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Every so often I like to watch this clip of Jacob Bronowski from "Ascent of Man" as a reminder that it's up to the human race to make the world a place worth living for the human race. "We have to touch people", he says.
#PI_Daily
SUCCESS! Our new Command and data handling (C&DH) computer flight software load is now installed and running on both our main and backup C&DH machines, way, WAY out there on
@NewHorizons2015
in the Kuiper Belt! New science capabilities ahead now!
#Science
#NASA
#Space
Let me get this straight: Musk endorsed antisemitic conspiracy theories on Wednesday, but on Friday says he’ll ban terms used to criticize Israeli policies. So is “fighting hate” about stopping antisemitism or stopping criticism of Israel?
I love St. Vincent’s work but I feel like if you name your new album “Daddy’s Home” and your real father actually came home from prison you really can’t avoid that interview topic.
More evidence that it's the virus disrupting economic activity and not lockdowns that are disrupting economic activity. To help the economy, we must fight the virus.
Disney says Walt Disney World's reopening is contributing positively to operating income in its parks segment, but not as positively as the company had expected, as the COVID resurgence has dampened business.
This other view of Sophia Floersch’s crash’s Macau was posted on Reddit. This has to be one of the worst racing crashes I’ve ever seen. I really hope everyone is alright.
Liz Cheney is essentially saying that the camps where we are concentrating people don’t look enough like genocide yet to make comparisons to other concentration camps in history. Good luck with that argument.
Please
@AOC
do us all a favor and spend just a few minutes learning some actual history. 6 million Jews were exterminated in the Holocaust. You demean their memory and disgrace yourself with comments like this.
@Popehat
Apparently it’s worse than that. I’m watching the CBSN LA stream and the reporters at the scene are under the impression that they intentionally detonated what had been placed in the bomb squad container. The bomb squad just miscalculated.
Everyone was hoping this meant that Opportunity was alive again but
@doug_ellison
explained on the
@NASASpaceflight
forum that it was just MRO’s Doppler shift due to its orbital motion putting its downlink frequency onto Opportunity’s frequency. False alarm. ☹️
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Simultaneously:
- finishes a story from last year that I've been dying to wrap up
- introduces a device that records in a format you last remember using to pirate a terrible screener of Napoleon Dynamite
August 23, 1989: In Montreal, Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda complains that Expos mascot Youppi is bothering Dodgers players, so the umpires toss Youppi out of the ballpark!
Anyone who says they’re “still doing research“ about COVID vaccines 10 months after they first became available and 5-6 months after they became widely available on demand is not “doing research“ and is just bullshitting you at this point.
@nycsouthpaw
It’s a design a woman designer submitted in 1931 for the 1932 Washington Quarter that was rejected. They’re using it now in the series honoring American Women:
What in the everloving fuck is Anderson Cooper doing grilling the Toledo Family’s lawyer about whether Adam Toledo had the gun at some point. The video shows no goddamned threat to the officer. There’s nothing in the kid’s hand when he raises his hands.
May is a huge month for new books about space exploration.
@AlanStern
who is the leader of the New Horizons mission has a book about the Pluto mission coming out and awesome space writer/report
@elakdawalla
has written the definitive book on the Curiosity rover on Mars.
The Carl Sagan’s Global Warming Christmas Special SNL sketch from 1991 joked about the atmospheric CO2 concentration being at 350ppm. Today it’s over 412.
More than 150 tankers from 26 installations will perform flyovers at major landmarks, population centers and state capitals in all 50 states, the Air Force said.
@adamvanho
@NWSCLE
My experience with aurora watching in Ohio has been: 1) You need to be in a really dark place with a view of the horizon. 2) You probably need an planetary KP of 9.
@0xabad1dea
There was an excellent 2.5 hour BBC Radio 4 documentary series last year about this scandal called The Great Post Office Trial. One of the breakthroughs in the case was when a Fujitsu engineer became a whistleblower.
@ChrisKPolansky
@GovStitt
Interesting that the last paragraph emphasizes the form of government they had in 1918 and not the form of government they have now.
@Nnedi
SpaceX launch out of Vandenberg. When they launch close to dusk the cloud from the rocket gets illuminated by the sun (up high where the sun is still up) while it’s dark on the ground, so the cloud really stands out.
@gravislizard
You might find it interesting that the back of the Windows/386 box from 1988 explains it “turns your 80386-based personal computer into a multi-tasking virtual machine”.
Can we...just accept that we suck at this?
I want to tell you a story that has made me kinda hopeless about Twitter's ability to affect positive things happening, and it starts with this tweet from Hillary Clinton.
@pwnallthethings
Everyone has heard of the Challenger accident but only serious space geeks remember 2018’s Soyuz MS-10 accident because the escape system successfully saved the lives of the Russian and American on board when the rocket broke up after a booster failed to separate correctly.
the producers of the breitbart-backed movie about hunter biden apparently dropped a full trailer on truth social last night, and it is really something.
@jonrosenberg
I agree. The method to HG2G's madness was always that there were modules of material that could be remixed in different ways for different mediums. The film just does this in a more compressed format. It's true to the vision because the vision was always remixing the material.
Schmidt on a lack of an exception to rape in her bill: "Rape is a difficult issue, and it emotionally scares the individual...but if a baby is created, it is a human life, and whether that mother ends that pregnancy or not, the scars will not go away."
Inside the NBA on TNT is doing a fantastic job of informing its audience as Charles Barkley, Shaw, Kenny Smith, and Ernie Johnson ask Dr. Sanjay Gupta very clear and frank questions about the Coronavirus.
@jonrosenberg
@Al__S
I do have a soft spot for the TV series though. Those are the actors I think of as HG2G. Simon Jones and Peter Jones in particular. The VFX are crude today but the book animation holds up very well.
@rotarydials
In my hometown of Cuyahoga Falls, OH, the local Acme grocery store still has this wonderful sign from the 50s. When they replaced the old store in the 2010s they refurbished the sign. This is an SX-70 photo I took.
@maggiekb1
It’s kind of fascinating to watch the David Suchet Poirot show from the beginning because the tone, pacing, and cinematography evolved significantly over the course of the series.
Helldivers 2 is no longer purchasable in 177 countries where PSN is not available (but some are still available like Baltics).
This game has now received 215,000 negative reviews.
Rep. Val Demings reports raising $8.4m last quarter in her bid to unseat Sen. Marco Rubio. It’s one of the biggest cash-hauls for a Senate candidate in Q3
via Florida Playbook