"Lucien Rudaux in his small observatory, on July 1, 1903."
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This has to be some of the weakest anti-EV nonsense I've ever read. The reasons why "fast electric cars" are overrated are:
a) They are unaffordable (like fast ICE cars perhaps?)
b) Limited range (first, who drives long distances in these cars? secondly, the range on high performance ICE cars is not great either).
c) Charging times are slower than filling a gas tank. While true, this doesn't seem to hamper people who take their EVs on the track.
When the Sun warms your skin, the light traveled 8 minutes to reach you.
When we talk about the cosmos, it’s easy to toss out big numbers – it's hard to wrap our minds around just how large, how far, and how numerous celestial bodies really are. exoplanets.nasa.gov/faq/26/wha…
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What is a light-year? – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
Light-year is a celestial yardstick, the distance light travels in one year. Light travels at 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) per second, 5.88 trillion miles (9.46 trillion kilometers) per hour.Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
Owen Garriott (shown here) and his Skylab 3 crewmates performed a nearly 6.5 hour spacewalk #OTD in 1973 to install a 2-pole sunshade, change the film on the Apollo Telescope Mount, and install and repair equipment for experiments. #Skylab50
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50 Years Ago: Second Skylab Crew Begins Record-Breaking Mission
On July 28, 1973, the second crew to occupy Skylab, American’s first space station, lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on a planned two-month mission, at the time the longest human spaceflight.Kelli Mars (NASA)
Me: Definitely don't want to mess up this battle.
BG3: Ah, but what if we turned you into a Sheep 😏
You have inside you the blood of rams! KNOCK SOMETHING OFF A CLIFF!
(Sorry, I might be channeling the mentality of my halfling barbarian.)
A fantastical world of potential giant viruses lurks beneath the soil
"These and other peculiar-looking shapes “clearly tell us that we’ve underestimated how structurally diverse these viruses are,”"
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A fantastical world of potential giant viruses lurks beneath the soil
Giant viruses were already known for their large sizes. A close look at a scoop of soil shows that they may come in a variety of funky shapes as well.Meghan Rosen (Science News Magazine)
Did Mars ever have the right conditions to support life?
#OTD in 2012, the @MarsCuriosity rover landed on the Red Planet. Sampling Martian rocks over 19 miles and 11 years, Curiosity continues to shine a light on Mars's history.
Where is Curiosity now? go.nasa.gov/3YksJT8
#NASAhistory
Home | Curiosity – NASA’s Mars Exploration Program
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, Curiosity is the largest and most capable rover ever sent to Mars. View the latest news, images, and discoveries from the Red Planet.NASA Mars Exploration
New blog-post: a painful transition, on computational tooling outside of academia
Deep space rock is one of our favorite genres. 🪨
Creators and space enthusiasts, apply to our @NASASocial by Aug. 7 for a chance to see the OSIRIS-Rex asteroid sample reveal at @NASA_Johnson on Oct. 10-11.
Meet fellow space fans & go behind the scenes. go.nasa.gov/3Qtpp5V
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Experience the Reveal of the First U.S. Asteroid Sample
Content creators are invited to register for a chance to take part in our NASA Social event for the OSIRIS-REx sample reveal–the first pristine asteroid sampleGary Daines (NASA)
Did you know the most abundant vertebrate on Earth often starts life as a male & transitions to female?
Scientists estimate the number of bristlemouth fish range from hundreds of trillions to quadrillions(!) of individuals. nytimes.com/2015/06/30/science… #science #nature
Easy Grounding Exercises
Two useful grounding techniques for times you feel overwhelmed, intensely anxious, or dissociated from your environmentStephanie Cordes (Dr. Stephanie Cordes, ND)
"A sun dog (meteorological name: parhelion), also known as a mock sun, or phantom sun, is an atmospheric phenomenon that typically consists of a bright spot to the left and/or right of the sun."
Rick Bohn / USFWS Mountain-Prairie, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Color edits.
Bram Moolenaar, creator of the Vim text editor, died this week, on 3 August 2023.
