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#ScienceFiction #Ecology, #Astronomy, #Degrowth, #Books, #StarTrek. Book collector. Anti-Capitalist. Johns Hopkins alum. Schizoaffective. Ace.

https://www.scifi.earth/ • https://www.towardspostviolencesocieties.com/ • https://www.anticapitalism.blog/ • https://www.tilley.directory/ • https://www.richard.tilley.network/ • https://www.scifi.global/ • https://www.firstcontact.earth/ • https://www.spatiotemporal.agency/ • https://www.tilley.earth/ • https://www.tilley.blog

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franco_vazza, to Astro
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Honestly, how sad is to end a semester course without an even small clapping?
It was a ~50h long performance...

richard,
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@franco_vazza You're performing? You don't know the material, you are just memorizing the lines? Is this a common thing professors do? Why not just try acting? You could easily get a few commercials. You never know, remember the "Vidal Sassoon" guy? He ended up in Star Trek.

richard, to Astronomy
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Astronomers discover new Earth-sized world orbiting an ultra-cool star

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-astronomers-earth-sized-world-orbiting.html

"Next steps for the project could include follow-up observations by the James Webb Space Telescope, which would deliver important insights into the planet's surface mineralogy, and the potential for an atmosphere."

richard, to classicalmusic
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#NowPlaying

Marcelle de Manziarly: Chamber Works

Cecilia Zilliacus, Kati Raitinen, Bengt Forsberg, Peter Friis Johansson

It's been out since April, but this is only the 2nd time I have listened to it. I must not have been paying attention the first time because this is an outstanding album. 5 stars.

Highly recommend to @classicalmusic group

#piano #violin #cello #classicalmusic

JohnBarentine, to sustainability
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Issued today. "There is a need for international coordination to foster transparency, clarity and consistency of relevant policies and regulations, ... to effectively address and promote the safety and of activities."

https://www.unportugal.ptspace.pt/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Lisbon_Declaration_on_Outer_Space.pdf

richard,
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@JohnBarentine Why do I feel such efforts, however noble they may be, will not lead to binding agreements?

richard,
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@JohnBarentine Yes, I know there already was a binding agreement, but my understanding is that was thrown out the window.

richard,
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@JohnBarentine Ah. An affirmation and stronger EU, Japanese, and even Chinese inclusion would be needed.

richard,
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@JohnBarentine Interesting. I think they should beat the U.S. over the head with them.

richard, to books
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26 new books out today

https://lithub.com/hari-kunzru-freud-system-of-a-down-the-memoir-26-new-books-out-today/

@bookstodon

65dBnoise, (edited ) to space
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"This way please"

Processed, cropped MCZ_LEFT, FL: 63mm
looking SSW (206°) from RMC 52.0870
Sol 1139, LMST: 12:55:20

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01139/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1139_0768056142_519EBY_N0520870ZCAM09168_0630LMJ02.png
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

richard,
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@65dBnoise I saw that rock last Thursday. Someone moved that rock!

richard, to academicchatter
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Has anyone wrote about how sociological and philosophical writing has changed over the last few centuries from being what the author really meant, really felt, to being what the writer believed people wanted to hear? (Yes, I know there is some Discourse Theory hidden in there somewhere.)

@sociology @philosophy @academicchatter

richard, to books
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I Aspire to Urinate as Powerfully as My Boss

An excerpt from CECILIA by K-Ming Chang, recommended by Brynne Rebele-Henry

https://electricliterature.com/cecilia-by-k-ming-chang/?mc_cid=2d682bce13

@bookstodon

coreyspowell, to space
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So many beautiful aurora photos going around right now. Wonder where those amazing colors come from? Here's a helpful breakdown.

When you split up the light of a typical aurora, it looks like this.

Many colors from just nitrogen & oxygen!

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/content/aurora-tutorial

richard,
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@coreyspowell Please give credit to who you took this from.

franco_vazza, to Astro
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This is an astrophysics take of the : I have just used the CosmicRay Detector app on my laptop by the Global Cosmic Ray Observatory https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cosmic-ray-detect-radiation/id1169131314

to measure the flux of muons through the blocked shutter of the Ipad.

I don't have stats to compare with, but since I have already done the same experiment in the last two weeks speaking of cosmic ray detection at lecture, I have the feeling the muon flux is a bit higher now (~1 event/second).

video/mp4

richard,
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@franco_vazza Inbox Zero: Good
Not installing updates: Bad

richard, to classicalpiano
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This morning I've been listing to Brad Mehldau, After Bach II.

https://open.qobuz.com/album/kmjbh3gm6qrja

It is very good. It gets even better as the album goes on. I will buy it eventually.

@classicalpiano

#piano

richard, to AllStarTrek
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Note to future self: smile with you cough up your tongue.

@allstartrek

richard, to AllStarTrek
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I believe this episode is before they got thicker uniforms.

@allstartrek

richard, to AllStarTrek
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It is hard to tell if they are still very much working on Tom's character development or if Robert Duncan McNeill had yet to get the character pinned down. He is still very excitable.

@allstartrek

richard, to AllStarTrek
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It's nice to see B'Elanna and Tom playing nice and not going after each other's throats.

@allstartrek

richard, to AllStarTrek
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In "Threshold" we see, somewhat, the things that might have been. When they were mapping out the producers had originally envisioned Tom Paris as a love interest for Captain Janeway. I can't recall if it was Jeri Taylor or Kate Mulgrew that talked them out of it, but thank the Prophets it didn't come to that. However, this episode did win an Emmy, so, maybe that's what people wanted to see? @allstartrek

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