Pls don't DM me unless we've chatted before on here.
Interests: cosmology, astronomy, other sciences, history, wildlife.
Rusty polyglot.
GRB090423 was the most distant gamma ray burst known when I first started on socmed.
Profile (Sputnik 1) and banner (the Sun) photos are by me.
I rarely boost images that don't have Alt Text.
I boost The Vagina Museum posts; please don't be offended - it's good to learn.
I check your bio & TL to decide whether I follow back.
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Me: You should trust the professional (human) care services and go on holiday!
Mum: You have professional care for your cats and still set up four cameras, check them constantly, and panic if a food bowl looks 2% empty.
Me (mumbling): …but I did go on holiday… 😒
Hi! Can we entertain each other with our fun stories about the oldest or weirdest tech we've come across?
Please boost for science or cows or something. TELL US YOUR COOL STORY!
And not just any ducklings, they are RUNNER DUCKS!! The best ducks! I've been trying to find more of these for years! I'm so excited!!
They are extremely skittish so I'll let them settle in a bit before bombarding you with more duckling pictures.
RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116398174527674933
Look, I wouldn't mind living in a Black Mirror episode if at least it wasn't a dumb one.
Since July 2025, the European Space Agency’s pair of Proba-3 satellites has already created 57 artificial solar eclipses. So far, the mission has collected more than 250 hours of high-resolution videos of the Sun’s atmosphere, called the corona. That’s the same amount of observing time as about 5000 total solar eclipse campaigns carried out on Earth. But the science is even more exciting. For the first time we can carefully track how material from the Sun moves through the inner corona, where space weather is born. The first results, recently published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, show that solar wind structures in the inner corona can travel three to four times faster than scientists thought.
"A mega-constellation of one million or more satellites would fundamentally alter observing conditions, ensuring that most exposures contain multiple trails during a large fraction of the night. The field-of-view losses then rise to 10%–20%, making satellites the dominant source of data loss, ahead of weather and technical downtime."
But don't worry, we'll be in full Kessler Syndrome long before we get to one million satellites! 😭
Elizabeth Tasker
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