Podcasts about Cepheus

If you sit on a big beachball, it gets mashed down. That makes it a little wider through the middle, and a little narrower from top to bottom. And that makes it look a lot like Alderamin, the brightest star of the constellation Cepheus the king. The star is about a third wider through the equator than through the poles. That’s not because some cosmic giant is sitting on it. Instead, it’s because the star spins like crazy. Alderamin is about 50 light-years away, so it’s a fairly close neighbor. It’s nearing the end of the prime phase of life, even though it’s billions of years younger than the Sun. That’s because it’s twice as massive as the Sun. Heavier stars “burn” through their nuclear fuel much faster than lighter stars. What really stands out about Alderamin, though, is its shape. The star’s equator rotates once every 12 hours, versus almost four weeks for the Sun. That forces gas outward around its middle, making the star look a bit more like a fat lozenge than a ball. As Alderamin continues to age, though, it will puff up to many times its current diameter. That will slow down its high-speed rotation, giving Alderamin a “rounder” appearance. Cepheus is in the north and northeast at nightfall. Under fairly dark skies it’s easy to make out. It looks like a child’s drawing of a house. The peak of the roof is on the left during the evening, with Alderamin marking the top right corner of the sideways house. Script by Damond Benningfield

The North Star is one of the most important beacons in the sky. It serves as a compass, pointing the way due north. And it also serves as the hub of the sky – all the other stars appear to circle around it as Earth turns on its axis. More than 4,000 years ago, the architects of Egypt used the North Star to align the pyramids of Giza. And more than four decades ago, Apollo astronauts used it to help guide them to the Moon. But the two groups were aided by different north stars. The Egyptians used a star called Thuban, in Draco, the dragon. The astronauts used Polaris, at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper. Thuban didn’t explode or fade away – it’s still in plain sight. Instead, Earth’s axis turned away from the star – an effect called precession. It’s caused by the gravitational tug of the Sun and Moon, which cause our planet to wobble like a spinning top. As it wobbles, the axis points toward different stars. Four thousand years ago, it aimed at Thuban. Today, it aims at Polaris. Over the next century, the pole will take slightly better aim at Polaris. Right now, the star is about two-thirds of a degree from where the axis is pointing. Around the year 2100, it’ll be less than half a degree from that spot. After that, though, the pole will move away from Polaris. By around the year 4100, it’ll take aim at a star that’s one constellation over, in Cepheus – a North Star to guide future generations. Script by Damond Benningfield

In newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM), recent studies highlight the critical role of minimal residual disease (MRD) in guiding treatment decisions and improving outcomes. A significant trial showed that adding isatuximab (Isa) to lenalidomide, bortezomib, and dexamethasone (RVd) increased MRD negativity rates after induction therapy compared to RVd alone. MRD negativity was achieved in 50% of patients receiving Isa-RVd versus 36% in those receiving RVd. Additionally, Isa-RVd provided longer progression-free survival (PFS) in MRD-positive patients, though PFS was similar between Isa-RVd and RVd in MRD-negative patients. This suggests Isa offers a significant advantage for MRD-positive patients.After a median follow-up of 48 months, patients achieving MRD negativity after induction or transplant had significantly better PFS compared to those who remained MRD-positive. The GMMG-HD7 trial, the first phase 3 study to confirm the long-term benefits of achieving MRD negativity with an 18-week induction regimen, demonstrated that deep MRD responses can result in lasting benefits, even without post-transplant consolidation therapy. Future analyses will assess the role of maintenance therapy with or without isatuximab.Another study examined MRD progression (MRD-P) in NDMM patients treated with quadruplet therapy and autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT). Though rare, MRD-P predicted imminent progression to full disease. Patients with MRD-P had shorter time to progression and poor survival free from failure of second-line therapy. MRD-P was driven by a plasma cell population resistant to existing therapies, including monoclonal antibodies, highlighting the need for new markers and treatment strategies for high-risk patients.The CEPHEUS phase 3 trial evaluated the addition of daratumumab (DARA) to the standard VRd regimen in NDMM patients who were transplant-ineligible or deferred transplant. The D-VRd combination significantly increased MRD negativity rates at both the 10^-5 and 10^-6 sensitivity thresholds and led to sustained MRD negativity in more patients than VRd alone. This deeper response resulted in superior PFS, with over 80% of MRD-negative patients remaining progression-free at 54 months. D-VRd improved outcomes in both MRD-positive and MRD-negative patients, positioning it as a new standard of care for transplant-ineligible or deferred patients.A final study explored whether sustained MRD negativity could allow for discontinuation of lenalidomide maintenance after ASCT. Patients who achieved sustained MRD negativity after three years of lenalidomide maintenance discontinued therapy, with MRD testing every six months. Of the 194 patients, 26.3% achieved sustained MRD negativity, with most remaining MRD-negative for up to 30 months post-therapy. Only 23% became MRD-positive, and a small number progressed to active disease. Among those who restarted lenalidomide, the median time to progression was 9.5 months. This suggests sustained MRD negativity may serve as a marker for safely discontinuing lenalidomide, though further trials are needed to confirm these findings.In conclusion, MRD status plays a vital role in optimizing treatment and improving outcomes in NDMM. From the benefits of isatuximab and daratumumab in enhancing MRD negativity to the possibility of safely discontinuing maintenance therapy, MRD testing is proving essential in multiple myeloma management.Disclosure: Supported by Sanofi.

Sticking with the sci-fi vibe, Art goes into some of the Hostile RPG line from Zozer Games. Hostile: https://www.paulelliottbooks.com/ Cepheus: https://stellagamapublishing.co/ Recorded on 10/3/24 Join us on our Discord: https://discord.gg/tQGJVsrnNp Follow us on Blue Sky and X @BlackLodgeRPG Music: Intro Theme: Dances and Dames by Kevin MacLeod. In session music provided by Tabletop RPG Music: www.patreon.com/tabletoprpgmusic 00:00:00 Hostile and Supplements 01:03:11 Surprise Cameo 01:09:09 Shocking Twist Ending

In this star tour of the night sky, you'll learn a bit about the Geminids Meteor Shower that peaks this week and learn about the Greek story of Andromeda, Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Perseus, and Poseidon. I also share recommendations with you for a stargazing app and my favorite telescopes for your holiday shopping. Visit NightSkyTourist.com/82 for more information about this episode. CHECK OUT THESE LINKS FROM EPISODE 82: Episode 80- Jupiter, King of the Planets: https://nightskytourist.com/80/  SkyView Lite App: Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.t11.skyviewfree&hl=en_US&gl=US&pli=1 Apple: https://apps.apple.com/tr/app/skyview-lite/id413936865 Android: https://skyview-lite.en.softonic.com/android  2024 Stargazing Guide (free download) https://nightskytourist.com/  Episode 19- Chasing Meteorites with Geoff Notkin part 1: https://nightskytourist.com/19-2/ Episode 20- Treasures from Space with Geoff Notkin part 2: https://nightskytourist.com/20-2/  Episode 25- Buying a Telescope with Ted Blank: https://nightskytourist.com/25/  Orion SkyQuest telescopes: https://www.telescope.com/Orion/Telescopes/Dobsonian-Telescopes/rc/2160/pc/1/12.uts  Celestron NexStar telescopes: https://www.celestron.com/collections/nexstar-se-computerized-telescopes  Barlow lens: sold on Amazon and other retail sites Moon filter: sold on Amazon and other retail sites Rate Night Sky Tourist with 5 stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. THANK YOU! FOLLOW NIGHT SKY TOURIST ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NightSkyTourist  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nightskytourist/  SPREAD THE WORD Help us reach more people by subscribing to the podcast, leaving a review, and sharing it with others. GET TO KNOW US MORE Visit NightSkyTourist.com to read our great blog articles, check out our resource page, and sign up for our newsletters. Our monthly newsletter has content that is exclusive for subscribers. SHARE YOUR QUESTION We want to hear your questions. They could even become part of a future Q&A. Record your question in a voice memo on your smartphone and email it to us at Hello@NightSkyTourist.com. COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS Email us at Hello@NightSkyTourist.com.

This episode kicks off with a wonderful message Mirke the Meek, whose podcast has had me contemplating the format of my show. We then have a potted history of Traveller courtesy of Micheal “Chigowiz” Shorten of The Dungeon Master's Handbook and a first-time call for Lex Mandrake of Dank Dungeons (creator of AZAG and 5B). Lex's creations are available on both DriveThruRPG https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/24684/dank-dungeons?keyword=dank%20dungeons and itch https://dank-dungeons.itch.ioI then take a look at some more recent Gus L. goodness in the shape of The Curse of the Ganshogrr https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/455858/the-curse-of-the-ganshoggrHonourable mentions: Karl Rodriguez of the GMologist presents…, Marc Miller's Traveller Facsimile Edition and 5th Edition, Mongoose Traveller, GURPs Traveller, Samardan Press's Cepheus, Kevin Crawford's Stars Without Number, Battlestar Galactica, TSR Dungeons & Dragons, WotC, Kelsey Dionne's ShadowDark, Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu, Shadows of Yog-Sothoth, Mike Mason's Pulp Cthulhu, Questingbeast's Glatisant newsletter, Kill Jester's Errant. Music by Timothy J. Drennon"Warning" by Lieren of Updates From the Middle of NowhereLeave me an audio message via ⁠https://www.speakpipe.com/KeepOffTheBorderlands⁠You can email me at ⁠spencer.freethrall@gmail.com⁠Subscribe to my newsletter The StochasiumYou can find me in a bunch of other places here ⁠https://freethrall.carrd.co⁠ and in actual plays on Grizzly Peaks Radio https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grizzly-peaks-radio/id1530832637You can also find me on Discord by searching for FreeThrall/KeepOffTheBorderlands#7623 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit freethrall.substack.com

Díjnyertes oktatóprogram segít a matekban most már az általános iskolásoknak is Digital Hungary     2023-10-23 12:56:00     Infotech Oktatás Iskolakezdés Felvételi A többszörös Év honlapja-díjas magyar fejlesztésű e-learning platform, a mateking.hu mostantól a felső tagozatos általános iskolásoknak és a központi gimnáziumi felvételire készülőknek is segít abban, hogy a matek végre ne ne okozzon gondot. Az újdoságot tesztidőszakban ingyenesen próbálhatják ki a tanulók. Ha szépen kérik, akár biológiai fegyverek gyártásába is besegít az AI PCW     2023-10-23 13:06:33     Infotech Mesterséges intelligencia Aggasztó felfedezésre jutott egy kutatás a mesterséges intelligenciás chatbotok kapcsán. Kiváló szakembert vesztett a Vodafone: Kelemen a Raiffeisennél Mínuszos     2023-10-23 05:33:40     Mobiltech Vodafone Raiffeisen Néhány napja tették közzé, hogy 2023. szeptember 18-tól Kelemen Bálint a menedzsment tagjaként irányítja a Raiffeisen Bank informatikai és projektterületét. A pénzintézet új menedzserének fő feladata a digitális banki szolgáltatások további fejlesztésének irányítása, a bank it-megoldásainak és szolgáltatásainak hatékonyabbá tétele, valamint a proje A SpaceX két nap alatt 44 darab Starlink műholdat állított pályára Rakéta     2023-10-23 13:09:01     Tudomány Hétvége Világűr Műhold SpaceX Néhány óra különbséggel két Falcon-9 rakétát is indított a SpaceX az elmúlt hétvégén, ezzel összesen több mint 40 Starlink műholdat küldve alacsony Föld körüli pályára. Az első kilövésre a kaliforniai Vandenberg Űrhaderőbázisról került sor szombaton este, vasárnap hajnalban pedig a keleti parton lévő Cape Canaveralról indított a SpaceX egy-egy Falc Néhány mp alatt akkora energiakitörés történt az univerzumban, amekkorát a Nap csak 30 év alatt produkálna hvg.hu     2023-10-23 08:03:00     Tudomány Energia Világűr A kutatók minden eddiginél nagyobb távolságból érzékeltek gyors rádiókitörést. Az FRB-jel egyesülő galaxisoktól érkezhetett. Gyémántok ezreit tették egy iPhone-ra First Class     2023-10-23 15:01:26     Mobiltech Apple Okostelefon iPhone Okosóra Kicsinosítanád okoseszközeidet? Ha mélyen a zsebedbe nyúlsz, olyan iPhone 15-öt, okosórát és fejhallgatót kapsz, melyektől gyémántcsömöröd lesz. Korábban sosem látott gyorsasággal nő a medvetámadások száma Japánban Origo     2023-10-23 12:31:23     Tudomány Japán A szűkössé vált természetes élelemforrások is szerepet játszhatnak a medvetámadások megnövekedett számában. Patcheli mindkét Voyager űrszondát a NASA - mondjuk mit javít rajtuk PC Fórum     2023-10-23 07:30:00     Infotech Világűr Microsoft NASA A NASA a napokban két olyan frissítést küldött ki, ami bár funkciójukban nagyon hasonlítanak a pl. Microsoft által is minden hónapban kiadott foltcsomagokhoz - csak éppen utóbbival szemben a Földtől jelenleg már több, mint 20 milliárd kilométerre található eszközökre szánja őket. Ezek nem mások, mint a Voyager 1 és Voyager 2 szondák, a frissítések A Cápa-köd a Cepheusban Csillagászat     2023-10-23 10:06:21     Tudomány Csongrád-Csanád Cápa Maradunk a Cepheus csillagkép területén, heti képünk ismét egy olyan mélyég-objektum, amely a kissé torz “Cepheus-házikó” területén látható. Galambos Gábor, Makói úti kilátó Idén már szinte szokásommá vált a Cepheus csillagkép irányában fellelhető pompás objektumok fotózása. Ideális pozíciója miatt ezúttal sem történt másképp. Így került az LDN 123 A mobilhálózatok mellett a gigabites netben is nagyot léptünk előre digitrend-i     2023-10-23 13:56:34     Infotech Európai Bizottság Ambíciózus célokat tűzött ki az Európai Bizottság a Digital Decade 2030 stratégia megvalósítására. Elsődleges cél a vezetékes hálózati kapcsolódás javítása, amelyet olyan konkrétumokon mérnek majd, mint a 100 Mbps sebességű szolgáltatások 2025-ig, illetve az uniós háztartások gigabites lefedettsége és használata 2030-ig. Utóbbiban már ott vagyunk a A mesterséges intelligencia és a humán intelligencia keveréke teremt új világot a közlekedésben Rakéta     2023-10-23 07:03:02     Autó-motor Közlekedés Mesterséges intelligencia A kognitív mobilitás fogalma sok kutatási terület összekapcsolt rendszerét foglalja magában és a mobilitás holisztikus megközelítését teszi lehetővé. Egy nagyszabású budapesti konferencián ennek a friss tudományterületnek a különböző aspektusait járták körül a résztvevők. Nem akármilyen porképződést vizsgáltak a magyar kutatók Mínuszos     2023-10-23 06:33:06     Tudomány Csongrád-Csanád Szeged Világűr James Webb A csillagrobbanások kozmikus porképződésben betöltött szerepét vizsgálták a James Webb-űrtávcső segítségével a Szegedi Tudományegyetem (SZTE) kutatói. Az intézmény közlemény szerint a csillagközi tér telis-tele van kisebb-nagyobb porszemcsékkel, amelyek jelenlegi tudásunk szerint kulcsfontosságú szerepet töltenek be a kozmikus körforgásban. Jelenle Gőzerővel keresik a toborzók a mesterséges intelligenciához és az adattudományhoz kapcsolódó szakértelmet – csak éppen nem találják Digital Hungary     2023-10-23 14:47:00     Gazdaság Mesterséges intelligencia Trend Évek óta látható trendet számszerűsített nemrégiben a LinkedIn szakmai közösségi platform, mikor beszámolt arról, hogy az elmúlt két évben megduplázódott a felületen közzétett, a mesterséges intelligenciát, mint kompetenciát említő álláshirdetések száma. Hasonlóan „kelendő″ tudásnak számít minden, ami adatokkal, valamint azok szakmai és üzleti kiak

