Harvard and GW Space Policy Alumnus. Tampa native living in LA. Gold Star of Excellence: Founded Aug 18, 2009
LA, USA, Earth, Milky Way
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Today’s Gold Star of Excellence goes to Matthew Holman and the Vera Rubin Solar System Operations team, for using the Vera Rubin observatory to discover ED138, the first likely dwarf planet discovered by the survey telescope.
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Meet our Solar System's newest dwarf planet candidate: 2026 ED138!
Orbiting past Pluto, scientists found it in NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory data from earlier in 2026. Early analysis suggests it's 600–1500 km across, one of the largest found past Neptune!
🔗 rubinobservatory.org/news/ru…
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Virgin American voters: waaah it’s to inconvenient to drive my air conditioned SUV ten minutes to the Millard Filmore High polling place on any of the thirty days of early voting
Chad Arab Israelis: habibi get the democracy camel
Today’s Gold Star of Excellence goes to actor Walter Koenig, best known for his role as Ensign Pavel Chekov in Star Trek, who died at 90.
Today’s Gold Star of Excellence goes to voice actor Eric Bauza, known for providing the modern voices for many Looney Tunes characters including in Coyote vs. Acme, who died at 46.
Today’s Gold Star of Excellence goes to Nobel physics laureate Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, known for his work on laser cooling, who died at 93.
Today’s Gold Star of Excellence goes to Vinesh Appadurai et al., for determining that current NASA protocols for maintaining cardiac health on the ISS are sufficient for ensuring astronaut hearts would function normally without rehab upon landing on Mars after 6 months in zero-G.
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To those who seek to create positive change in Cuba - now is the time.
The disappointment of failed promises, corruption, and the privileged lives of only a few; seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discrete partnership with the CIA.
Today’s Gold Star of Excellence goes to actor Tom Skerritt, known for his role as Arthur Dallas, flamethrower-wielding captain of the Nostromo in Alien, who died at 93.
Today’s Gold Star of Excellence goes to prolific character actor Richard Riehle, known for an iconic role as “a people person” in Office Space and voicing Aang and Katara’s son Commander Bumi in The Legend of Korra, who died at 78.
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No city has made more finals trips since 2020 than Tampa Bay
Does that make it the best sports town in America right now?
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Pope Leo XIV’s doctors have confirmed that the tumor removed on October 13 was a lung adenocarcinoma and that the disease was localized.
Dr. Luigi Carbone and Professor Stefano Margaritora said on Wednesday evening that a subsequent oncological assessment has confirmed that “no further treatment is necessary.”
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If America had built 1,000 nuclear reactors by 2000 and continued expanding, nuclear power would supply ~90% of our electricity today, even with dramatically higher demand from electrification.
We wouldn’t just have cheaper, abundant electricity. We’d have an entirely different industrial economy. Never forget what they stole from you.
Ralph Nader, 1997: “When we came out against nuclear power in the early '70s, the government had predicted that there would be 1,000 nuclear plants by the year 2000 in the United States, and there's 109 and shrinking, as more and more get shut down.” pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline…
Today’s Gold Star of Excellence goes to Chiricahua National Park in southeastern Arizona, for becoming the United States’ 64th National Park, protecting a unique landscape of balancing rocks and sky island ecosystem.
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America’s newest national park is rock solid!
Chiricahua is officially our 64th national park. Welcome to the "Wonderland of Rocks."
ALT Lightning strikes beneath dark storm clouds over the rocky landscape of Chiricahua. Green vegetation surrounds clusters of towering rock formations, with a pink glow along the distant horizon.
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California's Billionaire Tax Act would collect roughly $30 billion. Accounting for lost income taxes from departures, the mean Net Present Value is negative $39 billion, from Benjamin Jaros and Joshua Rauh nber.org/papers/w35899
Today’s Gold Star of Excellence goes to @JAXA_en and @MHI_Group, for launching the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission to return samples from Mars’ moon Phobos for study on Earth.
Today’s Honorable Mention goes to the Tampa Bay @RaysBaseball, for reaching the World Series for the third time.
