#Planetary Society

[venusianwonders]

Pictures of the Venusian surface

[counselor-durango]

I was today years old when I realized the Robert Picardo of Voyager was the same Robert Picardo I heard on the Planetary Society's Planetary Radio

[inkyvoids]

One of humanity’s biggest questions remains: “Are we alone?”  For nearly half a century, astronomers have looked for messages from extraterrestrial intelligences that might reach Earth. Many other astronomers hope to answer this question by taking detailed observations of exoplanets: planets orbiting distant stars. But how can astronomers hope to answer this kind of question by observing planets they'll never get to visit? And how (or, when) will we know if a claim of a sign of life is believable?

[future-crab]

I love the line, "They sell presentable, young and so ingestible, sterile and collectible, safe, and I can't stand it," SO much. It really gets at the heart of what so much of Danger Days is trying to say imo. And I especially love the sort of visceral note in the phrase "young and so ingestible" - like obviously the image of art and artist as something to be consumed has been around for ages and it doesn't have to evoke anything so literal as the audience wanting to physically eat the band, but it certainly calls that to mind for me, and the idea that the music industry (and capitalism more broadly) exists to facilitate and encourage that desire is just... chef's kiss.

[reflection-s-of-stars]

Hey. Hey what if one of the OG lyctors was Jewish pre-resurrection. Wouldn’t that be so fucked up

[gazeofseer]

Beginning with Astrology through an Eyes of Pyschic 🪞🔮

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Okay so the least polished magic by divine in me is astrology as it is more about numeric and symbolism held concepts to mark the movements in the flowing realm of living.

So It is hard for a Pyschic to get a grip on technical edges where things become slanting and slippery then grounding and flowing still, I am trying to begin with the worst to know if I can know the best of it from my end after all.

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Birth Chart And It's kind

The Base Yantra In the Realm Of Magic It Means Patterns, Symbolism, And Intricates that Associates Directly to the Energy in Power If you see our Vedic Astrology is Box Like Chart which is based of Gayatri Yantra ..

Gayatri the Goddess of Material Manifestation Hence Our Birth Chart Is Transacted Accordingly.

For Western I have less of sight into which, but I guess it is in a circle because of a symbolic relatability with the moon and Sun, mostly because of the centuries down the civilization served for these deities majorly.

Houses & Zodiac Signs

It stands as the basis to the key annotations that are manifested from your before being in this world according to which the constellations have been paused, ceased and marked the key events, the key nature and the entire foundation your life be paved on.

Transits, Cycles, Planetary Positions

These are the collective motion that completes things on behalf of you, when suddenly something falls but you have been saved it is the collective motion working on your behalf to elevate your ahead in time.

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I hope this has enlightened you a bit enough to understand the spectrum of astrology from a psychic's vision.

[cosmicculturevulture]

bits of murakami, human cultures and the musical spheres of the planets...from the writer's desk...

Today’s Perusing…

[kusatta]

" do you truly wish to do this here, in front of everyone ? " / @multisverse, sanemi.

[futurefatum]

Woman Dies, Sees Strange Events, ET's (Tone: 540)

Major ET event expected between 2025-2027. Get ready for massive societal and financial changes! #ETContact #SpiritualAwakening

Published September 6th, 2024 by @LifeAfterLifeNDE Woman Dies, Sees Strange Events in the Afterlife & Revels The Secrets about ET in the Near Future! ABOUT THIS VIDEO: This video features a woman recounting her near-death experience (NDE) and the transformative insights she gained from it. She describes visiting different dimensions, interacting with spiritual guides, and learning about…

[itsadamnbeehive]

picky eater rant lol

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

SomewhereDeepInTheNight -- Plumes rising off the surface of Io as the result of volcanic activity, viewed side-on here by the Juno spacecraft.

Check out more of this month's coolest space pictures: -- #ThePlanetarySociety

[cacomixle]

I have a rant about people and planetary care.

