radio star" (maybe from a recently exploded nova or supernova).

Indeed, larger organisms are usually at greater risk from major short time-scale stressors. Hence the demise of many large species in earth's major extinction events, particularly the K-T event.

This is sad and tragic, and a warning to those who did not deal with the pandemic as seriously as they should have, but is it not the case that those with weakened immune systems, a common result of cancer treatments, always faced higher risk of severe outcomes?