earth

144d

hedgehog in autumn forest leaves

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88d

In a visual photo poem, I ponder the earth as a source of inspiration, beauty, and my deep concern for it.
#earth #ProtectTheEarth

https://muz4now.com/2026/pondering-earth/

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80d

MARS HAS
A MAINTENANCE PROBLEM 💎

Yesterday, I was writing about human beings on Mars, and one question kept nagging at me. People say we’ll send the robots first.

Fine.

But getting to Mars, landing there, and then working for years in the Martian environment are brutal demands on machines, not to mention the ongoing industry, building and maintenance work to be done upon arrival.

Radiation damages electronics and computer chips. Extreme temperature swings stress materials. The red dust gets in everywhere. Moving parts wear out. Bearings fail. Electric motors fail. Cables fail. Sensors fail. And there is nobody there with a toolbox.

So the usual answer is: send lots of robots, make them modular, give them spare parts, and let them repair one another. Which sounds sensible until you ask the obvious question.

WHO REPAIRS THE ROBOT THAT REPAIRS THE ROBOTS?

A Mars colony built by machines would need far more than a few clever humanoids to unload the rockets.

MARS WILL NEED SOMETHING CLOSE TO AN AUTONOMOUS INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM.

Robots maintaining robots. Robots replacing worn parts. Robots diagnosing faults. Robots manufacturing components. Robots keeping power, communications, mining, transport and construction working for years without a single human engineer ever standing beside them.

And eventually, if the whole thing is supposed to become independent of Earth, they would need to make their own replacement parts from local Martian materials.

That is not a small detail.

THAT IS PRACTICALLY AN ENTIRE CIVILIZATION OF MACHINES.

We have become very good at landing robots on Mars. We have not yet demonstrated a self-maintaining robotic economy on Earth, let alone on another world.

So perhaps the real question is not: “Can Elon Musk send robots to Mars?” Quite possibly. The harder question is:

CAN HE SEND A SYSTEM THAT CAN KEEP ITSELF ALIVE?

Because if the answer is no, then the robots are not building a colony.

They are just waiting to break.

@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works @startrek

#Mars #Space #Robotics #AI #robots #ElonMusk #SpaceX #Technology #Earth #toolbox #building #colony

A humanoid robot lies abandoned on the surface of Mars, almost completely covered by naturally windblown red dust. Only one mechanical arm and hand and a small part of its head remain visible above the sand. The surrounding Martian landscape is empty and windswept.

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73d

A Brand New World
from On The Edge Of The Galaxy

https://solarphasing.bandcamp.com/track/a-brand-new-world

@electronicmusic

#music #fedimusic #musodon #art #culture #community #electronicmusic #experimentalmusic #modular #modularsynth #analog #analogsynth #electronica #ambient #soundscape #atmospheric #experimental #earth #synthetizer #synth #ambient #drone #relaxation #meditation #bandcamp

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68d

Yellowmargin Moray Eel, aka Puhi, hanging out at an ocean reef. Your #sealife #photooftheday
Prints available - DM me. #yellow #moray #monday #LaborDay #creature #ocean #sea #marinelife #animals #nature #wildlife #environment #earth #photo #photography #underwater #AIFreePhoto #Oahu #Hawaii #reef

An earth-colored moray eel resting in a crevice at an ocean reef. It has a large head, small round eyes and is covered with fine dark mottling. The reef above the eel is largely featureless, with a splash of blue ocean to the upper right.

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67d

Green Sea Turtle, aka Honu, cruising over an ocean reef. Your #sealife #photooftheday

Prints available - DM me. #green #turtle #tuesday #creature #ocean #sea #marinelife #animals #nature #wildlife #environment #earth #photo #photography #underwater #AIFreePhoto #Oahu #Hawaii #reef

A sea turtle swimming in the water column. The turtle is greenish, caused by algae, and poor sunlight penetration in the water. It has a smooth rounded carapace, head and flattened fins. The background is blue.

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66d

Cone Shell Hermit Crab, aka Unauna, crawling out of its flipped over shell on an ocean reef. Your #sealife #photooftheday

Prints available - DM me. #orange #crab #wednesday #creature #ocean #sea #marinelife #animals #nature #wildlife #environment #earth #photo #photography #underwater #AIFreePhoto #Oahu #Hawaii #reef

An orange hermit crab crawls out of its flipped over shell. It has legs that are orange and red in alternating fine bands. The shell, its temporary home until it grows too large, is a dusty rose color.

