Astrophysicist Scott Manley discusses the mostly successful test flight, landing, and ultimate explosion of SpaceX's Starship SN10

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This happened yesterday, March 3.  The next vehicle (SN11) is supposedly already built and awaiting a test date. I'm sure they'll be making a few adjustments to improve on this performance, which was pretty darn cool, but not without some issues. The belly flop and 'skydiver' maneuver did work...

Spring Peepers

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Some video I shot a few days ago.

Mars rover’s giant parachute carried secret message

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NASA Perseverance rover Mars landing: How to watch live this week [Thursday]

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Hasn't Section 3 of the 14th Amendment already disqualified Trump from future office?

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From archives.gov Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Section 3

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover landing will be must-see TV

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“The next robot on Mars will touch down in a few weeks, and the views will be truly otherworldly.”

A Possum, Playing Possum.

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Earlier, I let my dog Polly out for an evening bathroom visit, and when I went to call her back in she wouldn't come. I slipped on some shoes, went out after her, and discovered what was keeping her. She had apparently surprised a possum out by the bird feeders, so much so that it went into...

New Year, New Camera

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I've been getting interested in photography lately, so I decided to move up a step from regular old point and shoots to a new superzoom bridge camera. It's a Panasonic Lumix FZ80, with a 60x optical zoom and a digital zoom that doubles it to 120x. Not top of the line or anything, but not bottom...

Capital in the 21st Century

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This is a documentary based on the 2013 book of the same name by French economist Thomas Piketty. I have a copy of it sitting on a bookshelf, but even if you've never read it you might recall the stir it made at the time, which was pretty impressive for a book about economics. In it, Piketty...

An absolutely unprecedented level of deceit. Is this evil, or just insanity?

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After years of Trump's incessant lies and hyperbolic blathering, I almost became numb to it all. I didn't think anything coming out of his mouth would ever really shock me again, but I was wrong. Boy, was I wrong. What follows is without a doubt the most shocking and contemptible display of...