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RIP Bram Moolenaar. You were a genius; Vim will always be the best text editor ever.
"A Ring around the Moon" by Apsley Cherry-Garrard from "The Worst Journey in the World; Antarctic, 1910–1913" (1922).
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"Paraselene, June 15th, 1911" by Charles Edward Wilson (1913).
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Paraselene, June 15th, 1911, 1913 by Charles Edward Wilson
Buy Paraselene, June 15th, 1911, 1913 by Charles Edward Wilson as fine art print. ✓ High-quality museum grade. ✓ Perfect reproductionMeisterdrucke
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"Incentives matter!"
"Goodhart's Law holds that 'When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.'"
"Give an MBA within HCA a metric ("get patients out of bed quicker") and they will find a way to hit that metric ("send patients off to die somewhere else, even if their doctors think they could recover")"
From: pluralistic.net/2023/08/05/any…
This is so depressing, @pluralistic ☹️
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LibreBoot & GNU Boot Drama Is Deeper Than Expected
Recently I did a video on some drama between Libreboot and GNU Boot, but afterwards both Leah Rowe of Libreboot and Noex of Gnu Boot got in contact with me t...YouTube
does this qualify as open source s***posting? Source s***posting? I do get some troll vibes from all this and it can leave a bad taste in people's mouthes. Like you said, honest and direct communication could've prevented all this.
This is why we can't have nice things and why the CoC matters.
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"Night view of William Herschel's forty-foot reflecting telescope," from "The Wonders of the Heavens" 1837 (archive.org/details/wondersofh…).
Unknown engraver, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The wonders of the heavens, being a popular view of astronomy, including a full illustration of the mechanism of the heavens; embracing the sun, moon, and stars, with descriptions of the planets, comets, fixed stars, double stars, the constellations, the
1 p.l., viii, [9]-371 p. 34 x 28 cmInternet Archive
William Herschel (1738-1822) and spectrum showing visible light and the effect of infrared light on a thermometer.
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William Herschel 1738-1822 German-born English astronomer
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"Sir William Herschel and Caroline Herschel. Colour lithograph by A. Diethe, ca. 1896. William polishing a telescope element, probably a mirror and Caroline Herschel adds lubricant."
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"The Armillary Sphere" by Albrecht Dürer (1525).
Albrecht Dürer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
#PerseveranceRover
More than what meets the eye...
@NASAJuno launched on its 5-year journey to Jupiter #OTD in 2011. It has revealed what's under the planet's outer layer of swirling clouds, and provided unprecedented views of Jupiter and its moons.
What is Juno up to now? go.nasa.gov/456QkZw
#NASAhistory
Juno - Jupiter Missions - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Launch and mission summary for NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter, which will help reveal the origin and evolution of Jupiter as well as our solar system.NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
In the final episode of High Above Down Under, we leave the rocket range behind and head into the wild to find the fallen rocket parts. Later, we catch up with the scientists to hear about their findings.
Follow the series: go.nasa.gov/3PHtenQ
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High Above Down Under
There are likely billions of planets in our galaxy. With over 5,000 already confirmed, how do we know which ones might hold life? Two NASA sounding rockets a...YouTube
Crossings an estuary crossing a national border
From Germony to the Nethalands.The Dollart/Dollard bay in the Wadden Sea is between the northern Netherlands and Germany, on the west side of the estuary of ...YouTube
OceanGate Co-Founder Wants to Send 1,000 People to Venus—What Could Go Wrong?
OceanGate co-founder Guillermo Söhnlein expressed his interest in sending 1,000 people to a floating space colony in Venus’ atmosphere by the year 2050.Kevin Hurler (Gizmodo)
This week, a cargo spacecraft loaded with science and snacks arrived at the @Space_Station, Moon rocket hardware is on the move for #Artemis, and our Psyche spacecraft tested its "wings" for launch.
Need more space? Download the NASA app: nasa.gov/nasaapp
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NASA App for Smartphones, Tablets and Digital Media Players
The NASA app for Smartphones, Tablets and Digital Media PlayersJerry Colen (NASA)
#NASAEarth
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