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With participation in @galaxyzoo and other @the_zooniverse projects, and the use of various public astronomical resources I am a citizen scientist co-discoverer of;
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Today marks exactly 10 years since Hacker T. Dog delivered the greatest unscripted line in British television history.
"We're just normal men... We're just innocent men."
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Meet our Solar System's newest dwarf planet candidate: 2026 ED138!
Orbiting past Pluto, scientists found it in NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory data from earlier in 2026. Early analysis suggests it's 600–1500 km across, one of the largest found past Neptune!
🔗 rubinobservatory.org/news/ru…
For anyone who missed this Hollywood movie worthy story heres your chance to find out now and dive into the rabbit hole.
Book first appeared in 2004, summary by Google:
De Broncode is a non-fiction corporate thriller and biographical reconstruction written by Dutch
The Aftermath
Following his death, the crucial floppy disk containing the actual source code mysteriously disappearedfrom his safe, taking the secret of his technology to the grave. The book explores the dramatic fallout, the theories surrounding whether the invention was the
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Amsterdam heeft inmiddels zo veel ambtenaren dat ze heeft verzonnen zelf een fastfood restaurant te gaan beginnen, daar de vergunning voor te weigeren, naar de rechtbank te stappen om zichzelf aan te klagen, en die rechtszaak vervolgens van zichzelf te verliezen 🙈
Gemeente gaat zelf ongezond restaurant opzetten in strijd tegen teveel fastfoodzaken at5.nl/artikelen/240351/geme…
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DUTCH PEOPLE MATERIALISE IN THE JUNGLE 🇸🇷
There is a stereotype of the random Dutch person (or German or Brit) who will just emerge out of the undergrowth whenever you think you are visiting somewhere very remote, Northern Europeans apparently drawn to difficult to access poorly-marked hiking trails in the middle of nowhere in the third world like moths to a flame
One day tried going to a nature park deep in the jungle in Suriname. It is incredibly difficult to get to this nature park, it involved many hours driving up very steep flooded mud roads with crevices down the middle, precarious drops on either side of the road, spiked foliage that scratches and scrapes (and expensively damages) your car etc. Tyre burst at one point because of the detritus on the path - caused the woman I was with to start having panic attacks, crying, shaking. Just an incredibly stressful experience, all-in-all not worth it I would say
When you do eventually reach the top, you are in some fairly remote jungle. You think “wow, this is what it’s like to be in inaccessible deep rainforest.” But then, of course, Dutch people start materialising out of the aether. You sit down on a tree stump to rest for a few minutes, the jungle is still except for the sounds of birds and insects… suddenly you hear the Dutch voices approaching. Look up and it is like you are in central Groningen
Maybe 30 Dutch in all scrambling over the reserve; in waterproof jackets, convertible trousers, leather boots, with daypacks, trekking poles etc. They weren’t even all in the same group they had come up mostly independently like us. Was malding a bit. You don’t even really see many Dutch in Paramaribo. Think this remote hill in Suriname is the ‘whitest’ place I have ever been in the whole of Latin America. I include Buenos Aires in that
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Unbelievable footage from NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters inside the eye of Hurricane Polo.
Simply incredible.
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🌌 ¡Despertó un gigante!El Telescopio Espacial Nancy Grace Roman acaba de abrir los ojos por primera vez. Su Instrumento de Campo Amplio ya captó los primeros fotones… y las estrellas aparecen como suaves “dónuts” luminosos. No es un error: es el 👇
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Finally something that will fix all of my engineering problems: slot bolts.
It’s the future.
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This is a better way to visualize Columbus’ voyages than the traditional way (that shows him traveling through a modern map)..
It looks a lot crazier and more daring when you see it as a trip into the unknown.
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Seeing this for the first time in 1990 is hard to put into words. Adventure games weren’t new, of course, but this one catapulted to the throne quicker than you could say “Threepwood.”
Pretty much everything about it felt magical. The graphics were stunning, full of warmth and vibrant colour. The music, the story, the puzzles, and the humour all felt made with enormous attention to detail and real love for the game.
The intro alone hooked me instantly. There’s something about that opening scene: the different shades of blue, the moving clouds, the little village at the bottom of the mountain, and the warm, glowing fire at the top.
I’ve completed the game several times by now. I’m sure most of you who see this post have too. I’d love to use that Men in Black memory eraser on myself, just to feel that original magic one more time.
I sometimes wonder if The Secret of Monkey Island is THE most famous name in the history of adventure games. I have a hard time thinking of one that tops its status.