Díjnyertes oktatóprogram segít a matekban most már az általános iskolásoknak is Digital Hungary     2023-10-23 12:56:00     Infotech Oktatás Iskolakezdés Felvételi A többszörös Év honlapja-díjas magyar fejlesztésű e-learning platform, a mateking.hu mostantól a felső tagozatos általános iskolásoknak és a központi gimnáziumi felvételire készülőknek is segít abban, hogy a matek végre ne ne okozzon gondot. Az újdoságot tesztidőszakban ingyenesen próbálhatják ki a tanulók. Ha szépen kérik, akár biológiai fegyverek gyártásába is besegít az AI PCW     2023-10-23 13:06:33     Infotech Mesterséges intelligencia Aggasztó felfedezésre jutott egy kutatás a mesterséges intelligenciás chatbotok kapcsán. Kiváló szakembert vesztett a Vodafone: Kelemen a Raiffeisennél Mínuszos     2023-10-23 05:33:40     Mobiltech Vodafone Raiffeisen Néhány napja tették közzé, hogy 2023. szeptember 18-tól Kelemen Bálint a menedzsment tagjaként irányítja a Raiffeisen Bank informatikai és projektterületét. A pénzintézet új menedzserének fő feladata a digitális banki szolgáltatások további fejlesztésének irányítása, a bank it-megoldásainak és szolgáltatásainak hatékonyabbá tétele, valamint a proje A SpaceX két nap alatt 44 darab Starlink műholdat állított pályára Rakéta     2023-10-23 13:09:01     Tudomány Hétvége Világűr Műhold SpaceX Néhány óra különbséggel két Falcon-9 rakétát is indított a SpaceX az elmúlt hétvégén, ezzel összesen több mint 40 Starlink műholdat küldve alacsony Föld körüli pályára. Az első kilövésre a kaliforniai Vandenberg Űrhaderőbázisról került sor szombaton este, vasárnap hajnalban pedig a keleti parton lévő Cape Canaveralról indított a SpaceX egy-egy Falc Néhány mp alatt akkora energiakitörés történt az univerzumban, amekkorát a Nap csak 30 év alatt produkálna hvg.hu     2023-10-23 08:03:00     Tudomány Energia Világűr A kutatók minden eddiginél nagyobb távolságból érzékeltek gyors rádiókitörést. Az FRB-jel egyesülő galaxisoktól érkezhetett. Gyémántok ezreit tették egy iPhone-ra First Class     2023-10-23 15:01:26     Mobiltech Apple Okostelefon iPhone Okosóra Kicsinosítanád okoseszközeidet? Ha mélyen a zsebedbe nyúlsz, olyan iPhone 15-öt, okosórát és fejhallgatót kapsz, melyektől gyémántcsömöröd lesz. Korábban sosem látott gyorsasággal nő a medvetámadások száma Japánban Origo     2023-10-23 12:31:23     Tudomány Japán A szűkössé vált természetes élelemforrások is szerepet játszhatnak a medvetámadások megnövekedett számában. Patcheli mindkét Voyager űrszondát a NASA - mondjuk mit javít rajtuk PC Fórum     2023-10-23 07:30:00     Infotech Világűr Microsoft NASA A NASA a napokban két olyan frissítést küldött ki, ami bár funkciójukban nagyon hasonlítanak a pl. Microsoft által is minden hónapban kiadott foltcsomagokhoz - csak éppen utóbbival szemben a Földtől jelenleg már több, mint 20 milliárd kilométerre található eszközökre szánja őket. Ezek nem mások, mint a Voyager 1 és Voyager 2 szondák, a frissítések A Cápa-köd a Cepheusban Csillagászat     2023-10-23 10:06:21     Tudomány Csongrád-Csanád Cápa Maradunk a Cepheus csillagkép területén, heti képünk ismét egy olyan mélyég-objektum, amely a kissé torz “Cepheus-házikó” területén látható. Galambos Gábor, Makói úti kilátó Idén már szinte szokásommá vált a Cepheus csillagkép irányában fellelhető pompás objektumok fotózása. Ideális pozíciója miatt ezúttal sem történt másképp. Így került az LDN 123 A mobilhálózatok mellett a gigabites netben is nagyot léptünk előre digitrend-i     2023-10-23 13:56:34     Infotech Európai Bizottság Ambíciózus célokat tűzött ki az Európai Bizottság a Digital Decade 2030 stratégia megvalósítására. Elsődleges cél a vezetékes hálózati kapcsolódás javítása, amelyet olyan konkrétumokon mérnek majd, mint a 100 Mbps sebességű szolgáltatások 2025-ig, illetve az uniós háztartások gigabites lefedettsége és használata 2030-ig. Utóbbiban már ott vagyunk a A mesterséges intelligencia és a humán intelligencia keveréke teremt új világot a közlekedésben Rakéta     2023-10-23 07:03:02     Autó-motor Közlekedés Mesterséges intelligencia A kognitív mobilitás fogalma sok kutatási terület összekapcsolt rendszerét foglalja magában és a mobilitás holisztikus megközelítését teszi lehetővé. Egy nagyszabású budapesti konferencián ennek a friss tudományterületnek a különböző aspektusait járták körül a résztvevők. Nem akármilyen porképződést vizsgáltak a magyar kutatók Mínuszos     2023-10-23 06:33:06     Tudomány Csongrád-Csanád Szeged Világűr James Webb A csillagrobbanások kozmikus porképződésben betöltött szerepét vizsgálták a James Webb-űrtávcső segítségével a Szegedi Tudományegyetem (SZTE) kutatói. Az intézmény közlemény szerint a csillagközi tér telis-tele van kisebb-nagyobb porszemcsékkel, amelyek jelenlegi tudásunk szerint kulcsfontosságú szerepet töltenek be a kozmikus körforgásban. Jelenle Gőzerővel keresik a toborzók a mesterséges intelligenciához és az adattudományhoz kapcsolódó szakértelmet – csak éppen nem találják Digital Hungary     2023-10-23 14:47:00     Gazdaság Mesterséges intelligencia Trend Évek óta látható trendet számszerűsített nemrégiben a LinkedIn szakmai közösségi platform, mikor beszámolt arról, hogy az elmúlt két évben megduplázódott a felületen közzétett, a mesterséges intelligenciát, mint kompetenciát említő álláshirdetések száma. Hasonlóan „kelendő″ tudásnak számít minden, ami adatokkal, valamint azok szakmai és üzleti kiak

Trainer Matt Dunn chats about Cepheus' win in the Alan Brown Stakes at Rosehill Gardens yesterday.

3.12 Welcome RPG Ramblings with Jeff Jones. This is a weekly show exploring the various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people.   John Watts of Independence Games is a publisher producing content for an OGL variant of the Traveller rule set known as The Cepheus Engine. He supports several genres, including westerns. He has a massive amount of Clement Sector books currently on Bundle of Holding site. You better get in on it now, because it ends in a few days. John explains the Traveller OGL, Cepheus Engine SRD, the Cepheus Engine OGL, and how the looming de-authorization of the WoTC's OGL threatens the balance. This show can't always be about happy stuff, we need gloomy weather to make us appreciate the sunshine.  Oh! I have Kickstarter going live next week. Scoundrels of Brixton. Go click the NOTIFY ME AT LAUNCH button…that will send a ray of joy into my heart. The sun is rising; it is time to saddle-up. Sisters and Brothers, it is time to get rambling. Clement Sector Bundle of Holding - https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Clement3E Scoundrels of Brixton Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1580058713/scoundrels-of-brixton ———————————————————————————————— John Watts Twitter: @IndependenceGa6 Company Website: https://independencerpgs.com DriveThru: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/3565/Independence-Games ———————————————————————————————— Jeff Jones Twitter: @I_Am_Jeffrey Website: www.rpgramblings.com Intro and Outro Music: Jungle Juice by Wataboi from Pixabay.com/music Sound Effects:  https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jeffrey-jones6/message

This week, we sit down with Cepheus founders, Vipinaditya Desai and Jay Maree,  to talk about the dynamic NFT tech they have created. Dynamic NFTs essentially "grow" alongside you, like a character leveling up in a video game to unlock new stats (and perks) as the game progresses. Instead of remaining static, they evolve. They also give the NFT collection creators the ability to update metadata en masse rather than one at a time. Will this tech advancement help NFTs become more mainstream? Let us know your thoughts! As always, we want to stress that nothing in this is financial investment advice. Our goal with these conversations is to give everyone listening one more tool in their belt to utilize while they do their own research about DeFi projects & the space in general.House Of Obsidian Discord: https://discord.gg/obsidiansObsidian Twitter: https://twitter.com/ObsidianCouncilObsidian's website: https://www.obsidianfi.com/Weekly Crypto News: https://medium.com/@obsidiancouncilocFind our speakers this week:Guest: Cepheus - https://www.cepheus.cloud/ ---- https://twitter.com/cepheuscloudHost: Matthew Walker, https://www.instagram.com/hawaiianmint/ --- https://twitter.com/hawaiianmintShoutout to our editor, Ghost for the excellent work!

For this System Sunday during Noir November I give my impressions of Michael Brown's Midnight Boulevard. You will need access to the free Traveller SRD (linked below) or a copy of Stellagama Publishing's Cepheus rules to play this game. Midnight Boulevard: 2d6 Adventure in the World of Film Noir https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/258702/Midnight-Boulevard-2D6-Adventure-in-the-World-of-Film-Noir Midnight Boulevard: Down Dangerous Roads (Bundle) https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/347990/Midnight-Boulevard-Down-Dangerous-Roads-BUNDLE Traveller SRD https://www.traveller-srd.com/ DaveCon ticket give-away: make sure you select Nerd's RPG Variety Cast and enter no later than 24 Nov 2022 https://s.surveyplanet.com/mh84y42y Come to DaveCon in Bloomington, MN on 13-16 April, 2023 https://www.davecon.net/ Proud member of the Grog-talk Empire having been bestowed the title of The Governor Most Radiant Grandeur Baron The Belligerent Hero of The Valley. https://www.grogcon.com/podcast/ You can contact me through my Google Voice Number for US callers: (540) 445-1145, using Speakpipe for international callers: https://www.speakpipe.com/NerdsRPGVarietyCast through the podcast's email at nerdsrpgvarietycast 'at' gmail 'dot' com or find me on a variety of discords including the Audio Dungeon Discord. Home page for this show https://nerdsrpgvarietycast.carrd.co/ Home page for Cerebrevore, the TTRPG panel discussion podcast https://cerebrevore.carrd.co/ Ray Otus did the coffee cup art for this show, you can find his blog at https://rayotus.carrd.co/ TJ Drennon provides music for my show. Colin Green at Spikepit https://anchor.fm/spikepit provided the "Have no fear" sound clip. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jason376/message

If you need some extra chills to go along with your trick-or-treating or other Halloween fun tonight, just look into the sky. It's filled with ghosts, witches, and Gorgons — the snaked-headed sisters of mythology who turned anyone who looked at them to stone. The Gorgons are four stars in Perseus, low in the northeast as night falls. The brightest of the four represents Medusa, one of the sisters. The other three arc to its right. The bright one is Algol, from an Arabic phrase that means “the demon's head.” It may have received the name because it fades dramatically every three days or so — the result of a fainter star passing in front of a brighter one. The Skull Nebula — the final gasp of a dying star — is in the southeast, in Cetus — the sea monster. And the Witch Head Nebula — a giant cloud of gas and dust — climbs into view before midnight, close to Rigel, the bright foot of Orion. It looks like the profile of the wicked witch in “The Wizard of Oz.” Two nebulas are called “the Ghost,” and both are high in the northern sky. One is near the “house” outlined by the stars of Cepheus the king. The other is near the “W” outlined by the stars of his wife, Cassiopeia. Both are clouds of gas and dust. Part of the outline of the “kingly” ghost looks like demons with horns. And the outline of the “queenly” one looks like a ghostly sheet blowing on the wind — among the spooky sights in the sky on Halloween night.  Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory

The trunk of an elephant extends 20 light-years across the constellation Cepheus, the king. New stars are taking shape inside the trunk — especially in the nostrils. But the supply of gas that gives birth to stars is being worn away, so the starbirth won't last long. The trunk is part of a giant complex of stars, gas, and dust known as IC 1396. It's a few thousand light-years away. Even so, it's so big that it spans about five degrees in our sky — 10 times the width of the Moon. And under dark skies, it's bright enough to see with the eye alone. It's high in the northern sky at nightfall. The entire complex is illuminated by a system of three hot, giant stars. Their ultraviolet light causes gas in the surrounding nebula to glow. Winds from those and other stars are blowing away much of that gas and dust. But they're also squeezing some of that material, causing it to collapse and form new stars. That's what's happening with the elephant's trunk. It's a tall pillar of bright gas and dark dust, with a big blob at the tip. The trunk contains many stars that are no more than a hundred thousand years old — so young that they're not actually full-fledged stars yet. The blob at the tip appears to hold a couple of stars that are slightly older. Before long, all the gas and dust will be blown away or incorporated into new stars, and the elephant's trunk will disappear. Tomorrow: the demon star.  Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory

Old school gaming and retro clones isn't all dragons and dungeons. Today I take a brief look at Sci-Fi gaming with the Classic Traveller and it's modern clone Cepheus. There are a few various versions of the game you could start with. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wobbliesandwizards/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wobbliesandwizards/support

In the latest episode of Pride or Die David and Nick discuss the most intriguing position battles that we can expect to see in training camp. Such battles are sure to bring out the best in all the players competing but also provide fans with good stories and talking points, could we see two rookie starters on defense in Rodriguez and Joseph? Could Benson unseat Cepheus for his job? The intrigue is tantalizing! Finally, David and Nick call out "garbage heap" fans for giving up too quickly on players and the team and call on them to practice patience with the rebuild.

