Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - June 17, 2025 [scampydog]

Good evening and thank you for checking in on the Tuesday, ONT. Some random, a few parts science, and 100% why not. Comment section won't bite - probably.

A bit of good natured fun to get things going.

We need more people like this 🥹🥹 pic.twitter.com/L5msAq8nUa

— non aesthetic things (@PicturesFoIder) June 12, 2025

Put your arms through the sleeves of your lab coat. It is time for some ONT space and science with our AoSHQ friend and commenter, publius.

Sticking with Tuesday, ONT Science tradition, we are leading off with Feynman.

Feynman wrote a lovely letter to his wife who had passed away at 25 years young.

I know you will assure me that I am foolish and that you want me to have full happiness and don't want to be in my way. I'll bet you are surprised that I don't even have a girlfriend (except you, sweetheart) after two years. But you can't help it, darling, nor can I - I don't understand it, for I have met many girls and very nice ones and I don't want to remain alone - but in two or three meetings they all seem ashes. You only are left to me. You are real.

From publius: "Feynman did remarry, twice. Second ended in divorce, and the third lasted until his death. Here's a picture of him dancing with his third wife at the Nobel Ceremony in 1965. He was clowning a bit there, of course. There's some other pictures of him at the Nobel Ceremony. She died about a year after he did."

Perfect sphere found by astronomers. Riddle was bugging me, so I did what any self respecting Moron would do. I emailed publius.

In data collected by a powerful radio telescope, astronomers have found what appears to be a perfectly spherical bubble. We know more or less what it is - it's the ball of expanding material ejected by an exploding star, a supernova remnant - but how it came to be is more of a puzzle.

Next up we have some (no longer) mystery radio signals.

The source of mystery radio signals in space has finally been identified after almost a decade.

For the past ten years, astronomers have been detecting strange radio signals emitting from space every two hours.

Unfortunately, scientists have already ruled out aliens in this one.

NASA skywatching for the Month of June.

All Month - Planet Visibility:

Venus: Rises about 2 hours before the Sun in June, and shines very brightly, low in the eastern sky, in the morning all month.

Mars: Visible in the west for a couple of hours after sunset all month. Drops lower in the sky as June continues, and passes very close to Regulus in the constellation Leo on June 16 and 17. (They will be about half a degree apart, or the width of the full moon.)

Jupiter: Visible quite low in the west after sunset for the first week of June, then lost in the Sun's glare after. Will re-appear in July in the morning sky.

Mercury: Becomes visible low in the west about 30 to 45 minutes after sunset in the last week and a half of June.

Saturn: Rises around 3 a.m. in early June, and around 1 a.m. by the end of the month. Begins the month near Venus in the dawn sky, but rapidly pulls away, rising higher as June goes on.

More from publius "Venus and Earth's orbital periods have a ratio that is very close to 13:8, meaning Venus completes 13 orbits per 8 earth orbits almost exactly. Venus thus has 5 inferior conjunctions occurring very close to the same point in the sky every 8 years. That works out to a cycle of about 9 months between conjunctions. Since Venus is an inferior planet, we can never see it overhead during the middle of the night, only on the eastern morning or western evening side of the sky close before sunrise or close after sunset.

You can plot this from a geocentric reference plane, and see the relative position of Venus and the Sun over this 8 year cycle. Venus' path makes a nice 5-sided pattern centered around the earth, sometimes poetically dubbed the Five-petal Rose of Venus, seen here on this Earthsky page."

Big AoS thank to you publius!

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That's one way to learn.

If you're going to do something stupid please keep your face very far away from it pic.twitter.com/BRJCKTQMnf

— Giga Based Dad (@GigaBasedDad) June 12, 2025

Oh yes! Spaceballs! Mel Brooks with the teaser.

I told you we’d be back pic.twitter.com/RnoklPqBX6

— Mel Brooks (@MelBrooks) June 12, 2025

Liberals and Safe Spaces

Merriam-Webster defines safe space as: a place (as on a college campus) intended to be free of bias, conflict, criticism, or potentially threatening actions, ideas, or conversations.

Sure doesn't look like they have much conviction with that definition. These ICE/No Kings/Antifa/Commie/Leftist rioters are up in everyone's face (with theirs covered, just like their Klan predecessors) - not exactly the safe space champions they pretend to be.

Liberals are unwilling and/or unable to live by their own rules. Actions and behavior by convenience, and when it suits them. Their moral code, impulse control, and self restraint disappear just like limited time offers. They simply do whatever they want - without concern for consequences. Consequence winds are changing, however.

Checks out.

They/Them is back from the No Kings Riots. 💀 pic.twitter.com/8JJwO2Bbam

— Sassafrass84 (@Sassafrass_84) June 16, 2025

First day of summer is June 20th. Unless you live in Phoenix, where it's know as "just another day of 110+ heat."

Let's roll through some decades of summer songs. Which songs left a dent in your summer brain? Make your case in the comments. (and if linking in comments, please use tinyurl or another link shortening tool).

1950's: Thought about Lollipop, but we are going with Eddie Cochran. Summertime Blues, 1958.

1960's: Tommy James and the Shondells. Mony Mony, 1968. Billy Idol version was pretty good too.

1970's: It is Pride Month. The Kinks. Lola, 1970.

1980's: Damn, this decade is tough as a Gen X'er. The Clash. Should I Stay or Should I Go, 1981.

1990's: All the 'cool kids' spent a summer mocking the video. Yet they danced and sang along. Rob Van Winkle. Vanilla Ice. Ice, Ice, Baby, 1990.

2000's: Flame away in the comments. This came down to: Nelly/Country Grammar, Ride Wit Me or.... Buckcherry. Crazy B*tch, 2006. NSFW.

2010's: Lost musical decade. Kids won a lot of the radio car battles. Meghan Trainor. All About that Bass, 2014.

Will close the summer song - musical section with this all-timer.

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