Carl Haster

The money does not go into space. The money does not go into space.
The money does not go into space.

Sure, the money helps us in exploring and understanding the universe, but the money actually goes to people, to local economies, to universities, it provides jobs, and gets young people into STEM.

The solution to homeless people is giving them homes.

A huge antenna dish pointed at a cloudy sunset sky. The crescent moon hangs over a distant desert ridge. This is the Goldstone DSCC Station 13. Now decommissioned, this antenna was built for the Voyager 2 encounter of Uranus. Photo: NASA/Bill Dunford

A few months ago they let me walk around the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex at night. Don't know if it was the desert rain, watching skyscraper-sized antennas swivel to catch signals from beyond Saturn, or just my fillings buzzing from the radio signals, but I had goosebumps all night.

i gotta say one more thing

having worked in animation for years now, calling this "animated" is a fucking mortal insult. completely get fucked. animation is a creator thoughtfully and painstakingly giving something life. this is fucking nothing compared to animation

AHAHAHAHAHA

friendly neighborhood barred attorney telling you to never put your ID on your phone

Social media post from the White House with a dark, just flat-out sinister image of RFKj with meme font saying “WE ARE ENDING THE WAR ON PROTEIN” Seriously the picture is fucked up

You can say Merry Protein again

I know this is corny to say but this is the real America, man. This is what it’s all about. This is what those freaks are trying to destroy & we won’t let them

Here's the adult vaccination recommendations as of Nov 2024. Why did I save these? Because I knew someone was going to try to stomp on this, and not today, Satan. Not today. #CDC #vax #vaccines #getvaxxed

Here are the child vaccine recommendations as of November 2024. Keep them with you, advocate for your kids, get the vaccines they need to stay healthy and promote immunity for the whole community. #Health #CDC #vax

Bra om fler kände till!

YouTube video by lftkryo 8-bit Boléro (The World's Most Ambitious Chiptune?)

Nice and cool version of this song!

A social media post recounts a story about helping an older lady with limited English, reflecting on how having pink hair signaled trustworthiness and individuality.

Things are Terrible, but this isn't.

Be weird.

More of this kind of rich person, please.

🧵 NSF is reducing external review requirements and eliminating routine expert panels, citing staff shortages that this administration implemented. This change expands program officer authority. But the solution to flawed accountability isn't less public accountability.

YouTube video by European Space Agency, ESA The amazing adventures of Rosetta and Philae

A good example of this are the ESA videos (and cartoons) for the Rosetta+Philae mission

youtu.be/HD2zrF3I_II?...

Nu räcker inte ögat längre När AI får oss att inte lita på något längre, då utmanas demokratin.

Återigen har @myrannosaurus.doomscroll.se skrivit dagens viktigaste text (om AI):

"Istället för att fokusera på lösningar för att peka ut vad som lurar människor behöver vi framtidssäkra för en befolkning som inte vågar tro på någonting alls. Som inte går att övertyga, ens med riktiga bevis." >

True!
Hence, my second favourite black hole is the less massive component of GW241011!

Depends how well you will justify picking another one 😉

International conventions should not be held in the U.S.

For now, the more massive component of the GW241011 binary ⚫️

Hubble Space Telescope in space orbiting above Earth’s limb. Words to the right read: Hubble Notebook Update.

Improvements ahead! A team at STScI recently launched a full suite of enhanced Jupyter Notebooks for scientific analyses with Hubble. The upgrades improve the functionality of the repository, as well as the DrizzlePac software suite: https://bit.ly/3XJAXVh 🔭 🧪 ☄️

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.

One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.

When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

For the 1st time ever, 8 spacecraft are docked to the International Space Station It's the first time all the spacecraft docking ports on the current configuration of the ISS have been occupied.

It's easy to forget we live in a future with a fully operating space station with multiple docking ports for various spacecraft.

www.space.com/space-explor...

A black and white comic of the author talkin to themselves, they say “ahhh a new year, a fresh start”. They then look at the calendar in shock seeing it’s already May. “HUH? MAY??” they say. Then they say “that’s fine, I have the whole summer ahead of me!” They look at the calendar, now it’s September. “WHAT?! HUH?” They hold their head in their hands, despairing. “No, no, it’s okay, there’s still time” they look at the calendar which now says December and shriek “STOP!!” At it

Happy old year

A skill that might actually be quite useful while on the ISS!

Also featured is the Spherical Cow by @minouette.bsky.social 🐄

The fun office corner 😊