A. Morlok
@morlok.bsky.social
Studies stuff from space for food & shelter. Team BepiColombo.
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1/ Sh2-126, the Gecko Nebula in the Lacerta region, is a new project that kept me busy for a good couple of full weeks, once again fighting with a sky that was never really clear and mostly veiled by fog and thin banks of clouds drifting through all night long. 🔭
#Astrophotography
#Astrophotography
November 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM
1/ Sh2-126, the Gecko Nebula in the Lacerta region, is a new project that kept me busy for a good couple of full weeks, once again fighting with a sky that was never really clear and mostly veiled by fog and thin banks of clouds drifting through all night long. 🔭
#Astrophotography
#Astrophotography
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The most insightful discussion I seen on the Loeb and his insertion into the 3I/Atlas apparition:
tinieblasyestrellas.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
tinieblasyestrellas.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The fallacies behind the cult of Loeb
How media hype and misunderstanding fuel pseudoscientific fascination Introduction The word “cult” is used here in the sense given by...
tinieblasyestrellas.blogspot.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The most insightful discussion I seen on the Loeb and his insertion into the 3I/Atlas apparition:
tinieblasyestrellas.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
tinieblasyestrellas.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
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I am working on an O-type star map. The detailed Edenhofer dust clouds and this year the new ionized hydrogen grid allows for more detailed and realistic maps so I tried a different style for this map. Comments welcome.
November 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I am working on an O-type star map. The detailed Edenhofer dust clouds and this year the new ionized hydrogen grid allows for more detailed and realistic maps so I tried a different style for this map. Comments welcome.
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Part 3 of my ongoing series about the incredible WW2 flight of the California Clipper is now up and free to read.
Imagine having to fly your aircraft on regular gasoline, which it has never used before.
Now imagine having to work out how to do that while you're flying over the vast Indian Ocean...
Imagine having to fly your aircraft on regular gasoline, which it has never used before.
Now imagine having to work out how to do that while you're flying over the vast Indian Ocean...
In 1941, Pan Am's California Clipper had to do something no commercial flight had done before: circumnavigate the world.
In Part 3 of our series looking at her journey, the crew must work out, mid-air, how to fly her on regular gasoline. Something her Wright Cyclone engines were never designed for.
In Part 3 of our series looking at her journey, the crew must work out, mid-air, how to fly her on regular gasoline. Something her Wright Cyclone engines were never designed for.
Into the unknown: The remarkable journey of the California Clipper, Part 3
Unable to source military-grade aviation fuel, our crew are forced to cross the Indian Ocean using regular gasoline. Something no Boeing 314 has ever flown on before.
theupfront.media
November 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Part 3 of my ongoing series about the incredible WW2 flight of the California Clipper is now up and free to read.
Imagine having to fly your aircraft on regular gasoline, which it has never used before.
Now imagine having to work out how to do that while you're flying over the vast Indian Ocean...
Imagine having to fly your aircraft on regular gasoline, which it has never used before.
Now imagine having to work out how to do that while you're flying over the vast Indian Ocean...
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7) Michael Moorcock deserves a statue.
Dude is still alive and writing. Whichever town he's adopted should build a black sword about thirty feet high engraved with runes that casts a shadow like an enormous sundial counting down to the end of days.
Dude is still alive and writing. Whichever town he's adopted should build a black sword about thirty feet high engraved with runes that casts a shadow like an enormous sundial counting down to the end of days.
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
7) Michael Moorcock deserves a statue.
Dude is still alive and writing. Whichever town he's adopted should build a black sword about thirty feet high engraved with runes that casts a shadow like an enormous sundial counting down to the end of days.
Dude is still alive and writing. Whichever town he's adopted should build a black sword about thirty feet high engraved with runes that casts a shadow like an enormous sundial counting down to the end of days.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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I absolutely love this story about John Buck tracking down the creator of the TIFF file format. A must-read for any tech history fan!
inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/
inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/
Mr TIFF
For as long as I have published my books, one of my overarching goals was to give credit to those who actually invented the hardware and software that we use.
I have spent 10,000+ hours to create an ...
inventingthefuture.ghost.io
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I absolutely love this story about John Buck tracking down the creator of the TIFF file format. A must-read for any tech history fan!
inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/
inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/
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You see that massive chunk of blue that spans over half 20th century? It is PURE FDR momentum.
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
You see that massive chunk of blue that spans over half 20th century? It is PURE FDR momentum.
