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First tweet: “I saw a piece of fabric? on the floor of my room so I went to pick it up but it was actually the moonlight that entered through the window lmao”

The Sonoran desert, Arizona

Hey.

The fascists don’t like NASA.

They don’t want stuff like this to happen.

They want to give NASA’s budget to the already bloated military.

As far as I’m concerned, it’s fine to celebrate a massive peaceful scientific achievement that’s a collaboration between the US and Canada space programs during a time when there’s so much bad news elsewhere.

but DO techbros like nasa? a lot of techbros i see are super into the idea of privatized space travel industry and colonizing mars, the first of which nasa is directly opposed to, and the second which nasa isn't really focused on.

The Artemis Accords are one of the first large-scale civil policies about space and related activities to come about since the Outer Space Treaty in 1967. NASA wants to hold people (at least a little) accountable for the junk they're leaving in our orbit, and not enough people talked about this shit back when it got signed, so I wanna talk about it now

Scientists have their first proof that the ancestors of some mammals laid eggs, thanks to a 250-million-year-old fossil embryo discovered in South Africa in 2008. The specimen, described this week in PLOS One, belongs to a piglike animal with tusks and a beak called Lystrosaurus that famously and mysteriously survived the Great Dying, one of Earth’s worst extinction events. The embryo’s curved position and the incomplete development of its jaw, pelvis, and ribs hint that it was in an egg when it died (artist’s rendition above). The fossil could shed light on how Lystrosaurus survived the high temperatures of the extinction event, as the large size of the eggs would have prevented the water loss that comparable species faced, CNN reports. The find may also help researchers learn why and when lactation developed in mammals, providing evidence it initially evolved to allow mothers to keep their eggs moist.