Rillito Research Institute
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Rillito Research Institute
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Voted for Kodos. Providing a safe haven for scientific pioneers and provocateurs alike. Fight me. No dogs in restaurants. #flocka2020


12 Dec #Day12 #adventcalendar2022 Not just a bell, but a bell machine! This, @RMGreenwich, was made by Alexander Herschel and used by his brother William Herschel with his 40-inch telescope. It was used to signal the limits of the zone he was ‘sweeping’ for nebulae and comets


the definitive hard sf iceberg chart



When the servers power down on this website you can always find us handing out pamphlets at LPSC before the Woodlands rent-a-cops chase us off in their souped up golf carts again. You'll know we're there if you see the washing machine in the pond behind Goose's Acre

Billy Cairns, Chad Garrett, and Trent Annis from @NASA's 'red team,' heroes of the Artemis I launch who responded to a hydrogen leak, were thanked & congratulated by Administrator @SenBillNelson. During the Apollo 11 launch, a red team also went to the pad to address a LH2 leak.

Proceedings of the Rillito Research Institute, Vol. 3 issue 5: Rollin, rollin, tholins, though the (methane) streams are swollen: Understanding Erosion Processes on Titan with the Robust Analytical loW-velocity Hugoniot Impact Dispersion and Evolution (RAWHIDE) model

DMs of the Rillito Research Institute, Vol. 0 issue 2: You can't call supernovae Boomers, only one of them contributes to making the whole galaxy richer (in metals)

Proceedings of the Rillito Research Institute, Clickbait Edition:

*heavy breathing into the mic at online DPS NASA night in 5 months*

The UV planetary scientist dilemma