There's one star in the night sky that you should never need help to find. In fact, it can help find you. It's Polaris, the North Star. It always stands due north — every night of the year. And it's always at the same altitude in the sky — an altitude that reveals your latitude in the northern hemisphere. If you're at 40 degrees, for example, Polaris is 40 degrees above the horizon. Polaris won't always be the North Star, though. In a couple of thousand years, that honor will go to a fainter star, in Cepheus, the king. Gamma Cephei is about 45 light-years away. It's a good bit bigger, heavier, and brighter than the Sun. It has a small, faint companion star, plus a giant planet. Gamma Cephei will take over “North Star” honors because Earth wobbles on its axis like a spinning gyroscope. As it does so, the north pole aims at different stars. Right now, it aims at Polaris. But around the year 4100, it'll aim at Gamma Cephei. And around 7500, it'll aim at Alpha Cephei, the constellation's brightest star. Eventually, it'll return to Polaris — in about 23,000 years. Cepheus is to the lower right of Polaris as darkness falls. Its brightest stars form an outline that looks like a child's drawing of a house, with Gamma Cephei at the peak. At nightfall, the house is turned on its side, so Gamma Cephei is the first star you come to as you head away from Polaris.  Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory

Patty Krawec  so I just finished reading The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein so then when I came across Hilding, came across Hilding a few weeks ago about Indigenous stargazing. Mi’kmaq astronomer and tell us about yourself and about Indigenous stargazing.Hilding Neilson Yeah, so I'm Hilding, I'm Mi’kmaq and settler from a group in Newfoundland. That's where my family's from the west coast of the island. Got my PhD at the University of Toronto in astrophysics, did some research back as a contract backdating astronomer, working in the Department of Astronomy, just next door to AW Peet. And I've been really interested in trying to bridge a lot of initiatives in astronomy that we don't really talk about that much, which is Indigenous knowledges. If I were to show you a textbook, you know, like a 500 page tome of astronomy knowledge from cosmology, the exoplanet, there'd be two pages on Indigenous knowledges. And we'd be sharing those two pages with Stonehenge, and New Grange in Ireland. And they'll be talking about perhaps the Mayan Astronomy, or maybe Hawai’ian navigators. And it will be spoken about as if we're past tense, as if Indigenous people don't exist. And then it will be like, “now on to the real science.” And, you know, a few years ago, I got to attend a national meeting of Canadian astronomers, and a Cree astronomer educator, Wilfer Buck, was presenting, and he gave a talk to the audience, discussing all these Cree stories, beautiful Cree stories. The Bear constellation with three dog constellation. And us seeing all this knowledge that we don't talk about in academic spaces. And I'm just sitting there wondering like, WTF is our knowledge? Where's Indigenous wisdom, Mi’kmaq knowledge? Where are the constellations? Why don't we talk about that? And so this sort of became of this giant rabbit hole that I've been going through trying to find different knowledges and Indigenous methodologies, and trying to create new space in academic astronomy for more Indigenous knowledges, though, granted, that mostly focused on the North American Carolinian peoples. There's just too much out there to try to do everything. And so hopefully now in the fall, we'll be launching our new course on Indigenous astronomy, that will be a senior level course talking of issues around colonization and astronomy, whether that's dealing with telescopes on Earth or going out to Mars, talking about knowledges, and then Indigenous methodologies. You know, how would an Indigenous, how would Indigenous peoples think about the concepts like the Drake Equation. Like we asked the question, how many advanced civilizations are there? And, noting that “advanced civilization” has its own problems with terminology, are there in our galaxy? And, you know, some dude named Frank Drake in the 1960s came up this whole way of kind of thinking about this through an equation. And all the assumptions presently require things like, what's intelligent life? How does life form? What is a civilization? And if we just step back and think back to, you know, how different Indigenous communities would think about these things and what does that mean? And there are ways of going through these kind of thought processes. One of the simple aspects of the Drake Equation is, you know, how long civilizations sort of last that can communicate. And Frank Drake, you know, was doing this during the Cold War. So, you know, the biggest fear was nuclear bombs. So he was suggesting maybe a century to 1000 years that's the length societies exist Now that we're in the era of climate change, probably, the same numbers apply. But, you know, I remember when seeing this meme a few years ago of “Canada- 150;  Mi’kmaq- 13,000.” Patty Krawec: Right. Hilding Neilson: So you know, if Western civilization’s got about a century, perhaps Indigenous civilizations have 10s of 1000s of years.Hilding Neilson And you know, that's tens of thousands of  years longer to exist. It means many more Indigenous type, or Indigenous life possibilities of intelligent civilizations in our galaxy. So just thinking from an Indigenous perspective, using–and trying not to really be pan-Indigenous–But, you know, common methodologies that you can have so many more civilizations in our galaxy, if you think about it, through those lenses of different Indigenous nations relative to traditional western science. And we could probably play through this exercise through different elements in astronomy and physics. And I think this sort of helped create this critical lens, again, around how we talk about astronomy and astrophysics, because it's become so Eurocentric, so westernized, so much in this narrative of “Space Cowboys, Colonizing Mars, Planting a flag, Sending messages out to other worlds,” that were really embodied within the same colonial narrative in the last four or five centuries, that I think we're due now to actually start thinking about it from a from a broader context.Patty Krawec  There were two things that Chanda talked about, and I kind of tweeted about it. Because one of the things that she mentions, is Euclidean, she's talking about Euclidean geometry, just you know, to bring it way down to super simple stuff. For all the non-physicists in the room. What she's talking about is that we're thinking in terms of, you know, Euclidean geometry is, you know, squares have a certain number of angles inside them. And triangles always add up to 180. But then, when we map that onto a curved space, that doesn't work, the triangle no longer adds up to 180. And yet, we live on a curved planet, underneath a curved sky. And we think in terms of these, you know, of these flat, you know, these these flat geometries, which got me thinking, you know, which got me thinking about the way colonisation worked, carving up the countries into these little squares to give away chunks of land. And they're carving up spaces that are curved, you know, they're carving rivers in half, and hills in half. And, you know, just because the lines match up, and they're mapping this grid and starting this, this disconnection, and we do that to the sky, we kind of chart it off in ways that aren't super helpful. I mean, they're helpful if you want to lay claim to it, if you want to, like you say, plant your flag in it, then it's very helpful to map it out that way. But in terms of relationship, in terms of understanding how things connect together, is not super helpful. So how does, I guess, how does the night sky change? When we look at it through Indigenous eyes?Hilding Neilson I think if we look at the night sky, and start the traditional Greco Roman, we have all these constellations defined by this International Astronomical Union. So ADA constellations. And this was done on, around the beginning of the 1900s, by a British guy, a German guy and a French guy. So it’s a bad joke already. And when this happened, they kind of, like you said, they carved it up. They used Greek stories, they made up and borrowed some constellations from different parts, particularly for the southern hemisphere, where they completely imported their own belief system into those constellations. But in doing so, they also sanitized a lot of the Greek and Roman stories. You know, there are Greek and Roman stories for Ursa Major, Ursa Minor and Cepheus, and all these different constellations. But when we did this mapping, which was solely for convenience for people with telescopes, who want to do the observing and had to know where to look, it became, turned into nothing. You know, it took all the, it took our connections away from it, from a European,in the European sense. And when that became transplanted over here, you know, the Mi’kmaq, where there's Ursa Major, the Mi’kmaq also have a bear constellation. The Cree have a Bear constellation. Lots of cultures in the world have bear constellations around what we would call the Big Dipper today. Patty Krawec: Really, we all looked at that and saw a bear.Hilding Neilson Many, yeah, to many, it's a bear and hunters.Patty Krawec: That’s neat.Hilding Neilson: A bear in a tail, sometimes bear and cubs. There's a lot of commonalities like that. And, but the problem is that this was designed solely to erase Indigenous cultures and Indigenous knowledges. And for me, like the Mi’kmaq, for many Indigenous peoples in what is today Canada, you know, what is in the sky, it's kind of a reflection of the land below; your knowledge is localized. And so if we basically say that constellation is Ursa Major, and your knowledge doesn't count, that's all about removing us, removing us from the land, just as much of that–maybe not as much as actually literally removing us from the land, but it's, it's part of that disconnection. And, and so that erasure is a part of the problem. And I think that, you know, for my own self, like, I didn't get to grow up within a community, you know, most people, most Mi’kmaq in Newfoundland, we were kind of away from most of the communities. Just where Newfoundland was. And in that respect, you know, how do we kind of understand those constellations? Yeah, I only know one or two Mi’kmaq constellations. I don't think I can name all 88 European constellations, but I can name a lot of them. I could probably name a few of the Cree constellations, thanks to, you know, listening to Wilfred Buck and reading his stories. And so trying to reclaim that knowledge is also kind of important, because that's part of our connection to the land. And you know, what, the constellations I see here, where I'm sitting in Toronto, or Tkaronto, are different than if I go to the far north, or if I go to the southern hemisphere. You know, if I go to Australia, the moon looks completely different. You know, for someone coming from Australia to here, the moon looks like it's upside down, and vice versa. And so the stories change, and our connection and our relations to these, to these special objects change. And that's, that's one of the unfortunate repercussions of the legacy of colonization with respect to the night sky. And then another thing, I think, relates to that, not just the constellations, but it's the light pollution.Patty Krawec Oh, yes.Hilding Neilson: So, you know, I like to joke, you know, I live in Toronto, if I step out onto my balcony, I might see five stars in the night. One of them might be on CBC TV. You know, they, they're just so few you can see. So you just lose that connection in this void of installedl light? Patty Krawec: Yes. Hilding Neilson: And how do we, you know, so I can't see the Milky Way, or what in Mi’kmaq would be a spirit road, which is also a spirit path for many other cultures, you know? So how do you connect to the ancestors, in that respect. all these things..Patty Krawec  Really, that's actually a really interesting point. Then eventually, I'll let Kerry get a word in edgewise. She's just here smiling and nodding and taking it all in the way she does. Because that's something like when I think about language, right, there's something residential schools took from us. And then if, you know, so if, in your cosmology, you believe that you need to speak the language, or the spirits won't understand what you're saying, how do you show gratitude? They can't hear you. And then if you die, and you don't speak the language, then the spirits won't recognize you. And so removing language in that way, you know, kind of cuts us off. And then as you were talking about not being able to see the night sky, the, you know, the stars, are our ancestors, and after reading Chanda’s book, they are in a very real sense. You know, really, you know, they really are our ancestors, they really are our relatives, you know, in a very literal kind of way, you know, very material kind of way. But that light pollution, that also cuts us off from them, cuts us off from being able to see them in the way that our, you know, our ancestors walking this earth, saw and understood themselves to exist. You know, kind of beneath the sky in relation in relationship to the sky. So that's, yeah, she asks that in her book, like what would it take for our communities to see, to see the stars. What would it take? Reflecting on her own having to be driven outside of LA for a, you know, two, three hour drive to be able to see. What would it take for our children, you know, for our communities? What changes do we need to make for them to be able to see the night sky? We're going to the National Park in Nova Scotia this summer, and I found out that it's a dark sky preserve. So I had to rearrange our travel plans, so that we will be there during the new moon so well, there's no moon and there'll be no moon in the sky. I've never seen the stars like that. This is going to be amazing. Hilding Neilson: Yeah. Patty Krawec: And I'm 55. And I've, and there will be a whole night sky that I've never experienced, that my father had. My father did, from growing up in northern Ontario. Like, it's that, it's that tangible. It’s that recent. For a lot of us. Not for all of us, but for a lot of us.Hilding Neilson:Yeah, no, I mean, you know, I haven't been home to visit my family, since before the, these end times, COVID. And, you know, when going home and seeing the night sky and seeing what is essentially billions of lights over your head, it's completely transforming and different and far more reassuring. In my mind, it's like, it feels more like a blanket. And, you know, there's a greater universe, there's relations, you know, Western science did get it right when Carl Sagan said we are made, we are made of star stuff. Just like Cree people, we are star, you know, star people. You know, it's all true. And we have that connection when you're sitting in Toronto and just basking in that eerie orange glow. You know, I think we miss out on so much. And I think it also negatively impacts how we, how we understand things like astronomy, physics. Even from a Western sense, the great, the great astronomers in Europe or even in, you know, China and India. And, you know, if you only think about it from true, purely Indigenous North American sense, you know, everyone had that kind of perspective of the night sky, they could observe it. If they had the telescopes or lenses or instruments, they can see these things, learn to connect, and figure out how they want to connect with it. Whereas today, in Toronto, there's no way to connect to the night sky. Unless I want to use a computer and then log onto a planetarium software. That's sort of what I think that's sort of what our children have to deal with today is, it's easier to see the constellations through a computer software than it is to go outside.Patty Krawec  Well, and even what they see is filtered right? Like I've got that Stargaze, that star map app on my phone. So because I don't, I can recognize the Big Dipper on a good night. Really I’m not very good at it.Hilding Neilson: I’m honestly not much better.Patty Krawec: But you know, I hold up my phone, and I can find it, I can find it that way. And I kind of map out “Oh, that's where this is. And that's where that is.” But they're all…They're not the Cree constellations. You know, they're not…they're not the Igbo, or Yoruba constellations. They're not the Anishinaabe constellations; they're not the way our ancestors would have seen the night sky. They're organized and collated in a way, you know, in a European way. And all those disconnected stories.Hilding Neilson: 28:04Our constellations aren't static, either. I mean, sometimes, you know, in Mi’kmaq, we have the story of the bear, and the bear changes throughout the year. You know, in the winter, the bear is on his back, as a spirit, and in the summer, it’s running across the land. Some of the constellations have different meanings at different times of the year, whereas the European constellations are static, kind of locked in forever, or as forever as they want it to be. So, you know, I think we've kind of missed out on a lot of dynamic aspects of these constellations that come from the motions of the Earth around the Sun, or the rotation of the earth. And motions of sky around us. And so so there's a lot, I think, a lot more depth in eliminating Indigenous constellations that we don't see. Relative to the European.Kerry Goring I, this conversation is… I'm loving so many points, there's so many things that you guys have touched that I've kind of been like, yeah, right. Um, what comes to mind for me when I think about it, is how, what you mentioned very early on, the idea of building of, of the erasure, you know, the way that when you were talking about that $500 500 Page textbook, that would just, you know, mention maybe two pages of the ancient ways or of Indigenous cultures showing up in those books. And what I find fascinating about that, is that we know that ancient cultures actually are, actually really had mapping and stargazing down to a science, down to a detailed finite way that they were building architecture and buildings to map and and offer that space up. And so it's kind of like a little tiny bit of a pet project, but I really enjoy talking about this from an ancient space. And what comes to mind for me is even these knowledges that weren't, or Europeans have suppressed or have not allowed, or colonization has suppressed and not allowed us to expand into. Take, for example, the Dogon tribe, which is an African tribe that existed and was kind of, was very much removed from, you know, civilization or from colonialism until the early 1900s. And I'm sure you can explain a lot more about this, but they knew about the constellation or the the star system, Sirius, sorry, they knew about Sirius B, was it? Was it that they found and could map Sirius B before Europeans even knew it existed, and they speak about it from their own ancient traditions, you know, it goes into a whole other realm, which I'm really into. But the idea that they were given the gifts from their, you know, from their gods that came down and told them how to map the star systems. And they had no modern day interactions to be able to have known that it existed, except for from some sort of knowledge that must have been ancient to them. And I think about when we talk about this, this idea of the erasure, how much of the truth of how the history of our planet, the history of our species, understanding the relationships that exists between us, the stars, space and the universe, are being affected, because we have been narrowed down and washed down into–what I love Patty, when you were talking about the idea of a two dimensional space–instead of knowing the curvature of our lands, and knowing the curvature of the skies? How much of us is not being met, or the truth of us is being so lost in those spaces?Hilding Neilson: Definitely true, I've heard the story of the Dogon, and to put it in context, Sirius A is one of the brightest stars in the night sky, and Sirius B is what's called a white dwarf star, which is really small, compact, and is essentially the dead remainder of a star that has lost most of its material. And so today, you can only really see Sirius B with the telescope. Now, I don't really know much about the Dogon story, because, as I understand, it came through from French anthropologists, and as soon as I hear the word anthropologist, I tend to tune out. But yeah, that is very possible, and very likely, they did know better, because it might have been a star bright enough to the human eye 10,000 years ago, or 20,000 years ago, or even 100,000 years ago. And there are stories like that that come up all the time. You know, there are stories of a Paiute story from the West Coast about how the North Star came to be. And it is a son of the chief who's climbing a mountain, loves climbing mountains. And he finds this really hard peak to climb. And he keeps going around in circles, circles, and circles trying to find a way up the mountain but it’s so hard. Eventually he finds an opening and goes through the cave, and climbs away to the top. But unfortunately, when he gets to the top, there was a, there was an avalanche and the cave closed and he's trapped on the mountain. And that story can literally be interpreted as procession of the star. Because our what we call the North Star today wasn't always the North Star. It had to go around and around around. And so we see these long time domains. And that's one of the things that's very valuable in astronomy. There are stories in Anishinaabe, about heartberry stars, which are red supergiants, that change brightness. And the same very similar stories are seen in different Indigenous Australian nations about these things. And a ton of Indigenous knowledge is carried so much time domain, that, you know, if I think, you know, if Western astronomers just sat down and listened, we would learn a lot about these knowledges and about the history of the universe. Because it was only a couple centuries ago where we were, where the popular dogma was that the astronomy or space was static, and that it was unchanging. But yeah, that wasn't part of, I think, the Indigenous way.Patty Krawec  What's possible just to come back, you know, to what you had said about you know, when you hear anthropologist, you kind of, because yeah, I mean, they just they get so much wrong because they've got this particular lens that they're trying to jam the story into. So because then like the Anishinaabeg word for North actually means “goes home” and it contains, according to elders, it contains the idea of the glaciers going home, which meant we knew that they weren't always, you know, so during the last ice age, we knew that they had come from the north and gone back, which suggests knowledge of well over, you know, you know, 10-15,000 years because we didn't just know they were there, we knew where they'd come from, we knew that they went back. So it's the same, you know, with the star, maybe they knew it 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 years ago, their language contained the story of this star that is no longer visible, but it was back then. And so when the French anthropologist heard it, they're like, Oh, the stars have always looked like this. Therefore, these people couldn't have figured it out on their own. It must have been aliens telling them about it. Must have been… Hilding Neilson: Yeah Patty Krawec: couldn't have known it themselves, and yet, they did. so that's really, but I hadn't put those things together. That's really neat. So yeah, and we're. Yeah, so we had a question in the chat. So if you could, I don't even know what it means. But I'm gonna, I'm gonna let you answer that.Hilding Neilson: If we look at the Western constellation Orion, on one of the shoulders was a very red star called Betelgeuse. And this is a famous red supergiant that is near the end of its life. And when it finally dies, it's going to explode as a supernova. And it’s going to be so bright, we'll probably see during the day. Like it'd be, it could be about as bright as Venus. Patty Krawec: WowHilding Neilson: And so this is not the first star that has ever done this, blown up like that. And as opposed to being bright enough and close enough that we could see it. There have been other instances, around the year 1000, there was a star in what was called the Crab Nebula. In terms of Indigenous stories, I've only heard of one. And I can't confirm it, because the times that I was given in the story, don't line up with the astronomical knowledge, but it’s possible. So I was contacted by someone in Mi’kma’ki telling me about the Mi’kmaq flag. And the Mi’kmaq flag is a white flag with a cross and a star and a moon. And the person was telling me that the stars in the moon reflect a catastrophic, catastrophic event or timeframe, where people were struggling and there was starvation. But it was because there was a bright star in the sky that didn't belong there in a constellation that Europe called Cygnus. And he said, this was about 2000 years ago. I was very curious, because the fact that he took, the person told me the constellation, I'm like, I had to look this up. And there is a remnant of a star that was there, but that's, our best estimates’ that it exploded around 20,000 years ago. Now, I don't know, everybody tells time different, stories change. So maybe it's related. We know from more recently, there's a very popular one called the Crab Nebula, which is the explosion about 1000 years ago, that appears on historical records from around the world. It has been linked to the city Cahokia. in what is today Mississippi, I believe, which was a large Indigenous city there. I don't know how true that is. But people have tried to link the two events’ timescales. But as seen, seen a lot of Korean and Chinese texts, where they note that there's a new star in the sky. And so, but funnily enough, it never appeared in European texts that I'm aware of. It has happened, and I think we see these, these stories do occur. I'm not really familiar with too many of them. I'm trying to think if there's any, I can't think of any others off the top of my head. But, you know, even just a few years ago, or a few 100 years ago, you know, the heyday of Isaac Newton, and then, you know, that was a big deal for a lot of astronomers, was to find these new stars, supernovae and so like, you know, Kepler and Deacon Brian and these famous white scientists in Europe, spent time and found a few. Not aware of any stories, Indigenous stories that are being linked to these events. I'm sure they're there.patty krawec  39:16Yeah, yeah, we just need to listen to the stories and sometimes it's, it's the way we hear them. Right. Like, it's understanding like, remember, we talked with Del Lessin some time ago about they're basically rebuilding the Catawba language. And there was a story about oh, I think it was a rabbit. And it caught, you know, things caught on fire. And it, you know, and it sounded like just kind of this funny story about this rabbit dragging fire through a field. But what it actually contained was agricultural knowledge about agricultural burning. And there was a plant, a sunflower-type plant, that has an edible tuber and required…So the story contains all of this knowledge that they didn't initially recognize because of