Guten Morgen Hannover!

Looks like the trip to Hanover was worth it, got myself a new fancy hat 🎓

WoW got hammered by an infrastructure change with very unexpected results, we're working to get everything back up asap.

Project Lyra explores the possibility of sending a spacecraft to chase 'Oumuamua using an Earth gravity assist to reach Jupiter, which robs the craft of almost all its speed, causing it to drop to the Sun for an Oberth maneuver. Thanks Adam Hibberd for the trajectory data!

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Oh boy, that's a scary discovery 😳

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Something super weird happening right now: just been called by several totally different media outlets in the last few minutes, all with Windows machines suddenly BSoD’ing (Blue Screen of Death). Anyone else seen this? Seems to be entering recovery mode:

I don’t think it’s too early to call it: this will be the largest IT outage in history

WLAN mit Öffnungszeiten... Das ist mal wieder #Bayern in Höchstform 😑

Nächsten Samstag ist #csd in Erlangen und die FAU ist auch mit einem eigenen Stand am Start.🌈 Wir freuen uns auf alle, die uns vor Ort besuchen kommen. ⏰14.9., 13-17 Uhr 📍Besiktas-Platz Mehr Infos zum CSD in Erlangen: makeyourtownqueer.de/csd-erlangen/

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!

BREAKING: SpaceX just successfully caught its Super Heavy rocket booster in mid-air on its first try! This is the first time anyone has accomplished such a feat, marking one of the most significant engineering achievements in human history. Congrats SpaceX team! 🚀

Booster starts in top right corner. Watch to the end. Sound on

Hmmm...

I don't know why so many Americans have this idea that Germans all feel guilty about WWII. I don't know anyone my generation or even my parents' generation who feels this way. I think this is a story that Americans are telling themselves. What is true is that at least the

Aber wie war das noch, Hitler-Vergleiche werden langsam alt? 🤷

Just. Wow. As we went over Mexico and the U.S. this morning, I caught this sprite. Sprites are TLEs or Transient Luminous Events, that happen above the clouds and are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below. We have a great view above the clouds, so

BREAKING: An incredible "gigantic jet" – an extremely-rare type of upper-atmospheric lightning – was photographed from the International Space Station on Friday morning. This is the clearest photo we have EVER seen of a gigantic jet from above. Nichole Rhea Ayers is a major in