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    AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Oct-2025 08:17:35 JST AkaSci 🛰️ AkaSci 🛰️

    "The Treasury Dept instructed employees not to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing after images of construction equipment dismantling the facade of the building went viral online.

    Treasury’s HQ is located next door to the East Wing, giving employees there a front-row seat to the construction of Trump’s $250 million ballroom. The new project is set to replace parts of the East Wing."

    https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/treasury-tells-employees-not-to-share-photos-of-white-house-ballroom-construction-1d4f2c49?st=woEQcR
    More pics at https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/21/white-house-east-wing-demolition-trump-ballroom-photos/
    #UsPol
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      PHOTOS: White House demolition work underway
      from Joanna Moriello
      Workers began demolishing the East Wing of the White House on Monday, Oct. 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. The construction is part of President Trump’s plan to build a ballroom, which will repo…
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    AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Oct-2025 06:03:31 JST AkaSci 🛰️ AkaSci 🛰️

    It appears that the object that struck flight UA1093 on Thursday, October 16 was not a meteorite or space debris or hail but it was most likely a weather balloon from WindBorne Systems.

    The flight was en route from DEN to LAX.

    Investigations are in progress.

    #UA1093
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    AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Oct-2025 06:03:30 JST AkaSci 🛰️ AkaSci 🛰️
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    The possibility of UA1093 being struck by a weather balloon from WindBorne Systems was pointed out earlier in the evening by Mark Jessop, Amateur Radio Operator (VK5QI) and RF Engineer in Adelaide, South Australia.
    👏
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    AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Oct-2025 13:47:51 JST AkaSci 🛰️ AkaSci 🛰️
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    FYI - JPL laid off 550 employees this week, ~10% of its workforce. This is the fourth round in a series of layoffs that cut 25% of employees over two years.

    https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/jpl-workforce--update/
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    AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Oct-2025 13:20:10 JST AkaSci 🛰️ AkaSci 🛰️

    What fresh hell?

    Department of Transportation secretary, acting NASA administrator and former television presenter Sean Duffy is pushing for NASA to be folded into the DoT.

    #UsPol
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    AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 23:36:17 JST AkaSci 🛰️ AkaSci 🛰️

    WaPo doing its part in killing Democracy.
    #UsPol
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    AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 10:34:43 JST AkaSci 🛰️ AkaSci 🛰️
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    One of the tricky steps in the deployment and commissioning of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar NISAR satellite over the next few weeks is the unfurling and deployment of the 12m gold-plated wire mesh antenna reflector at the end of the 9m boom, both of which are stowed in folded condition.

    Here is an animation from NASA/JPL showing the steps in the deployment of the boom and reflector.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QdrHd-Rj1Q
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    AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 10:34:43 JST AkaSci 🛰️ AkaSci 🛰️
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    A few pics and graphics of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar NISAR satellite -

    1. The ISRO GSLV-F16 rocket before launch.

    2. Graphic of the NISAR satellite flying high above the clouds, which it can see through.

    3. Diagram of the NISAR spacecraft with 2 synthetic aperture radar instruments (24 cm wavelength L-SAR and 10 cm wavelength S-SAR), the 12-m deployable mesh reflector and the 9-m deployable boom.

    https://science.nasa.gov/mission/nisar/about-the-satellite/
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    AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 10:34:42 JST AkaSci 🛰️ AkaSci 🛰️
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    Here is an intriguing hi-res photograph of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite with its 12m antenna fully unfurled in space. The pic was taken on Aug 21 by one of the earth observation satellites in the Worldview Legion Constellation owned and operated by Vantor (formerly Maxar).
    😮 🛰️
    Most satellites also carry their own engineering cameras to help diagnose deployment problems.
    https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn🇱🇮activity:7384564743874973697/
    https://vantor.com/
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      Vantor – Spatial Intelligence Connecting Sensors Across Every Domain
      Vantor is driving a more autonomous, interoperable world across the defense, intelligence, and commercial sectors. Our spatial intelligence products combine spatial data, AI, and software to deliver total clarity from space to ground.
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    AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 10:34:42 JST AkaSci 🛰️ AkaSci 🛰️
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    Here is a graphic illustrating the comms and processing infrastructure for NISAR.

    L-band data reception NASA sites: Fairbanks Alaska, Svalbard Norway, Wallops VA and Punta Arenas, Chile.

    S-band data: Antarctica (ISRO Bharti station?)

    Data is received over Ka band and transferred to processing sites in U.S and India, via fiber and geo satellites.