language loss because of culture loss, it just seemed like an interesting story.And so, you know, that now they understand is actually something that contains agriculture, you know, important agricultural knowledge, which then makes you go back and look at the other stories. What knowledge is in there, that we're not getting, because we've lost so much contact context? and like you had said about the Greek stories and stuff that are put up into the constellation, even those are stripped. You know, even in the process of colonizing the sky, they still stripped meaning from it, we don't even get good stories, we just get kind of these stripped-down, sanitized picture books. But the real story is there, like it's there. And in our stories, in our cosmology, we just need to…we just need to listen differently, and look at and look at them differently. And some of that is… how did you start shifting your lens? Because you talked about not not growing up surrounded, you know, by a Mi’kmaq community. How did you start shifting your lens?Hilding Neilson It really wasn't that long ago. You know, I'm fully trained in the Western system of astronomy. And I think really hit off when I had that interaction with Wilfred Buck, not seeing any Indigenous Knowledges. And then just diving into some of the great works, you know, the works, Murray Battista, Gregory cathead, all these great Indigenous science experts talking about all these different ideas and ways of thinking, and perspectives. And I always have to step back and be like, Whoa, what am I? Why am I doing? Why am I thinking about this question this way? Why am I thinking about stellar physics this way? Or quantum mechanics that way? You know, all these things are coming together. And you kind of have to question, I mean, it's really only been like the last four or five years where I've really been trying to relearn everything. And for the most part, I feel like I've done a whole other PhD.patty krawec  42:19So let's talk about quantum mechanics for a minute, because that's, or maybe longer, because that’ll take a minute just to explain what that is. Because I was reading Lawrence Gross, and he has this book called Anishinaabe Ways of Knowing and Being, and I have to get it out again, it's actually behind me on my bookshelf, because there's a chapter in there where he talks about how in the Anishinaabe worldview and way of thinking–and the Mi’kmaq and Anishinabeg are cousins. You know, we migrated east and I guess made relatives and came back. So we're, you know, we're cousins, but he says that our worldview is much closer to kind of a quantum mechanic way of understanding things. And I've read his chapter. I've read Chanda. It's still just outside my grasp. Hilding Neilson: YeahKerry Goring  this is just a really, really smartpatty krawec Two people in the chat are like, Wow, I love quantum mechanics. So yeah, do it!Hilding Neilson Yeah, yeah. So quantum mechanics is one of those things I'm always afraid to talk about, because I don't understand quantum mechanics either. I suspect most people in physics and astronomy don't actually understand quantum mechanics, we just do the math and hope for the best.Patty Krawec  AW says they are a quantum mechanic.Kerry Goring  And that's interesting, because I had just listened… I'm laughing about that, because I had just listened to a talk with a physicist named Sean. What is Sean last name? Hilding Neilson: Sean Carroll?Kerry Goring: Sean Carroll. Yes. And he was talking about that. And I thought it was fascinating that physicists are more concerned with the application, is that a better way of putting it? Versus actually an overall grasp of what they're actually…what actually it is? And that was like mind blowing to me to know that it's, we just assume, there's like this assumption that this works. But nobody's really looked at what makes it work, if that makes…or we're looking at what makes it work, but not why it's there. Does that make sense? Sort of? I think?Hilding NeilsonI think it makes perfect sense. I think, I think we do focus a lot on the how it works, as opposed to why it’s doing what it's doing. And I think from very much this, astronomers’ perspective, which is quantum mechanics is something you try to do your best to approximate and not actually work with. You just try to work around it. We think so much from this classical Euclidean sense and quantum mechanics is completely counterintuitive to that. Whereas most Indigenous knowledges that are coming to grasp how everything is very much about relative, like how things relate between you and I. How I observe something is very different from how you observe something, and that both truths can be true. Whereas in the West, we think everything has to be an absolute truth, which defies quantum mechanics because quantum mechanics of the particle has some speed and some place, but you can't really tell which is which. And, and so a lot of these respects, I feel like Indigenous knowledges have an easier time with quantum mechanics, because I think Indigenous knowledge is a little more relaxed about not knowing things; it's okay that there are mysteries. Whereas in the West, having a mystery is the worst thing possible. You know, it, it has to be explainable, has to be reducible. It has to be objective, and, like, I have trouble with quantum mechanics. I listen to Sean Carroll, fairly regularly, you know, I love his, his writing and words, and he signed it as “many worlds theory,” where you get, where if you observe a quantum event, depending on how you observe it, the universe branches. And then like, are we literally increasing the number of universes to help us explain how we don't know something? And we kind of do that we, when we don't understand something locally, we tend to make things bigger. We don't, we don't understand evolution. So we make evolutionary changes smaller, over a longer time, time periods. It works. We don't understand cosmology? Make the universe older. Or you don't understand why cosmology works? So well, we just create a multiverse. You know, one of the explanations of how we're, that we can live in a universe that seems to work, is that there's lots of universes. And there's just so many of these things like that, I think, you know, my understanding of Indigenous people is, we live in a universe that works, where things are just perfect for us to exist, because we exist, it has to be that way. That's how we're related, that's how our relation with the universe. Whereas if you're in the West, you have the axiom that the universe doesn't care about us, that we, you know, the fact that we exist should just be a fluke. For the fact that we live in a universe that’s just right. Can't, doesn't make sense. And I have colleagues who get really stressed out by this question. And given, given to the point, they try to pull out their hair, which, given that no one’s had a haircut in a long time, might be useful. But they just struggle with this, and they don't like it. So sometimes they come up with the multiverse theory where we have, where we are in one universe in a bubble of others. And there are other reasons to expect the multiverse. AW Peet is much more of an expert on that than I am, for instance, I'd rather, I'd rather defer to them. But please let AW jump in. There's just so many of these things that I think Indigenous knowledges learn to accept, because it's part of being in relation. And our relationality is what makes, allows for these things to work. I think with quantum mechanics, it’s a little more difficult, because it's, we also accept there's a mystery, but there is fuzzy truth, when there's multiple truths that can can coexist at the same time. Whereas in the West, everything has to be objectively true. I do experiment, you do experiment, you should get the same answer. Yeah. And that objectivity doesn't quite work. Otherwise. Patty Krawec: Oh, okay.Hilding Neilson: but that's sort of the best I can come up with, by kind of b.s.ing a lot. You know, but Yeah, cuz I'm really speaking not in my best. Yeah.Kerry Goring  I love that you, you know, took the attempt, and I think you did beautifully with it. I appreciate you, kind of, tackling it. Because I think what I love about that is it's almost from this layman's space with a plus, because you definitely know more than we do. But what I, when I think about this, and then we put it into the space of our Indigenous, and you know, my Afro-centric cultures, it does come from that acceptance, that mystery is real, and with that, offers the simplicity to be in relation with all of those spaces. And what I mean by “spaces” is the universe, the stars, the earth, how we stand on the earth, the relationship that we have with, you know, the animals on our planes, all of those things have an interconnected sense that is wrapped in the mystery. And so, when we, like, I totally believe in the scientific, scientific method and I, you know, I understand that being a space that we have as a template to work from, but I do sometimes think that that part of it, the idea of the acceptance, that some of it is still to be revealed. And being okay in that is lacking in the way that we exist. And so what happens with that is that it's exactly that idea of disregarding, you know, or just pretending that that mystery isn't valuable.Patty Krawec  I had a, I remember when I was in science in grade nine, our science teacher, because it was the only year that I had to take science. We had a teacher who had, we were going over the criteria for life. And I think there's six, I don't remember what they are. Anyway, so we had, we had, there were six criteria for life. And he asked us, you know, you know, he's kind of running us through it, do plants meet it? does this person meet it? Does this, the rocks meet the criteria? And you know, we kind of go through it, And we're like, Nope, they don't. And he asked us again, are you sure? And we're like, oh, is this a trick question? You know, and so we went through them again, and we're like, nope, rocks are not alive. They don't meet the criteria. And he says, Well, what if they just do this too slow? And we can't measure it? What if they do this, and you know, we just don't have the capacity to see it? Like, he wasn't trying to tell us that rocks were alive. He was trying to tell us to keep those questions open. That what we, because he says science is one long chain of “we thought we knew that and we turned out to be wrong.” So maybe our criteria is wrong. And we always need to be open, you know, to thinking and questioning.And he's the only science teacher that I came across was like that. Because I think like you said, they have this idea that there's fixed knowledge. And I wonder, I wonder if some of that comes down to European thinkers emerging in a place where everybody had the same basic cosmology, right? Like, the, all three Abrahamic religions existed. And you know, in Europe, the Jews and the Muslims were not treated very well. But they had the same fundamental cosmology, the same creation story, the same flood narrative. Whereas here, we're all bumping up against each other with our trading relationships and our treaties and stuff. And we don't have the same cosmologies. You know, the Anishinaabeg and the Haudenosaunee lived, you know, very close to each other in lots of spaces. And we have some similarities, but some significant differences in terms of how we understand the world. And the Anishinaabeg and the Lakota are also kind of right up against each other. And we have significantly different cosmologies in terms of…like, there's a lot of similarities about how we see the world, but our cosmology, like our religions, you know, to use that word, are very different. And yet we learned to accept that it was not a big deal. So I kind of wonder if some of that, because now I'm reading, a pastor friend of mine, has recommended this book, shoot, what's it called? Hebrew, The Hebrew Bible and Environmental Ethics. And she's writing all about how the Bible is full of language about the world being alive, of trees, of the personhood of creation, and a very Indigenous, like, what I would think of as a very Anishinaabeg way of thinking of, the trees are people, the stars are people, the rivers are people, that this stuff is woven through. Because she says that when we talk about it, like it's a metaphor, we're not… like, you know, “the trees clap with joy.” And we're not saying that the trees have hands, but we're saying that they're expressing joy, that when the Hebrew people came back to the land, the land was happy, that the land had the capacity to care. And that's been completely stripped, like that's not present anywhere in any Christian theology that I have heard. So that's been completely stripped from the text and this is kind of my quest right now, about how these things got stripped. Because it got stripped from the way we understand the sky so…I don't even remember where I was going with that.Kerry Goring  I’m just loving it though.patty krawec  They had created this kind of monolithic belief system that didn't allow for that kind of relationality whereas here on Turtle Island, or whatever we want to call it, we were constantly bumping up against other ways of thinking about things and had…we're just okay with it. Like that's just the Lakota are weird, but that's who they are.Kerry Goring  It's okay to be like that, you know, that sense of acceptance, right? It's that sense of being in acceptance for all of it that I think is, is what you're bringing front and center. And just even taking in what you're saying there, Patty, I think it's quite brilliant, really interesting book, that's got to go down in the check of that one.Hilding Neilson That me too, that sounds very…very interesting.Kerry Goring  That's very interesting. Um, however, what, what also comes to me when I think about that, is this sense that we have here that with that stripping, it was, it was what afforded this whole system, the colonial space that we exist in, to be even created. And this disconnection that we are experiencing with the Earth and the land, I just want my, my breath was just really heavy earlier today, because I was reading an article, I think it was in USA Today. And they were talking about, they want to move from saying climate change into using the terminology climate emergency. Because of the carbon that's in the earth, in the atmosphere, we're moving in major, major ways that is getting scary. They know that the Antarctic, the sheets, the ice sheets in the Antarctic, are going to hit the sea very soon. And it's just a really scary dynamic. And personally, I have family, you know, in St. Vincent right now, where there is a, the volcano is going off, and I'm getting live, you know, real live. You know, just talking to my people's real live experience of what that kind of space is. And so when I think about how we have existed and disconnected, the answers for me are coming from when we are doing and having conversations like this, of course, but really deep diving into this exploration of how we relate. How do we come back? How do we figure out those pieces that have been taken out and put back in? So you know, when I hear that you're doing this work, Hilding, that, to me is like, it's invaluable. How do we create this space now?Hilding Neilson Yeah, this is very interesting. Without the discussion, last semester was popped my mind is Mars. So NASA just .. this most recent mission Mars called Perseverance, you know, a little toy car going around the surface of Mars, going out of the first helicopter launch on Mars. And there are lots of robots on Mars, and maybe in 20 years, there will be people. And hopefully, those people will not be led by Elon Musk. But, you know, but it does raise a lot of questions in the meantime, which is, how alive is Mars? We don't know of anything alive on Mars within our current definition. We're pretty sure nothing comes above the surface. We haven't really explored the subsurface of Mars. There could be life. Maybe single, probably single single cell life. Life is there, probably there. And even if it isn't, do we have rights to impact that? What are the rights of Mars? I mean, you know, there's a great comic. That's the earth in a hospital bed. And another planet is a doctor saying, “Oops, you have humans?” Do we really have a right to infect Mars with more humans? Or do we have that same right to the moon? How do we do that? How do we talk about coloni-? You know? Because we do, we literally talk about Mars as colonization. Patty Krawec:Yes Hilding Neilson: We have movies of Matt Damon on Mars and we send billions of dollars rescuing rescuing a dumb white dude. Yeah, and fully full disclosure. I'm also a dumb white dude. So you know, how do we talk about Mars? From an Anishinaabeg perspective? What would an Anishinabeg, what would the Haudenosaunee, what would a Mi’kmaq or Inuit mission to Mars look like? How do we engage and interact with Mars? You know, do we? What gifts do you offer Mars? If we visit, what are we allowed to take away from Mars? And we need, really need to have that conversation because right now the conversation is basically a Western novel. And we, the word frontier gets used a lot. Or colonizing, you know, they've sort of avoided colonization for the word exploration. But it's pretty much a dog whistle when it's basically going to be Elon Musk, or another rich dude sending people there to do space mining. Because, you know, capitalism. And how we face these things, I think very much because in this play of environmental ethics, as you mentioned, how we relate, how we want to be intentionally related with Mars, because I mean, humans, if the human mission to Mars has the same kind of history as on Earth, and last century of climate change, we're probably not going to leave it, do anything good on Mars.Patty Krawec We're not going to leave better than we found it.Hilding Neilson No. And I mean, there are people who talk about dropping asteroids on Mars with the sole purpose of heating it up, blowing it up and creating an atmosphere, so that we can terraform it. I mean, that's sort of what people really dream about is terraforming Mars. And I think we can look around North America and various other parts of the world and see terraforming from, you know, when Europeans killed the bison and introduced wheat and cattle to the prairie, or how we terraform north, at different parts of the world. Doesn't quite work as well as when we look at how various Indigenous communities sort of lived in concerts, where you know, Haudenosaunee, and their farming practices, pastoral farming out east, you know, the way we treat hunts, and all these things. And so we need to have a, we definitely need to have this space open for more Indigenous, whether it's Indigenous from North America, Afro-Indigenous, Australian Indigenous, specific, everywhere in this conversation. And to be honest, if I'm going to fly on a rocket from the Earth to Mars, over 200 days, the person I probably want to ask about is someone who can actually navigate the Pacific using nothing but their hand, as opposed to say NASA who, sent Matt Damon to Mars. There's so much expertise in Indigenous communities for doing these things that we don't even think about. At least in the Western, from NASA or the Canadian Space Agency, necessarily. And so we should be having this conversation. And we should be having that we really need that space, if this is what we want to do. If not, if we not we're basically going to leave space exploration and going to the moon and basically passing NASA satellites to people like Elon Musk. And if it's not obvious, I kind of really dislike that guy.patty krawec  Well, just like when we were talking about the skyKerry Goring: How did we guess? Patty Krawec: And, you know, it's not just cluttered from light below. Thanks to Elon Musk, it's cluttered from, it's now cluttered, you know, from things he's putting up there. And, you know, it's causing problems and he doesn't care because that's not, that's not his, that's not the frame that he thinks within.Hilding Neilson If light pollution erases our stories, those satellites are rewriting them. Patty Krawec: Yes. Hilding Neilson: And why does he get to do that?Kerry Goring  Love that. And I think that is so powerful. I never, like, I've had these thoughts. So hearing you speak it and really, you know, bringing that into the light, love that. I'm really relating, it resonates deeply because I agree with you. And for me, the other piece to that is this idea that we discard the earth, this idea that we have raped her, you know, The Earth has been raped and pillaged very much like, guess what, you know, every colonial story that we know. And now we're about to just move on. And so it speaks to me about this push in the way that we are human. And how we are showing up in our humanness. So I, and without the interjection, without that conversation being had, and I don't know if it's happening en mass yet, but without those conversations, we are destined to repeat itHilding Neilson Absolutely, I mean, you know, if Amazon, Jeff Bezos , if these people are driving the conversation, you know, they're just, they're just the mercantile colonialists. There's no difference in Elon Musk and Samuel de Champlain. And the worst part about Samuel de Champlain, is he had his life saved by Indigenous people cuz he went ..  and be cured of scurvy and he just thanked God, as opposed to the, you know, people? Patty Krawec: Yeah. Hilding Neilson: And this is what we’re facing again. Yeah, we're facing this again. It’s this, the same story, just being retold on a whole new scale. And people are, conversations are starting to be had. I think there’re developments in terms of international law with things called Artemis Accords, which are related primarily to going to the moon and lunar exploration. But the biggest thing there is about preserving sites on the moon of astronomical significance or human significance. So, you know, where they planted the flag on the moon, that might be a national park, or lunar National Park. But that doesn't stop anybody from moving up there. And, you know, drawing a smiley face on the face of the moon.patty krawec And national parks…Kerry Goring  What, what does that even mean?patty krawec  1:05:58Right, because they create this idea of wilderness and nature that takes people out of it. And it preserves it, like, for what? You know, so it's just, why are we like this? Why are we like this? where to think about what kinds of humans. I just wrote an essay for Rampant Magazine, where we're like, what kind of people do we want to be? What kind of ancestors, you know? As we get thinking about, you   know, thinking about the stars, you know, looking up at the stars, and knowing that those are our ancestors and knowing that we're going to be ancestors, we're going to be star stuff, you know. So what kind of ancestors do we want to be to the worlds that come after us? Because we're, you know, worlds came before us, worlds will come after us, what kind of ancestors do we want to be? What do we want to leave? What kind of footsteps do we want to leave? And stories and possibilities? And we got to think about that stuff. As opposed to? Well, they are, they are thinking about that kind of stuff. They're just not coming to the same conclusions that we would want them to.Kerry Goring  What big? How big is that? Like? What we're talking about? I'm really interested in those, in the conversations. How big is that movement? Is it? Is it growing? Like, is there an understanding that, wait a minute, we're creating the possibility of lunar parks on the moon like that, that makes me…I'm laughing, but I'm horrified all in the same breath. Are those conversations coming up in real ways, like in “Wait a minute. Hello, hello, hello,” type thoughts? Because we are hearing more about the explorations happening. And, and do we have somebody tempering it? Is that something?Hilding Neilson I don't think we really have a very strong conversation around space ethics. It's growing, largely because that's the only direction it can possibly go. It's harder to have fewer, fewer than zero people talking about it. So there's things that are starting to happen slowly in the astronomy community, but it's very limited. I think astronomy, my colleagues really kind of learned something about this from Elon Musk, when he put up the satellites and it interfered with telescopes on our, you know, because when the satellites cross upon the telescope, you just got all these streaks on your images. And they, and there were people who freaked out and accused Elon Musk of colonization, and not consulting and all this other language that we were ignoring from Native Hawaiians talking about the 30 meter telescope on Mauna Kea. And this is a project in Hawai’i to build a very big telescope on top of the mountain, where many Native Hawaiians said, “No, we're good.” And many of my colleagues were turned, kind of, were very against the Hawaiian response, using phrases like “science versus religion,” “progress versus history.” And then they used the same language as many of the Indigenous peoples were using to talk about Elon Musk. And I'm not sure they, some of them, I don't think quite got that hypocrisy. But I think a lot of people started to see that there has to be a greater discussion of voice because no matter, no matter what's happening, you know, at some point, your voice is not, might not be the one that gets heard. And then you pay the price. And so I think some of this is becoming more and more important, you know, particularly as space becomes the playground for the very, very ridiculously, uber rich.Patty Krawec  Well, this has been super interesting.I’m super interested in, you know, get in, getting more into, kind of, what quantum mechanics… just because, like what you had said about the relationality of it, and how that, you know, and how that has implications for how we understand how we work within the world, and how we relate to things. So I'm really interested in kind of going, going in that direction. I don't know, man, I read this physics book. And it was super interesting. And nobody saw that coming.Kerry Goring  1:11:45Did you watch Ant Man? Have you watched Ant Man?Patty Krawec  1:11:49No! It’s probably one of the few MC films that I haven't watchedKerry Goring  1:11:53Watch Ant Man. It will, it's a very, it was what? Okay, not really, but a little bit of what really sparked my interest in wanting to know more about quantum physics, was Ant Man. So that's also, maybe that's something we can all chat about too the next time you’re on.Patty Lrawec 1:12:13Well, I’ll watch Ant ManHilding Neilson Also, go back and rewatch End Game. All the time travel stuff is basically Sean Carroll's interpretation of quantum mechanics.patty krawec  Really. Okay that I have seen, that I have seen. Okay, AW’s putting Ant Man on their watch list.Hilding Neilson It’s a good heist movie.Kerry Goring It was a great movie. It's one of my favorites for this, from that world so…thank you, Hilding!Thank you, Hilding! I appreciate you man. This was a great talk. And also please let's, let's do this again. Got my mind working. Definitely got my mind working. And I appreciate you.patty krawec Thank you so much. Hilding Neilson: Thank you! Patty Krawec: It's super interesting. Alright, bye byeHilding Neilson: Take care.You can find more about Hilding and his work on his website And thankyou to Nick for the transcription!! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.com