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63d

Bonjour! 🖖😎

Quantum Time
from Missing Time

https://solarphasing.bandcamp.com/track/quantum-time

@electronicmusic
@ExperimentalMusic

#music #fedimusic #art #culture #community #electronicmusic #experimentalmusic #synthetizer #synth #modular #modularsynth #analog #analogsynth #electronica #ambient #drone #soundscape #atmospheric #experimental #noise #meditation #earth #sciencefiction #bandcamp

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62d

Bonjour! 🖖😎

Syncopated Machines In A Nuclear Winter
from Machines

https://solarphasing.bandcamp.com/track/syncopated-machines-in-a-nuclear-winter

@electronicmusic
@ExperimentalMusic

#music #fedimusic #art #culture #community #electronicmusic #experimentalmusic #synthetizer #synth #modular #modularsynth #analog #analogsynth #electronica #ambient #drone #soundscape #atmospheric #experimental #noise #machines #earth #sciencefiction #bandcamp

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61d

A Caramel Nudibranch, aka Moana, crawling over an ocean reef. Your #sealife #photooftheday

Prints available - DM me. #caramel #seaslug #Sunday #creature #ocean #sea #marinelife #animals #nature #wildlife #environment #earth #photo #photography #underwater #AIFreePhoto #Oahu #Hawaii #reef

A caramel brown sea slug with a raised white margin crawls over a black object on an ocean reef. Its rhinophores are visible at the lower let, and its gills appear as a brown cluster of grass-like tufts. The area to the upper left is pink in color.

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61d

Yellowmargin Moray Eel, aka Puhi, at a human-made accidental ocean reef. Your #sealife #photooftheday

Prints available - DM me. #pipe #eel #Monday #creature #ocean #sea #marinelife #animals #nature #wildlife #environment #earth #photo #photography #underwater #AIFreePhoto #Oahu #Hawaii #reef

A moray eel pauses in a tube created by a large discarded concrete pipe in the ocean. The eel is a dull yellow mottled with brown. The curved roof of the pipe is covered with accretions of ocean life and debris.

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60d

Bonjour! 🖖😎

Interference
from Missing Time

https://solarphasing.bandcamp.com/track/interference

@electronicmusic
@ExperimentalMusic

#music #fedimusic #art #culture #community #electronicmusic #experimentalmusic #synthetizer #synth #modular #modularsynth #analog #analogsynth #electronica #ambient #drone #soundscape #atmospheric #experimental #noise #meditation #earth #sciencefiction #bandcamp

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60d

Green Sea Turtle, aka Honu, flying over a sandy patch of ocean. Your #sealife #photooftheday

Prints available - DM me. #green #turtle #tuesday #creature #ocean #sea #marinelife #animals #nature #wildlife #environment #earth #photo #photography #underwater #AIFreePhoto #Oahu #Hawaii #reef

A sea turtle swimming over a sandy patch of ocean reef. It has its right front fin angled to the rear. It has a smooth rounded head, right, with dark leathery patches behind its dark oval eye, and a blunt beak-like mouth. Its carapace is smooth and brown.

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59d

Fellow's Nudibranch, aka Pūpū Lehua, crawling over an ocean reef. Your #sealife #photooftheday

Prints available - DM me. #white #slug #wednesday #creature #ocean #sea #marinelife #animals #nature #wildlife #environment #earth #photo #photography #underwater #AIFreePhoto #Oahu #Hawaii #reef

A fingertip-sized snowy white sea slug crawling on an ocean reef. The slug is largely featureless, save the usual two rhinophores, shaded gray, and gills, which appear as frilly feather-like tufts on its rear end.

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57d

Ornate Wrasse, aka Hīnālea, swimming over a sandy patch of an ocean reef. Your #sealife #photooftheday

Prints available - DM me. #multicolor #fish #thursday #creature #ocean #sea #marinelife #animals #nature #wildlife #environment #earth #photo #photography #underwater #AIFreePhoto #Oahu #Hawaii #reef

A multi-colored fish swimming over a sandy patch of reef. The fish is orange with neon green marks on its face and an orderly pattern of spots down the sides of its body. The tail ends bluntly, and its fins, at this moment, are flattened against its body.

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8d

#ELONMUSKS HALF A
BILLION-DOLLAR FAIL 💎

Elon #Musk has spent nearly half a billion dollars trying to influence the American #midterm elections, and the results are extraordinary.

Of the 43 #Republican House candidates he backed, only three had won when #Reuters reported the results. Six of his seven #Senate candidates had lost, with the remaining race still undecided.

In #Texas, home to #Tesla and #SpaceX, Musk spent almost $230 million on the Senate contest alone. Yet the Democrats won both the Senate race and the governorship.

Now, with #Democrats taking control of #Congress, Musk faces the prospect of investigations into his government contracts, political activities, and his involvement with #DOGE.

None of this means his businesses are finished. #Tesla and SpaceX remain enormously significant enterprises, and Musk remains an extraordinarily wealthy and influential man.

