Seven Machina Rasmussen
@toomanyspectra.bsky.social
humanoid astrobiologist 🌌 SFF author (largely oxygen by mass) 📚 transhumanist 🤖 star trek autism character 🖖 she/they 🏳️🌈 instructor @ Columbia ✒️ CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF STARSHIPS now availabile wherever books are sold 👀
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Cloudy with a Chance of Starships: How the Drake Equation Reveals the Odds of Life in the Cosmos
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ever wonder:
🛸 are aliens real?
☀️ is our solar system unique?
🌍 how can we tell if there’s life on another planet?
📈 should we destroy capitalism?
🧑🔬 how could i become an astrobiologist?
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF STARSHIPS has the answer!
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🛸 are aliens real?
☀️ is our solar system unique?
🌍 how can we tell if there’s life on another planet?
📈 should we destroy capitalism?
🧑🔬 how could i become an astrobiologist?
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF STARSHIPS has the answer!
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cloudy-wit...
AI might one day launch the nukes, but it also helps DJs design shitty event posters, so it’s impossible to say whether it’s bad or not
October 27, 2026 at 4:58 PM
AI might one day launch the nukes, but it also helps DJs design shitty event posters, so it’s impossible to say whether it’s bad or not
there shouldn’t be good things. what if someone i dont like gets one? did you think about that? no. you only think about yourself.
October 27, 2026 at 4:48 PM
there shouldn’t be good things. what if someone i dont like gets one? did you think about that? no. you only think about yourself.
“AI is going to take your job” WRONG AI can’t get drunk at work
October 27, 2026 at 4:23 PM
“AI is going to take your job” WRONG AI can’t get drunk at work
this is who you’re asking to register for an academic wellness seminar btw
October 27, 2026 at 3:25 PM
this is who you’re asking to register for an academic wellness seminar btw
living in new york wouldn’t say that i often get sick but i would say that i frequently have a protective anti-subway mucus layer
October 27, 2026 at 3:00 AM
living in new york wouldn’t say that i often get sick but i would say that i frequently have a protective anti-subway mucus layer
i will continue to preach the virtues of what in my humble opinion is the best audiobook of all time:
www.amazon.com/Cloudy-Chanc...
www.amazon.com/Cloudy-Chanc...
October 26, 2026 at 7:27 PM
i will continue to preach the virtues of what in my humble opinion is the best audiobook of all time:
www.amazon.com/Cloudy-Chanc...
www.amazon.com/Cloudy-Chanc...
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Listen as @toomanyspectra.bsky.social introduces her new book, Cloudy with a Chance of Starships, an entertaining tour of the seemingly simple formula guiding the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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October 26, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Listen as @toomanyspectra.bsky.social introduces her new book, Cloudy with a Chance of Starships, an entertaining tour of the seemingly simple formula guiding the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Available now!
Learn more about this extraordinary book: buff.ly/8ZeOPZK
Available now!
Learn more about this extraordinary book: buff.ly/8ZeOPZK
WALTER KOENIG??!!
October 26, 2026 at 4:57 PM
WALTER KOENIG??!!
what halloween mask could i possibly be making……. 🧐
October 24, 2026 at 11:06 PM
what halloween mask could i possibly be making……. 🧐
scicomm bit: i take all seven shots onstage as i talk through the drake equation, getting slowly more inebriated with each one
🛸 Ever wanted to take the Drake Equation as a series of shots? now you can! as the preeminent expert on both the search for life in the universe ~and~ getting a little too turnt on a tuesday, allow me to present:
🥃 The Seven Shots of SETI 👽
🥃 The Seven Shots of SETI 👽
October 22, 2026 at 1:02 PM
scicomm bit: i take all seven shots onstage as i talk through the drake equation, getting slowly more inebriated with each one
🛸 Ever wanted to take the Drake Equation as a series of shots? now you can! as the preeminent expert on both the search for life in the universe ~and~ getting a little too turnt on a tuesday, allow me to present:
🥃 The Seven Shots of SETI 👽
🥃 The Seven Shots of SETI 👽
October 21, 2026 at 4:54 PM
🛸 Ever wanted to take the Drake Equation as a series of shots? now you can! as the preeminent expert on both the search for life in the universe ~and~ getting a little too turnt on a tuesday, allow me to present:
🥃 The Seven Shots of SETI 👽
🥃 The Seven Shots of SETI 👽
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Be sure to check out @npr.org's Short Wave to hear Seven Rasmussen, author of Cloudy with a Chance of Starships, chat about the Drake Equation! buff.ly/z1xF817 @toomanyspectra.bsky.social
What are the odds we're not alone in the universe? : Short Wave
There are hundreds of billions of stars in the galaxy we live in. Many of them have their own exoplanets. So why haven’t we found proof of alien life yet? And what’s the probability of us contacting…
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October 21, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Be sure to check out @npr.org's Short Wave to hear Seven Rasmussen, author of Cloudy with a Chance of Starships, chat about the Drake Equation! buff.ly/z1xF817 @toomanyspectra.bsky.social
for reasons unbeknownst and perhaps unknowable the bmcc cafeteria has mountain dew flavors not known to science
October 20, 2026 at 8:11 PM
for reasons unbeknownst and perhaps unknowable the bmcc cafeteria has mountain dew flavors not known to science
🚨✨ in which the @npr.org Short Wave hosts and I get into star trek, the search for intelligent life in the galaxy, and what exactly has to happen for something to crawl out of the muck and invent the hot dog roller 🛸👽
open.spotify.com/episode/1Z8B...
