Stilgherrian – Stilgherrian

14 January 202514 January 2025

The 9pm Colonisation of Mars and the Universe with Dr Alice Gorman and Rami Mandow

Plotting the overthrow of the space colonies! Left: Dr Alice Gorman. (Photo: Simon Royal/ABC) Right: Rami Mandow. (Photo: Supplied; Post-processing: Stilgherrian)

Happy New Year. It’s time for another look at space news, I reckon, so once more my special guests are space archaeologist Dr Alice Gorman aka Dr Space Junk from Flinders University, and astrophysicist and founder of SpaceAustralia.com Rami Mandow.

12 January 202514 January 2025

Weekly Wrap 763: Getting to the heart of the matter

In the middle distance, across a floodlit concrete area, is a brightly lit suburban railway station. On the left, people are waiting for rail replacement buses. A temporary yellow sign with black lettering lists the destinations. In the centre, a man in hi-viz and a white safety helmet stands watching it all, his hands clasped behind his back. In the distance, cross the tracks and behind the station, stand several modern apartment buildings. The tallest rises around 20 storeys, and to its left against the deep blue dusk sky is the Moon, three days from full.

My week of Monday 6 to Sunday 12 January 2025 was less productive than I’d hoped, but at least I got some planning done. That and I saw a very nice cardiologist.

05 January 202509 January 2025

Weekly Wrap 762: Starting a new year by looking at a century-old building

A six-storey art deco building, with a commercial ground floor, two floors of offices with bay windows, and two floors of residential apartments. It's painted an unassuming olive green, and kinda needs repainting again soon. It's a bright sunny day, and the streets around it are almost deserted.

My week of Monday 30 December 2024 to Sunday 5 January 2025 represented a transition from a shit year to a year which may be more shit or may be less shit. Either way, we made a podcast about the year that has been, and a bingo card for the year which is to come.

05 January 202506 January 2025

Bingo Card 2025: Which of these things will happen?

Snarky Platypus and I have created this bingo card for 2025 listing 25 distinctly possible things. We also list the suggestions which didn’t make it.

31 December 202431 December 2024

The 9pm Full-time Bingo Card Update 2024 with Snarky Platypus

*Main image by* Rudonni via Pixabay. Foreground bingo card originally by Milton Bradley Company, photo by Abby Hendrickson under under a CC-BY 2.0 Generic license. Platypus inset photo by Taronga Conservation Society Australia / Chris Wheeler. Digital composition by Stilgherrian.

Back at the start of the year, my good friend Snarky Platypus and I created some bingo cards for 2024. Two sets of 25 things that might happen. Well, we’re now at the end of the year, so let’s see how we went.

30 December 202401 January 2025

Weekly Wrap 761: What if your life was a pie?

On a grey city footpath someone has discarded a meat pie, but it can barely be seen beneath a frantic milling flock of around 22 grey feral pigeons.

Monday 23 to Sunday 29 December 2024 was my last full week for the year. I was wondering what photo to use for this final Weekly Wrap, and then Fate provided exactly what I needed. This discarded pie represents your world, Good People. Peck peck peck.