But something important has happened.

One of the richest people on #Earth has discovered that spending vast sums of money does not guarantee the #political outcome he wants.

#Wealth can buy #advertising, access, and influence. It cannot guarantee the consent of the electorate.

And perhaps the most interesting question now is whether #America's political institutions can hold extraordinarily powerful individuals accountable, regardless of their wealth.

MONEY IS POWER. BUT IT ISN'T EVERYTHING, ELON.

 @3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works @disability @pwd @joinin

#ElonMusk #USMidterms #Democracy #Politics #Accountability

Close-up portrait of Elon Musk looking dumbfounded, with wide eyes and his mouth slightly open, as if caught in stunned disbelief. He is wearing a dark jacket over a black shirt, with a softly blurred indoor background that suggests a public event or media setting.

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54d

Mountain Monday ⛰️ roaming Colorado

I’m feigning for some strength today, so I thought sharing the front range of the Rocky Mountains may do it. We felt isolated yet invincible, the spirit of the west.
#mountains #landscape #photography #mountainmonday #landscapephotography #sonyalpha #outdoors #hiking #geology #colorado #travel #western #writing #earth #photographer #nature #naturephotography

Dense alpine woods sit in the middle ground of a Colorado landscape, with the bare Rocky Mts in the background, and a man in flannel in the foreground.

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53d

Classical Musicians Interpret Astronauts’ Footage of the Planet for Earth Music Theater

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/09/earth-music-theater-classical-music-space-photography-films/

#photography #music #earth

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2d

Introducing FediDB Globe, a real time and interactive overview of the fediverse, mapped onto a globe with search and filters.

https://fedidb.com/globe

Enjoy, and spread the word!

#FediDB #FediDBGlobe #Earth

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52d

Green Sea Turtle, aka Honu, resting next to human-made debris at O'ahu's west side. Your #sealife #photooftheday

Prints available - DM me. #green #turtle #Tuesday #creature #ocean #sea #marinelife #animals #nature #wildlife #environment #earth #photo #photography #underwater #AIFreePhoto #Oahu #Hawaii #reef

A sea turtle resting on the sandy bottom next to a concrete artificial reef structure, left. The turtle's fins are folded next to its body. Its head and fins are covered with a dark mosaic of leathery skin.

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52d

Bullethead Parrotfish, aka 'Uhu, swimming over an ocean reef. Your #sealife #photooftheday

Prints available - DM me. #parrot #fish #Wednesday #creature #ocean #sea #marinelife #animals #nature #wildlife #environment #earth #photo #photography #underwater #AIFreePhoto #Oahu #Hawaii #reef

A fish as long as your forearm swimming over an ocean reef. It is white with reddish tones, lighter towards the rounded head. It has deep red to pink shading with two loose rows of white spots toward its tail. Its mouth shows its snowy white teeth, made for feeding on algae.

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51d

#nowplaying #bandcamp

(747) The September Equinox 2026
by Petroglyph Music V.A

https://petroglyphmusic.bandcamp.com/album/747-the-september-equinox-2026

@electronicmusic
@ExperimentalMusic

#music #fedimusic #art #culture #community #electronicmusic #experimentalmusic #synthetizer #synth #electronica #experimental #noise #earth #equinox #sciencefiction

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50d

Bluestripe Snapper, aka Ta'ape, schooling at an ocean reef. An #invasive fish that's good eating! Your #sealife #photooftheday

Prints available - DM me. #eat #invasive #fish #Thursday #creature #ocean #sea #marinelife #animals #nature #wildlife #environment #earth #photo #photography #underwater #AIFreePhoto #Oahu #Hawaii #reef

A cluster of light-colored yellow fish. They have fine evenly spaced horizontal white lines bordered with dark lines. Their tails and fins are yellow.

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50d

Europe’s scorching summer could give champagne a stronger kick https://www.diningandcooking.com/2829367/europes-scorching-summer-could-give-champagne-a-stronger-kick-2/ #agriculture #Earth&Space #EUROPE #francais #france #French #FrenchWine #HeatWave #Lifestyle #Stay22 #summer #WeatherNews #Wine #world #WorldRegions

Europe’s scorching summer could give champagne a stronger kick

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50d

Freckled Hawkfish, aka Lau'ula, pauses at a stand of coral at an ocean reef. Your #sealife #photooftheday

Prints available - DM me. #freckles #fish #friday #creature #ocean #sea #marinelife #animals #nature #wildlife #environment #earth #photo #photography #underwater #AIFreePhoto #Oahu #Hawaii #reef

A light colored fish covered with largely uniform red freckles resting on coral. The freckles extend from its snout to beyond its pectoral fins. The dorsal fin is white. A black swath starts past its freckles extending to its tail, not wholly pictured.

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