Brian

@brianhalligan
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Writer. Marketer. He/Him. Supports the arts. Supports the sports. A photo liking, science learning, Star Wars/Trek watching, #ROC local and travel enjoyer. Tá mé ag foghlaim #Gaeilge. #roctwitter #rochesterny
Getting ads for Smokey the Bear sunglasses now. No lie. Worst. Timeline. Ever.
No, you see, you name it the Gulf of Denmark to sweeten the Greenland deal. Business 101.
I’m sorry. I’m thinking of those of you who will not be able to just “live with it” or “get over it.” This result is going to have a real, negative impact on the lives of people I know and care about. I will continue to support you until, finally, it’s no longer needed and we have progressed as a society.

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🎪 The bright lights beckon you…

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http://anomalyfilmfest.com/2024festival

#AnomalyFilmFest #RochesterNY #FilmFestival #movies #horror

2024 Festival — Anomaly - The Rochester Genre Film Festival

Anomaly - The Rochester Genre Film Festival
Betelgeuse has a tiny companion star hidden in plain sight https://www.sciencenews.org/article/betelgeuse-hidden-companion-star
Betelgeuse has a tiny companion star hidden in plain sight

Betelgeuse has a sequel — in the form of a companion star that's about the same mass as the sun, orbiting it about once every 2,100 days.

Science News

Only three humans have ever witnessed an eclipse of the Sun by the *Earth*. It happened while the Apollo 12 crew was returning home from the Moon, on November 21, 1969.

Fortunately, the astronauts filmed the moment so you can share in the experience.

https://archive.org/details/Apollo1216mmOnboardFilm [at the 4:50 mark] #space #science #nasa #eclipse

APOLLO 12 16MM ONBOARD FILM : NASA/Johnson Space Center : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Film taken includes a solar eclipse, Charles Conrad and Alan Bean on lunar surface, and scenes of Lunar Module (LM) during lunar orbital rendezvouz and...

Internet Archive

What is "normal" anyway?

Astronomers have found multi-planet systems around a number of nearby stars, but none that's much like our own. They're not a lot like each other, either.

We still don't know what a normal planetary system looks like, or if there even is such a thing.

https://astrobiology.com/2024/01/unraveling-the-mysteries-of-planet-formation-and-evolution-in-a-distant-solar-system.html #science #nature #astronomy

Unraveling The Mysteries Of Planet Formation And Evolution In A Distant Solar System - Astrobiology

A recently discovered solar system with six confirmed exoplanets and a possible seventh is boosting astronomers’ knowledge of planet formation and evolution.

Astrobiology

All I could think when I read this was that 1990 film Total Recall and how there was a reactor under Mars' surface that was designed to generate a (breathable to humans) atmosphere.

There is enough water beneath Mars' surface to cover that entire planet in a shallow ocean.

#Mars #Space

https://www.space.com/mars-water-ice-equator-frozen-ocean?utm_medium=social&utm_content=livescience&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=socialflow

Water ice buried at Mars' equator is over 2 miles thick

The Mars Express orbiter has detected enough water ice buried beneath the Red Planet's equator to cover the entire planet in a shallow ocean if melted.

Space

«A team o researchers from multiple countries, including those from #MassachusettsInstituteOfTechnology ( #MIT ) & #UniversityOfBirmingham, have discovered new way 2 determine whether #exoplanets r habitable or potentially inhabited.

The research, published Thurs in #NatureAstronomy, shows that if a planet has less carbon dioxide in its atmosphere than its neighbours, it implies the presence of liquid water – the determining factor for habitability»

#Science #Astronomy

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/new-way-of-identifying-water-on-exoplanets-discovered-by-scientists-1.6705297

New way of identifying water on exoplanets discovered by scientists

An international team of researchers, including those from MIT and the University of Birmingham, have discovered a new way to determine whether exoplanets are habitable or potentially inhabited.

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