open.spotify.com/episode/1Z8B...
What are the odds we're not alone in the universe?
Short Wave · Episode
open.spotify.com
October 20, 2026 at 3:22 PM
🚨✨ in which the @npr.org Short Wave hosts and I get into star trek, the search for intelligent life in the galaxy, and what exactly has to happen for something to crawl out of the muck and invent the hot dog roller 🛸👽
open.spotify.com/episode/1Z8B...
open.spotify.com/episode/1Z8B...
i love gay people halloween
October 19, 2026 at 1:23 PM
i love gay people halloween
born to sit in a prime focus cage forced to zoom into a remote observing session
October 16, 2026 at 7:31 PM
born to sit in a prime focus cage forced to zoom into a remote observing session
aged gouda gruyère sharp cheddar white cheddar pepperjack mac n cheese 🧀🧀🧀
October 16, 2026 at 6:56 PM
aged gouda gruyère sharp cheddar white cheddar pepperjack mac n cheese 🧀🧀🧀
🎶 fly me past the moon
let me gaze upon its mass
then quietly retire
once i’ve seen its cratered ass 🌝
let me gaze upon its mass
then quietly retire
once i’ve seen its cratered ass 🌝
October 15, 2026 at 11:24 PM
🎶 fly me past the moon
let me gaze upon its mass
then quietly retire
once i’ve seen its cratered ass 🌝
let me gaze upon its mass
then quietly retire
once i’ve seen its cratered ass 🌝
two trekkies maximizing our joint slay 🖖 STRANGE NEW WORLDS pod out now 👇 @miquai.bsky.social
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youtu.be/eOmkhMlX9H0?...
Episode 207: Cloudy with a Chance of Starships
YouTube video by Michael Wong
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October 15, 2026 at 3:31 PM
two trekkies maximizing our joint slay 🖖 STRANGE NEW WORLDS pod out now 👇 @miquai.bsky.social
youtu.be/eOmkhMlX9H0?...
youtu.be/eOmkhMlX9H0?...
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glad I was able to talk about what I consider one of the most important parts of STARSHIPS with the New York Academy of Sciences: how the seventh chapter is a roadmap for anyone who wants to join the search for life
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Dr. Seven Rasmussen on how to become an astrobiologist
YouTube video by The New York Academy of Sciences
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October 14, 2026 at 3:40 PM
glad I was able to talk about what I consider one of the most important parts of STARSHIPS with the New York Academy of Sciences: how the seventh chapter is a roadmap for anyone who wants to join the search for life
youtube.com/shorts/vd_6V...
youtube.com/shorts/vd_6V...
my astronomy conference is NOT a safe space for harassers (every woman has a gun)
October 14, 2026 at 3:27 PM
my astronomy conference is NOT a safe space for harassers (every woman has a gun)
as a writer you should always be reading one book for fun one book for craft and one book that makes you rend your clothes and weep at the divine audacity of prose
October 14, 2026 at 3:06 PM
as a writer you should always be reading one book for fun one book for craft and one book that makes you rend your clothes and weep at the divine audacity of prose
real banger from my 13 year old undergrad quantum notes
October 13, 2026 at 9:07 PM
real banger from my 13 year old undergrad quantum notes