Im Sternbild Cepheus, das jetzt abends am Nordhimmel leuchtet, befindet sich die große Gas- und Staubwolke LDN 1165. Vor 50 Jahren nahm der US-Astronom Beverly Turner Lynds sie in seinen Katalog der Dunkel-Nebel auf.Von Dirk Lorenzenwww.deutschlandfunk.de, SternzeitDirekter Link zur Audiodatei

In this voicemail episode we answer some voicemails received about Swords & Sorcery, Cepheus Engine and running secondary games.Title Music: Fireworks by Alexander Nakarada (Public Domain)You can leave us a voicemail message using Speakpipe.comIf you're having problems with Speakpipe you can also leave us a voicemail message on: https://anchor.fm/the-red-dice-diariesOr you can email us at RDDRPGpodcast@gmail.comCheck out our other stuff at RedDiceDiaries.comRSS feed for the podcast: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/977239.rssOur callers this episode were:RicardoLawsonRandy from Biggus Geekus This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit reddicediaries.substack.com

In this voicemail episode we answer some voicemails received about Swords & Sorcery, Cepheus Engine and running secondary games.Title Music: Fireworks by Alexander Nakarada (Public Domain)You can leave us a voicemail message using Speakpipe.comIf you're having problems with Speakpipe you can also leave us a voicemail message on: https://anchor.fm/the-red-dice-diariesOr you can email us at RDDRPGpodcast@gmail.comCheck out our other stuff at RedDiceDiaries.comRSS feed for the podcast: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/977239.rssOur callers this episode were:RicardoLawsonRandy from Biggus Geekus

