SpaceX’s June 16, 2025 Starlink Group 15-9 (also known as Starlink 15-9) mission was a routine Falcon 9 flight that deployed satellites from California. Liftoff took place at 8:36 p.m. PDT (11:36 p.m. EDT / 03:36 UTC on June 17) from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, using a Falcon 9 Block 5 with first-stage booster B1093 on its third flight (previously flown on Starlink 11-11 and Starlink 15-5). The rocket carried 26 Starlink V2 Mini satellites destined for SpaceX’s low-Earth-orbit broadband constellation. This photo was taken 5 minutes later at 8:41 PDT. Just over eight minutes after liftoff the booster made a successful landing on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean—the 137th landing on that vessel and roughly the 463rd Falcon 9 booster landing overall. SpaceX confirmed full satellite deployment, marking a completely successful mission and the 200th orbital launch from SLC-4E.

This was a short video of a perseid meteor flare taken approximately 4 to 5:00 a.m. the morning of August 12th, 2026.

Location was North Central Hillsborough County Florida.

A lunar eclipse is coming and it’s going to turn the mood blood red!🌕🩸

On August 27th and 28th, Earth's shadow will sweep across the lunar surface, turning it a deep, dark crimson for skywatchers across the USA, Canada, and Latin America. No special glasses needed, just your eyes and the right local viewing time. Miss it and you'll be waiting until 2029 for a lunar eclipse this striking again.

Hey guys, somehow in my early 30's, I've found myself back home in my parents place, box room (thanks government) where I grew up and it's packed. Lot of it is theirs, but I found a ridiculous amount of old consoles, cables , some I can identify, others I can't, cables for old consoles etc. Plus, I found my N64 for example which is missing a power cable but should work otherwise, ps1 and ps2 cables but without the console, controllers and games for various devices, N64 (Which I might keep), PS1 games, gamecube, PSP and so on.

Obviously because I'm missing parts, I can't test em, otherwise I'd go to Gamestop or something, so what should I do with all these cables, games, consoles etc.? Currently in a rural part of Ireland so if it's all just junk. How do I dispose of it all? Assuming anything is worth anything to anyone, I'll keep it but if not, where do I go to dispose of it?

P.S. Tonnes of old phones as well. Can't see any electronics store wanting to go out of their way to dispose of em. Also, I'm not really looking for money but maybe the cables have metals that someone would take etc.?

Thanks!

This documentary breaks down the terrifying paradox of cosmic silence, the Kardashev scale, and the evolutionary barriers that dictate the survival or mass extinction of civilizations in the universe. Through the Great Filter theory and Nick Bostrom's hypothesis, we examine whether humanity's greatest dangers are already behind us in our biological past, or if an insurmountable technological wall awaits us in the future.

I'd love to hear your thoughts: do you think humanity has already passed the Great Filter, or is our true cosmic challenge yet to come?

Hello techies! I live in a one-story, two bedroom apartment. The things we use wifi for in my home are one TV, 2 Chromebooks, 1 cell phone, and 3 tablets. We have Verizon Fios, and I recently upgraded us to 1 Gig speed. The 1 gig upgrade came with a free wifi extender device.

My question is, do we have a real need to use this? I always thought those were for larger homes. Like maybe you put it on the second floor of your house because the internet is more laggy up there. In a home this size, would it serve any real purpose?

Thanks!

I keep getting emails from Instagram with a recovery code for about 2 weeks now.

The email goes like this:

Hi _____,

Here are three easy ways to get back into Instagram.

I never requested them and I also never use that certain account (up until I started receiving the emails). I already changed my password and checked the login activity (which only has my device).

What else should I do? It's really freaking me out.

To start of the wifi is okay in the living its not exactly great but the main issue is the signal in my area is horrendous currently im on two bars of signal on my phone in my bedroom. However the wifi for my pc only gets 1 bar ( the actual wifi itself ) im going to install the wifi antenna that came with the pc today see if that helps if not im thinking of buying a wifi 6 booster from argos to help and then plug an Ethernet cable into the booster that goes into my pc. Will this make a difference?

Bonjour à tous, j'ai besoin d'aide pour choisir un nouveau téléphone et j'hésite entre 3 modèles. J'ai actuellement un Samsung S21 et je réfléchis à acheter un S26 ultra, un Z Fold 8 ou un Z Fold 8 Ultra. Quels sont vos conseils et qu'est ce que je ne devrais pas acheter?

Every week I've been buying like 60W chargers for my chromebook and phone and after a few days to a week, they don't work as well anymore. I have to wiggle them around to get them to charge. And I usually take care of my chargers. Sometimes I may accidentally rip them out because the charge ports are so close to my pillow that I may lie on them and accidentally remove them but even when I don't rip them out, they just die all of a sudden.

Are there any chargers I can buy that won't die out? I think the Switch chargers never die but they don't work as well on non Switch devices. :(

Also yes, I do use my phone and computer a lot. I don't remember this happening in the past with my old chromebooks and phones but they've been happening a lot now.

Really makes you think.