Turning 49 today. I've got a funk I can't shake.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. I crunched many many many WUs of SETI@Home's data from Arecebo

but it was really getting old and harder to maintain. Hurricane Maria did a number on it (and so many other things in Puerto Rico that are still being rebuilt). A bunch of us were monitoring when this happened -

China now has the largest of its kind -



https://www.space.com/33357-china-largest-radio-telescope-alien-life.html

To make that point pellucidly clear: Multiple scientific organizations looked at the current data trends, and decided, "Fuck it. Fixing it isn't worth it because we'll have already destroyed ourselves."

Scientific organizations are making policy decisions based on civilization ending within the next century. They're in wrap up mode, folks.

As a scientist by career and hobbyist of astronomy (among many others), that's not what happened. The old gives way to the new.

This morning a humongous rocket was launched to the moon and it certainly wasn't a "fixed" old model Saturn V that was part of the Apollo program. It was the replacement.

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When we go, we go together.

The #Artemis team wants to thank everyone who helped us along the way toward the first launch of the @NASA_SLS rocket and @NASA_Orion.
2:48 AM · Nov 16, 2022

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Nearly 50 years elapsed between these two photos. #WeAreGoing!!!

⬇️ #Apollo17 at 12:33 a.m. ET on Dec. 7, 1972
↘️ #Artemis I 1:47 a.m. ET today
Apollo 17, the last of the Apollo Program, launches to the Moon on the Saturn V rocket just after midnight on December 7, 1972.
The Artemis I rocket launches from Kennedy Space Center at 1:47 a.m. November 16, 2022.
2:16 AM · Nov 16, 2022

Want to send you birthday wishes and healing wishes as well. Today was the start of a new beginning.