David Grinspoon @DrFunkySpoon@qoto.org
Astrobiologist, Author, Musician
Joined Nov 2022
Holy wow! This new infrared image of Jupiter’s moon Io from the Juno spacecraft shows volcanoes, lava flows and lava lakes glowing with heat radiation!
@vrruiz yes that’s true. Would have been so much worse without these vaccines.
But the inane policy debates & conflicts & legal wrangling over vaccines show our society’s underbelly on full display.
@tonic ah yes good answer! Democratic, guided by science. New Zealand gets high marks.
Question: Which country has had the best COVID response? Is there a society which has responded in a way informed by science and respectful of the rights and needs of their people?
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Observation: Arguably the COVID response failures in the U.S. and China illustrate fundamental failings in both societies. In the U.S. rampant anti-science, corporatized health care, lack of public investment, extreme inequality, dysfunction fueled by extreme polarization fed by incentivized disinformation. In China authoritarian corrupt leaders out of touch with, and with little regard for, the needs and experiences of their vast, diverse population.
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NUDGING A SPACE ROCK
That’s one small change in an asteroid’s orbit, one giant leap for humanity.
(my latest for @SkyandTelescope)
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-blogs/cosmic-relief-david-grinspoon/nudging-a-space-rock/ https://twitter.com/DrFunkySpoon/status/1602718160607711237/video/1
“He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.”
— Baruch Spinoza
David Grinspoon
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Fortunately for human beings, dogs saw potential in them, and decided to domesticate them.
#DogsOfMastodon #Mastodog #BetterThanHumans
@oceanracer808 I love this memory!
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Literally no Democrat cares if Hunter Biden is prosecuted if he committed crimes. He's not elected—we're not a cult.
We just call it *absurd* that MAGAs—who let Kushner & Ivanka make $640M while "government employees" and get $2B after leaving the White House, under wildly suspicious means from a murderous dictator—now pretend to care about alleged Biden nepotism.
We see your shameless, dangerous hypocrisy.
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So wait... the standard-bearer of the Republican Party has called for the "termination" of the Constitution, but it's progressives who don't believe in the rule of law?
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Budgie Smuggler was living her best life while sunbathing earlier this afternoon.
☀️😻
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Mastcam colorized remote ChemCam observation from Mars Curiosity Rover Sols 3669 and 3671, respectively.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
Live stream of Mauna Loa erupting!
Mesmerizing, beautiful, hot & bothered…
“Deep in the big black heart of the lone star state…”
What we’re up against in our struggle for a sane, just livable future. Powerful corporate forces determined to wring every last nickel out of the oil fields as they continue to wreck our world.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/04/climate/texas-public-policy-foundation-climate-change.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
First step toward various sci-fi scenarios:
Researchers Report Decoding Thoughts from fMRI Data
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The best of times and the worst of times.
The war and climate disruptions are producing what may be “the largest global food crisis in modern history.”
From https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/12/01/world/russia-ukraine-war-news/the-un-seeks-51-5-billion-in-aid-driven-in-part-by-the-war-in-ukraine?smid=url-share
And yet look how wonderfully encouraging are the long term trends, as seen in the figures below (from Max Roser’s site Our World in Data https://ourworldindata.org/)
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#MaunaLoa Telescope update!
The ATLAS units have been shut down finally and people have left. The picture below was taken by one of those folks.
The power is out, it's possible the power lines were taken out by lava. It will be a while before people can go back and check on material.
Until then ATLAS still has 3 units across the globe to detect any potentially dangerous asteroids that could hit earth!
So we stay safe from the sky whilst we admire the power of mother Earth 🙏 🌋
The best of times and the worst of times.
The war and climate disruptions are producing what may be “the largest global food crisis in modern history.”
From https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/12/01/world/russia-ukraine-war-news/the-un-seeks-51-5-billion-in-aid-driven-in-part-by-the-war-in-ukraine?smid=url-share
And yet look how wonderfully encouraging are the long term trends, as seen in the figures below (from Max Roser’s site Our World in Data https://ourworldindata.org/)
Astrobiologist, Author, Musician
Joined Nov 2022
