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  3 tablespoons olive oil, 3 tablespoons flour, salt to taste, it could be a typo. It was like pea soup viewed from a Lancaster * . Gold fell $500, really a glorious anvil. Quarks like Sonic the Hedgehog skedaddled. Atom heart and motherhood was in bloom. This primordial soup was composed of a plasma with gluons from which the protons sprung. 2 tablespoons tomato paste, 5000 cups vegetable broth, 1 teaspoon Newton’s apple cider. Spahn and Sain and pray for rain.  CLICK HERE * Bomber, not Elsa

  It’s been something of an afterthought since the US Apollo program ended in December of 1972, but the Moon is moving into the public spotlight again. What’s becoming clear is that a new Moon race is well underway, one with plenty of participants but one most pointedly pitting China against the US. The competition has a different character than it had in the now distant past — it’s become more a long-running endurance race and less the clearly defined sprint it was in the 1960s, when fear of Sputnik tended to unite sentiment in the US. Today, as opposed parties slot in and out, the ‘where’ and ‘when’ of US space targets are in constant flux, according to a China expert and tech strategy analyst. “Do we go to Mars or the Moon?” author Dean Cheng asked, as he discussed his “China and the New Moon Race” in a book launch and lecture at the Space Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. “When you think back over the last five administrations,” he said, “how often have we gone back and fort...

  Very exciting! SpaceX are now one step closer to their goal of a manned spaceflight with a 100% fatality rate [image or embed] — pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” ( @pixelatedboat.bsky.social ) January 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM

Modern Times depend on many electrical transactions that a powerful solar storm could disrupt. These giant bursts of energy from the sun happen more often during a period called "solar maximum," which we may be due for. I remember such in the past, and noted the fact we weathered them. Will the coming days and years be different, ma? We might be due, son. Let it be. You could say my atomic clock is misnamed. It’s digital with an analog output, and run by AA battery. But it receives a signal from THE Atomic Clock at National Institute of Standards in Mile High Colorado, which keeps the best possible time, and which sends a slow rolling AM signal out across America. Well, buckaroos that durn signal hits my clock at home and dang if it doesn’t give me great time, and it hardly ever fails me. But it lost time this week for a day. And I reckon it could be that confounded solar storm getting in the, NIST AM transmission's way. But I just let it sit there, and didnt grapple with...

[NASA] - An international crew of four reached orbit following a successful launch to the International Space Station at 10:53 p.m. EST Sunday from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission is the agency’s eighth commercial crew rotation mission with the company to the space station. [Shown Above: Before the launch.]

  Rotor damage ends JPL’s history-making Mars helicopter’s mission https://t.co/dTN68OJ4SE — Jack Vaughan (@JackIVaughan) January 26, 2024

  Earth seen from space at night 🎥 ISS pic.twitter.com/3P7HOTu7PQ — Latest in space (@latestinspace) January 17, 2024

  https://t.co/hm4UrCwkZh — Jack Vaughan (@JackIVaughan) October 3, 2023

Listen People: When objectivity reaches its limit, then sympathy comes to fill the gap. If ‘you are there’ in the control room in Srikarikota, India – even if it’s via live youtube feed - the harder it is to take when science goes off the rails. Such I discovered for  myself when the beeping of a moon Lander stopped. That happened in Sept 2019 when communications went mute 2.1km from the lunar surface and Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lander crashed on descent. The voices of the control room crew were muted too. They were lost in thought. The most recent news on the yoyage of Chandrayaan-3, too, was a bummer. Yesterday’s news held that  a moon rover deployed on the Southside of the moon by Chandrayaan-3 could not answer the wake up call after one ‘day’ on the planet. A long -- two-weeks by earthmeasure -- night’s hibernation under ultra-frigid conditions in the Sea of Nectars [may have] crashed its electronic components, and the rover failed to acknowledge sends.  This story pla...

1,731 views Aug 31, 2022 NASA’s JWST uncovered two views of the Southern Ring Nebula — in near-infrared light (at left) and mid-infrared light (at right) — and each has been adapted to sound. Two stars orbit one another at the center of this planetary nebula. The smaller, fainter red star in the mid-infrared image at right is at the end of its lifetime — it has puffed off layers of gas and dust for thousands of years. Its companion, the brighter, larger star in both images, has stirred up those ejections. Now, listeners can hear the stars and surrounding shells of material in each image clearly. In this sonification, the colors in the images were mapped to pitches of sound — frequencies of light converted directly to frequencies of sound. Near-infrared light is represented by a higher range of frequencies at the beginning of the track. Mid-way through, the notes change, becoming lower overall to reflect that mid-infrared includes longer wavelengths of light.

