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Astronomy, Technology and Jokes.
WISPIT 2b: Exoplanet Carves Gap in Birth Disk
Image Credit: ESO, VLT, SPHERE

·IMAGE PROCESSING by Richelle van Capelleveen
August 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
GAME OVER Avi Loeb...

Source : doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
August 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Steel hissed as it carved the air.

She knew sentience was no gift, only the curse of feeling every wound, every death that pulsed around her.

Yet she did not hesitate.

Her spear rose.

#vss365 #sentient
August 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Costa dei Trabocchi, Adriatic Sea, Italy.

Image Credit & Copyright: Marco Bellelli
August 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"Sometimes a tattoo looks #malformed, like a puddle on the street."
"Like a mocking grin."
"An alleyway in Tokyo."
"When the wind hits your eyes."
"I love you, even when I cross my eyes."

They both burst out laughing.

#vss365
August 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Akalabeth World of Doom

California Pacific, 1980
August 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Infocom, 1984

Guess the novel.
August 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Early exploration of artificial intelligence and its ramifications.

It was broadcast as episode 11 of series 7 of Horizon, 1970–1971

youtu.be/7Bb6yTPZrnA
1970: Could MACHINES Become INTELLIGENT? | Horizon | Past Predictions | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
youtu.be
August 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
A Cool GIF of a 2025 Perseid
Image Credit & Copyright: Renaud & Olivier Coppe
August 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Totally awesome!
August 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
August 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The abject whining hits hard: “Why isn’t Bluesky already Twitter?”

Because a baby bird hasn’t lived long enough to get drunk on chaos.

#vss365 #abject
August 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Twitter

2006 → Launch, only public tweets (140 characters)
2008 → DMs appear (text only)
2011 → Images can be sent in DMs
2015 → DM character limit expanded (no longer 140)
2017 → Interface improvements and video sharing in DMs
2018 → Twitter adds Bookmarks

And you want bookmarks? 🤣
a man is sitting at a table with a sandwich in his hand and says `` you 're welcome '' .
ALT: a man is sitting at a table with a sandwich in his hand and says `` you 're welcome '' .
media.tenor.com
August 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Avi Loeb:"Why is it reasonable to consider the possibility of a technological origin?For several reasons. First, all the images of 3I/ATLAS do not show a cometary tail of dust or gas behind it."

Hold my beer...
August 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
"Pixie?" He said, puzzled, staring at the laptop screen.
“Really? The name of the mouse #Pixie as a prompt for a #vss365?”

"Oh… It's also a hairstyle, and a British leprechaun."
He started laughing, louder and louder, until he choked on his own tongue… and died.
August 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
WR 104 is a star 8,000 ly away, its axis aimed like a cannon barrel at Earth. It could explode in a gamma-ray burst, but timing is unknown.

#Laugh while you can, tomorrow’s silence has no promise.

ᴛʜɪꜱ ɪꜱ ᴀ ᴠꜱꜱ. ᴀɴʏ ʀᴇꜱᴇᴍʙʟᴀɴᴄᴇ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇᴀʟɪᴛʏ ᴍᴀʏ ʙᴇ ᴄᴏɪɴᴄɪᴅᴇɴᴛᴀʟ ᴏʀ ɪɴᴛᴇɴᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟʟʏ ᴅɪꜱᴛᴏʀᴛᴇᴅ.

#vss365
August 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Here I am replying to accounts on bsky of dubious credibility.

🙄
August 10, 2025 at 3:58 AM
August 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"SpiderFoot ask for permission?" she asked, stealing the last French fry.
"Na... It’s like a cat, sniffs around, and glares at you."
"So it’s a stalker."
"Na... A private investigator… paid in sardines."
"And if you don’t give it sardines?"
"Then it will claw at your secrets."

#vss365 #Spider
August 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
It seems that a man killed a woman because he was convinced she was an alien (according to what he told the police), but I did some research and it turned out to be her son, and the obituary mentions that she used to dance in her backyard with wind chimes. 😐
August 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The chance observations of 3I/ATLAS made by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) ATLAS between 7 May 2025, and 2 June 2025, 55 days before the discovery date (1 July 2025) and 14 days before the current earliest observation (21 May 2025).
August 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Although Atlas 3I will pass “close” to Jupiter (53 million km), Juno will not be able to intercept it or observe it closely. Basically bc changing orbit to get closer to the comet would require thousands of m/s of delta-v, and Juno does not have that capacity.

i did the video, use your imagination
August 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The hostile alien ship that will attack us in November according to Avi Loeb has shrunk its size 15km and may shrink more according to scientist Wayne Szalinski.
a man wearing glasses and a plaid shirt smiles while standing outside
ALT: a man wearing glasses and a plaid shirt smiles while standing outside
media.tenor.com
August 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Reposted by Martin
🚨 Interstellar news!

☄️ The unexpected comet 3I/ATLAS has been captured in the sharpest picture yet by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

Discover more about this visitor from outside our Solar System 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭 🧪
August 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Every night, she left #brownies by the closet door.

It kept me quiet.
It kept her safe.

But last night, the plate was empty.

She was slow to run.
Easy to catch.

As I pinned her down, I smiled...

"Not chocolate…
but you bleed just as sweet."

#vss365
August 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM