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#ESAOpenDay @profsera.bsky.social @spacerocksofficial.bsky.social @esa.int
Last Sunday's #ESAOpenDay was fantastic fun. @esa.int @josefaschbacher.esa.int @spacerocksofficial.bsky.social 1/2
@gebotopia.bsky.social ESTEC registratie.
www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA...
"Putin is in love with a legend. Historically speaking, this is very familiar: new regimes, such as Putin's, seek compensation in myths of ancient origin."
ESOC and ESTEC for me.
β’ Al Overview The idiom "you can't lick a badger twice" means you can't trick or deceive someone a second time after they've been tricked once. It's a warning that if someone has already been deceived, they are unlikely to fall for the same trick again. Here's a more detailed explanation: β’ Licking: "Licking" in this context means to trick or deceive someone. β’ Badger: The badger is a wild animal, and the phrase likely originates from the historical sport of badger baiting where dogs were used to harass
Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add βmeaningβ afterwards, and youβll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine
Perfect, frame it, no notes
In light of all the AI slop, reupping this little chat I had with Ghibli's VP Atsushi Okui last week about using Princess Mononoke's original negatives to create the new 4K restoration
Trump managed to get John Bolton and Bernie Sanders to agree on foreign policy.
Pretty incredible achievement.
Thread.
Sunday, Brewday.
Brewing The Fest of Both Worlds for FedCon.
Big news! Weβve just launched some new accounts π
Give them a follow:
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π§βπ @esaexploration.esa.int
π @esatransport.esa.int
π @esaearth.esa.int
π‘ @esaoperations.esa.int
βοΈ @esatechnology.esa.int
π°οΈ @esaconnectivity.esa.int
Stay tuned for exciting things ahead! πβ¨
Welcome!
The wort during mashing.
A screenshot of my recipe from BrewFather
My pH meter showing a pH of 5,4. Which is pretty much perfect.
The brewmonk in mashing configuration.
Pre-FedCon brewday 1. Red Alert, a red lager.
German malt, German hops, German yeast, Dutch water.
If youβre willing to stretch the definition of βhot,β we may have just discovered a hot spring in the outer solar system on the dwarf planet Makemake.
Preprint of the accepted paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.22544
If I remember correctly, @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social referred to RS-26 as a circumvention of the INF treaty in a podcast episode once.
If US officials refer to Oreshnik as a "new type," this is what it should mean.
That is, if people are following New START definitions.
@mariancall.bsky.social *waves!!!*
And i thought the Dutch farmer tractor protests were bad...
I'll hopefully be more active on here from bow on.
To start, some photos from last month's ESA Open Day at ESTEC.
I'll hopefully be more active on here from bow on.
To start, some photos from last month's ESA Open Day at ESTEC.
Same here, yes.
Happy to be following you here now. Your information and insights have always been welcome and useful.
Welcome. Still somewhat quiet here compared to the old place. But's it's getting more interesting.
A few photos from the ESA Open Day at ESTEC.
JWST image of SN 1987A
ZOMG- the JWST image of SN 1987A (the closest supernova observed since the invention of the telescope) has just dropped!!! πππ
I worked on SN 1987A during my PhD thesis and wow this is justβ¦ soooo amazing! ππ§ͺ
www.nasa.gov/feature/godd...
Confirms the feeling that Iβve had for a while: the studios have an insultingly low opinion of their audience.
4.5 hours until the launch of the Japanese-American X-ray space telescope XRISM !
Everyone knows there are only three basic movie plots:
1) A stranger comes to town
2) Someone goes on a quest
3) There are sharks somewhere where you would not expect sharks to be
