Detlef Kroeze
@detlefkroeze.bsky.social
Interested in space, science-fiction and other things. Homebrewer. Sometimes gives beer to space people.
Last Sunday's #ESAOpenDay was fantastic fun. @esa.int @josefaschbacher.esa.int @spacerocksofficial.bsky.social 1/2
October 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Last Sunday's #ESAOpenDay was fantastic fun. @esa.int @josefaschbacher.esa.int @spacerocksofficial.bsky.social 1/2
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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...
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
"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."
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!
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
ESOC and ESTEC for me.
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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
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
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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
Perfect, frame it, no notes
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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
Studio Ghibli’s archive is the key to its 4K restoration process
Studio Ghibli’s new Princess Mononoke 4K restoration was a labor of love
The new Princess Mononoke 4K restoration is in theaters now.
buff.ly
March 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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
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Trump managed to get John Bolton and Bernie Sanders to agree on foreign policy.
Pretty incredible achievement.
Pretty incredible achievement.
February 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Trump managed to get John Bolton and Bernie Sanders to agree on foreign policy.
Pretty incredible achievement.
Pretty incredible achievement.
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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
Thread.
Sunday, Brewday.
Brewing The Fest of Both Worlds for FedCon.
Brewing The Fest of Both Worlds for FedCon.
February 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Sunday, Brewday.
Brewing The Fest of Both Worlds for FedCon.
Brewing The Fest of Both Worlds for FedCon.
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! 💙✨
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
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! 💙✨
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! 💙✨
Pre-FedCon brewday 1. Red Alert, a red lager.
German malt, German hops, German yeast, Dutch water.
German malt, German hops, German yeast, Dutch water.
January 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Pre-FedCon brewday 1. Red Alert, a red lager.
German malt, German hops, German yeast, Dutch water.
German malt, German hops, German yeast, Dutch water.
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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
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
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
Preprint of the accepted paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.22544
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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.
That is, if people are following New START definitions.
November 21, 2024 at 6:40 PM
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.
That is, if people are following New START definitions.
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And i thought the Dutch farmer tractor protests were bad...
November 19, 2024 at 3:56 AM
And i thought the Dutch farmer tractor protests were bad...
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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.
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.
To start, some photos from last month's ESA Open Day at ESTEC.
I'll hopefully be more active on here from bow on.
To start, some photos from last month's ESA Open Day at ESTEC.
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.
To start, some photos from last month's ESA Open Day at ESTEC.
A few photos from the ESA Open Day at ESTEC.
October 8, 2023 at 6:53 PM
A few photos from the ESA Open Day at ESTEC.
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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...
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
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...
I worked on SN 1987A during my PhD thesis and wow this is just… soooo amazing! 🔭🧪
www.nasa.gov/feature/godd...
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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...
www.thedailybeast.com/were-in-a-st...
August 28, 2023 at 4:50 PM
Confirms the feeling that I’ve had for a while: the studios have an insultingly low opinion of their audience.
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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
4.5 hours until the launch of the Japanese-American X-ray space telescope XRISM !
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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
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
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
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
Hello all! Looking forward to learning what it's like here.
August 21, 2023 at 1:30 PM
Hello all! Looking forward to learning what it's like here.