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Jason Cook
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Father, husband, astronomer, gardener, soccer coach, human.
5/ what else is out there for me if not science? Always open to advice, opinions, questions.
July 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
4/ the other day was the 10 year anniversary of that Pluto encounter. And really feel my days of playing scientist are near an end. With how the NASA budget might be cut and how hard it is normally to get funding and just feeling like I am not too important to the field.
July 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
3/ I got to be part of the composition team, playing with endless amounts of spectra of Pluto, Charon, the small satellites and then Arrokoth in 2019.
July 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM
2/ of course I followed the news on a mission to Pluto. That was always on again/off again. Never in my childhood dreams did I think I’d be part of the New Horizons mission. But somehow I was.
July 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I’d like to see it in both. NIR spectroscopy can tell you so much.
July 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I want to make a Doctor Who joke, but it probably wouldn’t be understood. But has anyone checked if Omega is at the other end of that beam?
July 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Thanks for this.
July 4, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Fuck her. Alaska, do better!
July 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Chapter 1 of Timothy Snyder’s book “On Tyranny” is titled “Do Not Obey In Advance.” Guess he didn’t get that memo.
June 29, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Sound like quite a forward thinking person. I would have voted for him if I was a NYC resident.
June 26, 2025 at 2:59 AM
What to do?!? Finish up projects and move on or stick with science? I know nothing else.
June 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
As a native NYer who grew up under Mario Cuomo as governor (too young to really know anything), and apparently shared the same high school as his son (some years later), and given Andrew’s reasons for leaving office, I’d certainly vote for a different candidate, if I still lived there.
June 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I’m ready to be beamed up and warp the f outta here. Sling shot anyone?
June 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
His “two weeks” is a fucking joke and the media ran with it. In two weeks will they ask him again. No. Why? Because Trump will have started yet another dumpster fire or three to grab our attention.
June 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM