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Ralo Franzi Mayer
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Artist, researcher, meteorite licker. Postdoc on “Plots of Un·Earthing”.
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Ralo Mayer: 47 Stoffe
Zeitgenössische Kunst
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October 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Meteorites, space law, and some licking - "Space Acts" today at Tanzquartier Wien as part of the Future Playground festival!
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Future Playground - Ralo Mayer - TQW Theorie
Not in some distant future, but ten years ago, the US passed a law that explicitly allowed private companies to exploit resources on other celestial bodies commercially. This so-called ‘Space...
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June 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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#OnThisDay in cosmic history: Space 1999 - the Association of Autonomous Astronauts international conference lifts off, London
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Today in cosmic history: Association of Autonomous Astronauts conference lifts off, 1999,
“The days of this society are numbered. Its reasons and its merits have been weighed in the balance and found wanting; its inhabitants are divided into two parties, one of which wants to build their o...
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June 19, 2024 at 7:54 AM
ralomayer.bsky.social
Join me to start or improve your relationship to meteorites - today at 7:15 pm, at Planetarium Wien! Entry includes a rare mesosiderite and a surprise tasting experience. Booking link in post below.
a comic of kids finding a meteorite a comic panel of kids lick a meteorite a detail of a comic panel of a kid licking a meteorite
May 5, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Finally - my popular meteorite workshop has made it into the program of Volkshochschule! Come and lick some meteorites with me on Monday May 5th, at Planetarium Wien.
Some spots still available. Get your own piece of space rock & re-imagine your relation with the cosmos!
www.vhs.at/de/k/292716484
a tongue prepares to lick a meteorite
April 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Looking forward to the screening of my new film about the historical Viennese Biological Experimental Station at Diagonale film festival in Graz today! www.diagonale.at/en/filme-a-z...
March 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Der für die Frauenhass-Doku zuständige Redakteur heisst Robert Finda. Er macht das nebenberuflich. Finda arbeitet hauptberuflich bei der Wiener Kripo und ermittelt dort gegen Frauenhändler. Nach Dienstschluss macht er Dokus, die Sextourismus nach Thailand verharmlosen. Mehr morgen im Falter.
March 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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There's a #LunarEclipse tonight! If you're in the dark region here, and if you have a view of the Moon at the right time, you'll see the eclipse. Check www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/luna... for more info and timings for the eclipse in your location. (Here on the East Coast, totality peaks around 3am.)
A map of where the eclipse will be visible. The darkened part of the map covers the entirety of North and South America and touches the western edge of Africa and Europe.
March 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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I was confused. When did we start calling them faces instead of skulls or crania? But no: the original paper is 'The earliest human face of Western Europe' which means something quite different to 'in' or 'from' Western Europe. #PrepositionsMatter
March 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Do human beings have a right to extract resources from the Moon? What will the impacts be? Who's making these decisions? And what are the alternatives? 🧪🔭 #PlanetSci
Should the Moon have legal rights?
YouTube video by Australian Earth Laws Alliance
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March 1, 2025 at 3:28 AM
ralomayer.bsky.social
Your petrochemical arms. Your military arms.
In your electronic arms.
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Laurie Anderson - O Superman (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Nonesuch Records
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March 2, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Elon Musk's only profitable company, Tesla, has created a cumulative grand total net income of $34 billion in its more than 20 years of existence.

That's less than the total amount of US federal subsidies his empire has collectively received.

The economics of Elon Musk are as bad as the politics.
drewharwell.com Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Feb 26
Elon Musk, who has said the beneficiaries of federal spending are a "parasite class," runs businesses that have pocketed $38 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies, loans and contracts www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
February 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Detournement
AI Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes Blasted on Government Office TVs
“LONG LIVE THE REAL KING," said the video showing an AI-generated Musk getting his feet sucked by Trump.
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February 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Worst. Episode. EVER.
February 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Reflections on the Moon and meaning.

(From Everything we know about the Moon begins on Earth, 2019)
The Apollo 11 moon landing could be regarded as the equivalent of Shakespeare for the Space Age: open to endless interpretations and reinterpretations for new eras, new generations, and even new planets, each phrase, texture and shadow turned in different angles to mine it for meaning. Forget water ice, the target of a new interplanetary ‘gold’ rush: perhaps the most valuable commodity the Moon can bestow is meaning. This, after all, is the role it has always played in human culture.
February 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Image by Michael Carroll shows some asteroids to scale. We did NOT see the little one coming & it hit Earth above Chelyabinsk in 2013, injuring >1400 people. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is bigger than the little one, perhaps as large as the football field! JWST 🔭 data next month will help pin down the size.
Image by Michael Carroll illustrating the sizes of some asteroids in 2013. The asteroids are shown in comparison to a US football field. We had seen the big one coming, and it just buzzed Earth. But the littler one we did NOT see coming, and it hit Earth above Chelyabinsk, creating a shockwave the blew out windows and injuring more than 1400 people. The asteroid we are monitoring now - 2024 YR4 - is bigger than the little guy, but maybe as large as the whole football field! Our JWST measurements next month will help pin down the size. Source: https://carrollspaceart.com/gallery/comparisons/
February 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Hat Christian Wehrschütz vorhin im #oe1 #mittagsjournal ernsthaft die Aufteilung von geopolitischen Sphären in der Ukraine als "irgendwie Jalta 2" bezeichnet? Dh mögliche territoriale Aufteilung der Ukraine mit Teilung von Deutschland nach 1945 gleichgestellt? #bistudeppat oe1.orf.at/player/20250...
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February 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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February 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Critical scientific documents go missing from NASA-backed lunar community website https://jatan.space/scientific-documents-go-missing-from-nasa-lunar-community-website/
February 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.
February 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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In 1973, a group of feminist activists protested NASA's exclusion of women from space, except in menial or decorative roles. #WomenInSTEM 🧪
From Moon Maids to Astronauts: How Feminists Transformed the Space Race | American Experience | PBS
Protests taking place inside NASA’s Mission Control were only the tip of the iceberg.
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February 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Spot the difference.
Screenshot of the Life at NASA website from 2024. One sentence states 'We share a set of core values - safety, integrity, teamwork, excellence, inclusion - and they are evident in all that we do.' Screenshot of the Life at NASA site as of Feb 5, 2025. The sentence now reads "We share a set of core values - safety, integrity, teamwork, excellence - and they are evident in all that we do."
February 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Kein vergessen, kein verzeihen!
Peter Sarközi (ermordet am 04.02.1995)
Josef Simon (ermordet am 04.02.1995)
Karl Horvath (ermordet am 04.02.1995)
Erwin Horvath (ermordet am 04.02.1995)
#RechterTerror #Oberwart
Schwarzweiß-Foto der vier genannten, die kumpelhaft nebeneinander stehen
February 4, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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#25JahreWiderstand #GegenSchwarzBlau #GegenBlauSchwarz

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Vor 25 Jahren, am 2.2.2000, wurde die Besetzung der ÖVP beendet. Zigtausende nahmen an Demo der „Demokratischen Offensive“ teil. Danach wieder Spontandemo bis 1 Uhr.

25 Jahre #WiderstandsChronologie
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TATblatt - WiderstandsChronologie - 2000
Täglich aktualisierte Chronologie der Proteste gegen die Rechts-Rechtsextrem-Koalition in Wien - mit Berichten über alle Donnerstagsdemos und anderen Aktionen
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February 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM