Technical Reports and Papers from my work. Message boards: Muon1 Project Forum Software here General/Rubbish Discuss things. Miscellaneous: Black hole images Obtained from tracing light through warped spacetime, done during my final degree year at Oxford. |
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2025-Mar-25 15:51:53 #AMD Threadripper 9000 #CPU series specifications (unofficial).
#computing #PC https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/zen-5-based-threadripper-9000-cpu-shipping-manifest-hints-at-imminent-launch |
2025-Mar-24 03:42:35 Internet search continues to find high quality facts.
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2025-Mar-23 17:57:59 Pictures of Saturn and other outer planets from year to year:
RT https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/114211456501176021 |
2025-Mar-22 20:43:27 UK bus service to uninhabited village and oddly-named places.
RT https://mathstodon.xyz/@dpiponi/114207969521055792 |
2025-Mar-20 22:00:03 There was oxygen at z=14.
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2507/ #cosmology #space #astronomy |
2025-Mar-19 19:41:25 https://www.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4124500/space-force-guardian-returns-to-earth-after-six-month-space-mission/ |
2025-Mar-19 19:40:41 🦢 |
2025-Mar-19 02:28:52 #Dolphins came to see the Dragon capsule after splashdown.
#space #NASA https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c3372l3g068o |
2025-Mar-18 22:25:46 Some minor planets have ring systems too:
#space #astronomy https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/rings-outer-solar-system |
2025-Mar-18 22:07:26 Crew-9 splashdown!
#space #SpaceX #NASA [video] RT https://x.com/NASA/status/1902118174591521056 |
2025-Mar-17 15:17:24 The other interesting thing about pi day this year was that 3/14/25 (or 14/3/25) contains the digits 1-5 exactly once. 5 is the maximum number you can do this for. April 13th is the next example. |
2025-Mar-16 18:58:05 Crew-10 docked with the space station last night.
[video] #space #NASA #ISS RT https://x.com/NASA_Johnson/status/1901149221610271099 |
2025-Mar-15 00:11:59 The Firefly lunar lander observed the lunar #eclipse (appearing as a solar eclipse by Earth!)
#space #Moon #astronomy https://fireflyspace.com/news/blue-ghost-mission-1-live-updates/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2P-z_cXsOs |
2025-Mar-14 19:31:48 Otter gets into family's kitchen in Shetland.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93njq5l4x4o |
2025-Mar-14 15:56:28 In the 90s and 00s there used to be actual developments in computer software. Now the only relevant story is "have they turned a perfectly working piece of software into a broken subscription system?" |
2025-Mar-14 02:18:27 Googled whether "Navigating by looking at your own shoes" was a well-known quote and it instead found shoes that literally navigate for you:
https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/05/26/479344614/walk-this-way-let-your-shoes-tell-you-where-to-go |
2025-Mar-13 21:26:21 #ESA's HERA probe flies by #Mars, takes image of one of its moons.
#space #astronomy https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/Hera_asteroid_mission_spies_Mars_s_Deimos_moon |
2025-Mar-13 17:48:41 1 inch aperture Halbach dipole #magnet made of off-the-shelf permanent magnet cuboids and a 3D printed holder. This has a central field of 0.34 Tesla, would be 0.5 Tesla with more longitudinal slices. #physics #accelerators
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2025-Mar-12 19:21:47 As well as cables, they're now removing all these non-radioactive pipes from the tunnel behind the underground laboratory. #accelerators #physics
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2025-Mar-12 17:04:28 3D printing errors and fixes. #3dprinting
https://www.3dsourced.com/rigid-ink/ultimate-3d-printing-troubleshooting-guide/ |
2025-Mar-11 22:40:20 I've also been told that the vacuum in my chamber seemed bad because the vacuum gauge was faulty! #physics #accelerators |
2025-Mar-11 22:39:09 At work, found a way that one padlock can lock out an entire rack of equipment. (The rack itself isn't enclosed).
You lock a wire loop, which goes through locks on each unit that fill up the power socket. |
2025-Mar-10 22:37:53 It seems a good time to remind everyone that the plane of the Solar System isn't parallel to the Galactic plane. |
2025-Mar-09 22:17:03 Now the clocks have gone forward, it's the first time in a while I've made dinner with the Sun still shining. |
2025-Mar-09 21:52:39 Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander did land (the right way up) on the #Moon, however. #space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpHhEybJdxg&t=120s |
2025-Mar-09 19:55:53 Euclid #space #telescope reveals an Einstein ring around a nearby galaxy. #astronomy
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/02/ngc-6505-einstein-ring/ |
2025-Mar-09 17:50:59 I always wondered what was in the back of that thing.
