Niels🛰️

@Plutonaut
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Space engineer, guy with a camera, owner of a dogsized hurricane, mouthfull about Medezeggenschap.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@DeArcheoloog/116568333718609695

Je kunt op deze kaart in ieder geval duidelijk zien waar terpen in de toekomst niet nodig zullen zijn. #klimaat

Uit onderzoek van Wageningen University & Research (WUR) blijkt dat #Nederland minstens 8922 #terpen kent. Dat zijn er veel meer dan de 3000 tot 4000 die de onderzoekers verwachtten. #Archeologisch is hiervan hoogstens 10 procent onderzocht. Noord-Nederland staat bekend om zijn vele terpen, maar ook langs rivieren en in polders zijn er talloze te vinden. (Kaartje: WUR)
https://www.resource-online.nl/index.php/2026/05/13/9000-terpen-9000-verhalen/

There's an interesting workshop taking place later this year. Blue Horizons 2026 is calling for teams to develop and present concepts for a (small) Australian space telescope that could potentially be built using NCRIS astronomy infrastructure funding (OK, very small then).

https://sites.google.com/view/blue-horizons-anu/home

#Astronomy #Astrodon #Space #SpaceAstronomy

Blue Horizons

Abstract submission is now open!

RE: https://mastodon.nl/@nrc_nl/116465491667927123

Volgens het oude recept. In november 2025 werd de overname bekend. Toen was het te vroeg iets te doen. Dus deed men niets. En nu zeggen ze dat het te laat is om nog iets te doen. Klassieke truc die al in Yes Minister aangeraden werd.

Nederland: stop samenwerking met Israël

Stop samenwerking met Israël die bijdraagt aan misdrijven

Amnesty International
How is it that none of the members of the geriacracy have dropped dead of old age yet?

To nobody's surprise, they will burn all their satellites up in the atmosphere, because that's what all the cool kids do. They don't actually say their operating lifetimes anywhere. But if they're 5 years like Starlink, then that's a bit more than one satellite burned up per hour.

And will they burn up completely? Well, they say they'll use the same NASA debris model to assess that said that the SpaceX Crew Dragon trunk would burn up. So I'm not worried at all!!

Yes, we should all celebrate Orban leaving office. It is a victory in the fight against autocrats - where Orban was a weird ally of the US AND Russia AND China.

But: This has come at a huge cost for any progressive movements in Hungary. Parliament is now run EXCLUSIVELY by right-wing, anti-migration parties. Leftists voted for Magyar to get rid of Orban.

Magyar will be an easier partner for EU institutions (also increasingly anti-migration). He is no ally for the left.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9vg782kx7o