    Why earth stations near the poles? Because comms is possible in almost every orbital pass of polar orbit satellites!

    https://polinsar-biomass2023.esa.int/iframe-agenda/files/225-Lavalle_NISAR_RosenLavalle_PolInSAR2023.pdf
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    AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 10:42:41 JST AkaSci 🛰️ AkaSci 🛰️

    "U.S. Capitol Police were called about an American flag altered to include a swastika and displayed inside the office of Rep. Dave Taylor (R-Ohio).

    POLITICO obtained an image taken during a virtual meeting that shows the flag behind Angelo Elia, one of Taylor’s staffers."

    Yesterday, POLITICO reported on a Telegram group chat in which Young Republican group leaders traded racial epithets, joked about the Holocaust and praised Adolf Hitler.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/15/capitol-police-investigating-swastika-in-gop-congressional-office-00609704
    #UsPol
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    AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 13-Oct-2025 06:48:40 JST AkaSci 🛰️ AkaSci 🛰️

    Is this insanity or a wily post to demonstrate that his supporters will believe anything, no questions asked?

    Will right-wing media and GOP leaders keep parroting these words, the way they have been amplifying his statements calling Democrats terrorists and Jan 6 insurrectionists patriots?

    Does he really write these posts or is it someone else more sinister?
    #UsPol #NoKings
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    The VP today on ABC - is he naturally dim-witted or is Tom Homan guilty as charged?

    https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com
    #UsPol
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    RFK Jr. claimed today at a cabinet meeting that "two studies show that children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol."

    At point does the electorate come to the realization that these guys are bat-shit-crazy?
    #UsPol
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    AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 09:44:10 JST AkaSci 🛰️ AkaSci 🛰️

    Coming up this week - The Nobel Prizes.

    PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE – Monday, 6 Oct, 11:30 CEST
    PHYSICS – Tuesday, 7 Oct, 11:45 CEST
    CHEMISTRY – Wednesday, 8 Oct, 11:45 CEST
    LITERATURE – Thursday, 9 Oct, 13:00 CEST
    PEACE – Friday, 10 Oct, 11:00 CEST
    ECONOMIC SCIENCES – Monday, 13 Oct, 11:45 CEST

    https://www.nobelprize.org/
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    AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 09:44:09 JST AkaSci 🛰️ AkaSci 🛰️
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    Why does the immune system not attack our own cells?

    A central immune tolerance mechanism was known earlier that recognizes T cells capable of attacking body cells and deactivates them as they leave the thymus.

    The Nobel Prize winners discovered the peripheral immune tolerance system that uses regulatory T cells to deactivate such cells if they escape the test in the thymus. They also isolated a gene on the X chromosome that creates these regulatory T cells.
    🤔🧬
    https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2025/10/popular-medicineprize2025.pdf
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    The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to:

    Mary E. Brunkow
    Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, USA

    Fred Ramsdell
    Sonoma Biotherapeutics, San Francisco, USA

    Shimon Sakaguchi
    Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

    “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance”

    https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2025/press-release/
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    AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 05-Oct-2025 06:12:13 JST AkaSci 🛰️ AkaSci 🛰️

    Things are about to get worse in Chicago. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker wrote that trump intends to nationalize hundreds of National Guard members against the wishes of state officials.

    "In the coming hours, the Trump Administration intends to federalize 300 members of the Illinois National Guard.

    I will not call up our National Guard to further Trump’s acts of aggression against our people."

    https://bsky.app/profile/govpritzker.illinois.gov/post/3m2f6l2t6h22k
    #Politics

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      Governor JB Pritzker (@govpritzker.illinois.gov)
      from Governor JB Pritzker (@govpritzker.illinois.gov)
      This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
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    AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 05-Oct-2025 00:25:00 JST AkaSci 🛰️ AkaSci 🛰️

    Here is the opinion by the three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (Barron, Rikelman and Aframe) on the trump's shameful EO to end birthright citizenship.

    It is the 5th federal court since June to either issue or uphold orders blocking the president’s birthright order.

    Will the republican Supreme Court justices once again overrule lower courts and 150+ years of precedence?

    https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26180175-birthright/
    #Politics
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    AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 28-Sep-2025 18:41:18 JST AkaSci 🛰️ AkaSci 🛰️

    Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) President Heinz Faßmann thanks trump for Austria's brain gain - 25 top researchers from Harvard, Princeton and MIT.

    “Our scholarship program has succeeded in bringing these outstanding individuals from the US to Austria. They are bringing new ideas, new perspectives, and international networks—this is a great gain for Austrian science. Thanks to Trump we are seeing this brain gain.”

    Grant = 500,000 euros each for 2 years.

    https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/harvard-princeton-mit-25-top-researchers-are-moving-from-the-us-to-austria-with-oeaw-scholarships
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