In this episode Jeff and Bob dig into a couple of listener emails, announce a new event, review their last Traveller Session, and dig into a tiny fraction of the greatness that is Cepheus Deluxe.  This episode is dedicated to the great Ron Stepp, a devoted member of the Traveller community, who recently died. Ron emailed us often, and his friendship was indeed valued. Relevant Links include: Ron Stepp's Art: https://moriturimax.artstation.com/ Our "Your Longest Campaign" event submission form Michael Brown's "New World" cyberpunk setting and game based on Cepheus Engine Distress Call pdf - found on Paper Dice Games Marc Miller interview at Gary Con X, from Tales to Astound blog - from 2018 The Bureaucrat career, from Ancient Faith in the Far Future blog Traveller Robots from Research Station Gamma resin printer files FASA's Starport Module Number One Hotel Complex, on DriveThru RPG The Miller Milk Bottle, on p16 of this pdf Our last Traveller Session -- To Kill A God Part 2 Graham Spearing's review of Cepheus Deluxe, from his podcast Gaming in the First Age Cepheus Journal #8 Freelance Traveller Nov/Dec 2021 Link to all Rob Eaglestone's issues of XBOAT, on Drive-Thru Patrick Kanouse's writing on Black Gate The Speculative Machines Podcast    

Talks about Street Smart, Emperor and Cepheus

Series: Revelation: The Best is Yet to ComeTitle: “Why Worship Jesus?”Scripture: Revelation 19:11-21 (Commentary helps listed at the end)Bottom line: We worship Jesus for who he is and what he's done (and what he's doing to do): He came and He's coming again!INTRODUCTIONOpening story:See Tomb of Unknown Soldier description in Jim Hamilton's Revelation commentary.OUR NEED“We Christians don't realize who we are. We too often forget that this world is not our home. We are not earthlings. We see the city that is to come, which has eternal foundations, whose King is Jesus.”I was chatting with my long-time friend who's in the ministry about this happenings in the news this week. We talked vaccines, civil disobedience, and our identity in Christ. It was funny how we both were struggling with how to respond to the events happening in our country this week. I found that in both our cases when we focused“Mission for God exists because worship of God doesn't.” -John Piper, Let the Nations Be GladSo why worship Jesus Christ?Last week's bottom line: We worship Jesus Christ for who he is and for what he's done. We exist to worship him and enjoy him forever.Bottom line: We worship Jesus for who he is and what he's done (and what he's doing to do): He came and He's coming again!CONTEXTWe have seen:Jesus and his churches (1-3)The throne and judgments of God (6-16)The whore, the King, and his bride (17-22)We saw the fall of BabylonLast week we saw heaven celebrate himThis week we see another reason why: his return! (Second coming)OUTLINEThis passage gives us THREE huge reasons for why we worship Jesus. And they don't even include that fact that he CREATED us or that he is the RISEN Christ defeating death and living forever (which should be reasons enough!). (We covered two last week)So, in case we needed more reasons to worship Jesus, here they are in Revelation 19We worship Jesus Christ because:Of his just wrath and judgment over humanity. (Last week)Of his joyous wedding to the Bride of Christ (the Church). (Last week)Of his jubilant return ending Babylon and establishing his Kingdom forever. (This week)In light of Jesus' return in chapter 19, a vast crowd will praise him the Lamb of God:I. The celebration in Heaven (19:1-10) LAST WEEKA. Praising the Lamb for his wrath on a corrupt whore (19:1-5)The reasons for his judgment (19:2): This false religious system is condemned on two counts.Corrupting the earth with immorality (19:2a)Murdering the saints of God (19:2b)The rejoicing over this judgment (19:1, 3-5)The song (19:1b, 3, 4b-5): It consists of one great, grand, and glorious word: “Hallelujah!”The singers (19:1a, 4a)A vast multitude (19:1a)The 24 elders (19:4a)B. Praising the Lamb for his wedding to a chaste wife (19:6-10)_The clothing of the bride (19:6-9): She wears the cleanest, whitest, and finest of linens.The chastening of the apostle (19:10): John is rebuked for attempting to worship the angel who is revealing these things to him.II. The confrontation on Earth (19:11-12) THIS WEEKLet's remember we're talking about the king of kings in Rev 11:15: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will reign for ever and ever.”He's also a person in the sense that he's the second person of the trinity. This passage opens with us looking at a person—the divine person of Jesus Christ. Fully human and fully God. I can't explain it. And he's beautiful to behold. Perhaps this is why Darrell Johnson wrote, “I'm sure this is why, as my grandfather died, just before he took his last breath, he said to my father and his brothers, ‘Oh, boys! He's beautiful!” Heaven is about a person!A. His appearance as heaven's King (19:11): John sees Jesus, who is called Faithful (reliable) and True (authentic, genuine, real thing), seated on a white horse, coming from heaven.Second coming: White horse (2nd coming)—conquering king, and a Donkey (1st coming)—king of peace.Why is Jesus coming back? 3 reasons for his second coming:To judge Satan, sin, and the system of the world (Babylon) (17, 18, 19:11-21)To establish the universal, visible, manifestation of His millennial kingdom (20:1-6)To provide motivation for faithful service for the Church in each and every generation in the meantime.Second coming will be globally unmistakable:Like lightning—quick and brightly visibleLike vultures—come to consume corpses (see battle)End of great tribulation starts with judgment and vengeance.Note his character: faithful and true (just judge and just war)B. His apparel as heaven's King (19:12-13, 15-16): Jesus wins because of…His eyes…penetrating judgment and insight; he misses nothing seeing all (and he still loves you); they don't just look at us—they look through usHis many diadems (symbols of victory) all on one head represents all the kingdoms he rules (all of them); total sovereignty! It is a strange sight but not uncommon in the first century for kings to wear multiple crowns to show he was king of more than one country. A crown for every victory? you could argue a crown for every person he's rescued and defeated death for!Vs many heads each with just one crown on the dragonHis name no one knows but him—two points:In ancient times it was thought if you knew someone's name (even a god's) then you could exercise a certain level of control over him or her. To a degree that is true. If you see your friend walking down the street ahead of you and you yell out, “Betty!” She will stop and turn around. If you want to get a child's attention you say their full name Darien Roger Gabriel! It is a way of saying that Jesus Christ—as available as he's made himself—is under no one's control.In ancient times, names revealed something about the person's nature and character. “You are Simon. You shall be called Cepheus, the Rock.”His robe dipped in blood—both a priests and kings robe…His from battle—his enemies will be judged; but he arrives to the battle with blood already on his robe…His martyr's blood—his saints will be vindicatedHis blood from the cross (I favor this one)—his substitutionary atoning sacrifice will save many souls from sin, death and hellC. His authority as heaven's King (19:15-16): unparalleled authorityHis titles:The word of God (cf. John 1:1-14)-God's perfect communication and revelation (word and deed)King of kings and Lord of lords—sovereignly rules over all for ever. Not Caesar is Lord—Jesus is Lord! The declaration of faith of the early churchHis sword—his powerful words are the means from which he will conquer evil forever.He spoke to a fig tree and it withered.He spoke to howling winds and heaving waves and they calmed.He spoke to a legion of demons and they obeyed.He speaks here and the war is over and he is the victor.Jesus is “the word of God” meaning Jesus is God's speech…his final speech.His rod—more like a very strong shepherd's staff. He shepherds by leading, feeding and protecting his flock. Rule here can also be translated “shepherd”His wine press—Picture of his holy and full wrath against Babylon, Satan and his kingdom. It will also include those who follow him.D. His armies as heaven's King (19:14)—plural meaning probably humans AND angelsDressed in linen and on white horses—white represented the redeemed and linen representing priests (vs warriors); will get to follow him into battle but really no battle at all; linen is the uniform of priests and the Bride—not of warriors.No fight—Jesus shows up and it's over; Chuck Swindoll said, “Let's cut to the chase: before anybody on earth can utter the word ‘Armageddon,' the battle will be over. When God determines the end has come, it's curtains.” Insights, p. 254E. His avenging as heaven's King (19:17-21)He defeats Satan's armies.He defeats antichrist and false prophet. The first permanent residents of hell are these two.Why does Jesus Christ win? Because of who he is. He is king of kings and lord of lords. He's our Creator! He's our savior!CONCLUSIONContrasting two feasts.Wrath vs Wedding.PrayLord's Supper, 1 Corinthians 11:17-32OTHER NOTES:Contrasting first and second comings of Jesus ChristFirst vs. SecondHe rode a donkey vs a white horseHe came as the suffering servant vs King and LordHe came in humility and meekness vs majesty and powerHe was rejected by many as the Messiah vs recognized by all as LordHe came to seek and save the lost vs to judge and rule as KingHe came as God incognito vs in all His splendor-Daniel AkinOTHER ILLUSTRATIONS:MAIN COMMENTARY HELP:Exalting Jesus in Revelation by Daniel AkinRevelation by Jim HamiltonRevelation by Paige Patterson, New American Commentary seriesBreaking the Code by Bruce Metzger2020 Sermons by Matt ChandlerESV Global Study BibleBible in One Year by Nicky GumbelBible Knowledge CommentaryThe Outline Bible, WilmingtonDiscipleship on the Edge, Darrell W. JohnsonReplyReply allForward

The hot stars at the center of a nearby nursery may have Jekyll and Hyde personalities. On the one hand, they appear to trigger the birth of new stars. On the other, they may prevent the birth of even more. Cepheus OB4 is a giant complex of gas, dust, young stars, and newly forming stars. It's about 3600 light-years away, along the border between Cepheus and Cassiopeia, which are in the northeast at nightfall. The name of the complex indicates that it contains many class O and B stars. They're especially hot, bright, and heavy. OB regions are where most stars are born, so they're great labs for studying the birth of all stars. O and B stars produce powerful “winds” of hot gas. The winds ram into the surrounding clouds of gas and dust. That can cause the clouds to collapse and form new stars. But it can also blow away the material for new stars, shutting down starbirth. And a recent study says that both processes appear to be at work in Cepheus OB4. Researchers looked at about 760 young stellar objects — either infant stars or dense blobs that are about to become stars. They found many of them in regions with dense clumps of gas and dust. But they found few of them outside those regions. So winds from the stars at the center of the complex may be triggering starbirth in some places, but clearing out regions where the raw materials are more thinly spread — blocking the birth of even more stars. More tomorrow.  Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory

Hello earthlings! My name is Eric CP311X3 from planet Arcturus speaking on behalf of the Galactic Federation Of Light, and I've come to deliver an extremely important message to you and your new age starseed cronies! Wait, what? We've all been there, your at the annual light workers symposium at the Hilton Inn in Manhattan Beach CA and someone dressed up as a psychedelic Han Solo from Star Wars approaches the podium to deliver a stark warning to humanity about the future of our planet.  He closes his eyes, takes a few deep breathes and suddenly the man we all once knew as Travis is replaced by Cepheus of the high council of Andromeda!    Jenn and I have always been huge advocates for channeled messages. Aside of the typical existential spookiness we sometimes encounter with these messages, we find them quite useful in helping us gain perspective about life, the universe and ourselves.  Love can unveil itself in so many mysterious ways on our planet, and so we always want to keep an open mind along our journey.  I've always had an affinity to various elements of the “starseed” phenomena. If you've read books like “Bringers Of The Dawn” or “We Are The Arcturians”, you really cant help but feel that there may be something much bigger happening on our planet that many people aren't immediately aware of.    From dreams of past lives, to mysterious interactions with unknown beings in the astral realm, to casual encounters with alien entities during a plant medicine ceremony, there seems to be something to this whole “starseed” thing. As we approach one of the most volatile times in our human history, it seems that humanity is quickly evolving in such a way that would imply that there really is something more beautiful happening on our planet at the moment, and perhaps we as humans play an even more integral part in that.  Whether it be destruction, renewal or utopia, it is these messages of hope from our star families that bring us this sense of higher truth, purpose and hope for our world.    If you've ever wondered where your place is in this galactic convergence, its a worthy question to ponder. Why? Well, if we are a part of this universe than we are also alien inhabitants to it.  We search the skies looking for signs of alien life without acknowledging that perhaps; we are the aliens.  The question then becomes, which one are you and why are you here? In this episode, we break down each known alien civilization and their traits.  We also break down the dynamics of a starseed, their role and their collective mission on this planet at this time.   In this episode we discuss, What is a starseed The history of starseed phenomena Are you a starseed? Types of alien civilizations The mission & role of a starseed How to know if you are a starseed Why we incarnate as starseeds What is a hybrid alien starseed Starseed disclaimers & spiritual bypassing   Watch Divine Nobodies Episode on You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7UrX3p0QY4 Divine Nobodies Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/divine.nobo... Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/show/7uiWvCa... Divine Nobodies on Apple Podcasts:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast.. Contact: divinenobodiespodcast@gmail.com Website: www.divine-nobodies.com

Fin dalle sue origini il gioco di ruolo e la letteratura "sword & sorcery" sono sempre stati legati a doppio filo, infatti già nella primissima edizione di Dungeons & Dragons le influenze erano ben distinguibili per chi conoscesse la letteratura di riferimento. Ma quali sono queste influenze, e quali sono i titoli e gli autori che più hanno contribuito a questo immaginario? Ne parliamo in questo episodio assieme a Yuri Zanelli e Roberto Bisceglie.

In this episode we listen to Dr Sandra Voss, the Science Director at The Observatory Science Centre, speak about the complicated relationships of the constellations Cassiopeia, Cepheus and Andromeda. As we view the night sky in the Northern hemisphere, these constellations contain excellent pointer stars enabling navigation of large areas. As myths go… this is a grim tale of vanity and revenge. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/observatoryscicentre/message

Wer wissen will, wo Norden ist, muss am Himmel einfach nur den Polarstern finden. Das gilt allerdings nur heute und nur auf der Erde. Wer per Zeitmaschine in der Vergangenheit oder Zukunft unterwegs ist oder sich auf anderen Himmelskörpern des Sonnensystems rumtreibt, muss sich andere Orientierungshilfen suchen. Und weil “Das Universum” natürlich auch ein Service-Podcast ist, erklären wir in dieser Folge, welche Polarsterne man anderswo benutzen kann. Außerdem diskutieren wir ein wenig über die verwirrende griechische Mythologie. Und beantworten Fragen: Über das elektrische Universum, Löcher im Kosmos und das, was man alles noch nicht weiß, aber gerne wissen würde. Mit Evi reden wir über das, was in einem Astronomiestudium ganz am Anfang steht. Viel Spaß mit dem Podcast.

2d6 Fantasy is a good alternative to d20 and d100 Fantasy games. In this episode I look at 4 products that tackle the 2d6 Sword and Sorcery genre. Barbarians of Lemuria BoL Original: http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/barbarians-of-lemuria Mythic: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/144526/Barbarians-of-Lemuria-Mythic-Edition Legendary: https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/simon-washbourne/barbarians-of-lemuria-legendary-edition-hardcover/hardcover/product-1626p88y.html Sword of Cepheus: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/304840/The-Sword-of-Cepheus Barbaric!: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/348272/Barbaric Quantum Sorcery: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/351911/Quantum-Sorcery Other Links Mythic Table KS: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mythictable/mythic-table Fari App: https://fari.app/ TalesSpire: https://store.steampowered.com/app/720620/TaleSpire/ --- Website: https://petejones.neocities.org/ Blog: https://dragonsarerealpodcast.tumblr.com/ Email: dragonsarerealpodcast@pm.me OSR Anchorites on Audio Dungeon Discord Server: https://discord.gg/VpRjr3A Music: Exotica by Juanitos is licensed under a Attribution 2.0 France License. The Beacon - Zachariah Hickman is copyright free.

