NASA’s Bennu Asteroid Sample Contains Carbon, Water - NASA
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-bennu-asteroid-sample-contains-carbon-water/

Initial studies of the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu sample collected in space and brought to Earth by NASA show evidence of high-carbon content and water, which together could indicate the building blocks of life on Earth may be found in the rock. NASA made the news Wednesday from its Johnson Space Center in Houston where leadership and scientists showed off the asteroid material for the first time since it landed in September.

This finding was part of a preliminary assessment of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) science team.

“The OSIRIS-REx sample is the biggest carbon-rich asteroid sample ever delivered to Earth and will help scientists investigate the origins of life on our own planet for generations to come,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.

What the Latest Health Check Tells Us About the State of Our Planet | TIME
https://time.com/collection/time100-voices/6315766/planetary-health-check-johan-rockstrom/

The first global stocktake has now been delivered for climate, but must be carried out for all Planetary Boundaries. We have budgets for safe levels of freshwater, natural land, biosphere integrity, pollutants. They are finite and equally important for the outcome of human development. In short, the world needs to measure and manage the entire planet, a true “planetary stewardship” to have a chance of positive human development, anywhere in the world.

A global reform in governance is required, where all nations develop and adopt principles of how to collectively manage all the global commons that regulate the stability of the climate system and the Earth system as a whole. Today only four global commons are considered in the legal or institutional framing, namely, the high-seas, Antarctica, outer Space and to some extent the atmosphere. These are considered global commons, primarily because they are located outside of national jurisdiction, i.e., they are owned by nobody, and thereby by everybody. This premise, based on how to deal with collective use of common pool resources, must now be widened, to include the biophysical systems that we all depend on for the stability of the planet. My suggestion is to start with the climate tipping elements, e.g., the heat circulation in the ocean, the large rainforest systems, and the Greenland ice sheet.

Dozens Of Government UFO Whistleblowers Have Given Testimony To Congress, Pentagon, And Inspectors General, Say Sources
https://public.substack.com/p/dozens-of-government-ufo-whistleblowers

at least 30 other whistleblowers working for the federal government or government contractors have given testimony, or a “protected disclosure,” to the Office of the Intelligence Community Inspector General (IC IG), the Defense Department Inspector General (DOD IG), or to Congress over the last several months, according to multiple sources interviewed by Public


But the sources, who asked to remain anonymous and are all in a position to know, told Public that, in addition to the whistleblowers reporting wrongdoing, between 30 to 50 government employees or contractors have gone to the DoD’s All-Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) to offer testimony about UAPs

Considering the broader context, to include Grusch’s allegations, previous reporting by Public, and the extraordinary legislation working its way through Congress,” said Marik von Rennenkampff, a former Pentagon appointee under the Obama administration, “I find it hard to believe that so many individuals would open themselves up to significant legal jeopardy by willfully lying to inspectors general


Knowingly giving false testimony to the IC IG is punishable by fines up to $10,000, imprisonment for up to five years, or both. If found guilty of lying to Congress, Grusch would face up to five years in prison

Reconstructing the First Interstellar Meteor, IM1 | by Avi Loeb | Sep, 2023 | Medium
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/reconstructing-the-first-interstellar-meteor-im1-923c1bb37c2a


Now that we measured the composition of the first recognized interstellar meteor, IM1, can we recreate its material making in the laboratory?
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The arXiv director, Steinn Sigurdsson, emailed me the insight that if IM1 was technological in origin, then the enhanced abundance of heavy elements in “BeLaU”-type spherules could have resulted from the fact that LaO over Mo or W sulfide substrates are promising materials for 2D semiconductors in nanotech fabrication. Of course, everyone knows that U is used in fission reactors.
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Dimitar Sasselov pointed out to me that another method to estimate the duration of the interstellar journey is from the abundance of beryllium, which accumulates over time as a result of spallation by interstellar cosmic-rays. Looking up during a starry night on the deck of the expedition ship, M/V Silver Star, it occurred to me that measuring the duration of IM1’s journey and multiplying it by its known velocity outside the solar system, could inform us of the distance and direction of its source star. This provides a unique opportunity to identify the postal address of IM1’s sender.

TUHO: hm, až dopijou aktuální postkoloniální latéčko, vrhnou se na studium permakultury a založí bylinkovou spirálu. k tomu jim do rytmu AI-generated pre-apo hudby budou do rytmu blikat ufoni.

Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) is an arts/research collective that uses this website as a workspace for collaborations around different kinds of artistic, pedagogical, cartographic, and relational experiments that aim to identify and de-activate colonial habits of being, and to gesture towards the possibility of decolonial futures.

GTDF is also a practice that is multi-layered and rather difficult to explain, but we will give it a go.

It is about hospicing worlds that are dying within and around us with care and integrity, as well as attention to the lessons these deaths offer, while also assisting with the birth of new, potentially wiser possibilities, without suffocating them with projections;
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It is about facing our complicity in violence and unsustainability and its implications with the courage of really seeking to connect with the collective pain, past, present and future;
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It is about composting our individual and collective shit with humility, joy, generosity and compassion, trying to “dig deeper and relate wider”;
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It is about holding space for difficult conversations and silences without relationships falling apart;
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It is about recognizing and taking responsibility for harmful modern-colonial habits of being (in ourselves and around us) that cannot be stopped by the intellect, by good intentions and by spiritual, artistic or embodied practices alone;
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It is about interrupting modern-colonial addictions, in particular addictions to the consumption of knowledge, of self-actualization, of experiences, of critique, of alternatives, of relationships and of communities;
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It is about recognizing that we are an extension of the land-metabolism that is the planet, not the other way around, preparing for the end of the world as we know it, and showing up differently so that “another end of the world” becomes possible;
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It is about dis-investing in desires for unrestricted autonomy, authority, certainty, control, protagonism, purity, popularity, superiority and validation to create space for acccountabilities, for response-abilities, for exiled capacities and for deeper intimacies;
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It involves learning and unlearning, disarming and de-centering, dethroning and de-arrogantizing, detoxifying and decluttering, mourning, grieving and healing, digesting and metabolizing, seeing ourselves as cute and pathetic, so that the wider metabolism can breathe and move more easily within and around us;
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It involves loosening our attachments to our self images and to what we think we want, so that we might instead step up, own up, clean up, grow up, wake up and show up to do what is really needed, whether or not it fits with our personal agendas.

Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures
https://decolonialfutures.net/