Mastodawn

Just got notified from the American Astronomical Society that their survey on anticipated impacts of Reflect Orbital (whose business model is "we will beam sunlight down to Earth at night because woo space”; never mind the titanic impacts on circadian rhythms of every living thing on the planet) has really gained traction.

DarkSky International has an open letter you can sign, and we expect a public comment period from the FCC on this in the next few weeks. Hit up public.policy@aas.org if you have questions. #space #astronomy

(and shout out @sundogplanets for raising the profile of this issue before I heard about it anywhere else)

https://darksky.org/news/organizational-statement-reflect-orbital/

DarkSky International opposes Reflect Orbital’s proposed orbital illumination system

DarkSky International recently released an organizational statement in response to Reflect Orbital’s proposal to use in-space mirrors to reflect sunlight to…

DarkSky International

Chancerubbage 12h ago

Someone should make one good newspaper and tv news channel from all of the talent that have been fired for simply doing journalism.

Chancerubbage 1d ago

2001: A Spaced-Out Odyssey 1d ago

Frame 28,602 of 207,800

Chancerubbage 1d ago

2001: A Spaced-Out Odyssey 2d ago

Frame 28,601 of 207,800

Chancerubbage 1d ago

RE: https://twit.social/@twitnews/116022074278565997

Anticipated by whom?

I think they overestimated health ‘coaching’ and Apple Fitness plus was sparked by thinking they could buy or partner with Peloton, which nearly imploded when they bricked exercise bikes for failing to keep a subscription going.

Chancerubbage 2d ago

Telling your college student children to hang on to student directorys, yearbooks, curriculum catalogs and City Yellow pages in a special place so they can figure out where they hung out decades later when those places are gone.

Chancerubbage 2d ago

What is the active Astronomical event furthest from earth that has been observed and recorded as a time lapse film?

#astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

Chancerubbage 2d ago

Not many dig deep into Shakespeare’s histories compared to the more dramatic and comedic plays.

Here is what the AI doth say regarding The Strangers Case soliloquy from Elizabethan play Sir Thomas More, which Sir Ian McLellan brings into a contemporary anecdote of his experience.

Chancerubbage 2d ago

RE: https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/116018586624008363

Remember when everyone thought IKEA had solved the home IOT problem because they were a monolithic adapter of matter over thread as a monolithic provider?

Chancerubbage 2d ago

John Spurlock 2d ago

‘trust arrives on foot, but leaves on horseback’