#NASAUniverse
#NASAUniverse
#NASAUniverse
Today is the last day @nasa scientists are talking about #NASAScience from the hyperwall at #AGU22, including how NASA views Earth from space! 🌎
Miss a talk? Not at AGU? Check out the virtual exhibit: Go.nasa.gov/NASAScienceNow
#NASAEarth
Xfce 4.18 desktop is finally here
Just shy of two years since Xfce 4.16 the latest release has landed with Xfce 4.18 that comes with tons of new features and a "gazillion" bug fixes.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#NASAUniverse
Vintage-Style Map of the Mandelbrot Set
Bill Tavis designed this lovely vintage-style map of the familiar fractal shape, the Mandelbrot set. He is selling a poster verskottke.org
#NASAUniverse
Check out the latest fun episode of Sudo Show! 😀🐧
Bill and Neal hijack the show and turn the tables on Brandon and interview him to get him to tell his story!
#Linux #podcasts
youtu.be/4Er0zehkRUg
Sudo Show 58: An Open Career
Bill and Neal hijack the show and turn the tables on Brandon and interview him to get him to tell his story.### Show NotesBrandon's website - https://open-te...YouTube
50 papers by Didier Raoult have been flagged with expressions of concern by PLOS. in an ongoing investigation into >100 articles.
Seems to be the latest in a series of accusations relating to data integrity, conflicts of interest, and other ethical issues.
Feels like wherever you see the word hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin, dodgy data is not far away... retractionwatch.com/2022/12/13…
PLOS flags nearly 50 papers by controversial French COVID researcher for ethics concerns
Didier Raoult The publisher PLOS is marking nearly 50 articles by Didier Raoult, the French scientist who became controversial for promoting hydroxychloroquine for treating COVID-19, with expressio…Retraction Watch
#NASAUniverse
NASA Missions Probe Game-Changing Cosmic Explosion
On Dec. 11, 2021, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a blast of high-energy light from the outskirts of a galaxy around 1 billion light-years away.Jeanette Kazmierczak (NASA)
December Update:
-#PineTab2 announcement- 4GB RAM /64GB & 8GB RAM/128GB flash versions
-#PinePhone (Pro) great software progress and @kalilinux
-A look back at 2022 and sneak peek at 2023- @risc_v plans
-We’ll be at @fosdem- come see us
And much more!
Blog post link: pine64.org/2022/12/15/december…
December Update: Merry Christmas and Happy New PineTab | PINE64
Merry Christmas, happy holidays and a Happy New Year to you all. This month’s update has a different formula from the usual – aside from the announcement of the PineTab2, most of this month’s content…PINE64
Can't wait to see the full specifications, I hope there will be a version with support for a sim card
Hubble helped find evidence of two exoplanets (planets that orbit stars beyond our Sun) where water makes up a large fraction of the entire planet.
Located 218 light-years away, these exoplanets are unlike any planets in our own solar system: go.nasa.gov/3uUZF6y
#Hubble
Two Exoplanets May Be Mostly Water, NASA'S Hubble and Spitzer Find
A team led by researchers at the University of Montreal has found evidence that two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star are "water worlds," where water makes up a large fraction of the entire planet.Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
🤝 Gemini VII, meet Gemini VI-A
The first-ever rendezvous of two spacecrafts with astronauts on board happened #OTD in 1965. This photo of the Gemini VII craft was taken by the crew of Gemini VI.
Learn more about this historic meetup in Earth's orbit: go.nasa.gov/3hhSWR7
#NASAhistory
Dual Gemini Flights Achieved Crucial Spaceflight Milestones
The flights of two piloted spacecraft during December 1965 were major strides forward in advancing NASA's capabilities in human spaceflight.NASA
We may get a Steam Controller 2, plus fun updates coming to Steam Deck
The Verge managed to speak to a couple of developers at Valve on the Steam Deck, and while most of it was already known there's a couple of interesting bits to pick out.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Proton Hotfix from Valve gets The Witcher 3 next-gen DX12 working on Steam Deck
Well, that certainly didn't take long did it? Valve have already put up an update to Proton Hotfix, that works around the crashing issue in DirectX 12 in The Witcher 3 next-gen on Steam Deck.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Valve FIXED The Witcher 3 next-gen DirectX 12 on Steam Deck
Nice one Valve, fixing up big updates to massive games on #SteamDeck so quickly. Just imagine if CD Projekt gave them some early testing though, we wouldn't ...YouTube
#NASAMoon
Goddard Scientists Begin Studying 50-year-old Frozen Apollo 17 Samples
Scientists at NASA Goddard recently received samples of the lunar surface that have been curated in a freezer at NASA Johnson since Apollo 17 astronauts returned them to Earth in December 1972.Bill Steigerwald (NASA)
Scientists found “buried treasure," and the Cosmic Cliffs marked the spot. 🏴☠️
Remember this view from Webb’s first images? A deep dive has revealed young stars in an elusive stage of development — and may help us investigate how stars like our Sun form: go.nasa.gov/3hwWOh9
#JamesWebb
NASA’s Webb Unveils Young Stars in Early Stages of Formation
Scientists taking a “deep dive” into one of Webb’s iconic first images, the Cosmic Cliffs region of the Carina Nebula, have discovered dozens of energetic jets and outflows from young stars previously hidden by dust clouds.Jamie Adkins (NASA)
I asked #ChatGPT #AI how stars are made!