Hear me out and bear with me for a minute or two, if you have the time and patience -

I eat meat

And I like eating meat

And when it's possible I prefer to be the one to kill an animal *myself* if I'm going to eat it.

BUT

That absolutely does NOT give me the right to kill shit unnecessarily.

And it does NOT give me the right to cause other animals pain or suffering.

There is a REASON for humane euthanasia practices.

An animal you're eating should be given the respect and consideration of a quick death that does not follow a fearful interaction.

You don't just get to make other animals suffer because you're going to eat them.

And certainly not just because you consider them a pest in your way.

Very little separates you, as a "human", reading this in our little made up society, from everything else as an "animal" - killing and fucking without thought for consequences beyond success or death. Consideration for HOW one kills is a huge part of maintaining that imaginary construct we sometimes call "society".

This thing we're all doing together? Living like "humans"?

That can only happen if we can all be something more than animals together.

It doesn't happen on its own, we have to *decide* to do it *together* or else we ARE just animals who put on clothes.

Respect your food.

Use humane practices.

Don't poison pests.

If you can handle it, maybe even put spiders and centipedes and moths back outside if you find them - they have jobs to do also.

Everything in this world has a place in our ecosystem, that's WHY it exists in the first place.

Not everything belongs to "humanity"

Quick fucking up our planet - we don't own it, we just work here.

[queereads-bracket]

Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 1

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Murderbot Diaries series (All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy, Network Effect, Fugitive Telemetry, System Collapse, and other stories) by Martha Wells

Endorsement from submitter: "Asexual and agender main character. In later books side characters are revealed to be in poly relationship."

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."

In a corporate-dominated space-faring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. For their own safety, exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.

On a distant planet, a team of scientists is conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid--a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, Murderbot wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is, but when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and Murderbot to get to the truth.

Science fiction, novella, series, adult

Hunger Pangs series (True Love Bites) by Joy Demorra

In a world of dwindling hope, love has never mattered more...

Captain Nathan J. Northland had no idea what to expect when he returned home to Lorehaven injured from war, but it certainly wasn't to find himself posted on an island full of vampires. An island whose local vampire dandy lord causes Nathan to feel strange things he'd never felt before. Particularly about fangs.

When Vlad Blutstein agreed to hire Nathan as Captain of the Eyrie Guard, he hadn't been sure what to expect either, but it certainly hadn't been to fall in love with a disabled werewolf. However Vlad has fallen and fallen hard, and that's the problem.

Torn by their allegiances--to family, to duty, and the age-old enmity between vampires and werewolves--the pair find themselves in a difficult situation: to love where the heart wants or to follow where expectation demands.

The situation is complicated further when a mysterious and beguiling figure known only as Lady Ursula crashes into their lives, bringing with her dark omens of death, doom, and destruction in her wake.

And a desperate plea for help neither of them can ignore.

Thrown together in uncertain times and struggling to find their place amidst the rising human empire, the unlikely trio must decide how to face the coming darkness: united as one or divided and alone. One thing is for certain, none of them will ever be the same.

Fantasy, romance, paranormal, series, adult

[vinylyuri]

i've a good bit abt how often homestuck handles those themes abt disconnecting from a past self; you grow and change, and what you used to be will stay unattainable despite all your efforts. you will always be you, but you cannot return to the past. because that, juxtaposed with the ending, wherein the kids finally succeed in their goals of beating the game, and creating a new world, is. weird. earth c is eerily similar to their original home planet.

im not sure how to explain it exactly, but it's something like. the mimicry of the old for their final ending, seen both as a reward and a continuation of a cycle. reaching for what once was (old earth) simply for the sake of reconnecting with the comfort and familiarity of the past, rather than using such a chance to create something new. a good chunk of homestuck revolves around the self, and how we choose to confront change in it and the world around us. so it always felt very interesting to me that the penultimate Reward Thing just ends up being an attempt at making 21st-century earth again.

