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Detlef Kroeze
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Interested in space, science-fiction and other things. Homebrewer. Sometimes gives beer to space people.
October 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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"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."
As Putin heads to Alaska with his maps and narratives, here's an essay I wrote last year about one of his spurious justifications for Russia's illegal war of aggression—his ideological story that Russia is an ancient state, and Ukraine is historically Russian land
snyder.substack.com/p/putins-leg...
Putin's Legend
The Nonsensical Basis of a Terrible War
snyder.substack.com
August 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
ESOC and ESTEC for me.
🗓️ Save the date(s)!

Please join us at #ESAOpenDays this year:

12 Sept. - ESA ESOC, Darmstadt 🇩🇪
20 Sept. - ESA HQ, Paris 🇫🇷
26 Sept. - ESA ESRIN, Frascati 🇮🇹
4 Oct. - ESA ESAC, Villanueva de la Cañada 🇪🇸
11-12 Oct. - ESA ESTEC, Noordwijk 🇳🇱

Stay tuned!
August 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine
April 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Perfect, frame it, no notes
Trump: I blame the people sitting behind this desk for being stupid, and incompetent
April 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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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
March 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Trump managed to get John Bolton and Bernie Sanders to agree on foreign policy.

Pretty incredible achievement.
February 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Thread.
Brief thoughts on a European force for Ukraine. I think there is a degree of requirements paralysis. It doesn’t have to be hundreds of thousands of troops, or cover a 1200km contact line. Where it is deployed, and in what role, is more important than the overall size. 1/
February 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Sunday, Brewday.

Brewing The Fest of Both Worlds for FedCon.
February 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Hi all, I'm a WIRED journalist on the science desk. If you're a government scientist or federally funded researcher with info to share about the Trump transition, please feel free to contact me securely on Signal: emullin.06
February 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Big news! We’ve just launched some new accounts 🎉

Give them a follow:
🔭 @esascience.esa.int
🧑‍🚀 @esaexploration.esa.int
🚀 @esatransport.esa.int
🌍 @esaearth.esa.int
📡 @esaoperations.esa.int
⚙️ @esatechnology.esa.int
🛰️ @esaconnectivity.esa.int

Stay tuned for exciting things ahead! 💙✨
February 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Pre-FedCon brewday 1. Red Alert, a red lager.

German malt, German hops, German yeast, Dutch water.
January 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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If you’re willing to stretch the definition of “hot,” 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
Prominent mid-infrared excess of the dwarf planet (136472) Makemake discovered by JWST/MIRI indicates ongoing activity
We report on the discovery of a very prominent mid-infrared (18-25 μm) excess associated with the trans-Neptunian dwarf planet (136472) Makemake. The excess, detected by the MIRI instrument of the Jam...
arxiv.org
October 31, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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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.
November 21, 2024 at 6:40 PM
November 21, 2024 at 12:06 AM
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And i thought the Dutch farmer tractor protests were bad...
November 19, 2024 at 3:56 AM
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I'll hopefully be more active on here from bow on.

To start, some photos from last month's ESA Open Day at ESTEC.
November 14, 2024 at 6:32 PM
I'll hopefully be more active on here from bow on.

To start, some photos from last month's ESA Open Day at ESTEC.
November 14, 2024 at 6:32 PM
A few photos from the ESA Open Day at ESTEC.
October 8, 2023 at 6:53 PM
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ZOMG- the JWST image of SN 1987A (the closest supernova observed since the invention of the telescope) has just dropped!!! 😍😍😍

I worked on SN 1987A during my PhD thesis and wow this is just… soooo amazing! 🔭🧪

www.nasa.gov/feature/godd...
August 31, 2023 at 3:51 PM
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Confirms the feeling that I’ve had for a while: the studios have an insultingly low opinion of their audience.
Well that’s one of the bleakest things I’ve read about the arts in a while.

www.thedailybeast.com/were-in-a-st...
August 28, 2023 at 4:50 PM
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4.5 hours until the launch of the Japanese-American X-ray space telescope XRISM !
August 27, 2023 at 8:07 PM
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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
August 21, 2023 at 2:56 PM
Hello all! Looking forward to learning what it's like here.
August 21, 2023 at 1:30 PM