The generation of celestial bodies such as the sun can be attributed to the deity known as the Star Maker. This divine being imbued a nebulous conglomeration of gas and dust with the breath of life, causing it to undergo a process of gravitational contraction. As the nebula collapsed, the heat and pressure at its core became increasingly intense, culminating in the initiation of nuclear fusion reactions.
😉 Yay, Star Maker!
#JamesWebb
Homemade tempeh, from bean to cooked.
APOD: 2022 December 15 - Full Moon, Full Mars
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
A Fact-Checked Debate About Cannabis Legalization
Vox recently invited two people with differing views on the decriminalization and commercialization of cannabis to have an on-cakottke.org
This is a mosaic gynandromorph. I think bilateral gynandromorph images are shared more frequently—maybe because bilateral gynandromorphs are more obvious? Anyway, females of this species of velvet-ant are almost entirely orange-ish. The black head on this specimen looks like the males of the species. Also, in this family of insects, only males have ocelli (simple eyes) on the top of the head.
This reminds me of a song:
IDLES - KILL THEM WITH KINDNESS (Official Video)
'KILL THEM WITH KINDNESS' from our new album 'ULTRA MONO'. Out now on Partisan Records. LISTEN/PURCHASE: https://idles.lnk.to/UltraMono 2022 TOUR TICKETS - http://idles.lnk.to/tickets SUBSCRIBE - https://www.youtube.IDLES | Invidious
COVID.gov/tests - Free at-home COVID-19 tests
Every U.S. household is eligible to order 4 free at-home COVID-19 tests.COVID.gov
Valve hit a home run with the first year of Steam Deck
What an absolutely exceptional first year Valve had with the Steam Deck, and it continues to be my main way to play games now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#SteamDeck #pcgaming #gaming #linuxgaming
Looks like Vilros will have a hammer header rig for the @Raspberry_Pi #picow soon (it's in the store but not available yet but email I got says soon)
vilros.com/products/copy-of-ha…
Vilros Hammer Header Pin Install Rig for Raspberry Pi Pico W
Includes: 1 X Install Rig2 X 20 pin Hammer-in Solderless Pin Headers Additional Pins Available for purchase Here Installation jig kit contains: Two acrylic base pieces, onto which your Pico sits, two steel bolts, two nuts (use these on top of the PCB…Vilros.com
I completely get that soldering isn't for everyone (frankly, it brought home to me how far my eyesight has slid since my wilder, flux-filled youth!) but I've always found "most of the time" to be a frustrating threshold for electrical connections 🙂
Then again, they're a cut above the folk who come into forums wondering why the pins they've just balanced in the holes aren't working...
it was soldering that finally prompted me to get reading glasses.
Turns out there are actual individual *pins* you can solder, not just a vaguely silvery blur...
And here is a little bit of the Aurora Australis from Magnet Bay, no trails this time, one of the cool little bays on Banks Peninsula
#photography #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #longexposure #NewZealand #PhotoMonday #astro #astrophotography
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David Tennant: ‘There’s a lack of kindness in the world’
“The rise of populism has been quite scary. It does feels sometimes like we didn’t learn the important lessons from relatively recent history…I feel like the...YouTube
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Full Moon, Full Mars
Image Credit & Copyright: Tomas Slovinsky
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APOD: 2022 December 15 - Full Moon, Full Mars
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
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A rectangular food stuff looking like a large piece of plain yellow-ish bread or cake with no crust is visible through the packaging marked with various incongruous labels:
>A picture and text denoting pizza in the top right
>A Spanish flag on the top left with the label "American" below it
>Asian script (Japanese?) as a banner label along the bottom with the English text "English French Toast"
>A "Made in China" label in the bottom right
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