Is there life on Mars? For decades, America was in pole position to find out with its multi-mission Mars Sample Return program.
But MSR is now officially dead. And in the race to find alien life on Mars, it’s now China’s to lose.
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Flexible schedules enable many people to accomplish real work outside of what others would consider “business hours.” I think I took from your article is that checking email is symptom of a larger issue of unrealistic and unmanaged expectations.
Would love your thoughts on this article I just wrote" The Great Debate: Check Work Email On Weekends Or Not? This is a bit outside of the weather, climate and science things I normally write about in Forbes, but it is certainly relevant to many of us.
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
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11423 representatives - one for every 30,000 persons. Once you exceed the capacity of a room, there is no reason to cap at an arbitrary number, which will always lead to lopsided representation.
ahhhh memories of all eyes on LCROSS
I mean, yes of course, but before we formulate that, could we just go over here for a minute to talk about Mars? You got kinetic energy, I got things that need to be lofted from the surface.
While we wait for additional pieces to gain various approvals, I want to shout out some folks: Marco Micheli, Julien de Wit, Artem Burdanov, and Dave Tholen, who performed independent positional measurements, Bryan Holler for image processing, and Davide Farnocchia for orbit determination. 1/
I can't say enough about #JWST (which I'd link if they had an account?) and the folks at @stsci.edu, who made the faintest-ever observations of a solar system object a breeze, using only about 5 hours of integration on each of two observing sessions. 2/
So, yeah. It's not going to hit the Moon. But, importantly, we demonstrated that as a species we have the capability to discover, characterize, and track tiny objects, even if they're halfway to Jupiter. And I suspect that a lot more YR4-like objects could be found by @vrubinobs.bsky.social. \end
I can't like this enough times
Booooooo (but nice work @asrivkin.bsky.social and team!)
I really wanted this to happen while we have an active seismonometer on the Moon
Hey, so, we have some news about something that won't be happening in 2032.
also it's well worth taking a look at the Tech Force initiative this hiring is under. It's a two-year term position after which you will need to look for a job elsewhere. techforce.gov
Oh yeah, go check out Tech Force. techforce.gov “Upon completing the program, engineers can seek employment with the partnering private-sector companies for potential full-time roles.”
Strata the torbie cat sitting on the couch and looking up at Riley expectantly
Ah crap I’m late for couch
“By royal command the pastry chefs have worked all night in the half bakery to make sure that——”
“The half bakery?” questioned Milo.
“Of course, the half bakery,” snapped the king. “Where do you think half-baked ideas come from?
Be your awesome self !
(((Hugs)))
3-block linocut relief print of 4 crows sitting on a ragged fence with the full Moon behind them.
There’s a full Moon today! Let’s celebrate with some Moon art! The March full Moon is sometimes called the Crow Moon. #FullMoon #Moon #linocut
This is a good example of the alternate civic sphere they have built. Their own institutions credentialing almost entirely for signal instead of skill. It’s not strange historically. Think being a member of a faith to become a professor at religious institutions.
Map of the US Mar 3 total lunar eclipse visibility showing Colorado and west as full eclipse, Kentucky to Colorado has half partial, all total, and the east coast as half partial and total with rare selenelion
[Cliff Claven voice] "You know, a selenelion is sometimes called a “horizontal eclipse” from the ancient Greek moon goddess Selen and sun god Helios, where one can see the eclipsed moon in the west and the risen sun in the east at the same time due to atmospheric refraction of both bodies."
Reminder:
🌕➡️🔴 Lunar eclipse alert!
Depending on where you are (mostly: Central/Eastern Asia, Oceania, most of North/Central America), you may be able to see a TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE ("blood moon") overnight!
You can find information about timing and viewing locations here: www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/luna...
Follow-up comment on how bad it is on the ground at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. 🔭
Screenshot of zoom chat. "Person 1: Its hard to convey the depth of the destruction of GSFC and the lack of planning - this has not been well covered by the press or communicated to the community; Person 2: I strongly agree ^^; Person 3: Agreed. It is a shame that the best source of what is going on at GSFC is the Greenbelt News Review, so a weekly volunteer newspaper that typcially mainly reports on church meetings, Roosevelt high school, and the Greenbelt city council (but their articles on GSFC ARE very good)."
Anonymized chat from a telecon right now on the scale of destruction at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and how the best news source about it is the volunteer Greenbelt News Review (www.greenbeltnewsreview.com). ☹️ 🔭
Too few of you know of America’s greatest cultural creation
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WORLD LEADERS SHOCKED AS PRESIDENT CRAZYPANTS DOES SOMETHING CRAZY NEWS AT 11.