RT https://x.com/niccruzpatane/status/1883743873023021235 |
2025-Mar-08 20:03:52 |
2025-Mar-08 20:02:41 It was pretty windy, hence no usable sound on this video! |
2025-Mar-08 19:57:28 Got the Moon in this one.
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2025-Mar-08 19:55:58
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2025-Mar-08 19:55:31 A dry canyon had formed on the beach.
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2025-Mar-08 02:56:05 New carbon monoxide alarm installed, after 10 minutes trying to use the weird spring-loaded anti-battery-removal mechanism the wrong way round. |
2025-Mar-08 00:42:06 The paperwork only exists to facilitate the metalwork. |
2025-Mar-06 23:08:54 Abandoned equipment at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) in Tsukuba. #physics #accelerators #science
https://x.com/john_kon/status/1897251991925239906 |
2025-Mar-06 21:28:58 Complicated graph of the day. It shows instability rates as a function of three field parameters in a ring containing a Coulomb crystal. The green band is most stable. #physics #accelerators
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2025-Mar-06 18:14:36 Hopping lunar lander from Intuitive Machines ( https://www.intuitivemachines.com/ ) has landed on the #Moon. #space
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c871eeez0yzo |
2025-Mar-06 15:56:01 Carbon Monoxide alarm started beeping with "End" i.e. end of life message. There are instructions for how to get it off the wall, but they're behind the alarm itself, so took a while to figure out (it slided up off the wall bracket). |
2025-Mar-05 19:49:00 Falcon 9 rocket that fell over after landing. #space #SpaceX
RT https://x.com/SpaceOffshore/status/1897351914955923620 |
2025-Mar-05 19:48:24 It's so windy today that birds are sheltering in trees in the courtyard. |
2025-Mar-04 14:43:05 Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/04/genetically-modified-woolly-mice-mammoth |
2025-Mar-03 23:01:04 Helicopters and hovercraft supporting Starship Flight 8. #SpaceX
https://x.com/SpaceOffshore/status/1896678254955680183 https://x.com/SpaceOffshore/status/1896695053646803180 |
2025-Mar-03 23:00:16 Rocket fell over. #space #SpaceX
RT https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1896562823955947643 |
2025-Mar-02 23:38:14 This #planets in true (average) colour poster explains why I often see Saturn as yellowish but Jupiter as white.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/the-planets-to-scale-true-colour/ #astronomy #space |
2025-Mar-02 23:34:25 🟠⚪️🌒⚪️
Nice view of Venus, crescent Moon, Jupiter and Mars this evening. #astronomy #space #planets Mercury and Saturn are too near the Sun to be seen easily. |
2025-Mar-02 20:42:24 Firefly Aerospace Becomes First Commercial Company to Successfully Land on the #Moon
#space https://fireflyspace.com/news/firefly-aerospace-becomes-first-commercial-company-to-successfully-land-on-the-moon/ |
2025-Mar-01 23:25:07 What colour electricity towers are painted.
RT https://x.com/henryspil/status/1895611134369280178 |
2025-Mar-01 20:58:32 Europa Clipper flew by Mars for gravity assist today. #space #NASA
RT https://x.com/EuropaClipper/status/1895896076496089505 |
2025-Feb-28 16:26:35 I like this tensor notation. #maths
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi-Civita_symbol#/media/File:Epsilontensor.svg |
2025-Feb-28 15:47:32 More of Jupiter's polar region.
https://www.iflscience.com/gorgeous-new-views-of-jupiter-reveal-its-true-colors-65197 |
2025-Feb-28 15:46:46 True colour vs. false colour of #Jupiter (it still looks impressive in true colour). #space #astronomy
https://science.nasa.gov/resource/jupiter-in-true-and-false-color/ https://www.cnet.com/science/space/why-nasas-image-of-jupiters-true-colors-is-so-very-special/ |
2025-Feb-28 15:34:01 Vehicle dependability comparison (doesn't look good for my Audi).