Traveller is a science fiction role-playing game, first published in 1977 by Game Designers' Workshop. Cepheus Engine uses the Mongoose SRD and is a clone of the original game. In this episode I talk about Cepheus Engine and some of it's derivatives. Traveller SRD: https://www.traveller-srd.com/open-game-license/ Cepheus Engine SRD: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/186894/Cepheus-Engine-System-Reference-Document DriveThru PDF: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/237247/Cepheus-Engine-RPG Cepheus Light: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/257644/Cepheus-Light Cepheus Faster Than Light: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/263755/Cepheus-Faster-Than-Light Cepheus Quantum: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/280143/Cepheus-Quantum Cepheus Atom: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/324514/Cepheus-Atom --- Website: https://petejones.neocities.org/ Blog: https://dragonsarerealpodcast.tumblr.com/ Email: dragonsarerealpodcast@pm.me OSR Anchorites on Audio Dungeon Discord Server: https://discord.gg/VpRjr3A Music: Exotica by Juanitos is licensed under a Attribution 2.0 France License. The Beacon - Zachariah Hickman is copyright free.

A star system in Cepheus is big and messy. And every couple of decades, it fades considerably. VV Cephei is about 5,000 light-years away. It’s a binary — two stars locked in a mutual orbit around each other. Both stars are about 20 times the mass of the Sun. But their sizes are vastly different. One is perhaps 15 or 20 times the diameter of the Sun. But its companion is more than a thousand times the Sun’s size — one of the biggest stars in the galaxy. The difference is caused by their stage in life. The smaller star is still in the prime of life, “burning” the hydrogen in its core to make helium. But the larger star has moved on to the next stage. That’s caused its outer layers to puff up to gigantic proportions. And a strong “wind” of charged particles blows from the star out into space. In addition to the wind, a ribbon of gas funnels from the bigger star to its companion, forming a wide disk around the companion. Every 20 years, the bigger star passes in front of the smaller one. Each eclipse lasts more than 21 months. That makes the system shine a good bit fainter than average. The most recent eclipse ended last year, so VV Cephei won’t fade again until 2039. When it’s not in eclipse, the system is just visible to the unaided eye. It’s at the center of a four-sided figure that forms the body of Cepheus, the king, which is high in the north-northeast at nightfall. You need dark skies to spot this big, messy star system. Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory

In this episode Jeff and Bob discuss the basic elements of a Traveller game, as detailed by Marc Miller in the Traveller Book. Before that Bob does a short correction from the previous episode,  we do Internet Finds, and some fun Rules Finds, as well as present the last of the planets submitted in our Random Planet Generation Smackdown! (that system appears below, under the relevant links).  Relevant links: Reaver's Deep: https://www.reaversdeep.com/ Cepheus Journal is now online: https://cepheusjournal.com/ Independence Games has released the Opportunity-class Light Trader, with art by Ian Stead. https://independencerpgs.com/collections/new/products/opportunity-class-light-trader?fbclid=IwAR0Lc5QzV-UnhF5zZuqIfOumMuPkZZ6tViODkr6sr74XveUKWQtYwdt39LM Albacon, a UK-organized online con, has 3 Traveller session, including one by Greg Caires (who alerted us to this con).  https://albacon.co.uk/   Oct 3-4 Of course, the Virtual Traveller non-con is coming up in October as well. Here’s the link again: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1205944649744350 For anyone wanting to do some Swords & Sorcery with a Traveller/CE style system, Omer Golan-Joel’s Sword of Cepheus is now available in print from DrivethruRPG.  I was looking through my PDF last night, and it is really good. I ordered the printed version. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/304840/The-Sword-of-Cepheus In his FB group, Traveller Gaming in the Future, Ron Stepp has posted a spreadsheet tool called Adventure Class Ship Designer. I have not tried it yet, as I hate turning on my PC, but knowing Ron’s work I’m sure it is good. https://www.facebook.com/groups/512380172987060 Speaking of Ron, he is a prolific creator of Traveller content, especially incredible settings and ship designs, and has started a blog on which to keep his work in a place less ephemeral than social media posts (I wonder how much he lost when G+ was disappeared?)? https://andromedaln2.space/ The Speculative Machines Podcast, home of our music! https://soundcloud.com/speculative-machines Faddle - from Pete Burke C589632-8   Ni   Faddle is a cold, icy world with most of the surface covered in permafrost.   There is a band approximately 400 miles wide around the equator that is comfortable and is actually considered pleasantly tropical.  The atmosphere is dense which helps create the effect Faddle is famous for - the floating "Udrassi" mats.  Udrassi is a native organic lifeform that straddles the line between fungus, plant and animal life.  The udrassi combine into large circular floating mats that organize around a central hub.  On each hub,  three pools of amino acids are arranged in a triangular pattern - early colonists to the planet were able to quickly determine that by adding saline water of specific concentrations to the pools in certain sequuences, the mats could be raised, lowered or steered and also directed to attract or repel other floating mats.  The mats are extremely strong - some colonists built houses and larger buildings anchoring into the mats themselves.  It wasn't long until early colonial families created resort hotel compounds for tourists by assembling larger mats together - and by manipulating the hub pools on the mats, small towns developed by combining mats together.    The planet is mostly a recreation destination - the floating lifestyle of the permanent residents is very laid back .  Some floating resorts stay in the tropics all year round, while others float to a mountain range south of the equator in the permafrost region where a ski resort has been set up.

In tonight's episode we'll be exploring the colour of stars by hunting down the constellations Andromeda, Cepheus and Sagittarius and looking toward the centre of our Galaxy and testing your eyes to see if you can spot the elusive planet Uranus... For show images, general tips and to the work of other astronomers, visit www.facebook.com/thepocketastro 

Today we are going to learn about Pisces and its decan constellations, The Band, Andromeda and Cepheus. You can find my notes for this episode at http://www.heatherrandall.com/solo-seasons/episode-77-bands-of-death-and-chains-of-hell-constellations-and-dreams-series

In this episode, I go on a little rant about the Cepheus Engine( old-school Traveler) and more specifically about Sword of Cepheus. It's a pretty darned good Sword & Sorcery RPG. A more detailed review is forth coming on the blog. Plus there's a good chance you'll more about some of the games running off these rules. I've already done a review of Zaibatsu. Thanks for listening. Roll Dice. Kill Monsters. Take Their Stuff. And Have Fun. Oh. And I've just joined up on Buy Me a Coffee if you want to help support the blog and podcast. Thanks for listening --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/playing-it-wrong/support

Sit with Andromeda in the face of her oncoming death and witness her final moments.  Her parents - King Cepheus and Queen Cassiopea - are organising their daughter’s demise. Will Vanity triumph over Love? An electrifying retelling of one of the most famous Greek myths. 

Catching up on the New Year diary entries, this one is short and (hopefully) sweet. A collection of musings over the period from 1st-3rd January. This also resets the DM's Diary back to running from Saturday to Saturday so that we can have but one episode per week again. Hope you enjoy!Dear Diary Theme Song and incidental music by TJ Drennon: patreon.com/TJDContact Details:Voice Message: anchor.fm/rpgrescue/messageEmail: hello@rpgrescue.comPatreon: patreon.com/rpgrescueMeWe Group: mewe.com/join/roleplayrescue (or search "Roleplay Rescue")Facebook Page: facebook.com/roleplayrescue (or search "Roleplay Rescue")Twitter: @ubiquitousrat Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Catching up on the New Year diary entries, this one is short and (hopefully) sweet. A collection of musings over the period from 1st-3rd January. This also resets the DM's Diary back to running from Saturday to Saturday so that we can have but one episode per week again. Hope you enjoy! Dear Diary Theme Song and incidental music by TJ Drennon: patreon.com/TJD Contact Details: Voice Message: anchor.fm/rpgrescue/message Email: hello@rpgrescue.com Patreon: patreon.com/rpgrescue MeWe Group: mewe.com/join/roleplayrescue (or search "Roleplay Rescue") Facebook Page: facebook.com/roleplayrescue (or search "Roleplay Rescue") Twitter: @ubiquitousrat

The Discussion: A good old British whinge about the weather and looking forward to our biannual dark sky star party, AstoCamp. The News: Rounding up the astronomy news this month we have: An experiment in an underground lab in London to understand dark energy Eight new repeating fast radio burst source Help us come up with a cooler name than a pair-instability supernova The late accretion phase of the formation of the solar system The discovery of interstellar radioactive iron in the Antarctica Spitzer reveals surprising exoplanetary details. A new exoplanet discovery of three rocky worlds in the same system Using oceanography to suggest greater exoplanet biodiversity The main news story discussion: The latest big Juno discovery at Jupiter. The Sky Guide: Covering the solar system and deep sky objects on offer to amateur astronomers in September: Jen: A tour of the planets on offer and the zodiacal light Ralph: Jupiter Saturn and two meteor showers in September. Then further afield, a double star, an open cluster and a dark Nebula in Cepheus. Main Object: Messier 27, The Dumbbell Nebula Q&A: How can Titan have such a thick atmosphere with such a low gravity? From Alastair Frith in the UK

Soar through this cosmic landscape filled with bright nebulas, as well as runaway, massive and young stars.

Soar through this cosmic landscape filled with bright nebulas, as well as runaway, massive and young stars.

Spouses Ashley and Tyler watch and discuss the latest episode of Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger, The Princess of Cepheus. This week Ashley wants Tyramigo as her Digimon and Tyler refuses to acknowledge a new fact about Koh.

PIERO DI COSIMO | Liberazione di Andromeda | Uffizi, Sala 28 | Versione breve | La narrazione è di Viviana Fanizza, la voce di Ottavia Piccolo | Leggi la scheda completa dell'opera su uffizi.it Piero di Cosimo | Perseus Freeing Andromeda | Room 28 A clear sky, a warm embrace, perhaps the last one between Andromeda and Cassiopeia, the mother who had boasted she was the most beautiful Nereid. In order to punish her, Poseidon sent a monster to raid the kingdom of Andromeda’s father, Cepheus. The first time I saw this painting I was struck by the monster, a dragon that looks gentle rather than scary, like those creatures you can find inside a book of fairy tales. It could only have been painted by Piero di Cosimo, “artist of witty and extravagant invention”. Then, as my gaze moved over the canvas, I saw a girl tied to a tree. In the foreground, three despairing women. They are unable to look at what is happening. And I can’t look at them without a feeling of rage taking hold of me. A tragedy is taking place and no one is intervening. It is easier not to look! Like for men, who show just a hint of distress. Only then I noticed the two figures embracing on the hill. Andromeda knows she has to die: the oracle has asked for her sacrifice to placate the ire of Poseidon. But she is unable to leave the embrace of her mother, which is so reassuring This embrace led me to start weaving this story into my own. And I suddenly thought of you, my new friend in a new town. I arrived in Florence, looking forward to a new life. We shared so much back then, and even when we went our separate ways, I knew you were there. Yours was a warm embrace. Andromeda is now tied to a tree trunk. Her nerves are tense with fear; her face is grey. When I look at Andromeda, unable to react, I think of the pain that paralyzes you. And when I see her exposed breasts, I think about my pain, that cannot be avoided because it is inside me. When my father died, I felt like I had lost my roots. All gone. The monster arrived suddenly, even if heralded. Suddenly, the monster’s breath is on her. “Where are you? Father, mother?” Not a look. Not a word. I don’t know why you turned away, my friend. Perhaps you couldn’t bear my pain. I stopped seeking you out. Perseus, the young savior, flies proudly in. He lands elegantly on the monster’s back. The monster gasps, sprays water from its nostrils… Yes! You arrived softly, my son, and soothed everything. You look at me and my heart rejoices. Without even knowing my terror, you defeat it. There’s music, branches are waved, eyes look up in gratitude. Andromeda dances towards her hero, who looks at her with a dreamy expression. It is truly over!

PIERO DI COSIMO | Liberazione di Andromeda | Uffizi, Sala 28 | Versione integrale | La narrazione è di Viviana Fanizza, la voce di Ottavia Piccolo | Leggi la scheda completa dell'opera su uffizi.it Piero di Cosimo | Perseus Freeing Andromeda | Room 28 A clear sky, a warm embrace, perhaps the last one between Andromeda and Cassiopeia, the mother who had boasted she was the most beautiful Nereid. In order to punish her, Poseidon sent a monster to raid the kingdom of Andromeda’s father, Cepheus. The first time I saw this painting I was struck by the monster, a dragon that looks gentle rather than scary, like those creatures you can find inside a book of fairy tales. It could only have been painted by Piero di Cosimo, “artist of witty and extravagant invention”. Then, as my gaze moved over the canvas, I saw a girl tied to a tree. In the foreground, three despairing women. They are unable to look at what is happening. And I can’t look at them without a feeling of rage taking hold of me. A tragedy is taking place and no one is intervening. It is easier not to look! Like for men, who show just a hint of distress. Only then I noticed the two figures embracing on the hill. Andromeda knows she has to die: the oracle has asked for her sacrifice to placate the ire of Poseidon. But she is unable to leave the embrace of her mother, which is so reassuring This embrace led me to start weaving this story into my own. And I suddenly thought of you, my new friend in a new town. I arrived in Florence, looking forward to a new life. We shared so much back then, and even when we went our separate ways, I knew you were there. Yours was a warm embrace. Andromeda is now tied to a tree trunk. Her nerves are tense with fear; her face is grey. When I look at Andromeda, unable to react, I think of the pain that paralyzes you. And when I see her exposed breasts, I think about my pain, that cannot be avoided because it is inside me. When my father died, I felt like I had lost my roots. All gone. The monster arrived suddenly, even if heralded. Suddenly, the monster’s breath is on her. “Where are you? Father, mother?” Not a look. Not a word. I don’t know why you turned away, my friend. Perhaps you couldn’t bear my pain. I stopped seeking you out. Perseus, the young savior, flies proudly in. He lands elegantly on the monster’s back. The monster gasps, sprays water from its nostrils… Yes! You arrived softly, my son, and soothed everything. You look at me and my heart rejoices. Without even knowing my terror, you defeat it. There’s music, branches are waved, eyes look up in gratitude. Andromeda dances towards her hero, who looks at her with a dreamy expression. It is truly over!

