The "Pale Blue Dot" image was part of the "Family Portrait" set of images taken by Voyager 1 on Feb 14, 1990, from a vantage point 6 billion km away and ~32° above the ecliptic.

Starting at 01:00 UTC after a 3 hour warm-up, Voyager 1's cameras imaged Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Mars, the Sun, and then Jupiter, Earth, and Venus. The Earth images were taken at 04:48 UTC. The cameras were turned off permanently at 05:22.

Image data download was completed on May 1, 1990.

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/voyager-1s-pale-blue-dot/
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Sagan and other members of the Voyager team felt the images were needed — they wanted humanity to see Earth’s vulnerability, and that our home world is just a tiny, fragile speck in the cosmic ocean.

JPL mounted the entire 20-foot mosaic on a wall in its Theodore von Kármán Auditorium.

"Members of the Voyager imaging team said in a 2019 research paper that the image of Earth on the wall had to be replaced often because so many people touched it."
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https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/voyager-1s-pale-blue-dot/
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14 February 1937 | Dutch Jewish girl, Sara Frederika Beppie Bilderbeek, was born in Zuilen.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in February 1943. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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▶ Video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

Because it's owned by a dickhead and full of the fash?

Pick the best fallacy

13 February 1933 | A French Jewish girl, Edith Levy, was born in Paris.

In April 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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▶ A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8

RE: https://fediscience.org/@alexh/116062752114341522

Read this. It's eye opening and frankly quite alarming.

«An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library.»

:ThisIsFine:

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

@ChrisMayLA6 Without practical plans for how to achieve these steps, this isn't much use. Ok, they articulate a new state of organisational principles, but so what? Without an approach that will get support and buy in, that's all these are.

And they are dangerously vague. 'Democratise...' HOW exactly? Bearing in mind every country (or at least the key ones) needs to enact these democratising actions.

13 February 1935 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Eliza Louise Gazan, was born in Brielle.

In September 1943, she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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▶ A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8

RE: https://mastodon.energy/@drsimevans/116056517464767698

#ClimateDiary Folks, this is good news at least and maybe as Simon indicates below, incredible news... More data needed of course.

RE: https://journa.host/@fulelo/116054820578851926

A Billionaire who cares so much about his country that he lives in Monaco so he doesn't have to pay UK tax.

And yeah, it's a completely offensive statement.

12 February 1940 | Dutch Jewish girl, Esther Lijmer, was born in Amsterdam.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in January 1943 together with her mother Naathje. They were most probably both murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

📖The fate of Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/

#nowplaying The Sisters Of Mercy: Floodland. #vinyl #music

@ProjectFearlessness I can't help but notice that all those billionaires and assorted hangers-on have access to the levers of communication here. To your point.

RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@ProjectFearlessness/116045213980371778

I don't think 'we' are...
A set of media are foaming at the prospect of driving out a PM.
A set of 'journalists' are thinking that is the story...
A set of media owners and leaders are focussing on the court antics rather than the crimes.

But that's how we got here in the 1st place. Same as for Saville. A set of powerful peoole knew. From the start.

An LLM is language without intelligence. Turns out, language severed from a mind is remarkably powerful. The trick is that this text is just a user's text, but obscured. It takes your text, blows it up, and calibrates the debris to land nearby. Then the interface says, "Here, I wrote this for you." https://www.techpolicy.press/the-illusion-of-agi-or-what-language-models-can-do-without-thought/

@CyberneticForests Excellent article.

10 February 1941 | A Hungarian Jewish girl Sura Ferencz was born.

In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in the gas chamber.
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📖 Deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_6_dep_zydow/

Wow. Genuine Private Eye cover from 2011: https://www.private-eye.co.uk/covers/cover-1284
#Epstein #Andrew #Fergie #PrivateEye