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Ross
@rossengineer.bsky.social
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Former future astronaut | Xitter refugee, same handle | bio pinned | opinions my own | science, politics, stray thoughts, some swearing | no porn, crypto, scams, plz | he/him | pathologically unable to do things that make no fucking sense | YMMV, LLAP 🖖✌️
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · Jul 17
Bio in comments, sporadically appended -
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CSU Department of Atmospheric Science @csuatmossci.bsky.social · 1h
Congrats to Deztynee Bryan on your @ametsoc.org 2025 Graduate Fellowship! Bryan's research focuses on tropical cyclones: on understanding the microphysical and kinematic processes that influence their intensity and predictability, with an emphasis on utilizing airborne radar observations.
Deztynee photo
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 6h
For your Wednesday, friends, have a deep-field image from #JWST taken late 2023 and early 2024.

The six-sided features are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else you see?

A galaxy.
A few bright, blueish star-shaped features are dotted throughout the scene. The remaining features are smaller, a little less bright, and of various shapes. The background is darkest black.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 10h
This is 'Rakotzbrücke Devil’s Bridge', commissioned in 1860 in the German village of Kromlau in Gablenz on the estate of Friedrich Herrmann Rötschke, now a public park.

Its purpose is ornamental: to form a perfect circle with its own reflection when light & wind permit.

(📷: Dirk Förster, Flickr)
A high arched bridge at sunset or sunrise, with a rocky promontory rising from the water framed by the mirrored, circular arch of the bridge. "A world of Lord of the Rings ... Rakotzbrücke Kromlau im Rhododendronpark Kromlau im leichten Nebel." CREDIT: Dirk Förster, Flickr
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 21h
Not only has the US killed 27 people (by its figures, independent verification obviously being difficult), they haven't presented evidence or any real legal authority to justify this. Even as they formalized it under a task force.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d
Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.
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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d
The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
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Eos @eos.org · 1d
Double, double toil and trouble: As the climate warms, the oceans bubble. And those bubbles have a big impact on carbon storage, suggests new research.

buff.ly/t7PYFwz

Read more in our October issue: bit.ly/Eos-Oct2025
More Bubbles Means More Variation in Ocean Carbon Storage - Eos
A new model accounting for the role of bubbles in air-sea gas exchanges suggests that ocean carbon uptake is more variable than previously thought.
buff.ly
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 3d
TL;DR, I love the airframe as a future agricultural plane, but I have no idea how effective the military version is at fighting real wars.

Find the real experienced experts, they are not me and have way more data & wisdom to offer.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 3d
Cleanup crews for armor where there's no air defense.

I'm an amateur & a civilian, so I am likely just fanboying from my 70s / 80s wannabe pilot kid.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 3d
I'll allow it 👍

"*Trump Canceled Christmas In 2025*" is a powerful thought to circulate WIDELY. (please pardon my shouting)
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 3d
A-10s could mean the difference between a Ukrainian Crimea or a Russian military dominance outpost.

I vote Ukrainian Crimea, & the A-10 deserves a swan-song beating back authoritarianism in the name of democracy & self-evident -

"Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit of Happiness For All Human Beings."
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 3d
Hypothetical Ukrainian A-10s. Beautiful. My sister is a fighter pilot, I'm former SOF. We have VERY different opinions about A-10s and my opinion is really the only one that actually matters. Why? Because I depended on this machine and she never has. Ukraine needs these warbirds. Slow and lethal!
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 3d
Now we *must* prepare for the coming world, an Earth more hostile to life / lives (& lifestyles) as we know them.

"Survival is the exception, extinction is the rule."
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 3d
Rich oil & gas deposits have built the modern world of near-infinite convenience.

Gigatons of carbon in the atmosphere & gigatons of microplastics pollution worldwide & all the other things are the costs where we never considered paying the price.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 4d
Thank you 👍
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 4d
Offline for a while.

Out touching grass.

Recharging time.

✌️
Plain old white pickup with a hiking base camp travel trailer behind with scrub in the foreground and the tall Sierra Nevada mountains in the background under the star-studded night sky.
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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 5d
Good morning from The Denton Observatory!

🔭 #Astrophotography
A comment with a greenish tinged nucleus, and, and light yellow tail. There are multiple stars in the background. There are satellite trails through throughout the photo.
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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 5d
#APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day

50 Light-years to 51 Pegasi

Credit: José Rodrigues joserodrigues.space

www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a... 🧪🔭
Observatoire de Haute-Provence under a starry sky. The Andromeda and Pegasus constellations are delineated. 51 Pegasi, Messier 31, Messier 33, and Saturn are pinpointed.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 5d
Brilliant!
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 5d
This link will take you to PHIVOLCS, the Philippines national institution dedicated to providing information on the activities of volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis.

Be sure to use and reference official sources whenever possible.

www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/index.php/ea...
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 5d
Even better 👍
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Adoptable Dogs @adoptabledogs.bsky.social · 5d
Radar Fl 🐕
Adult male Australian Shepherd
Adoptable from Australian Shepherds Furever (Ontario, CA)

https://www.petfinder.com/dog/radar-fl-78686931/ca/ontario/australian-shepherds-furever-ca2261/
Radar Fl is a Adult Australian Shepherd Radar Fl is a Adult Australian Shepherd
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Shoe + @shoe.bsky.social · 5d
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 5d
M 7.4 - 20 km E of Santiago, Philippines

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
The location of the earthquake is marked by star and the different colors indicate different levels of shaking.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 5d
"Antifa" could also work.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 6d
Nobel Committee should just troll Trump, and give Obama a second Peace Prize.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 5d
Have actually met men over the age of 30 who believe this.

It is unreal.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 5d
Almost worth it 😂
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 5d
Lol
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 5d
Nobel committee could do the funniest thing.
Clinton Global Initiative ad with Bill and Gavin Newsom
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