[mindblowingscience]

Bill Nye was recently awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of his dedication to science education. Nye, popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is an American science educator, television presenter and CEO of the Planetary Society. Nye was among 19 honorees to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom — United States' highest civilian honor — at a White House ceremony held on Jan. 4. "Bill Nye has inspired and influenced generations of American students as 'Bill Nye the Science Guy,'" officials wrote in a statement from the White House. "His dedication to science education continues through his work as CEO of the Planetary Society and as a vocal advocate for space exploration and environmental stewardship."

Continue Reading.

[metamatar]

In 2005, the tellingly named studio After Stone wall Productions released a film titled Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World. Featuring interviews with various LGBT activists from different countries outside the West, spliced up and lumped together haphazardly, the film delivers the following overarching messages: that it is not safe to be queer in the "developing world," that what queer spaces do exist in the "developing world" are to be found in certain metropolises: Cairo, Kuala Lumpur, Calcutta, Rio de Janeiro—and that these sites trace their genealogy to the Stonewall riots. Furthermore, according to the film, queerness/gayness and sometimes transness (when it is acknowledged) were invented in the West. Epistemic breaking points such as the Stone wall riots and canonized locales such as San Francisco and Greenwich Village are the originating points of this innovation against the backdrop of a timeless, pervasive heterosexism. This cosmopolitan gayness/queerness then "spreads" from the metropole to the periphery, forming a web from city to city This coincides with Jack Halberstam's (excruciatingly white) analysis in his book In a Queer Time and Place: the idea of "metronorma tivity" that "the rural is made to function as a closet for urban sexualities in most accounts of rural queer migration" and that "the metronormative narrative maps a story of migration onto the coming-out narrative" (2005, 36-37). We can extend Halberstam's analysis further and see the ways that the closet/rural/(post)colony as well as out/urban/metropole get col lapsed onto each other—the queer is always pulled closer to the heart of capital.

The overarching savior narrative occurs towards the end of the film, when each interviewee, in clips spliced together, tells his or her story of emigrating to the West. After a particularly heart-wrenching story of Ashraf Zanati's departure from Egypt, the narrator comments that "Ashraf Zanati left Egypt. Ashraf had become part of a planetary minority." Although the film purports to care about the status of queers in the "developing world," it actually forms a wounded attachment that fetishizes displacement and bifurcates the queer from his or her society. This narration of non-Western countries as inherently unsafe for queer subjects produces the very displacement it describes, in a manner similar to the ways nine teenthcentury colonial archaeology laid the foundations for Zionism and the dispossession of Arab Jews. Writing about the European "discovery" and destruction of the Cairo Geniza—a building that had housed pieces of paper documenting centuries of jewish Egyptian history—Shohat (2006) shows us that the discursive/ archival dislocation of Egyptian Jews by the forces of European/Ashkenazi colonialism anticipated the later dislocation of Egyptian Jews. This dislocation would form part of the backbone of Zionist historiography's production of a "morbidly selective 'tracing the dots' from pogrom to pogrom." The fetishization of queer displacement, as projected by Dangerous Living, performs a similar historical flip to the one Shohat documents: "If at the time of the 'Geniza discovery' Egyptian Jews were still seen as part of the colonized Arab world, with the partition of Palestine, Arab-Jews, in a historical shift, suddenly became simply 'Jews'" (Shohat 2006, 205). Through various colonial practices, there was a discursive bifurcation between the "Arab" and the "Jew"; in the case of case of Dangerous Living there is a similar bifurcation between the "Egyptian" and the "Queer."

Papantonopoulou, Saffo. “‘Even a Freak Like You Would Be Safe in Tel Aviv’: Transgender Subjects, Wounded Attachments, and the Zionist Economy of Gratitude.” Women’s Studies Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 1/2, 2014, pp. 278–93. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24364930. Accessed 11 Nov. 2024.