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Adding that to the list. Have you read Ada Ferrer’s “Cuba: An American History” by chance?
I didn’t think it was possible to be this bad at Dispatch.
Thucydides did not write the Melian Dialogue for people to forget Athens lost the Peloponnesian War.
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A crescent Jupiter from the Galileo orbiter
Io, moon of Jupiter, from the Galileo Orbiter
The rings of Jupiter and Europa, moon of Jupiter, from the Galileo orbiter. In this view, Europa is eclipsed by the planet Jupiter, which is why it is so dim relative to the rings.
Callisto, moon of Jupiter from the Galileo orbiter.
Today in 1989, the Space Shuttle Atlantis launched the Galileo spacecraft, the first orbiter and entry probe at a giant planet. When I watch it recede from the shuttle, I can't help but want to scream to open the antenna first (it never opened). They were still able to salvage an amazing mission.
Hey so I'm out of my pain management(weed) and really hurting today
We're also out of snap and don't have the money to cover costs beyond rent. Juggling minimum payments to keep power
If anyone can spare a few bucks, I'd be eternally grateful for the help
V: Ripley_
CA: $ripleyride
no kings includes draft kings
Geological timeline showing key events in Mars's evolution. Approximate ages of major events are after Grady (2020) and Hughes et al. (2023), aside from potential ore-forming windows, which represent our interpretations. Proposed minimum and maximum atmospheric pressure curves are after Kurokawa et al. (2018). Pre-N = Pre-Noachian.
Most of the deposits that seem to be discussed are from the Noachian and Hesperian (~4.1 to 3.0 billion years ago). A bunch or magmatic deposits and maybe some evaporites.
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Side note, evaporites on Mars is a PhD topic I was thinking about at some point. Still a bit sorry I didn't take that.
I can only do so much from Italy, but please support these folks! It's only the future of U.S.A. science at stake.
So, you can get geodynamic behavior similar to plate tectonics on Venus, but only in special circumstances and regionally limited as opposed to a global system like on Earth.
In Artemis Corona, Britomartis Chasma has a morphology and structure nearly identical to Mid-Ocean Ridges on Earth, complete with fracture zones! This is likely because Artemis Corona has some kind of ephemeral subduction occurring at it's southeast margin that produces a massive back-arc basin.
The short version (for the long version, read the paper) is that the majority of rifts on Venus aren't an equivalent to seafloor spreading (not surprising), but rather a global system of classical full- and half-graben. However, there is an exception that proves the rule.
I did this as part of my PhD dissertation. The goal was to model seafloor spreading on Venus and determine if it would look the same with Venusian temperatures and rheology as it does on Earth. It turns out that it does, and this has implications for Venus's global rift system.
I somehow completely forget announce that I have a new paper that came out last month! Behold: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
If this isn't your response to doomerism I don't want to know you
An anglerfish that, instead of being round, is skinnier and has a long snout. She somehow looks even more ridiculous than the typical beach ball shaped ones
These crazy deep sea fishes are now giving us new insights into how immune systems function, hopefully helping us develop better treatments for immune system disorders. This is why it's important to study our world simply for the sake of studying it. You never know what you're gonna learn
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Trump administration takes aim at satellite that measures carbon dioxide and crops
www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...
Really? Unclear? @npr.org , you’re smarter than this. Why would a political movement that has consistently denied global warming seek to eliminate missions that measure the gas behind global warming? It’s not irresponsible speculation to call this out.
Avi Loeb has gotten US Rep Luna to write NASA admin Duffy with a demand to repurpose Juno to rendezvous with 3I/Atlas. This is so far out of line I don't know where to start.
PBS and NPR are the networks that have had the most positive influence on my life, from Nova to Newshour to All Things Considered to Sesame Street. The regime is going after them because they’re a threat to its power. To everyone who let this happen, I offer a sincere “go fuck yourself.”
Ozzy Osbourne AND Tom Lehrer? I’m having flashbacks to 2016.
Road sign, two directions: "doing what you need to do", and "doing what you want to do", car underneath between the two directions upside down and on fire, "ADHDers somehow doing neither"
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Don’t tempt me into such hopes.
Ok, this name is better than "rock juice"--also this should be a mixed absinthe drink.
It would even be appropriately mantle green.
Slabsinthe?
NASA just won an Emmy for our live broadcast of the total solar eclipse last year. We produced a documentary film about the James Webb Space Telescope that's out in theaters and on Netflix. We have podcasts, we write feature stories. People wear the agency logo on t-shirts. We're still getting cut.
Excerpt from proposed NOAA budget showing zero funding for Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes
Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.
GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.
This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
So, did Flavio Briatore write the new F1 movie? Because “Let’s frame the Renault crashing scandal as a good thing” is a crazy premise, from what I hear. #formula1
