I bought "Remove Before Flight" tags on eBay in 2010—it turns out they're from Challenger https://arstechni.ca/tCSb #MichoudAssemblyFacility #RemoveBeforeFlight #Spaceexploration #spacememorabilia #40thanniversary #LockheedMartin #spaceartifacts #externaltank #spacehistory #Spaceshuttle #Challenger #disaster #40years #STS-51L #tragedy #Space #ET-26 #eBay #NASA #Tag
#ET
#JOHNWILLIAMS #CINEMA #ET Prêts à vous envoler avec Elliott et son ami venu des étoiles ? Avec la bande originale d’E.T., John Williams signe un des thèmes les plus bouleversants du 7ème art et confine très haut dans les étoiles, parmi les plus grands. Un an à peine après la fructueuse collaboration autour des Aventuriers de l’Arche perdue, premier volet de la saga Indiana Jones,…
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🌍 Astronomers from all over the world are coming to Groningen for the #RockyWorlds4 conference.
'We would like to broaden the ideas about what a rocky planet could be made up of,' says Inga Kamp, astrophysicist at the UG.
Curious? Read more 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/matter-and-space/the-search-for-extraterrestrial-life-and-can-we-broaden-our-ideas-about-it
🧪 #SciComm
#astronomy #KapteynInstitute #astrophysics #physics #extraterrestrial #ET #exoplanets #planetary #research #scientistsOnMastodon @universityofgroningen
David Bowie – The Starman Who Walked Among Us
Few in modern memory have straddled that strange, luminous border quite like David Bowie.
A shapeshifter of identities, a messenger of cosmic whispers, and a mortal who somehow seemed to carry the weight of the stars, Bowie has inspired stories that feel less like biography and more like folklore.
In 1972, the world met Ziggy Stardust. He was a being from the heavens, or so the legend goes. Bowie’s creation wasn’t just a rock star, he was an extraterrestrial emissary sent to Earth to deliver a message of beauty, rebellion, and transformation. His strange wardrobe, fiery hair, and otherworldly persona weren’t just costume. They were the language of myth, a signal flare to humanity that something beyond ordinary perception was brushing against our reality.
Fans have long suggested that Bowie was Ziggy – or that Ziggy visited him, a symbiotic alien consciousness sharing a human shell. Concertgoers from that era recall a magnetic energy, a presence that felt almost too alive, too luminous, too… unhuman. Some claim that after a Bowie show, the air itself seemed charged, as if a comet had passed through the town.
Bowie himself flirted with the occult and the mystical. He was fascinated by tarot, Kabbalah, and the teachings of Aleister Crowley. But his real magic was subtler. His songs and personas seemed to encode a language of the stars. Tracks like Starman, Life on Mars?, and Blackstar read like transmissions from an alien observer, noting humanity’s quirks and chaos with both love and eerie foresight.
After his passing in 2016, many fans interpreted Blackstar, released just two days before his death, as Bowie’s farewell message, a final starman transmission, a cosmic wink. Some even claim that listening closely reveals more than music. They talk of a pattern, a frequency, a signal only perceivable to those open to the cosmos.
Bowie’s chameleonic transformations – Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, the Thin White Duke – have become myth in their own right. Each persona is said to have its own “spirit” or otherworldly essence, a fragment of Bowie’s soul sent across the universe. Folklorists might call him a trickster figure, mischievous, magnetic, and always just out of reach. Those who met him report a strange sense of being observed, of encountering intelligence far beyond the human.
It’s easy to imagine that Bowie, like a true extraterrestrial, chose to hide in plain sight, teaching us about identity, mortality, and the cosmos while we blinked obliviously. Stories circulate among fans, urban legends that have taken on a life of their own.
Some claim that encountering Bowie’s music at the right moment could change your life, revealing hidden paths, insights, or even glimpses of future events.
Others tell of synchronicities around his concerts – strange lights, unexplained phenomena, or even fleeting glimpses of “something not quite human” in the wings of the stage.
A few insist Bowie had the ability to slip between worlds, leaving behind a trail of inspiration and curiosity wherever he roamed. A starman literally walking among mortals.
Today, Bowie exists as more than the sum of albums, concerts, and interviews. He is a modern myth, a folk figure whose stories will be told for generations. Children of the 70s talk about the alien who taught humanity to embrace difference. Young artists in the 21st century cite him as the trickster who opened doors to self-expression, daring us to ask “What if we are more than we seem?”
Like any enduring folklore, Bowie’s legend is mutable. He is part myth, part music, part cosmic riddle. And somewhere in the night sky, between the glimmering stars of Cassiopeia and Orion, there is a streak of fire, a flash of orange hair, and a voice that reminds us that perhaps the starman is still watching, still whispering, still walking among us.
