The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.
12.03.2026 04:13
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The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.
Command the sea and you command the world, the old adage goes. But in our post-war world, this felt like the wisdom of a bygone age. No more.
The Strait of Hormuz shows that the future belongs to the nation in control of the High Seas. | @peterfrankopan.bsky.social
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Just looking at the 🇮🇳 #ISRO Bhoonidhi Satellite Data Portal - it appears it isn't yet configured for the NISAR satellite, nor #Copernicus #Sentinel1C or #Copernicus #Sentinel1D 🙄
As Dr Franz Meyer, @ak-satellite.bsky.social said in his talk, the #NISAR Data User Guide is available here nisar-docs.asf.alaska.edu
This one from the Eye?
Trump's Iran War costs the U.S. $1.88 billion a day. At that rate, it will take less than 2 months to match the $109 billion sent to Ukraine over three years during the Biden admin. In only six days, the U.S. has already spent 10% of what it disbursed to Kyiv after Russia's Feb 2022 invasion.
Great #NISAR Science Team Meeting - Town Hall and Data Access Webinar 👇
Along with some stunning #NISAR imagery.
The Trillion-Dollar War Machine: What Is American Armed Power For? Epic Fury turns America’s military welfare state, industrial policy, and global enforcement mission against itself open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
Just stumbling around trying to figure out how the world works.
Yes.
C4's Anushka Asthana and Matt Frei discussed this very point on their podcast the other day.
It doesn't take much to hit a supertanker Straits of Hormuz. If Iran has more drone launchers in shipping containers the desert it could carry on attrition for months.
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As article says these are preliminary findings 👇
And why didn't anyone double check the target information ?
An article “More than one million foreign nationals are receiving benefits” (March 17, 2025) referred to the number of “foreign nationals” receiving benefits, and gave the rate of benefit claims for various nationalities. In fact, the particular DWP data on which the article was based recorded the nationality of claimants when registering for a National Insurance number, rather than the nationality at the time they were claiming benefits, so that some claimants might have since acquired UK citizenship, and would not be foreign nationals at the time they were claiming benefits. This correction has been published following an upheld ruling by the Independent Press Standards Organisation. Advertisement
Fully *one year later*, the Telegraph has been forced (by @ipso.co.uk) to admit that it was lying about foreign nationals claiming benefits.
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Was bad intel was behind the US strike on the school ? Maybe. National Geospatial Agency data hadn't been updated since site become a school.
Basic error not to have up to date geospatial intelligence prior to going to war 🤢
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Department of War happy to put out videos of destruction and killing.
But they don't like unflattering photos of Pete Hegseth 🙃
And where are we with those Iranian nuclear ambitions ?
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Big story :
- Witkoff and Kushner didn't have nuclear experts with them when they were negotiating with the Iranians 🤡
- They made claims to others in Trump administration, without providing evidence
US and Israel went to war based on false information ?
I. Am. Shocked.
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This is hilarious.
Also, completely enraging.
That’s more than half the annual budget of the National Science Foundation.
The UK chose to leave the EU - so GOVSATCOM is yet another EU programme that the UK doesn't have access to. The infrastructure is restricted to EU Member States.
So even though the UK still has a military base on Cyprus, the information from Cyprus GOVSATCOM hubs will not be sent to us.
Trump & US military showing just how dumb they really are.
Looking back at planning horizon for this war, it implies just a few months after dismissing 🇺🇦's anti-drone technology, Trump and Hegseth were starting to plan attacks against 🇮🇷 ...
a country that had major stockpiles of Shahed drones 🙃
This breathtaking visualisation from @thenasaearth.bsky.social's shows how the ICESat-2 laser altimeter has provided us with a staggering amount of geodetic information for Earth allowing us to track vital signs svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5616
Then we would be left with an Iranian regime even more hostile towards the US and its allies than before, potentially emboldened by denying the US and Israel strategic victory, while still in possession of c.440kg of highly enriched uranium. Wonderful.
And as Ukraine has proved, it doesn't take 10-20 years to rebuild lethal drone and long range missile manufacturing capabilities.
In addition, hightened geopolitical instability will keep oil and gas prices higher than usual for a lot longer.
With every passing day, the decision of Starmer and his cabinet a) not to join the Iranian war b) to delay access to bases looks wiser and wiser. Trump’s press conference last night shows he has no real idea what the objectives are and its duration is arbitrary.
Hopefully @bellingcat.com and others will help in the investigation into how toxic the fall out from the oil fires will be.
The long term impacts of oil fires on ecosystems/populations is well known, yet 🇮🇱 and 🇺🇸 still went ahead.
It's a joint mission, joint target list. Both countries are liable.
This is violent, sickening rhetoric.
GB News commentator claiming here that non “indigenous” people are committing “genocide” against the UK.
GB News is beyond the fucking pale
If virtually all Iranian missile sites have been taken out then exactly what will Trump administration use the B-1s and B-52s bombers now at RAF Fairford for ?
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Show some guts and sail through the Strait of Hormuz says Trump to supertanker captains ...
while allowing GPS and AIS signals to be disrupted by military radar - so supertankers can't see who else is around them 🤡
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