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„Schulmedizin“ wurde ursprünglich als abwertender Kampfbegriff in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts von Vertretern der Homöopathie verwendet. Zeit für einen neuen von der anderen Seite. 😊
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
„Schulmedizin“ wurde ursprünglich als abwertender Kampfbegriff in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts von Vertretern der Homöopathie verwendet. Zeit für einen neuen von der anderen Seite. 😊
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Oops. Ooooooooooooops.
I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675
h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675
h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Oops. Ooooooooooooops.
I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675
h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675
h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
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The first surviving successful image of Jupiter was taken in 1879 by Andrew Ainslie Common in Ealing, London, using his 36-inch Newtonian reflector and the wet collodion process invented in 1851 by portrait photographer Frederick Scott Archer
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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My latest @newscientist.com cartoon.
p.s. my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out now! Order from your local bookshop or online: www.tomgauld.com
p.s. my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out now! Order from your local bookshop or online: www.tomgauld.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon.
p.s. my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out now! Order from your local bookshop or online: www.tomgauld.com
p.s. my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out now! Order from your local bookshop or online: www.tomgauld.com
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Does anybody else find it odd that you don't hear much about pyramids keeping razor blades sharp any more?
When did they stop working?
When did they stop working?
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Does anybody else find it odd that you don't hear much about pyramids keeping razor blades sharp any more?
When did they stop working?
When did they stop working?
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Übrigens, weil es mir gerade wieder vom letzten Jahr einfällt: Es gibt immer mal wieder Kritik daran, dass Sankt Martin wegen so etwas Belanglosem wie der Sache mit dem Mantel heiliggesprochen worden sei. (1/6)
December 2, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Übrigens, weil es mir gerade wieder vom letzten Jahr einfällt: Es gibt immer mal wieder Kritik daran, dass Sankt Martin wegen so etwas Belanglosem wie der Sache mit dem Mantel heiliggesprochen worden sei. (1/6)
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und schaut mal die coolen krallen mit denen kann der specht ganz entspannt auch kopfüber rumhängen und ganz easy am ast herumgehen
November 9, 2025 at 8:52 AM
und schaut mal die coolen krallen mit denen kann der specht ganz entspannt auch kopfüber rumhängen und ganz easy am ast herumgehen
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Winter is upon us once again, so I'm going to get out ahead of the Siberia misinformation this year: this dude is not "Russian Santa" Ded Moroz, this is Chysh Khan, the Bull of Winter, in Sakha tradition. He rises from the Arctic seas and spreads winter with his breath.
November 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Winter is upon us once again, so I'm going to get out ahead of the Siberia misinformation this year: this dude is not "Russian Santa" Ded Moroz, this is Chysh Khan, the Bull of Winter, in Sakha tradition. He rises from the Arctic seas and spreads winter with his breath.
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“The fedora, angled just so, is his homage to French Resistance hero Jean Moulin.”
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
“The fedora, angled just so, is his homage to French Resistance hero Jean Moulin.”
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I'll go out on a limb here and declare that the new blog post, all about the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center's crewed minimum-energy Mars mission study (1967-1969), will be posted by early December.
I anticipate that I will be run over by a bus sometime between now and then. Or struck by lightning.
I anticipate that I will be run over by a bus sometime between now and then. Or struck by lightning.
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I'll go out on a limb here and declare that the new blog post, all about the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center's crewed minimum-energy Mars mission study (1967-1969), will be posted by early December.
I anticipate that I will be run over by a bus sometime between now and then. Or struck by lightning.
I anticipate that I will be run over by a bus sometime between now and then. Or struck by lightning.
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Je ne sais pas quoi faire de cette infographie donc la voici
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Je ne sais pas quoi faire de cette infographie donc la voici
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There should be an Alien musical about unhealthy workplace practice 🎵
November 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
There should be an Alien musical about unhealthy workplace practice 🎵
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I also started working as an exploration geologist in 2007 and I still have to spell molybdenite out in my head as if it were a name: Moly B Denite
November 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I also started working as an exploration geologist in 2007 and I still have to spell molybdenite out in my head as if it were a name: Moly B Denite
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Like the sonogram of a planetary system
WOW!
An incredible discovery. The first ever image of a baby exoplanet embedded in the dust rings from which planets are forming around a star. Confirms the developing view of planet formation that we’ve never before seen in action.
🧪🔭
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
An incredible discovery. The first ever image of a baby exoplanet embedded in the dust rings from which planets are forming around a star. Confirms the developing view of planet formation that we’ve never before seen in action.
🧪🔭
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
November 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Like the sonogram of a planetary system