Space Archaeology

The fallacies behind the cult of Loeb How media hype and misunderstanding fuel pseudoscientific fascination  Introduction The word “cult” is used here in the sense given by...

The most insightful discussion I seen on the Loeb and his insertion into the 3I/Atlas apparition:

tinieblasyestrellas.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

DNI Tulsi Gabbard * @DNIGabbard X.com Beginning today, at @POTUS' direction, records related to Amelia Earhart's final flight and disappearance 88 years ago will be declassified and shared with the American people. These records include reports, maps, and other documents tracing Earhart's final journey, her last known communications and location, and the initial search following her disappearance. Thanks to President @realDonaldTrump's leadership, a historic initiative is underway to digitize and publicly release these records from across the federal government, including newly declassified files today from @NSAgov. As agencies identify additional files, the new documents will be uploaded to @USNatArchives on a rolling basis, alongside those previously released, at archives.gov/ameliaearhart.

The files we’ve all been waiting for are finally getting released…

Is John Carpenter's The Thing 2 Really in The Works? What We Know So Far Here's the Thing... Horror icon John Carpenter recently kicked The Thing fan community into hyperdrive by suggesting that a sequel to his 1982 film is currently in development. “We’re working on it no...

The Thing 2?

John Carpenter, during an October 2025 appearance at Fan Expo Philadelphia: “We’re working on it now. I don't know...we'll see."

He's been saying the same thing for years. 😁

Oreoboros

3I/ATLAS is Still a Single Body with a Sunward Anti-Tail After Perihelion! Breaking News: The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS did not break up near the Sun.

Any planetary scientists want to help me out with Avi's latest?

avi-loeb.medium.com/3i-atlas-is-...

3I/ATLAS has apparently passed his new totally-made-up test for being a spacecraft. I don't think anyone is surprised it's still in one piece but we're way outside my (and his) expertise here.

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Left: Dr Alice Gorman. (Photo: Simon Royal/ABC) Right: Rami Mandow. (Photo: Supplied; Post-processing: Stilgherrian). Not the best ALT text, I know, but yeah a white women and a man "of Middle-Eastern appearance".

NEW PODCAST: “The 9pm Offworld Colonies with Dr Alice Gorman and Rami Mandow” @drspacejunk.bsky.social @cosmicrami.com (1h05m35s) the9pmedict.com/edict/00255/

Look for “The 9pm Edict” in your podcast app.

Like it? Tell people! Tips at the9pmedict.com/tip.

Loeb’s 3I/ATLAS “Anomalies” Explained Avi Loeb continues to claim that 3I/ATLAS has many anomalous behaviors that lead to the conclusion that it “might” be an alien spacecraft.  He carefully hedges the probability that it is a spacecraft ...

I've summarized the truth about Loeb's 10 "anomalies" about 3I/ATLAS in one post.

Thanks to @deschscoveries.bsky.social @michael-w-busch.bsky.social @cometary.org and @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social for contributing their expertise!

Textbook cover for The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Theory and Practice by Jason T. Wright published by an American Astronomical Society and IOP Publishing Partnership (ebooks)

I wrote a textbook!

I hope you like it.

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A book cover titled "Pearl Harbor: A Day of Infamy December 7th, 1941" and the author is "Michael J Clark". The illustration is a dark, moody aerial view of a smoky harbour, with various features such as ships and buildings oddly out of scale. Four flighter aircraft are flying toward the viewer from slightly below — and they are German FW-190 models with very clear Nazi black cross insignia.

Dear military history enthusiasts, note anything odd about this book cover?

And yeah, it’s a real thing. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

A hand holding an old, worn tie tack of the Telstar satellite.

A photo of a model of the Telstar satellite. It is metal and somewhat spherical in shape but covered in flat panels of various textures.

Last night at the planetarium one of our regulars gave me this old tie tack that had belonged to his dad. I recognized it immediately. It is of Telstar, the world’s first communications satellite. Telstar 1 was launched several months before I was born.

All this time searching for extraterrestrial intelligence when we should have been searching for extraterrestrial stupidity.

Indeed…definitely the B Ark

New morphology in the tail of comet 3I/Atlas will inevitably be spun by the quack Avi Loeb as some evidence of alien activity. This is nothing new, we've seen similar behavior in other comes including 17P, C/2016 R2, and C/1961 R1, and others. It's ionized carbon monoxide. #3I #3I/Atlas #Comet 🔭

A 3-tonne Chinese rocket stage (CZ-3B Y67 stage 3, object 44867) launched in Dec 2019 and abandoned in orbit, made an uncontrolled reentry over eastern Florida at about 1120 UTC Nov 8 and was widely observed.

Sterling silver voyager inspired pendant being held in hand. Two blurry pendant silhouettes can be seen in the background on the jewelry work bench.

[On the bench today ⚒️ #BehindTheScenes]

Finishing up some #Voyager space probe pendants in sterling silver today 🛰️

Two of these beauties are still unsold and will ship out quickly if you grab one:

🔗 sciencesocks.co/coll...

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#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory
Today in Space History - SETA and 1991 VG
November 6, 1991 —
1/The small near-Earth Object 1991 VG is discovered by American astronomer James Scotti at Kitt Peak National Observatory.

The interstellar object #3I/ATLAS has sparked fascination bc, as it approached the Sun, it behaved in unexpected ways, brightening & showing a bluish tint instead of reddening. But none of this requires a non-natural explanation. As the object nears the Sun, its surface ices begin to vaporize. 1/7

Middle: “You had a good go at it..thanks for your input.”

Approaching this from a carbon footprint angle is maybe the most tedious way to bring it up.

Also, isn’t the ACT 100% renewable?

Trump Defends Demolition Of Yggdrasil, Ancient Tree Of Life WASHINGTON—Claiming that the sacred ash tree had outlived its usefulness and needed to be updated, President Donald Trump made remarks Monday defending his demolition of Yggdrasil, the ancient tree of...

Trump Defends Demolition Of Yggdrasil, Ancient Tree Of Life

Mars 1 spacecraft back view. Credit: Don P. Mitchell, http://mentallandscape.com

Mars 1, the first spacecraft sent by any nation to fly past Mars, was launched from Baikonur #OTD in 1962. It was the first spacecraft to fly by Mars on June 19, 1963, although communications had been lost in March, before it reached the planet.

Space Archaeology

What is space archaeology? 🏺 🧪 🔭 #PlanetSci

Possible Space Debris found near Newman, Australia on Oct 18, might be Jielong 3 upper stage remains classified military Space (spy satellites) and Missiles

New blogpost:
"Possible Space Debris found near Newman, Australia on Oct 18, might be Jielong 3 upper stage remains"
sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2025/10/poss...

Smashed avo? Wicked child! Smashing is also the work of
Beelzebub — for Satan saw God’s blessed avocado, and he envied it
and smashed it to spoil its sacred shape! I shall have my avocado as God intended.

Miriam Margolyes as the puritan Lady Whiteadder glares at Rowan Atkinson (Blackadder)

Tweet by Joyce Carol Oates commenting on a Halloween skeleton decorated house: (you can always recognize a place in which no one is feeling much or any grief for a lost loved one & death, dying, & everyone you love decomposing to bones is just a joke.)

From left to right: Justin Warren, Dr Alice Gorman, Rami Mandow, Peter Anderson, and Dr Trent Yarwood. I would describe them in more detail but that seems rude. ;)

UPDATE: Here’s all the podcasts confirmed so far for this season. Yes, I’ve been organising things! www.pozible.com/profile/stil...