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Thank you! It’s such a richly rewarding photo series to keep adding to

"To an observer outside the reflected beam, the satellite would appear as bright as Venus — and inside the beam 4x brighter than a full moon....that puts research telescopes at risk, could momentarily blind pilots or drivers [and] permanent eye damage to anyone looking through a midsized telescope.”

FCC approves Reflect Orbital filing for mirror in spaceThe FCC approved a demonstration satellite designed to beam sunlight to Earth at night, ruling that the light pollution, telescope interference, and safety risks astronomers raised fall outside its au...www.astronomy.com

cc @aba.org @abcbirds.bsky.social @audubon.org @defenders.org this proposal seems a detriment for night migrating #birds w/ flyways lit from space at night for private profit via #solar power, ag, or even more dubious military use cases. Astronomers & conservationists could unite & fight in court 🐦‍⬛

Vozinha is great, but the # of Instagram followers isn't a meaningful metric for public acclaim

Looked like a dive, that’s a yellow card usually, and he already had one so should have been playing it safe, Embolo is a top player and you hate to see him ejected but he should also know better, a pity

The whole Norway team has also been battling a virus so could be related to that

Thought he was carrying an injury

Thanks! It’s a nice award to get noticed by since it’s only given to podcasts published by media outlets — no celeb talking-on-couch shows, big brands or YouTube yakkers that get all the corporate awards like Webbys are considered 🏆

I watch Telemundo coverage of soccer for a different reason than NPR mentioned: to avoid the most tedious of the US & UK commentators, some of whom must think they should be the coach, or wish they were still on the field. I can just focus on the match w/o listening to all that...

Yes they underperformed but the last straw for the German FA was probably Nagelsmann’s terrible choice of hats

Nagelsmann also needs to rethink his terrible choices in terms of hats