"I would not be surprised if we fly 400 Starship launches in the next four years,” Shotwell said in 2024.
Considering they have flown just six times in the fifteen months since, they are really going to have to pick up the pace if they want to hit this ridiculous target!
More than anything else it has convinced me that all the people running the US government are actual psychopaths.
It's not just you, orbiting data centres really are a stupid idea.
#space #spacex #ai #astronomy
Because they are incapable of thinking long-term. Or more than about a week ahead, really.
Is anyone running the US not currently a psychopath?
The Chinese networks are a big threat to Starlink's dominance. They are unlikely to be used in the US, but there are plenty of places around the world that will see the value of an alternative and likely cheaper system.
Doesn't sound like they are on the same page at all...
I think the laws of economics will take them down well before they start trying to break the laws of thermodynamics.
I never see anyone address the question of how Musk's massive arrays of solar panels are supposed to dodge debris and avoid collisions...
Cool solar eclipse seen from orbit this week!
Plus a look at the possibilities of nuclear electric propulsion, a possible sighting of a failed supernova, a revision to the dimensions of Jupiter, and another delay to Artemis II.
#space #scicomm #astronomy #science 🧪🔭
Venus (a dark circle) against the yellow background of the Sun.
In 2012 the Hinode satellite photographed Venus silhouetted against the Sun. This will not happen again until December 2117.
#space #art #astronomy
...and started asserting that he can build a city on the Moon instead. I wonder what happens when he learns how long the lunar night is?
I don't think its a coincidence they plan an IPO this year. These plans will probably end up like Musk's plans to build cities on Mars...
New post today: Hubble picks up signs of dwarf worlds colliding around Fomalhaut.
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Oh look, it worked
Time to stand up to the bully
This is quite a post
www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...
What do the colours of astronomical images actually mean? And why can the same object appear very different depending on the telescope we use to look at it?
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New post up, looking this week at how the sister-stars of the Pleiades are now scattered across the night sky.
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This is 1) a stupid idea and 2) something that will never work economically anyway.
A bright, greeny–white splotch in the centre of the image is the nucleus and coma of comet 3I/ATLAS. To the upper right streams the major dust tail. The background comprises distant stars against a black background, with the NGC 4691 galaxy at upper left.
This is an incredible image of comet 3I/ATLAS, taken by Satoru Murata ICQ Comet Observations group on 16 November 2025 from western New Mexico.
Structure within the major dust tail from the comet is clearly visible, together with two smaller jets trailing the nucleus and maybe even an anti-tail.
I am not sure this work is better than my bot's, but I did try to integrate all NIRCam data. I had to compromise the resolution, it was too much for my laptop to handle in full scale.
JWST 🔭: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
New post up about the recent big and beautiful auroral displays.
#space #science #technology 🧪🔭
Is it just because they lack knowledge? Or they don’t recognise when an idea is clearly bullshit? Or is there simply not an audience for it?
The other angle is the space industry, which again suffers from overly credulous reporters. There’s nothing wrong with calling out some of the ridiculous companies and projects out there, but very few journalists actually do it.
I want to believe people want to know about this, but that they are put off by poor articles that don’t explain anything or go for sensational stories.
On the other hand, I like the idea of writing posts that use recent papers or popular astronomy news topics as a way to explain the background theory. Most people know almost nothing about dark matter (astronomers included, but that’s another story) or anything else about the cosmos around us.
But as I’ve written before, this is really rare. If a headline tells you about a recent discovery of aliens, or of dark matter, or of a new fundamental theory, 99% of the time it will be completely false. And that just breeds mistrust in science
