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Firm believer in science
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The Taiwan Space Agency has tapped Avio to launch four FORMOSAT Earth observation satellites aboard Vega C rockets.
europeanspaceflight.com/avio-to-laun...
Avio to Launch Four Earth Observation Satellites for Taiwan - European Spaceflight
The Taiwan Space Agency has tapped Avio to launch four FORMOSAT Earth observation satellites aboard Vega C rockets.
europeanspaceflight.com
December 25, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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😹😹😹😹😹

Your visual perceptions just been manipulated.
Pay attention.
Most of the folks who will be doing this to you, don’t tell you they’re doing it.
December 25, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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All I want for the holidays is for our own government to stop hurting people.
December 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm.
December 25, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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NORAD Santa tracker is Woke
December 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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This cosmic butterfly is IRAS 23077+6707, the largest planet-forming disc seen around a young star yet! 

Hubble has revealed it to be an unusually chaotic specimen, with wisps of material flying far beyond the disc 👉 https://esahubble.org/images/opo2606/

🔭
December 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Watched NOW YOU SEE ME, NOW YOU DON'T (2025).

Fuck y'all...I like these films. ^__^;;;

They're just fun popcorn stuff! JAMES BOND meets LUPIN THE 3RD...a globetrotting spectacle with sexy people in sexy locations, flamboyant set pieces, some great visuals, and actors ENJOYING acting together.
December 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Merry Christmas.

Covered Bridge #Photography
December 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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👇👇🎯✊
December 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Thou shalt boycott CBS (Censorship Broadcast System)
December 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Chemist and educator St. Elmo Brady was born #OTD in 1884. He was the first Black American to receive a PhD in Chemistry (University of Illinois, 1916).

Brady worked on organic acids, IR spectroscopy, and halogen compounds, and significantly expanded chem programs at four HBCUs. 🧪 (1/n)
December 22, 2024 at 6:58 PM
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As the year comes to an end, let’s dive into the world of nanoscience and build a paper model of the molecule also known as the buckyball! While cutting and folding, learn why this particular structure is stable, and where such molecules are found 🔭 #astroedu
astroedu.iau.org/en/activitie...
December 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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🎄 Are your holiday decorations ready? Euclid has a cosmic garland to add: NGC 646.

The large barred spiral galaxy appears close to a smaller galaxy to the left, but they’re actually about 45 million light-years apart 👉 https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/12/Euclid_s_galaxy_garland
🔭
December 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Radio engineer, amateur astronomer, and Chicagoan Grote Reber was born #OTD in 1911.

After reading about Karl Jansky’s accidental discovery of galactic radio emissions, he built a 9m radio telescope *in his back yard* and carried out the first radio survey of the sky. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 📡

Image: NRAO
December 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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A portrait of the kind of science we are losing, and for no reason

www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/r...
His lab was humming with discovery. After one year under Trump, it’s almost silent
John Quackenbush built a lab that is at the forefront of human genetics research and bioinformatics. Trump administration cuts have put it in danger of collapse.
www.statnews.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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"On that blue dot, that's where everyone you know and everyone you ever heard of, and every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives."

#CarlSagan

December 20, 1996: Carl Sagan passed away.

🔭 🧪 #PaleBlueDot #Voyager1 #HistSci #Science

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December 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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This is the worst case scenario that everybody was worried about
It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.

It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.

And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
December 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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#Orchids are #flowers too.
Laelia anceps var. dawsoniana (Dawson's two-edged laelia). aka Laelia anceps 'Dawsonii’
Source: Royal Horticultural Society.
This one is mine. Photo from last year. Right now, it is still in bud.
December 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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In 2025, we celebrated the 30th anniversary of European satellite navigation, a milestone built on decades of innovation, collaboration and excellence. Read about the challenges and triumphs that have shaped the navigation systems we rely on today 👇#50YearsOfESA
The 30-year journey of European satellite navigation
In 2025, Europe celebrated the 30th anniversary of satellite navigation on the continent, a milestone built on decades of innovation, collaboration and excellence. Three decades of challenges and triu...
www.esa.int
December 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Thou shalt not allow Donald Trump to slap his name on everything in the USA.
December 19, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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It gets even more pathetic—

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December 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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The combination of a supernova and a kilonova may have produced a rare space explosion that astronomers have never seen before
Strange Cosmic Blast May Be First-Ever Superkilonova Observed
The combination of a supernova and a kilonova may have produced a rare space explosion that astronomers have never seen before
www.scientificamerican.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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EXACTLY 👇 THIS !
December 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Old Skool #Audio Style. #Audiophile
December 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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🚀 Good morning all! It's launch day for #Ariane6 #VA266 and Galileo. Watch the launch coverage now on #ESAwebTV2. Liftoff expected at 05:01 GMT/06:01 CET.
📺 watch.esa.int/two/
Watch live: Galileo launch on Ariane 6
On 17 December, two Galileo satellites will be launched on an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana in the 14th launch of operational satellites for th...
www.esa.int
December 17, 2025 at 4:38 AM