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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 1d

In her WHAT

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 1d

If only someone could have predicted that OSA would be a disaster

ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says

The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 2d

Do pinned tabs count?

Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 16d

Passed my viva 🥳

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 21d

Photo in the article is not a MiG-31, lol

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 22d

Woah

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 22d

Check out our tiny rock featured by @eso.org !
Now available in Nature Comms: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We measured the size using the new lightcurve shape models and old radar data #TeamRadar
📡🪨🔭🧪

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 28d

My name continues to cause chaos 😈

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · Sep 4

Someone arranged this for me as a gift, it was one of the best gifts I’ve ever received

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · Aug 27

Such a classy display of patriotism 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Lord Dover @lorddover.com · Aug 14

Contra the UK government, please don't delete your old photos and emails to save water

You'd need to delete hundreds of millions of emails to save as much water as fixing your toilet

andymasley.substack.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 30

Planetary scientist Michele Dougherty made UK’s first female astronomer royal

Physicist who worked on Nasa Cassini mission ‘absolutely delighted’ after being awarded 350-year-old title A planetary scientist whose research revealed the possibility of extraterrestrial life on one of Saturn’s moons has been made the first female astronomer royal. Prof Michele Dougherty, a leading space physicist who was a researcher for the Nasa Cassini mission, has been awarded the 350-year-old honorary title. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · Jul 31

I always found it weird that these guys used to own IDL.

UK Defence Journal @ukdefencejournal.org.uk · Jul 31

L3Harris Technologies has been awarded a $300m contract for two electronic warfare aircraft for Italy, marking the first foreign sale of the EA-37B platform approved by the U.S. government.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/?p=61122

Italy to field new airborne jamming aircraft in L3Harris deal

L3Harris Technologies has been awarded a $300m contract for two electronic warfare aircraft for Italy, marking the first foreign sale of the EA-37B platform approved by the U.S. government.

ukdefencejournal.org.uk

Lord Dover @lorddover.com · Jul 31

All the files are on my old computer, but I’ll take a look at digging it out and publishing it somewhere!

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · Jul 31

Might be time to revive this 🔭

Lord Dover @lorddover.com · Nov 21

I decided to make a browser extension 🔭

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · Jul 30

#subpost

"What if this spacecraft in Jupiter orbit magically had four more tons of hydrazine" is not something to be taken seriously by anyone.

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · Jul 30

I was just about to post about this, but evidently you spotted it first!

A clear case of “I am an expert on everything” syndrome.

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Comet Interceptor @cometinterceptor.bsky.social · Jul 29

Comet Interceptor is now on Bluesky!! ☄️🚀🛰️

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · Jul 25

These petitions don’t seem to achieve much, but it’s still worth a shot.

Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act

We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

petition.parliament.uk

Lord Dover @lorddover.com · Jul 25

If you’re trying to work out why: the Online Safety Act is stupid.

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · Jul 25

Google searches for “VPN” in the UK:

A graph showing interest against time, for the past seven days. There is a sharp spike in the past 24 hours.

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · Jul 18

The weirdest thing about this astronomer thing is how the astronomical community keeps thinking “wait do we know him?”

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · Jul 17

@ianbetteridge.com’s law now extends to astrophysics pre-prints

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · Jul 17

Good grief — he just can’t help himself! Classic narcissist.

Everyone’s fav* Harvard astronomer has struck again!

This has to be, as we call it here in Australia …. ‘taking the piss’, right?

RIGHT?!?!?!

HT SpaceFam pvt chat and someone that Loeb already has once tried to take on lmao

$Abstract from new paper that features Avi Loeb as an author: At this early stage of its passage through our Solar System, 3I/ATLAS, the recently discovered interstellar interloper, has displayed various anomalous characteristics, determined from photometric and astrometric observations. As largely a pedagogical exercise, in this paper we present additional analysis into the astrodynamics of 3I/ATLAS, and hypothesize that this object could be technological, and possibly hostile as would be expected from the 'Dark Forest' resolution to the 'Fermi Paradox'. We show that 3I/ATLAS approaches surprisingly close to Venus, Mars and Jupiter, with a probability of ≲0.005\%. Furthermore the low retrograde tilt of 3I/ATLAS's orbital plane to the ecliptic offers various benefits to an Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (ETI), since it allows the object access to our planet with relative impunity. The eclipse by the Sun from Earth of 3I/ATLAS at perihelion, would allow it to conduct a clandestine reverse Solar Oberth Manoeuvre, an optimal high-thrust strategy for interstellar spacecraft to brake and stay bound to the Sun. An optimal intercept of Earth would entail an arrival in late November/early December of 2025, and also, a non-gravitational acceleration of ∼5.9×10−5 au day−2, normalized at 1 au from the Sun, would indicate an intent to intercept the planet Jupiter, not far off its path, and a strategy to rendezvous with it after perihelion.$

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Leigh Fletcher @leighfletcher.bsky.social · Jul 7

Amplifying the call from Marc Delcroix and co. over the weekend: the team are looking to verify/refute a potential impact on #Saturn on July 5th, 09:00-09:15UT. Videos taken by amateur observers at that time might hold the key. This 📸 credit: Mario Rana

pvol2.ehu.eus/pvol2/news/v...

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · Jul 2

For any asteroid observers who have not heard about it already:

Newly-discovered #A11pl3Z is a candidate interstellar object.

cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/scout/#/obje...

Scout: NEOCP Hazard Assessment

NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) web-site. Data related to Earth impact risk, close-approaches, and much more.

cneos.jpl.nasa.gov

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