Michael Brown
Astronomer, Monash academic, Conversation writer, cycling commuter or mamil.
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- Oh gawd the replies
- You've got nice university here. It would be a shame if something happened to it.
- There’s plenty of cooling water for data centres in the sea and Musk has a well established method for getting them there.
- Elon Musk believes the best way to solve the difficulties of building AI data centers on earth is to move them into outer space. His merger this week of his rocket company SpaceX with his artificial intelligence company xAI could help get them there. cnn.it/4rqAmED
- Given online rhetoric about cars, this dangerous act of terrorism and attitudes to it aren’t a surprise. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
- “It was coming in almost horizontally, and coming in pretty slowly compared to, say, a meteor, which gave people plenty of time to get their mobile phone out and get some footage and perhaps say profanities as the thing came in,” he [Michael Brown] said.
- When I lived in America during the 2000s, it was weird seeing "shock and awe" happen in Iraq. In particular, media and government perceptions of how Iraqis would see it seemed (to me at least) to be at odds with "how would you feel if it happened to you?" - not that the latter was even considered.
- Another @sarahjeong.bsky.social banger on how ICE is tear-gassing children and families turning out to protest, which is only serving to radicalize people even more. 'When Broeker had first been tear gassed, she had been terrified. But the fear has since faded, leaving only rage.'
- Not the worst idea for a video game.
- I was on Channel 7 news earlier today chatting about this morning’s reentry of a Starlink satellite, which was seen by thousands across Victoria. Also discussed how adding a million satellites would probably be a very bad idea. youtu.be/hC8Tw1FFhUc
- And ABC News too, whose links work on BlueSKy. youtu.be/ifYkpaGTrQs?...
- Absolutely enormous sunspot on the surface of the Sun that is visible with eclipse glasses or a solar filter - no telescope required. Just took a look at it myself. Could be interesting when it is directed more towards Earth later this week. www.spaceweather.com
- AFR opinion headline with a whole lot of wrong.
