Planetary astronomer, studying piles of rock in space. Reader of books. Drinker of tea. He/him. This is a personal account. To bigotry no sanction.
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Last Notes npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Starfleet Academy would still work with a TNG-like model. The smaller number of episodes per season gives less opportunity for non-arc plots; of which there are plenty that could have been expanded on. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Paramount apparently continues to not understand Star Trek and its fans. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Listening to a presentation about the asteroid impact hazard. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch RE: https://alaskan.social/@AlaskaWx/115945176086559767 npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch ICE is kidnapping snow plow drivers in Minnesota in the middle of winter. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch #AbolishICE and the Border Patrol. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Today on the #arXiv : npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch I would say rather that the current set of text generators being promoted as "AI" have been designed to manipulate people into anthropomorphizing the software. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch "As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion ..." npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Venus' clouds would be briefly sour until the sulfuric acid dissolved your taste buds. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch PSR J2322–2650b is very light on hydrogen and very heavy on molecular carbon. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch With tater-tots as a topping; that would be Minnesotan hotdish. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch I have helped teach a lot of people how to cook using Harold McGee's "On Food and Cooking". npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Thanks go to the National Association of Letter Carriers, who I assume would rather be completing their appointed rounds. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch #AbolishICE npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch How many decades has "READFITS" been a command now? npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch I have again encountered pieces suggesting mining asteroids for rare-earth metals to ship back to Earth. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch I once heard a child psychologist say "anything short of fratricide is normal". npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Discussion of 3I observations with PUNCH by Kevin Walsh and @npub10m8…6gmu : npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/115677835220476940 npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Somebody pushing new code to production without checking for the possible failure modes of bits getting flipped? npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Radiation causing bit flips is a known problem. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch If I do the math correctly, the LD50 for untreated comet water would be about 1 pint. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch There is < 10% as much methanol being sublimated off of 3I as there is water, and only a few parts per thousand as much cyanide as water. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Today on the #arXiv: npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Images and other data from the OSIRIS-APEX flyby of Earth this year: https://news.arizona.edu/news/osiris-apex-spacecraft-takes-selfie-earth-during-flyby npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Nearly 20 years ago now, there was a piece critiquing another sulfate aerosol scheme. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch It is a very interesting dot. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch #subpost npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch I just have this idea that if we taxed the few richest people on the claimed value of all of their assets, we would have fewer cases of investment bubbles driven by billionaires propping up meme stocks. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Taking away Elon Musk's wealth by stopping Tesla from being overvalued. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch I read stories about the massively inflated share prices of various companies. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch The Vatican has signed the Outer Space Treaty. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth continue to order mass murder. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Since I read discourse today, a reminder: npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch I must again report that EMPs do not work that way. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch My city government is sending community health workers begging people whose children have not been vaccinated against measles to get them their shots. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch I suddenly feel a need to quote a meme: npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch RE: https://mastodon.social/@space_environmentalism/115271334981541293 npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch I learned this from my daughter's pediatricians, who explained their policies at intake - both to warn any vaccine denialists and to reassure everyone else that they are doing what they can to keep all the kids safe. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch There are many pediatricians who will only take vaccinated kids as patients: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7492908/ . npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Yet again, USA: npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Borosilicate glass is sometimes used for windshields. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch I am going to guess that there was no multiple-comparison correction when computing those confidence values? npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch I am thinking again of Octavia Butler's "Parable" novels and how more people should have paid attention to them. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Yet again, USA: npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch I have done my civics homework and voted in the local #SaintPaul, #Minnesota election. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch I heard a discussion a while back about outdoor cats having less autoimmune disease than indoor cats. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch I was reminded today of the logo for ESA's Planetary Defence Office. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Witnessed. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch #ImpeachNoem, United States. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Take your shots and wear your masks. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch I have been thinking this week about the "Run, Hide, Fight" bit that was tacked onto a Community Emergency Response training I did some years ago. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch White supremacists and neo-Nazis trying to infiltrate martial arts groups has also been a thing for a long time - I even encountered a couple in California. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Rahil Makadia's work here is similar to the concept of a "physical properties keyhole" that was talked about in the '00s. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch We have been given strict instructions to not make piles of rock fall from the sky. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Current mission plans for #Apophis in 2029: npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Rick highlighted #TeamRadar radar astrometry of #Apophis and its role in ruling out any possibility of impact in the foreseeable future. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch #EPSCDPS2025 will resume today with Rick Binzel giving a T-4 update on plans for the 2029 flyby of Earth by the asteroid Apophis: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025/session/55375 npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Now I am reminded of Ursula Vernon's "Paladin" series of fantasy novels. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch #ImpeachRFKJr and remove him & all the dangerous quacks with him. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch We recognize the Senator for Washington. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world" npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Yet again, USA: npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch For meteor cameras for observing from California; I can recommend CAMS: http://cams.seti.org/easyCAMS.html npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Qian et al. 2025 described room-temperature synthesis of N6. But then they have the striking phrase "a finite lifetime of N6 at room temperature", by which they mean that it goes to pieces within a few tens of milliseconds. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch A while back; I encountered someone marketing buckwheat as "grain-free". npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Keep running the air filters and check your masks, #TwinCities. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch It has been a very long time since I watched that movie. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Hello. I am an asteroid scientist in a film. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Still using Elm? npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch It turns out that wireless signals are always subject to the inverse-square law. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch . @npub1fdr…lvhs correctly writes about how Starlink is a scam: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/24/geometry-hates-cars/#dogshit-unit-economics . npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch That is not a beta-electric battery. There is no isotope of nitrogen that can be used to power one (N-14 and N-15 are stable; N-13 decays in minutes; and all the others decay far faster.) npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch "To announce that there must be no criticism is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch #ImpeachNoem and #ImpeachTrump. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Today on the #arXiv : npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch I wonder if Donald Trump realizes that he just tried to put a 50% tax on Americans' largest source of coffee. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch #ImpeachTrump npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch I am reminded that it is way past time to make any further US government contracts with SpaceX conditional on Elon Musk being removed from any role with the company. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch From 1987: https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Comfort-flood-claimed-10-lives-thirty-years-ago-11293761.php npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch More images of the coma of #3I/ATLAS: https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17264 npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Two of the three known interstellar objects have been found by survey programs funded by NASA. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch #A11pl3Z is being actively observed by many different telescopes, as well as observers going back to older images for precovery: https://cgi.minorplanetcenter.net/cgi-bin/showobsorbs.cgi?Obj=A11pl3Z&obs=y. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch For any asteroid observers who have not heard about it already: npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch . @npub1wv7…ct8d : npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch QT Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Good. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch That was the case for Axiom's first flight; and also for one of the seats on its second flight. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch This particular launch is more "space agencies pay SpaceX and Axiom for a spacecraft for their astronauts". npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch First light for the "Flyeye" wide-field asteroid telescope at Matera, sponsored by ESA: https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Planetary_Defence/ESA_s_new_asteroid_hunter_opens_its_eye_to_the_sky npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch We do not want more debris in low orbit. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Others have mentioned upper atmosphere heating increasing atmospheric drag. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Consider Serina; Dylan Bajda's speculative evolution work imagining a terraformed world initially populated with canaries and bamboo - https://sites.google.com/site/worldofserina/home npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch #ImpeachTrump and #ImpeachVance. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Having previously read about this dangerous stunt from [@mekkaokereke](https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke ) : npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch As pointed out by several replies already: npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch We again recognize the Senator for Maryland. npub1z4xr937anjupfyf52khlzq48av7807az4hgpcxz3eeqnw3f0hvfsqq4wwh Michael Busch Congress can #ImpeachTrump, declare all of his illegal orders void, and remove him at any time.
