David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹
@dburbach.bsky.social
Prof. National Security and International Relations. Space security, civil-military relations. Cats, science, photography for fun. Providence RI; Oregon at heart! Personal views ONLY; no govt resources used. Assoc Ed @TNSR.org
Zoilgl number 2, an Oktoberfest with freshly harvested US grown Hallertau Mitelfruh. A bit malt thin and more hoppy vs style but the point is the hops, and it is a nice herbal-spicy taste.
November 15, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Zoilgl number 2, an Oktoberfest with freshly harvested US grown Hallertau Mitelfruh. A bit malt thin and more hoppy vs style but the point is the hops, and it is a nice herbal-spicy taste.
Friday night game and a Zoiglhaus "Petite Pilsner", not bad for 2.8% 😂
November 15, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Friday night game and a Zoiglhaus "Petite Pilsner", not bad for 2.8% 😂
Good graphic from @spaceflightnow.com
There are big players in space launch 🇺🇸 🇨🇳, and some also-rans
Really the players right now are China and SpaceX with "rest of USA" one of the also-rans, though New Glenn's success today is one step towards that changing
There are big players in space launch 🇺🇸 🇨🇳, and some also-rans
Really the players right now are China and SpaceX with "rest of USA" one of the also-rans, though New Glenn's success today is one step towards that changing
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Good graphic from @spaceflightnow.com
There are big players in space launch 🇺🇸 🇨🇳, and some also-rans
Really the players right now are China and SpaceX with "rest of USA" one of the also-rans, though New Glenn's success today is one step towards that changing
There are big players in space launch 🇺🇸 🇨🇳, and some also-rans
Really the players right now are China and SpaceX with "rest of USA" one of the also-rans, though New Glenn's success today is one step towards that changing
NEW GLENN SUCCESS!
Was so busy prepping to teach I forgot to watch live, but 30 m ago Blue Origin (Bezos) launched their big new rocket, which successfully placed two NASA Mars probes into orbit and landed the booster at sea.
New Glenn is smaller than Starship, bigger than Falcon 9
Was so busy prepping to teach I forgot to watch live, but 30 m ago Blue Origin (Bezos) launched their big new rocket, which successfully placed two NASA Mars probes into orbit and landed the booster at sea.
New Glenn is smaller than Starship, bigger than Falcon 9
November 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
NEW GLENN SUCCESS!
Was so busy prepping to teach I forgot to watch live, but 30 m ago Blue Origin (Bezos) launched their big new rocket, which successfully placed two NASA Mars probes into orbit and landed the booster at sea.
New Glenn is smaller than Starship, bigger than Falcon 9
Was so busy prepping to teach I forgot to watch live, but 30 m ago Blue Origin (Bezos) launched their big new rocket, which successfully placed two NASA Mars probes into orbit and landed the booster at sea.
New Glenn is smaller than Starship, bigger than Falcon 9
Back to back in feed when I log in.
1. Video from ICE Chicago detention facility was "inadvertently" destroyed for much of October
2. Grand jury transcript from when Halligan -- alone -- presented the Comey indictment is "missing"
🤷♂️
1. Video from ICE Chicago detention facility was "inadvertently" destroyed for much of October
2. Grand jury transcript from when Halligan -- alone -- presented the Comey indictment is "missing"
🤷♂️
November 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Back to back in feed when I log in.
1. Video from ICE Chicago detention facility was "inadvertently" destroyed for much of October
2. Grand jury transcript from when Halligan -- alone -- presented the Comey indictment is "missing"
🤷♂️
1. Video from ICE Chicago detention facility was "inadvertently" destroyed for much of October
2. Grand jury transcript from when Halligan -- alone -- presented the Comey indictment is "missing"
🤷♂️
I have been saying since 2019 that it would be health for our politics and our society to send more elites to prison. Not fines and NPAs, but prison
November 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I have been saying since 2019 that it would be health for our politics and our society to send more elites to prison. Not fines and NPAs, but prison
Best aurora pics from my DSLR last night, from light polluted Warwick, RI. This was about 10:15 Eastern, it was *much* better in RI an hour earlier (which tracks space weather graphs I've seen)
The one with 'rays' is due to thin high clouds, not auroral bands
The one with 'rays' is due to thin high clouds, not auroral bands
November 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Best aurora pics from my DSLR last night, from light polluted Warwick, RI. This was about 10:15 Eastern, it was *much* better in RI an hour earlier (which tracks space weather graphs I've seen)
The one with 'rays' is due to thin high clouds, not auroral bands
The one with 'rays' is due to thin high clouds, not auroral bands
The mainframe line printer was reliable and scary fast (you needed hearing protection around it) but it meant printing in a single monospaced font no graphics and laboriously peeling tractor feed strips off every page
November 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The mainframe line printer was reliable and scary fast (you needed hearing protection around it) but it meant printing in a single monospaced font no graphics and laboriously peeling tractor feed strips off every page
Our LaserWriter II put out a handful of pages per minute and had about a 5% chance of crashing and abandoning the job on any given page
November 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Our LaserWriter II put out a handful of pages per minute and had about a 5% chance of crashing and abandoning the job on any given page
I miss REXX!
