This combines together some blogs which I like to read. It’s updated once a week.
July 20, 2019
Live Coverage: LightSail 2 Sail Deployment by The Planetary Society
Visit planetary.org/live for video and audio from mission control, located at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in California.
LightSail 2 Sail Deployment Scheduled for Tuesday by The Planetary Society
The target ground station pass for deployment starts 23 July 2019 at roughly 11:22 PDT (18:22 UTC).
LightSail 2 Team Continues Tweaks and Tests for Sail Deployment by The Planetary Society
Spare bandwidth during ground station passes has allowed flight controllers to downlink 2 new high-resolution images.
What the Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact Taught Us by The Planetary Society
Twenty-five years ago, multiple fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter, changing the face of the planet and the course of planetary science.
July 16, 2019
The Eye of the Tyger. by Feeling Listless
Books Back to the special collections and archive this morning to read another of the ultra rare TELOS Publishing novellas, hard-sf author Paul McAuley's single contribution to Doctor Who. A strange mix of Survival, TNG's Identity Crisis and Gungha-Din, it offers us the first person testimony of Fyne, a colonial police officer infected by nanites which are slowly turning him into a chimera of the predator at the centre of William Blake's The Tyger. After a atmospherically drawn opening, set via flashbacks in post-Great War British Empire India, the Doctor attempts a jump from Earth to find an intergalactic hospital which might find a cure. Instead he and Fyne land on a generational colony ship at war with itself, trapped in the orbit of a black hole, prefiguring the BDO in Twice Upon a Time, including the slippery timestreams within. From there we have a straight down the line accessible but cliched piece of spin-off fiction which would make just as much sense as a minor Big Finish Short Trip reading, assuming they're ok with the erotic subtext of Survival becoming text and the Eighth Doctor acting a bit out of character in places, saying things like "my dear fellow ..." and using his TARDIS as an ambulance (if only his Eleventh incarnation had been that liberal, perhaps Abigail might have survived). Not awful, but suggests the author doesn't quite understand Doctor Who's unique chemical formula. Placement: Early. I'll slot in after Spore because they feel of a piece.
July 14, 2019
PF101 by Retirement Investment Today
Personal Finance is a major hobby of mine. I’ve now been absorbing everything I can about saving, investing and financial independence since late 2007. In November this year I will have also been blogging about it for 10 years! When I go on holidays I’m also the one reading Wall Street Revalued and not that latest John Grisham novel
In my last post I mentioned the Ikigai model and if I
Subscriptions 
- Adrian McEwen
- Albert Wenger
- Aptivate
- Astrobites
- Charlie Stross
- Cooperantics
- Dan Catt
- David Miller
- Dominic Fox
- Dominic Fox
- Emily Short
- Excapite
- Fairphone blog
- Feeling Listless
- Goatchurch
- Ian Hogarth (Songkick)
- Ian Welsh
- Indie Manufaturing
- James Smith
- Janet McKnight
- Jeff Atwood
- Jessica (via Meaningness)
- John McKerrell
- Leather and Abel
- Mark Charmer
- Michelle Brook
- Mr. Money Mustache
- Paul Furley
- Piekniewski'S BLOG (ai)
- Radical Think Tank
- Retirement Investment Today
- Richard Pope
- Simon Wardley
- Sym Roe
- The Archdruid Report
- The Leveller
- The Places We Play
- The Planetary Society
- Think Justice
- Tom Darlow
- Tristan Bacon
- Vinay Gupta
- Zarino
- a sense of place
- ntoll
Updated using Planet on 20 July 2019, 04:48 AM