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· June 5, 2025 · 1 minute to read
A screenshot of the "The Farthest" title art. The text is in a narrow font over an inky black background full of stars and part of the milky way. A rendering of voyager sits prominently in the center.

As I’m laid up with COVID I finally had a chance to watch “The Farthest” documentary on PBS. It covers the Voyager project from the very beginning to the piercing of the heliosphere as Voyager entered interstellar space. Really great interviews and emotional highs and lows of one of the most incredible things humans have done (all with technology from 1972).

You can watch it directly on PBS’s site: https://www.pbs.org/the-farthest/

#voyager #nasa #jpl #pbs

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· October 16, 2024 · 0 minutes to read
Science and Shit by Jonathon OwenJonathon Owen (arrantpedantry.com)
A recent discussion on Twitter about whether the line “I’m gonna have to science the shit out out of this” was in Andy Weir’s book The Martian or was only found in the movie reminded me of one of my favorite facts: science and shit are related. So let’s science the shit out of this […]
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· September 3, 2024 · 1 minute to read
My name spelled out with satellite imagery from all over the planet.

Fun little thing from NASA. Spell out your name (or any word) with Landsat imagery! https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/  #nasa #science #landsat

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· December 14, 2023 · 0 minutes to read

A clear night sky taken in astrophotography mode. Thousands of stars around a bright Jupiter. There is a faint streak to the left of Jupiter which is the only Geminid meteor I caught in an image.

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· February 22, 2021 · 1 minute to read

One of the things we’ve always had to imagine has been recorded and sent back to us from Mars. The Perseverance landing video that @NASAJPL shared today is just awesome. I can’t wait to see everything from this and future missions. @NASAPersevere #countdowntomars

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· February 18, 2021 · 1 minute to read

Amazing feat! So much to look forward to. Congrats @NASAPersevere @NASAJPL @NASA #countdowntomars

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· January 7, 2021 · 1 minute to read

Sharks are more dangerous than COVID in New Zealand, the land of public health https://t.co/Or0nxb3Dl8

— Infectious Diseases (@InfectiousDz) January 8, 2021

@keithhannon do you chose sharks or covid? #choosewisely

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· October 14, 2020 · 1 minute to read

@DevinFlanigan apparently they didn’t watch the film: https://www.sciencenatures.com/2020/10/researchers-at-large-hadron-collider.html #whatwouldkingpindo

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