  [2023/09/15/] - Parker Solar Probe’s Wide Field Imagery for Solar Probe (WISPR) camera observes as the spacecraft passes through a massive coronal mass ejection on Sept. 5, 2022. Coronal mass ejections are immense eruptions of plasma and energy from the Sun’s corona that drive space weather. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Lab. https://blogs.nasa.gov/parkersolarprobe/2023/09/15/parker-observes-powerful-coronal-mass-ejection-vacuum-up-interplanetary-dust/

My new major essay introduces the Santiago School of Technology as a counterpart to the Chicago School of Economics. I also suggest that Allende's greatest legacy may be his government's efforts to build a different technological world order https://t.co/1IXWE1nKz4 — Evgeny Morozov (@evgenymorozov) September 9, 2023 Miss Comet Nishimura Is Coming - Hide Your Heart, Girl https://t.co/YC2N6bKNKs — Jack Vaughan (@JackIVaughan) September 9, 2023 Memory is terrible at remembering lists, but superb at remembering routes through space. [That's evolution.] If you want to remember something, then you create a mental route and you distribute the items on your list along the route. https://t.co/i3hvukYEBI via @YouTube — Jack Vaughan (@JackIVaughan) September 9, 2023

  Across the planet there are bright spots believed to be clouds of methane ice. “Nobody really knows what these things are,” said Patrick Irwin, a planetary physicist at Oxford University. “They seem to come and go, a bit like cirrus clouds on Earth.” https://t.co/ObPORBYFNq — Jack Vaughan (@JackIVaughan) September 27, 2022

IMPACT SUCCESS! Watch from #DARTMIssion ’s DRACO Camera, as the vending machine-sized spacecraft successfully collides with asteroid Dimorphos, which is the size of a football stadium and poses no threat to Earth. pic.twitter.com/7bXipPkjWD — NASA (@NASA) September 26, 2022 It will take at least a couple of days to tell if the Deflect Asteroid Redirect Test mission succeeded in changing the course of the cosmos.  Earth-borne telescopes will observe. Flashy Gordon is prepared to visit the space if called on.  

per SpaceTelescope Institute : Two stars orbit one another at the center of this planetary nebula. The smaller, fainter red star in the mid-infrared image at right is at the end of its lifetime – it has puffed off layers of gas and dust for thousands of years. Its companion, the brighter, larger star in both images, has stirred up those ejections. Now, listeners can hear the stars and surrounding shells of material in each image clearly. In this sonification, the colors in the images were mapped to pitches of sound – frequencies of light converted directly to frequencies of sound. Near-infrared light is represented by a higher range of frequencies at the beginning of the track. Mid-way through, the notes change, becoming lower overall to reflect that mid-infrared includes longer wavelengths of light. Southern Ring Nebula Sonifications (NIRCam and MIRI Images Side by Side) (webbtelescope.org)

This is a really great discussion of space and the search for life. It is a lively lecture led by Clara Sousa-Silva, a fellow at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. She and her colleagies look for signs of life on other planets "using astronomical tools to detect faint signals emitted by potential alien biospheres."  You must be sure to watch the whole show, even though I start here, as part as our archiving efforts, at the end, where Moon Traveller reporter Jack Vaughan asks a question. A YouTube transcript of this interchange is included. Next question facebook uh from jack. deep ocean research is sometimes seen as a template for looking for life beyond earth does that resonate in any way in relation to your own research? Yes absolutely i think just thinking beyond kind of surface dwelling life is a really useful exercise i think one of the reasons i like the the venus story so much despite all its controversy is that i'm hoping you will really chan...

Thanks to the WayBack Machine, this was rescued from the Netherweb. Originally appeared on the Proud Truth Electric Web Site Jamboree. Let's go back before 2004.... One thing I may never forget is the first episode of the Flash Gordon serial. Ming the Merciless aims a death ray of some sort at Earth. It is this event that leads Flash to venture into space to counter Ming's death ray. And, pulling from a trove of newsreel footage, the serial directors showed the x-ray results: tidal waves in Samoa, earthquake in China, catastrophe in general. When I feel bad, and feel the world seems in a tangle too, how often we feel it is Ming and his cosmic death ray disrupting our natural order. When president's totter and the car won't start, we wonder if Ming is at work. Clinton's and Wall Street's (not to mention the Mets') August 1998 troubles seemed to a part of a confluence. And we note that on August 27, 1998, according to Stanford and other researchers, w...