I mean, I think I have it it might even be built into PowerShell natively but I never need to code anything anymore.
I mean, I think I have it it might even be built into PowerShell natively but I never need to code anything anymore.
November 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I miss REXX!
I mean, I think I have it it might even be built into PowerShell natively but I never need to code anything anymore.
I mean, I think I have it it might even be built into PowerShell natively but I never need to code anything anymore.
Oh, this one I do remember. I was able to do some cool stuff including figuring out how to make the mainframe compile to a postscript file which I could then download to a PC and then transfer to a Mac and print on the LaserWriter
November 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Oh, this one I do remember. I was able to do some cool stuff including figuring out how to make the mainframe compile to a postscript file which I could then download to a PC and then transfer to a Mac and print on the LaserWriter
Could be. I just noted another figure with a Q on human mars missions, and it is odd that China respondents are just as enthusiastic as Indians on this question, but ranked Mars low on the "priority" question. I can think of explanations, but I'd be cautious taking this as the last word
November 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Could be. I just noted another figure with a Q on human mars missions, and it is odd that China respondents are just as enthusiastic as Indians on this question, but ranked Mars low on the "priority" question. I can think of explanations, but I'd be cautious taking this as the last word
That said, that practical work to reduce threats of climate change or of asteroid impacts came out at the top is very consistent with other surveys
Honestly I think the planetary defense / small bodies scientific community underestimates how much support, if superficial, they have 5/
Honestly I think the planetary defense / small bodies scientific community underestimates how much support, if superficial, they have 5/
November 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
That said, that practical work to reduce threats of climate change or of asteroid impacts came out at the top is very consistent with other surveys
Honestly I think the planetary defense / small bodies scientific community underestimates how much support, if superficial, they have 5/
Honestly I think the planetary defense / small bodies scientific community underestimates how much support, if superficial, they have 5/
There are some quirks that make me wonder about reliability. n is about 230 per country. Indians rated "Person on Mars" as #1 (most countries near last), but "Person on Moon" as dead last, which seems... odd. 3/
November 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
There are some quirks that make me wonder about reliability. n is about 230 per country. Indians rated "Person on Mars" as #1 (most countries near last), but "Person on Moon" as dead last, which seems... odd. 3/
Space Public Opinion: new open access article in Acta Astronautica with a 10 country survey of space priorities, by Fehler, Hornuf, Vrankar. Key chart -- climate and asteroid monitoring high, humans to Moon/Mars or "military capability" low. 1/
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Space Public Opinion: new open access article in Acta Astronautica with a 10 country survey of space priorities, by Fehler, Hornuf, Vrankar. Key chart -- climate and asteroid monitoring high, humans to Moon/Mars or "military capability" low. 1/
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"After a [D&D] designer said the company’s priority now was responding to 'progressives and underrepresented groups who justly took offense' at [earlier] stereotypes, Elon Musk asked, 'How much is Hasbro?' "
Trillionaires are an existential danger to society
Trillionaires are an existential danger to society
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
"After a [D&D] designer said the company’s priority now was responding to 'progressives and underrepresented groups who justly took offense' at [earlier] stereotypes, Elon Musk asked, 'How much is Hasbro?' "
Trillionaires are an existential danger to society
Trillionaires are an existential danger to society
"Democrats recognize President Trump’s new hardline against extending the ACA subsidies prevents a real chance of reaching a bipartisan deal on that issue, so several are willing to settle for just a [doomed -ed] standalone vote"
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
"Democrats recognize President Trump’s new hardline against extending the ACA subsidies prevents a real chance of reaching a bipartisan deal on that issue, so several are willing to settle for just a [doomed -ed] standalone vote"
And a Rosenstadt Dunkel for the 4th
November 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
And a Rosenstadt Dunkel for the 4th
Classic @deschutesbrewery.bsky.social Mirror Pond, a long time favorite of mine (now marketed as a "heritage" ale, sigh).
November 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Classic @deschutesbrewery.bsky.social Mirror Pond, a long time favorite of mine (now marketed as a "heritage" ale, sigh).
Game day 🏈🦆 Oregon beer again. A festbier ('modern' Munich style, lighter than trad Oktoberfest) from Von Ebert in East Portland, one of three craft breweries in my old general neighborhood (also Level and Migration)
November 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Game day 🏈🦆 Oregon beer again. A festbier ('modern' Munich style, lighter than trad Oktoberfest) from Von Ebert in East Portland, one of three craft breweries in my old general neighborhood (also Level and Migration)
Nasa may be shut down but Marshall continues to train
November 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Nasa may be shut down but Marshall continues to train