Emmy Award-winning science and adventure TV host. Also: film producer, author, paleontologist, rock & fossil vendor, meteorite specialist, TEDx speaker, EdFringe performer, NYC School of Visual Arts graduate, bassplayer, and Asteroid 132904. Believer in the Fediverse 📡
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#throwbackthursday 1999 and our magnificent expedition into the Popigai meteorite crater in the Siberian Arctic. We were the first ever non-Russian team allowed to visit the site. The crater is so vast and so remote, the only way in and out was by Russian ex-military Mi8 helicopter. At this site we were exploring a ghost town, once inhabited by workers who mined impact diamonds from the crater.
#siberia #helicopter #meteorites #meteorite #crater #asteroid #Russia #adventure #travel
Reflect Orbital wants to destroy the night sky to deliver "sunlight as a service". SpaceX wants to destroy Low Earth Orbit to launch one million "AI datacentres"
The only way to formally protest these two ideas is to file a comment with the US FCC, which is horribly complicated, but the American Astronomical Society has detailed instructions posted here: https://aas.org/posts/advocacy/2026/02/how-submit-comments-satellite-applications-fcc
Comments due March 6 for SpaceX and March 9 for Reflect Orbital. Write! Write! Write!
A beautiful remembrance of revered novelist Paul Auster, who passed away on April 30, by his friend Jonathan Lethem (one of my favorite authors) via @theguardianrss
https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/02/paul-auster-jonathan-lethem-tribute-author
#paulauster #writers #jonathanlethem #novel #novels #obits #RIP
Filiming "Meteorite Men" at the historic Moscow Planetarium in happier days back in 2011 before, you know, the invasion and everything.
A fascinating look at "the burgeoning field of conservation palaeobiology, where researchers are looking to the deep past to predict future extinction vulnerability," via @theguardianrss
#paleontology #science #dinosaurs #environment #climatechange
A distant star's explosive demise left behind an active stellar corpse, which is believed to be the source of multiple energetic flares detected over several months. This occurrence, a phenomenon astronomers had never seen before, was reported by a team led by Cornell University in a study recently
Rescue cats Tweed (1.5 years old, tabby) and his niece, June (8 months old)
#cats #catsofmastodon #caturday #kittens #rescuecats #animalrescue #shelters
Prof. Sam Lawler
🏳️🌈 El Murciélago 🦇 FCK|NZS
Jordan Sissel
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