#alien #DavidBowie #ET #Folklore #Music #StarMan
Photographer Recreates Iconic Shot of E.T. Crossing the Moon https://petapixel.com/2026/01/15/photographer-recreates-iconic-shot-of-e-t-crossing-the-moon/ #stevenspielberg #lunarsurface #silhouette #Spotlight #Features #longlens #Space #alien #lunar #moon #et
Im Wettstreit um Europas #Einsteinteleskop verbünden sich #Sachsen und #Sardinien: Sie schlagen zwei ETs statt nur eines Gravitationslauschers vor, damit keiner zu kurz kommt
https://oiger.de/2026/01/13/sachsen-und-sardinien-wollen-zwei-einstein-teleskope/196141
#Gravitationswellen #Lausitz #DZA #Görlitz #SiliconSaxony #ET #Astrophysik #Großprojekt #Einstein #Sardinia #Italien
Photographer 'over the Moon' with iconic ET recreation two years in the making
Two years of planning to finally get this right! And the results certainly look worth it.
#photography #news #ET #photo #bbc
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3z475kxwpo
https://www.walknews.com/1173301/ 中国外相がエチオピア首相と会談、幅広い経済協力拡大呼びかけ | ロイター #AFR #ARTI #ASIA #ASXPAC #BRI #China #CN #DEST:NOJPWDM #DIP #EAFR #EASIA #ECO #EMEA #EMRG #ET #GEN #INFRA #JFOR #JLN #JPTOPIC:BUSINESSTECHAI #MCE #POL #SCI #TOPCMB #TOPNWS #TRD #TRN #中国 #中華人民共和国
It's my turn behind the counter of the #VideoStore Podcast, where I'm talking about 4 of the films that helped to give #StrangerThings season 1 some of its aesthetics and thematic ideas. Fun fact: this is a very light version of my Master's thesis! #ET #Scanners #ANightmareOnElmStreet #nerdlyfe https://www.videostorepodcast.com/p/things-to-watch-after-stranger-things
https://www.wacoca.com/news/2737940/ 中国外相、年初のアフリカ歴訪開始 戦略的に重要な東部諸国へ出発 | ロイター ##中華人民共和国 #AFR #AMERS #Asia #ASXPAC #China #CN #DEST:NOJPTPM #DEST:NOJPWDM #DEST:NOJPZTM #dip #EAFR #EASIA #EMEA #EMRG #et #Gen #JFOR #JLN #LS #NAMER #NEWS1 #POL #POTUS #SAFR #SO #TOPCMB #TOPNWS #TRN #TZ #US #wash
#Apokalypse 24. Juli 2026:
erster Kontakt mit Ausserirdischen:
Raumschiffe mit riesigen Saugpumpen sind in Anflug: Einziger Funksprauch von #ET : "Das ist unser Wasser"
Schatzi: Was schaust du?
Ich: Beiträge zum #DIDay
Schatzi: Was ist das?
Ich: #DigitalIndependenceDay
Schatzi: bei uns ist jetzt #ET - #EssensTime
#tagliatelle (#bandnudeln) mit frischem #Spinat ohne #blubb.
One of the best #movies of all the Time
our youth...E.T.
L'un des meilleurs #films de tout les temps, notre jeunesse....E.T.
#ET. #Creature #ExtraTerrestrial #Earth #Planet #Galaxy #Stars #Space #Galaxie #Aliens #ExtraTerrestre
#AfricanFilmPoster #GhanaFilmPoster
In Ghana 🇬🇭 when posters can't be imported, local artists will bootleg them to the best of their abilities. Some often are more imaginative than the official studio releases.
#ET the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet.
Propaganda Sky Natal 2019 -
#ET 👽 Came Home For Christmas -
[photo, vidéos, allocutions] Rassemblement des cyclistes du 86 en hommage à l’un des leurs décédé sur la route et pour revendiquer la sécurité des cyclistes
L'appel à ce rassemblement des associations de cyclistes de la Vienne devant la Préfecture était clair et nécessaire. C'était "pour apporter leur soutien à la famille de Stéphane Devant pour alerter les pouvoirs publics sur la sécurité des cyclistes #et des usagers vulnérables. Il faut protéger en priorité les plus…
🪐What can we learn from exoplanets?
🔭 Using NASA’s #JamesWebb Space Telescope, astronomers from the UG's #Kapteyn Institute found strong evidence for a thick atmosphere around the ultra-hot super-Earth TOI-561 b.🔥
Curious? Read more 👇️
🔗https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/matter-and-space/james-webb-space-telescope-detects-thick-atmosphere-around-broiling-lava-world
🧪 #SciComm #astronomy #KapteynInstitute #JamesWebbspacetelescope #astrophysics #physics #extraterrestrial #ET #exoplanets #planetary #research #scientistsOnMastodon @universityofgroningen
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