#Orbit

2021 is a year of several anniversaries in UK foreign policy.1951 - Attlee's Labour govt begins covert planning to overthrow Musaddiq in Iran, carried out by MI6 and CIA two
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I had a spare @Raspberry_Pi and sense HAT, left over from the glory days of firing two @astro_pi's to the space station on a big rocket, so I decided to
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(dwarf) Planet fun fact of the day:So we all know that Pluto isn't officially considered a planet anymore. But do you know exactly why? The three components of being a
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The S&P500 and CPC are both “superintelligences,” but quite different in their goal seek.Let’s study the world’s two largest systems in terms of how they aggregate, and direct the efforts
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Happy Winter Solstice people. 10.02 am marks the darkest point in the year. The point where the nights are longest and the days are shortest. Tonight as the Sun sets
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Airborne: Reborn X is out with the most important #NewAerospace news from the last weekhttps://osinto.substack.com/p/airborne-reborn-x Our Top Story is about a flurry of #space activity in #China over the past
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Remember 2016 when Trump baselessly claimed there was fraud in states that didn’t vote for him? And then how he launched a commission to try to find evidence to back
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It’s #MessierMonday, tweeps!This sparkling beauty is M56, a globular cluster in the constellation Lyra. The image is from the HST and composed of wavelengths in visible & infrared. Without the
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LIVESTREAM ALERT 1/This is a big one.Tonight, a ~726km wide object in the Kuiper Belt will make a star disappear, for ~33 seconds!I will be recording the #occultation, and showing
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Why I’m not bothered about the Galileo project and the fact we aren’t talking part. We are launching nano-satellites! (From Russia). We have the skills!The innovation we show in this
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Seen all those pix of Jupiter from last night showing three or four of its moons? Yeah, it actually has more. A lot more. A LOT lot more.A new paper
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Welcome to Day 1 of Ocean Worlds Week!Today I'm going to be giving a quick introduction to what ocean worlds really are. How do they form? Why are they important?
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yeah amazon already had contracts with the military and DHS including providing facial recognition software to help ICE (and god knows what other agencies) but nothing scary about this!https://twitter.com/evan_greer/status/13571227094031646
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India's inventions, discoveries and contribution to the world. (Thread) 1. Diamonds. The earliest discovery of diamonds was in India in 4th century BC and were worn as adornments, used for
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A lot of talk about $T (AT&T) on the timeline lately So here’s a list of why $T is so popular, especially right now (Thread) 1a. High dividend yieldIt has
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Now, what makes us think dark matter is there if we can't see it? The idea arose from a disconnect between the amount of mass needed to account for things
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