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Night sky
This is a photo of the recent comet by an amateur astronomer named Barb Barton. This is a timed shutter with a tracking telescope, and it was set for 59 minutes to get details of the comet.
The other lines are mostly satellite traces. Starlink, the GPS constellation, mapping, spy, weather, etc. Notice how they have affected this photo, which would have likely been a masterpiece without them, or at least a lot fewer of them.
Do you think that perhaps we have too much traffic orbiting our planet?
Is there an ongoing "traffic jam" already, at least for such activities like wide-field astronomy photos?
Do you think this is also a problem with professional instruments on remote mountain tops the world around?
The other lines are mostly satellite traces. Starlink, the GPS constellation, mapping, spy, weather, etc. Notice how they have affected this photo, which would have likely been a masterpiece without them, or at least a lot fewer of them.
Do you think that perhaps we have too much traffic orbiting our planet?
Is there an ongoing "traffic jam" already, at least for such activities like wide-field astronomy photos?
Do you think this is also a problem with professional instruments on remote mountain tops the world around?
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from "echo chambers" to "echo platforms"
We have gone from "echo chambers" to "echo platforms"
Users migrate between platforms in search of environments better suited to their preferences
A new paper analyzes 117 million posts related to the 2020 US Presidential elections from nine social media platforms—Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, BitChute, Gab, Parler, Scored, and Voat.
The findings reveal significant differences among platforms in the reliability of circulated news, and the ideological diversity of their users, highlighting a clear divide between mainstream and alt-tech platforms. The latter occupy a peripheral role, feature a higher prevalence of unreliable content, and exhibit greater ideological uniformity.
Read the paper here: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/9/pgaf262/8232781?login=false
Users migrate between platforms in search of environments better suited to their preferences
A new paper analyzes 117 million posts related to the 2020 US Presidential elections from nine social media platforms—Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, BitChute, Gab, Parler, Scored, and Voat.
The findings reveal significant differences among platforms in the reliability of circulated news, and the ideological diversity of their users, highlighting a clear divide between mainstream and alt-tech platforms. The latter occupy a peripheral role, feature a higher prevalence of unreliable content, and exhibit greater ideological uniformity.
Read the paper here: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/9/pgaf262/8232781?login=false
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Bryce and Justice are super fast!
fun stats, from week 4 of college football
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Elusive shipwreck found in Lake Michigan over 100 years after sinking
A “ghost ship” that sank in Lake Michigan nearly 140 years ago and eluded several search efforts over the past five decades has been found, according to researchers with the Wisconsin Underwater Archeology Association.
The wooden schooner got caught in a storm in the dead of night and went down in September 1886. In the weeks after, a lighthouse keeper reported the ship’s masts breaking the lake surface, and fishermen caught pieces of the vessel in their nets. Still, wreck hunters were unable to track down the ship’s location — until now.
Earlier this year, a team of researchers with the Wisconsin Underwater Archeology Association and Wisconsin Historical Society located the shipwreck off the coastal town of Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin, the association announced on Sunday.
full article: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/science/shipwreck-lake-michigan-ghost-ship-schooner
The wooden schooner got caught in a storm in the dead of night and went down in September 1886. In the weeks after, a lighthouse keeper reported the ship’s masts breaking the lake surface, and fishermen caught pieces of the vessel in their nets. Still, wreck hunters were unable to track down the ship’s location — until now.
Earlier this year, a team of researchers with the Wisconsin Underwater Archeology Association and Wisconsin Historical Society located the shipwreck off the coastal town of Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin, the association announced on Sunday.
full article: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/science/shipwreck-lake-michigan-ghost-ship-schooner
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The council did not approve
But seriously, the best relationships are those where your conflicts do not spread to all your friends and acquaintances.
express, not stress