Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, named Ghost Riders in the Sky, launched from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, at 1:11 a.m. EST on January 15, 2025. Blue Ghost separated from the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in a highly elliptical Earth orbit at 2:17 a.m. EST and established communications with Firefly’s Mission Operations Center in Cedar Park, Texas, at 2:26 a.m. EST. As Blue Ghost continues its journey to the Moon, follow along with Firefly’s mission updates all along the way.
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American anti science
CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel
Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been prohibited from co-authoring publications with World Health Organization staff, dealing a blow to global research efforts and continuing the Trump administration’s aggressive attack on government-funded science. [1]
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STEAM Cafe 3
The discovery centre in Paignton is now open, located at the back of the café, it has a range of interactive displays and activities centred around STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics)
Engineering wall, this is a great activity you can attach different components to the wall and experiment with what happens when you turn one component and how ths interacts with other components. What happens when you connect 2 or more cogs of the same size, what happens if they are different sizes etc?
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Skymap – Map of the night sky.
You can download a map of the night sky showing the location of constellations etc, and also a list of what else is visible from sky map
This is available to download at the start of each month for the month ahead.
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This is now a huge window of opportunity to promote alternatives / replacements. To this end, I am sharing a link to alternative to which is a huge database to help you find replacements for common software and tools.
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STEAM Cafe 2
A few more photos from the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) discovery centre in Paignton,
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US Cloud Services and EU citizens data
In a major move in the right direction for data protection and user privacy.
It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds. Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things the “King of America” keeps saying, the legal sophistry used to justify such transfers, like the nonsense letter the Dutch cabinet sent last week, has now been invalidated by Trump himself. And why are we doing this? Convenience. But it is very scary to make yourself 100% dependent on the goodwill of the American government merely because it is convenient. So let’s not. [1]
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STEAM Cafe 1
The discovery centre in Paignton is now open, located at the back of the cafe, it has a range of interactive displays and activities centred around STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics)
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