Best look yet at Comet 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar visitor that is now racing through our solar system.

The comet is currently 600 million kilometers from the Sun, between Jupiter & the asteroid belt. As it moves closer, the images will inevitably get better.

https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2522/ #space #science #astronomy #nature

Microsoft marketing: “Your data stays in Europe.”

Microsoft’s Legal Director (under oath, in French Parliament): “No, I cannot guarantee that.”

Still think Microsoft Teams is a sovereign solution?

Credit @ponceto91 for the meme

https://x.com/wire/status/1944851027381117019

EDIT: The statement was made by Anton Carniaux of MS France and can be read at page 23 of https://www.senat.fr/fileadmin/cru-1750816532/Structures_temporaires/commissions_d_enquete/CE_Commande_publique/r24-830-11.pdf#page=23

Thx @Linkshaender!

#microsoft #DataPrivacy #DigitalSovereignty #europe

2 Million Civilians to Be Concentrated in Three Zones
2 Million Civilians to Be Concentrated

*Concentrated*
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They are ANNOUNCING concentration camps

archive.is/Q7klW

An old failed Venus lander will re-enter from earth orbit next month, and it could land anywhere between 52 degrees north and south. Which covers basically all population in the southern hemisphere and a large majority in the north, leaving out the Baltics, Nordics, and Alaska.

It weighs a thousand pounds and is expected to reach the ground intact. Previous debris from the launch landed in New Zealand.

https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2025/04/kosmos-842-descent-craft-reentry.html

Holy sh*t. This is a real xkcd, not funny, disturbing, and also one that must be shared

https://xkcd.com/3081/

#astrobiology thread time!

A paper came out a few weeks ago about "habitability". Specifically, the habitability of Saturn's moon Titan.

We (am one of the co-authors) found that Titan's chemistry could support the equivalent biomass of a small dog.

Is that....bad?
(And what does "habitability" mean anyway?)

Here is the press release from the University of Arizona: https://news.arizona.edu/news/saturns-moon-titan-could-harbor-life-only-tiny-amount-study-finds

(Next post will have link to full paper)

I didn't know

When I learned about the holocaust as teenager in Germany, many people from the Nazi era were still alive and lived all around me. Being the curious person I always was, I asked them about what happened and their role in it.

"I didn't know" was the boilerplate answer. And as they were relatives and friends, I believed them at first.

Then in 1981 we got a new teacher for history and he exposed the lie. Or more precise: he got us exposing those lies.

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