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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@alanboyle/117234652153927738 Second rocket company to raise over a billion dollars before first launch. I really hope they turn out better than Relativity, and soon, but as in countries there is a startup version of the “resource curse”.

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  RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/117253158498418034 I should try to try every PDO cheese. That seems like a reasonable goal for a decade.

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  Did a load of laundry and was procrastinating taking it out to hang it up, and accidentally timed it absolutely perfectly for the moon and Venus.

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/117273298322081031 “English literature (here measured in parts per million)” is a funny phrase. You’re allowed to have 10 ppm of arsenic in your water and 5 ppm of train conductors in your stories.

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  @simonbp https://crossborderrail.eu/longestjourney/ Seems like a fun quest.

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  The longest instruction sheet I’ve ever been given at a restaurant. At a Korean place in Granada, Spain.

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  A distillery in Granada makes a very affordable mammoth-branded rum. It’s the closest to official mastodon liquor I’ve found.

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  Nancy Grace Roman Telescope is on its way to L2!

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  @reedmideke https://signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-someone-hacked-the-commissary

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  The nearly 200 year old Academy of Natural Sciences museum in Philadelphia is closing at the end of the month, if you are nearby and want to see some dinosaurs and similar at the end of an institution. https://ansp.org

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  'Where do you live?" "In the AAAAAA8 row."

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  There is an unfortunately common thing in coverage of space events of hyping up how rare they are, especially annoying for really mundane things like blue wolf super gruyere moon. Total solar eclipses are actually geographically rare though, only happening on a tiny percent of earth's surface per year, but I enjoy the sort of inversion of normal of being able to say in 2026-27, "total solar eclipses are rare in Spain, they only happen once a year."

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  RE: https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-125b8a13-ce358f619b26391f Is Plesetsk in Asia? Wikipedia thinks it’s in Europe, the first orbital launch from there was by the Soviets in the 60s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plesetsk_Cosmodrome

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  Walked into a glasses and sunglasses store and they had 2 eclipse glasses for 4 euro. I was wondering how much of a Quest it was going to be to find glasses two days before a local partial solar eclipse, and turns out not much at all. They are manufactured in China by "Sumtrum Anti-fake Technology Co.", which is very funny.

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  Quite sharp quake felt in Granada!

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  With a couple dozen strangers I watched the eclipse from the hill east of Montuenga Castle in a tiny town in Spain. I was the only one who decided to center it over the ruins of the castle, though I wish I'd done it lower down the hill. This was my first total eclipse, it is a really neat experience. I set out with the objective of just watching it and not taking photos, and obviously failed in that regard. But it is interesting to think that no one will ever see this exact scene again.

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  The last-minute attempt to re-boost the Swift space telescope has failed, and it will reenter and burn up later this year. https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-updates-next-steps-for-commercial-swift-boost-mission/

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  A confluence of the space age and climate change. Martin Marietta made the Titan rockets, amongst other activities in the early to mid space age. They merged with Lockheed to make Lockheed Martin. They fully spun off Martin Marietta Materials, which operates a bunch of quarries across the US. In Indianapolis, flooding this month resulted in a small creek reversing direction and flowing an entire river into a Martin Marietta quarry, about 9 billion gallons of water. https://www.youtube.com/watc...

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  @sundogplanets I haven't read this yet but had it recommended on discord. Tangentially related but sounds interesting and likely to have some relevant anecdotes. "At Day's Close: Night in Times Past" by A. Roger Ekirch https://amzn.to/4zq0xAc

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  You can special request a US passport with Trump's face on it. I look forward to the stories of red hats whining about getting denied service at hotels because of it. https://apnews.com/article/trump-passports-state-department-d149546cb15c8e6b67356168d248ccf4

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  Anyone know anyone at Atlas Obscura? Can you email them and ask them to fix the thing in the map where it believes there are hundreds of locations in a single point?

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  Woo US debt is $40T! https://www.us-debt-clock.com/live No one will say anything about this until a Democrat is in power, at which point it will become a national emergency. It is also useful to know that the percentage of GDP spent on interest on that debt is still lower than it was for basically all of the 80s and 90s. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1XNEY

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  New Lego Hubble. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/hubble-space-telescope-11382?consent-modal=show&age-gate=grown_up

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  India's Skyroot Aerospace appears to have made orbit on the first try, which is pretty unusual. Congrats to them!

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  I hadn’t realized that Anderson Erickson invented the “missing child” milk carton. That was the brand of our milk growing up. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/100-objects-009-missing-children-milk-carton/ (If you gave up on 99pi after they sold out, it seems like they have recovered; the 100 objects series has been good, as have been the normal episodes.)

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  The p value on most futbol games is <0.05.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_cH5-daLjg

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  Madrid is still rainbow in June. Most of the world isn’t falling into Trumpism.

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  A big fault movement seen at the beach in Trinidad apparently as a result of the two 7 mag earthquakes hundreds of miles away in Venezuela. So sever that fish ended up out of the water. Also the comments love the way the dude pronounces "instantaneous" in the Trinidad accent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXXHVsZ9o0c

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  Somewhere over southern Illinois I could see a line in the sky toward the front of the plane and I didn’t know what it was, roughly southwest. Took a photo and didn’t look at it closely. Landed, and woke up a bit, and it’s quite startling aurora. I wish I’d taken more than one photo and gotten it to focus!