Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦<p><a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23WilliamSBurroughs" target="_blank">#WilliamSBurroughs</a> once famously suggested that “language is a <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23virus" target="_blank">#virus</a> from <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23outerspace" target="_blank">#outerspace</a>.” That got me thinking what if it was really <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23money" target="_blank">#money</a> that was the virus from outer space. So, I wrote a <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23sciencefiction" target="_blank">#sciencefiction</a> story based on that theme. <a href="https://doncurren.blogspot.com/2023/01/money-is-virus-from-outer-space.html?m=1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">doncurren.blogspot.com/2023/01/mone...</a><br><br><a href="https://doncurren.blogspot.com/2023/01/money-is-virus-from-outer-space.html?m=1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Money is a Virus from Outer Sp...</a></p>
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Thousands of rockets have launched into space over the last several decades. But what would it take to build an elevator that goes from Earth to space? Thousands of meters of cable, for starters. @sciencefocus has more on this impossible-sounding idea that more people have been giving serious thought over the years.
BBC Science Focus Magazine · Just one cable stands between us and space elevators
like Heavysaur's Luna #dog in german
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k-KV4CRigE
as inspired maybe by Major Tom: Coming Home - Peter Schilling (1982 to 2024) #space #outerspace #gravity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnW3oBY0N1k
ShinyToyGuns Cover of his english-version #female voice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyFe5m2MU9Q
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
#startrek #firstcontact #90s #scifi #movies #gifs #spacecraft #outerspace #space #spaceexploration #spaceship #1990s #aesthetic #spacetravel
#startrek #firstcontact #90s #scifi #movies #gifs #spacecraft #outerspace #space #spaceexploration #spaceship #1990s #aesthetic #spacetravel
A statement by the "Group of Friends" (six national delegations and six NGOs) on Dark and Quiet Skies presented at the ongoing Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Scientific and Technical Subcommittee is now publicly available.
A Familiar Glow, A New Frame - II
Since the weather hasn't been favorable and my other lens hasn’t worked out so far, here's the same image as before—this time cropped to 1080x1080.
A Familiar Glow, A New Frame
Published on the @arxiv today: "Overview of #Indigenous rights and outer space for the @iau_cps Policy Hub" by Hilding Neilson (Memorial University of Newfoundland).
arXiv.orgOverview of Indigenous rights and outer space for the IAU-CPS Policy HubAs part of the mission of the International Astronomical Union Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky from Satellite Constellation Interference (IAU-CPS) Policy Hub to consider national and international regulations about the usage and sustainability in outer space, we also included discussion specific to the rights of Indigenous peoples with respect to outer space under the context of the United Nations Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). In this work, we review how some of the articles of UNDRIP require various actors in the use and exploitation of outer space including satellite companies, nation states, and professional/academic astronomy to consult and support Indigenous peoples/nations and respect Indigenous sovereignties. This work is concluded with recommendations for consulting and collaborating with Indigenous peoples and recommendations for moving from the traditional colonial exploitation of outer space and building an anti-colonial future in relationship with outer space.
Cosmic Snails recommend themselves as gifts. Even if they are a bit late, they are forgiven... after all, they are from outer space 
https://vanillamaart.etsy.com?section_id=38640183
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#cosmic #outerspace #cosmicart #handmade #sculpture #collectibles #snail #snails #fantasyart #fantasy
There's some language in the 'Pact for the Future' adopted today at #UNGA79 concerning the sustainable development of #space and calling for a fourth United Nations Conference on the Peaceful Exploration of Outer Space in 2027. (excerpted from a LinkedIn post by @unoosa)
More info: https://www.un.org/en/summit-of-the-future/pact-for-the-future
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Hold up, back up, you used #hamradio to make contact with a space station? Like in #outerspace?
Physicist, giving a lecture to kids: "... And based upon what we've measured for the celestial horizon, some scientists think the universe has a shape we call the Doughnut Shaped Model"
Daughter, raising her hand: Why didn't you call it the Everything Bagel?
[15 seconds of angry silence from physicists who realizes he's been beaten]
China lands on moon’s far side in historic sample-retrieval mission https://www.euractiv.com/section/china/news/china-lands-on-moons-far-side-in-historic-sample-retrieval-mission/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #China #moon #Outerspace
EURACTIV · China lands on moon's far side in historic sample-retrieval missionChina landed an uncrewed spacecraft on the far side of the moon on Sunday (1 June), a landmark mission aiming
If you’ve ever been taught how Earth orbits around the Sun, you might think our planet travels along an oval-shaped path that brings it closer to the Sun at some times of the year than others.
You’d have a good reason to think that, too: it’s how most textbooks show things. But what if your textbooks were wrong?
See what the Earth, the Sun and a bike wheel have in common as we explain exactly how orbits work… https://ausgeo.co/orbits
#space #outerspace #astro #astronomy #astrophotography #australia #galaxy #sun #planet #earth #orbit #stars #cosmos #star #moon #sunshine #universe #science #planets #spaceexploration #spaceship #milkyway #nightsky
#academia #research #academicchatter #science #scientist #space #astronomy #astrodon
Australian Geographic · What your school textbook didn’t tell you about the Earth’s orbit
World’s first wooden satellite built by Japan researchers https://www.euractiv.com/section/outer-space/news/worlds-first-wooden-satellite-built-by-japan-researchers/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Japan #Outerspace #satellites #SpaceX
EURACTIV · World's first wooden satellite built by Japan researchersThe world's first wooden satellite has been built by Japanese researchers who said their tiny cuboid craft wil