In today's episode of The Tavern Chat Podcast I hang out with Omer Golan of Stellagama Publishing. Omer has a number of releases in support Stars Without Number and White Star but is perhaps best known currently for Cepheus Light, a reworked and reedited version of Cepheus, which is itself an OGL clone of Mongoose Traveller 1e. Come for the Traveller talk, stay for the AD&D 2e observations ;) . Above includes an affiliate link. Affiliate links keep the beer cold at all things Tavern. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/support

August beckons us with a new edition to start the month off and I’m glad to say we’ve some awesome new music to fill your lugholes. There’s a mix of the more melodic, rhythmical sounds here, with the ambient side delving into calm, relaxing, music to the deeper, darker, depths of experimental soundscapes. Instead of mixing the two genres together, we’ve decided split them into two sessions, hope you enjoy it this way. Just a small announcement, we are still having some fans asking for the playlists, they are there on all the music sites we publish on and the podcast page found on the website, open your eyes please. It’s great see our opening act Stephanie Sante with a new album “Clear Light,” returning to the ambient/New/age music where she enjoyed considerable success a decade & a half ago with her solo releases, “Into The Light”, “Immaculate Conception” and “Inner Beauty”, originally reviewed in our Sequences magazine we published over many years. Playlist No 132 02.04 Stephanie Sante ‘Clear Light’ (album Clear Light) https://stephaniesante.bandcamp.com 06.43 Stephanie Sante ‘Salacia’s Dream’ 14.07 Stan Dart ‘Starlight’ (album Murinsel Vol 1) www.syngate.net 20.44 Stan Dart ‘Glow’ 26.50 Jesper Sorensen ‘Fractions Of light’ (album Skyrider: remastered) www.jespersorensen.bandcamp.com 31.22 Jesper Sorensen ‘Preparations’ 35.46 SoundCreator ‘Close To You’ (album Relaxism) www.myownmusic.de/underwaters 42.29 Synestem ‘Run’ (album Spaceports 5) www.synestem.bandcamp.com 52.13 Takla Makan ‘Helm’ (album Contour) www.takla-makan.bandcamp.com 01.01.45 Biodiode ‘Chasing Lights’ https://soundcloud.com/biodiode 01.05.52 Biodiode ‘Gravitation Flux’ 01.09.08 Software ‘Electronic-Universe’ (album Electronic-Universe Part 2) 01.16.00 Software ‘Power Of Galaxy’ 01.18.12 Jesper Sorensen ‘Faraway Places’ (album Synthology: remastered) 01.24.54 Jesper Sorensen ‘Forgotten Memories’ 01.30.28 Ian Boddy ‘Deja Vu Part 2’ (album The Climb: remastered) www.din.com 01.34.57 Ian Boddy ‘Scorch’ 01.40.14 Oktay ’29 June 1520 Execution’ https://www.facebook.com/oktay.saktimur 01.48.16 Oktay ‘Atlantis’ 01.55.34 Oktay ’Space Cello’ 02.01.09 John 3:16 ‘Into The Abyss’ (album עשר (Alrealon Musique) https://john316.bandcamp.com/album/alrealon-musique 02.05.54 John 3:16 ‘The Sun Shall Be Turned Into Darkness’ 02.11.39 Robert Rich & Markus Reuter Flood Expedition Part 5’ (album Flood Expeditions: The Gatherings, 19t May 2018) www.robertrich.com 02.22.25 Wolfproject ‘The Light Belongs To You’ https://wolfproject.bandcamp.com 02.35.36 Michael Meara ‘Bellerophon’ (album Cepheus) www.auralfilms.bandcamp.com 02.46.32 Hertz & Spivey ‘Corridor’ (album Through Corridors Bright) www.auralfilms.bandcamp.com 02.51.34 Hertz & Spivey ‘Tunnelling Through Stars’

In Episode SH061 of Star Hopping… we’ll examine the Cepheus region, and find some “deeper” deep sky objects: IC 1396, the famous “Elephant’s Trunk” nebula, the open cluster Messier 52, and The Blue Snowball Nebula, also catalogued as NGC 7662. Intro So after all the excitement of the Summer with the August Solar Eclipse, we’re Read More ... The post SH061 – Find IC 1396, Messier 52, and The Blue Snowball Nebula appeared first on Star Hopping.

Episodio 33. * Continúan los rigores veraniegos en estas latitudes. Que si temperaturas extremas día tras día, que si atmósfera muy estable que no barre la suciedad ambiental, que si seeing malo, que si la noche no dura nada, que si tarda mucho en oscurecer y amanece muy pronto, que si tal o que si cual, pero el hecho es que nos va la marcha. Apetece. Es muy agradable irte al monte y disfrutar de 20 grados de temperatura como mucho, montar toda la parafernalia telescopera en camiseta y pantalón corto y verte en la necesidad de abrigarte después de cenar porque ya refresca. Tenemos la Via Lactea bien centrada nada más hacerse de noche, con todos esos cúmulos abiertos y nebulosas oscuras que van dándole forma. Es un espectáculo en el verano boreal que podemos disfrutar sin muchos preparativos, incluso a simple vista reclinados sobre una silla o con unos prismáticos ligeros. Además está el tema de que es período mayoritariamente vacacional y hay ganas de resarcirse de períodos de sequía observacional. En definitiva, que estamos más dispuestos y salimos más. Después de hacer una breve visita a la zona del centro galáctico, enseguida derivo el telescopio para visitar objetos más propios del otoño, que realmente es el que tenemos sobre nuestra cabeza una vez que pasa la media noche o poco más. Estos son los objetos que describo en el episodio: NGC6520, Cúmulo abierto en Sagitario M16, Nebulosa asociada a cúmulo abierto en Serpens. “Nebulosa del Águila” M17 ,Nebulosa de emisión en Sagutarius. “Nebulosa del Cisne” NGC6946, Galaxia espiral mixta en Cepheus (galaxia de los fuegos artificiales) junto al cúmulo abierto NGC6939 NGC281, Nebulosa “Pacman” en Cassiopeia NGC7448, Galaxia en Pegasus NGC7479, Galaxia espiral barrada en Pegasus NGC7814, Galaxia de perfil en Pegasus Aunque empecé tarde la observación debido a que la Luna tardó en desaparecer, alargué la sesión hasta que el cielo empezó a clarear a eso de las cinco y pico. * Promo del podcast Cuidadores y Alzheimer http://www.ivoox.com/podcast-cuidadores-alzheimer_sq_f1265933_1.html * Despedida y formas de contacto para consultas, preguntas y dudas: - Web: nestorgm.com/astronomia/ - Twitter: @Luces_X https://twitter.com/Luces_X - Correo: lucex@nestorgm.com - iTunes: https://itun.es/i6Sg8ym - iVoox: http://www.ivoox.com/podcast-luces-extranas_sq_f1234211_1.html - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3iEkTJs8B6sOxsWnUTwgyf?si=t5fTPg_qRnWmfhrdPrzZNA

Download Episode! What to look out, and up, for in July. July is here and the summer solstice is just behind us, meaning we’re on the glide slope to every lengthening nights. So the team’s here to pick their highlights for this month’s skies; starting with the planets on offer to observers and imagers: Ralph – Saturn shows off its moons and favourably tilted rings Jeni – Mercury is low in the sky but nicely placed to observe this July Paul – Comets C/2015 er61 Panstarrs and C/2015 V2 Johnson Next up, we take a deep sky pick from our list of favourites for this time of year: Ralph – The Eagle Nebula in the constellation Serpens Jeni - Colourful binary star Albireo in Cygnus Paul – Messier 8, The Lagoon Nebula in Sagittarius And we finish this sky guide with July’s moon phases.

What to look out, and up, for in June. Jeni returns from astronomy research in South Africa so the gang’s back together to pick their highlights for this month’s skies; starting with the planets on offer to observers and imagers: Ralph – Saturn reaches opposition this month and coincides with a nearby meteor shower Jeni – Jupiter in prime viewing conditions with some lovely Galilean transits Paul – We still have comet C/2015 V2 Johnson in the skies for a nice alternative distraction Next up, we take a deep sky pick from our list of favourites for this time of year: Ralph – The Double Double binary Alpha Lyrae Jeni - The Whirlpool Galaxy Messier 51 Paul – Globular Clusters Messiers 10 & 12 in Ophiuchus And we finish this sky guide with June’s moon phases.

Download Episode! What to look out, and up, for in May. Jeni's abandoned us this month in favour of research-grade instrumentation so only Paul and Ralph pick their highlights for this month’s skies; starting with the planets on offer to observers and imagers: The planets Jupiter in the evening and Saturn in the morning Three meteor showers peaking this month A pair of comets to observe with amateur telescopes or binoculars Next up, we take a deep sky pick from our list of favourites for this time of year: Ralph – The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules Paul – The Globular Cluster Messier 5 in the constellation Serpens And we finish this sky guide with May's moon phases.

What to look out, and up, for in April. Our highlights of this month’s skies with the planets on offer to observers and imagers: A pair of comets to observe with amateur telescopes or binoculars The planets Mercury and Jupiter in the evening The Lyrid meteor shower Next up, we each take a deep sky pick from our list of favourites for this time of year: Ralph – Pinwheel Galaxy in Ursa Major Paul – The Black Eye Galaxy in Coma Berenices Jen – The Ring Nebula in Lyra And we finish this sky guide with April's moon phases.

What to look out, and up, for in March. Our highlights of this month’s skies with the planets on offer to observers and imagers: The moon, Mercury and Mars close together on the 29th The King of Planets returns to our skies 4 comets to observe with amateur telescopes or the naked eye Next up, we each take a deep sky pick from our list of favourites for this time of year: Jen – The Owl Nebula in Ursa Major Paul – The Virgo Supercluster and Markarian’s Chain of galaxies Ralph – Messier 67 and the Beehive Cluster in Cancer

What to look out, and up, for in February. Our highlights of this month’s skies with the planets on offer to observers and imagers: A last chance look at Mercury in the morning sky Mars a few degrees from Venus Jupiter in Virgo Saturn in the early morning sky Next up is the return of a couple of comets to our observing tick list: Comet 45P at its best on the 11th February in Hercules Comet 2P Encke returns to our skies in the constellation Pisces Then we each take a deep sky pick from our list of favourites for this time of year: Ralph – the Rosette Nebula and open cluster NGC2244 in the constellation Monoceros Paul – open cluster M93 in Pupis Jeni – supernova remnant, Messier 1 – the Crab Nebula - in Taurus And we finish this sky guide with February’s moon phases, a conjunction with the Hyades Cluster on the 5th and a penumbral eclipse on 10th/11th February.

What to look out, and up, for in January. Our highlights of this month’s skies with the planets on offer to observers and imagers: Venus at greatest eastern elongation Mars a few degrees from Venus Jupiter in Virgo Saturn & Mercury in the morning sky Next up is the other solar system wonders of note in January: The Quadrantids meteor shower peaking on 3-4th January with a ZHR of around 40 The largest asteroid, Vesta, at opposition passing through Cancer into Gemini Then we each take a deep sky pick from our list of favourites for this time of year: Jen – M33, spiral galaxy in the constellation Triangulum Paul – NGC 2903, barred spiral galaxy in Leo Ralph – Messier 35, open cluster in Gemini And we finish this sky guide with January’s moon phases.

What to look out, and up, for in December. Our highlights of this month’s skies with the planet on offer to observers and imagers: Venus shining brilliantly in the evening sky Mercury at greatest elongation on 11th December Jupiter returns to our late night skies Next up is the meteor showers and December brings us the greatest of them all: The Geminids peaking on the night of 13/14th December Then we each take a deep sky pick from our list of favourites for this time of year: Jeni – IC 1396 - The Elephant Trunk Nebula in Cepheus Paul – M78 – a reflection nebula in Orion Ralph – NGC 246 the Skull Nebula in Cetus And we finish this sky guide with December’s moon phases.

In Episode SH038 of Star Hopping… We’ll look at the Cepheus region, and show you how to find three challenge objects –  IC 5146, the Cocoon Nebula, NGC 7023 – the mysterious Iris Nebula, and the very active Fireworks Galaxy, NGC 6946. Intro So tonight we’re going to investigate another constellation well up in the Read More ... The post SH038 – Find the Cocoon Nebula, The Iris Nebula, and The Fireworks Galaxy appeared first on Star Hopping.

Casi un año sin escribir reportes de observación, después de aquella última observación con mi anterior telescopio que casi premonitoriamente pero sin querer supo a despedida. Ha pasado casi un año bastante escaso en observaciones. Una temporada larga adaptándome al nuevo telescopio y a nuevas formas de observar. He redescubierto objetos ya conocidos pero bastante más luminosos y llenos de detalles que no había visto antes. Unas cuantas salidas de observación, pero muy pocas que dieran de sí como para escribir una crónica larga relatando los objetos que vi. https://nestorgm.com/astronomia/cumulos-abiertos-en-lacerta-y-cefeo/ Para contactar, dejar comentarios, preguntas, consultas y/o saludos, tenemos la cuenta de Twitter: @Luces_X

What to look out, and up, for in August. This month we take a look at the constellation of Cepheus the King for the beginners guide – we have the first galactic tape measure: the original Cepheid Variable, a red supergiant star: Hershel’s Garnet Star and the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula. Next we round up the planets that are visible in August: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune. We look at the month’s moon phases and enjoy a supermoon (or perigee-syzergy) on the 29th. August treats us to the best meteor shower of the year – the Perseids – falling on the 12th August with no moon to dampen the show. We also look forward to rare comet conjunction occurs in August with Rosetta’s Comet 67/P and comet 141/P sharing the same field of view in telescopes. For our deep sky challenge we look at the constellation of Aquarius for a tour of globular clusters and planetary nebulae.

Guest Bill Chen discusses Cepheus, explains regret minimization, Counterfactual Regret, and improvements, and the extension of computer solutions to other games including big bet and multi-player games.

Do you know who has the most Grammy Awards in U.S. Pop music history? Well, Dean does (actually there's a tie, as of this description) and in today's episode you'll discover how he feels about legendary winners' award take in comparison to more contemporary winners. He also talks about "Marvel's Daredevil" on Netflix being the next great binge watch, MTV Movie awards and Def Comedy Jam vs. BET Comic View...and also, an certain producer's refusal to remember the name of "That STOMPING comedian". Haha. We Mos Def Are in The Building, son!

What to look out, and up, for in August. We start with the constellation of Cepheus in our beginners’ and young observers’ challenge. Next up is planets and the standout phases of the moon to enjoy this August. We then round up the best of the deep sky offerings for the month with a galaxy, two globular clusters and a couple of planetary nebulas in the constellation Aquarius.

A new study from two of NASA's "Great Observatories" provides fresh insight into how some stars are born, along with a beautiful new image of a stellar nursery in our own Milky Way Galaxy.

Welcome to the first installment of Global Peace Grooves on PodOMatic. Please send your mp3's to globalpeacegrooves@podOmatic.com Here are a few of the artists from the beginning of Global Peace Grooves. We'll feature some of our friends as well, so check back often. This podcast will feature Lovespirals, Antibody Music, Phrygia, Sinq, and our friends Bitstream Dream.(and more to come) This is an Mp3 of Antibody Music from South Africa called "So High" You can either click "Subscribe" and then "Update" on your I Tunes player or other feed player or you can listen to this by simply pressing the "Play" button below on the podAmigo player. Enjoy! Christine- Global Peace Grooves http://www.globalpeacegrooves.org