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Ken Carpenter
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Astrophysicist at NASA/GSFC. Fan of Exploration of the Universe in which we live, MD RenFest, and all things Trek & Disney. Posts are my own.
Warp speed ahead, my friend!
July 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Thanks!
July 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Right back at ya, with another!
July 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Reposted by Ken Carpenter
If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.

The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
June 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
May 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
May 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This observatory is designed so that it could be built, operated, and maintained in collaboration with the human Artemis Program and is aptly named the "Artemis-enabled Stellar Imager (AeSI)".
March 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Yes - I have a colleague who has in recent years poured her life into efforts to broaden inclusion and last year was put in charge of an office dedicated to this at NASA HQ full time. Now it looks like she may not just have that office dissolved from under her, but perhaps her job as well.
January 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Not exactly a space movie. But by all means "Tomorrowland"!
January 22, 2025 at 2:43 AM