#galileo — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #galileo, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1198567/ EU Defence & Space Commissioner: We propose that space account for 50% of total defense/space spending 2028-34 #AndriusKubilius #Copernicus #DGDEFIS #EU #Europe #European #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanCouncil #EuropeanMFFBudget #EuropeanParliament #galileo #InternationalSpaceSummit #Iris2 #USCongressionalBudgetOffice
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A Pendulum for the Multiverse: David Albert, Hugh Everett, and the Worlds We Never Feel
On my grandfather's porch in North Loup, Nebraska, the ground kept its promises. Summer evenings the floorboards held the day's heat, the corn stood in rows that ran clear to the horizon, and nothing in all that flat immensity so much as trembled. When a teacher first told me the Earth was spinning at close to a thousand miles an hour while racing around the Sun at sixty-seven thousand more, I pressed my bare feet against those boards and waited to feel the ride. The stillness came back like a verdict. Whatever the books claimed, my soles reported a stationary world, and a boy trusts his soles. Every child who has run that experiment has rebuilt, in miniature, the strongest objection the seventeenth century could throw at Copernicus. If the Earth turns, why does a dropped stone land at the foot of the tower and never a few feet to the west? Why does the gale of our orbital speed fail to strip the leaves from the trees? The objection deserved respect because it rested on evidence, on the honest testimony of every human body that had ever stood still. It took Galileo's ship, and then Newton's laws, to explain why that testimony, though honest, was worthless. […] -
The Moon Takes the Bow: The Longest Fight in the Sky, Scored on Love, Fear, Respect, and Attention
Two fighters have been circling each other since before anyone kept records, and the purse has never changed hands: the human gaze. In one corner burns a furnace so vast that something like a million Earths could rattle around inside it, the engine behind every green leaf and every heartbeat on this planet. In the other corner floats a charcoal-colored rock, airless and dead, throwing back about twelve percent of the light that hits it. On paper the match is a slaughter. In practice the rock has been taking rounds for ten thousand years, and the strangest fact on the whole card is a matter of scheduling, since only one of these two shows up for both shifts. […] -
#M44 / #Beehive Cluster from this morning. Approximately 610 light years away in the #constellation Cancer. First observed via #telescope by #Galileo in 1609
Shot on a Canon T6 mounted on a Skywatcher 72mm ED doublet refractor. Approximately 30 minutes of integration time @ 420mm FL / 800 ISO #astronomy #astrophotography
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#M44 / #Beehive Cluster from this morning. Approximately 610 light years away in the #constellation Cancer. First observed via #telescope by #Galileo in 1609
Shot on a Canon T6 mounted on a Skywatcher 72mm ED doublet refractor. Approximately 30 minutes of integration time @ 420mm FL / 800 ISO #astronomy #astrophotography
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#M44 / #Beehive Cluster from this morning. Approximately 610 light years away in the #constellation Cancer. First observed via #telescope by #Galileo in 1609
Shot on a Canon T6 mounted on a Skywatcher 72mm ED doublet refractor. Approximately 30 minutes of integration time @ 420mm FL / 800 ISO #astronomy #astrophotography
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#M44 / #Beehive Cluster from this morning. Approximately 610 light years away in the #constellation Cancer. First observed via #telescope by #Galileo in 1609
Shot on a Canon T6 mounted on a Skywatcher 72mm ED doublet refractor. Approximately 30 minutes of integration time @ 420mm FL / 800 ISO #astronomy #astrophotography
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Perfect parabolas of spurting blood! Did #Galileo teach #Artemisia the science of gore? - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/mar/06/artemisia-gentileschi-painting-judith-beheading-holofernes-galileo-gore gotta love those conic sections... #maths