Agender (they/them/their). An adult. Astronomer. British. Bisexual. Christian. Feminist. LARPer. Writer. On AO3 as Triss_Hawkeye. Here you'll probably find a lot of fandoms, social justice, SPACE!, awesome music, and whatever else I happen to be into at the time. Nowadays there's a lot of C-dramas and video games. Sometimes I give a voice to Birds Rights Activism.
wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?
ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.
AJSJJDKSJD THE QUILTING SHOW MY GMA WANTS TO GO TO HAS A “FREE TICKET FOR UNDER 30s” IM!!!!! that’s SO funny ?? They wanna encourage young ppl SO much to get into quilting
Hey guys! The future of the Chandra telescope is currently up in the air (no pun intended). The US government is planning on massively reducing the budget for Chandra’s operations, which would cause them to lay off about half their staff. Future planned budget cuts can possibly end its mission altogether. The staff are government workers and cannot lobby for themselves (which is why I’m trying to spread the word 🙂 ).
You can read more about it here
Basically they ask for two things:
1) contact your representatives (if you’re American)
2) sign the in-progress community letter to NASA and Congress (you do not have to be American for this!)
Please sign, contact representatives if you’re American, and share with folks!
Chandra has a decade of mission time left and is continuing to produce amazing data for astrophysics research. Cancelling it a decade early would be a tragedy.