I just learnt about the Trojan asteroids. And then my computer got a varus.

4/23/2025 6:34:01 PM

Quote :

"I consider Donaldjohanson a planet"

I bet you consider Pluto a planet too.

4/24/2025 8:15:02 AM

JUSTICE FOR PLUTO.

4/24/2025 9:10:44 AM

^^ I'm not gonna gatekeep planethood

4/24/2025 11:30:26 AM

In 2027 we will be back to the moon, in 2033 boots on the mars, in 2050 there'll be a million people moving to the mars!

5/16/2025 4:42:03 PM

There are already millions of people I'd like to send to the Mars.

5/16/2025 5:26:46 PM

THE FIRST 10,000 DAYS ON MARS (Timelapse)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3hPH_bc0Ww&t=47s

5/16/2025 5:38:30 PM

^

27 April 2025 -- 5 unmanned SpaceX Starships land on Mars.

LOL! Did I miss that? Seems like it would have been covered, even by the lamestream media.

5/17/2025 9:48:17 AM

Yeah, everything has been delayed to a certain extent.

5/17/2025 5:39:43 PM

Yeah, just a little.

5/17/2025 7:21:30 PM

Lol any day now

5/17/2025 9:13:06 PM

https://www.livenowfox.com/news/elon-musk-spacex-plans-mars

5/30/2025 4:01:10 PM

I mainly just want him to send himself and never come back.

5/30/2025 4:55:56 PM

Not sure if you fellow space nerds have seen this on the news, but the third interstellar object in recorded history has been observed entering our solar system. Dubbed 3I/Atlas, it is likely a comet, but we honestly don't know what it is. There is a nonzero chance that it is aliens. We currently have a few spacecraft on the way to/around Jupiter that I am working on, we're looking at if we can turn them on to image this thing and get a better look at what it actually is.

[Edited on August 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM. Reason : ]

8/8/2025 8:23:05 AM

LFG, Aliens!!



[Edited on August 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM. Reason : jh]

8/8/2025 10:14:22 AM

^^Why the big time jump in frames? Was this recorded by Epstein's prison surveillance camera?

8/8/2025 11:44:47 AM

8/8/2025 9:23:46 PM

What happens when Starship HLS tips over on the lunar surface?

8/10/2025 7:27:03 AM

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-nasas-juno-probe-changed-everything-we-know-about-jupiter/

Interesting read about Juno, which has been faithfully providing us all sorts of science about Jupiter for over a decade. Currently operating fine, but may lose funding soon. Still has it for now, so not time for a GNSP yet.

In other news, Europa Clipper and the ESA spacecraft JUICE (containing three NASA instruments that I work on) are both planning to image the 3I/Atlas interstellar object in November. JUICE has a bunch of instruments that will be turning on to take a look, with one of the three NASA ones being one of them. Its very convenient that we have two spacecraft already on a trajectory to take a look!

Here is more raw data if anyone is interested: http://aerith.net/comet/catalog/0003I/2025N1.html

The plot at the bottom is visual magnitude of the object, with smaller numbers on the Y-Axis (note the axis is inverted) being brighter. There are a handful of pictures taken from Earth-based observatories, but most of them just look like dots right now (looks like the site isn't allowing me to embed an image, but you can see it for yourself on the site).

[Edited on August 20, 2025 at 9:22 AM. Reason : embedded picture]

8/20/2025 9:14:51 AM

I am disappoint, son. From a nationalistic standpoint, I hope we beat China to the moon!

9/20/2025 1:08:01 PM

it's just a hit piece feel free to ignore

https://twitter.com/ApoStructura/status/1964016222858547473


https://twitter.com/wolfejosh/status/1959725079446823024


[Edited on September 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM. Reason : .]

9/20/2025 1:41:48 PM

That is an absurd take imo

[Edited on September 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM. Reason : The rando guys tweet not your pretty graphs]

9/20/2025 1:49:19 PM

Government shutdown has extended past three weeks at this point .

10/23/2025 1:52:16 PM

What does it mean for you?

Are you one of the people who will be taken care of in a different way?

10/23/2025 7:00:23 PM

Furloughed for 90% of my work since Oct 1. Illegal for me to go to work. For the 10% of my projects that I am allowed to support, I won't get paid until after the shutdown ends.

[Edited on October 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM. Reason : ]

10/23/2025 8:48:50 PM

That sucks in a way, but then if you stick it out, I guess you eventually get paid for not working, which is pretty cool. It's a very efficient and effective system of government.

How have you been occupying your time?

What about NASA contractors who aren't direct NASA employees?

10/24/2025 3:54:50 AM

I have had a few things around the house I have been putting off that I finally got around to— painted the front door and replaced the outdated hardware, cleaned up my garage, cleaned some big windows, replaced some stuff on my gas fireplace before the cold season. Nothing crazy but busy work that takes a long time.

Contractors can still work if their contract was funded before the shutdown. If their contract was up for renewal after Oct 1 though, they can’t renew until the shutdown ends. Anything significant usually requires a civil servant signature though, so major design changes and stuff like that is on hold.

10/24/2025 2:56:06 PM

I got a lot done the week after Hurricane Helene came through last year when I didn't have any power.

The yard ended up looking better than before the storm (after a ton of clean-up). But I had to eat cold oatmeal and take cold showers. Created a big calorie deficit.

Same with furlough during COVID.

10/24/2025 6:00:49 PM

Why did you have to eat cold oatmeal and take cold showers during COVID?

10/27/2025 2:32:36 PM

To kill the varus, of course! How did YOU defend?!

Actually, that sentence was meant to follow the first paragraph, and became a non sequitur when I added the second paragraph in between. Poor copy editing. Oops!

10/27/2025 4:46:04 PM