https://www.jdpower.com/business/press-releases/2025-us-vehicle-dependability-study-vds |
2025-Feb-28 13:26:39 Flatellite: a flat #satellite fits more in a single launch. #space
https://www.rocketlabusa.com/updates/rocket-lab-announces-flatellite-a-new-satellite-designed-for-mass-manufacture-and-tailored-for-large-constellations/ https://x.com/RocketLab/status/1895310725863874826 |
2025-Feb-27 12:34:24 Firefly Aerospace lander nears the #Moon. #space
https://x.com/Firefly_Space/status/1894833374247698921 |
2025-Feb-25 22:28:30 Earth and Phobos together, seen from Mars. #space #astronomy #astroastronomy
RT https://mastodon.social/@setiinstitute/114065835479732263 |
2025-Feb-25 20:35:47 I had a three item order split into two deliveries. The delivery with two items had one go to the wrong building in the internal mail. 🙃 |
2025-Feb-25 20:26:17 I asked for a picture of a thousand mallards and it gives me 18 mallards, one of which has two beaks (another has two bodies, so maybe it's 19 mallards in all?) |
2025-Feb-25 20:24:47 I like this one. #mallards
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2025-Feb-25 20:21:21 Europa clipper flies past Mars, took about 4.5 months to get there.
#space #NASA https://www.nasa.gov/missions/europa-clipper/nasas-europa-clipper-uses-mars-to-go-the-distance/ |
2025-Feb-24 23:13:43 AI is eroding code quality states new in-depth report prepared by AI. |
2025-Feb-24 22:31:35 Two or more minor worries can cancel out if they have the correct relative phase. |
2025-Feb-24 18:20:47 Results of the Starship Flight 7 investigation.
#space #SpaceX https://www.spacex.com/updates/#flight-7-report |
2025-Feb-24 01:07:49 If the subsystem can predict the future exactly, it is not receiving any new information. |
2025-Feb-22 20:37:03 Aircraft accidents have been generally decreasing despite how it may appear.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ym8n4lzp6o |
2025-Feb-22 19:47:59 But have you considered... a Canadian alternative? #computing
https://codeberg.org/Taffer/canadian-alternatives |
2025-Feb-22 00:27:36 Warning Alcohol Impairs Judgement
RT https://x.com/BobGolen/status/1893058021669966273 |
2025-Feb-21 21:13:19 Some Ukraine facts from ISW.
https://x.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1893022794402652341 |
2025-Feb-21 19:58:21 Picture taken from the X-37B in high Earth orbit. #space
RT https://x.com/SpaceForceDoD/status/1892960033513554202 |
2025-Feb-21 19:30:24 Horse rescued [video]
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cly4zg9n64po |
2025-Feb-21 19:23:45 UK government makes Apple remove end-to-end encryption for cloud storage. #IT #security
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo |
2025-Feb-20 23:12:12 #Asteroid strike probability in 2032 has decreased.
#space #astronomy RT https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/114033051477613649 |
2025-Feb-20 18:48:19 Ice contours.
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2025-Feb-19 21:31:31 I let the equation solve with negative radii and thought "well it looks like an orbit, maybe that's just how the equation solves for the hyperbolic case", but only just realised negative radii also turn repulsive (1/r^2) forces into attractive ones and vice versa. |
2025-Feb-19 21:24:23 I'm actually starting to figure out what's going on with all these sign conventions. #physics
Incidentally, I tried Grok 3 on the hyperbolic Kepler orbits problem and it did exactly what I did: got the naive derivation OK but utterly confused about the sign conventions. |
2025-Feb-18 23:07:12 Atmosphere of an ultra-hot gas giant #planet found to contain layers including iron and titanium.
#space #astronomy https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2504/ |
2025-Feb-18 19:27:33 If this launch goes to plan, it will be the first time a rocket lifts off in one country and lands in another.
#space #SpaceX https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=sl-10-12 |
2025-Feb-17 06:08:45 Database needs a clean.
RT https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1891350795452654076 |
2025-Feb-16 23:06:51 #AMD Zen 6 (Ryzen) #CPU architecture rumoured to have 12 cores per die. Some desktop parts will have 24 cores total.
https://www.techpowerup.com/332583/amd-zen-6-powers-medusa-point-mobile-and-olympic-ridge-desktop-processors |
2025-Feb-16 20:43:00 "The Trump administration [...] has reportedly struggled to reach the people that were fired after they were locked out of their federal email accounts."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g3nrx1dq5o |
2025-Feb-16 20:22:02 The squirrels are eating the parrot food.
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2025-Feb-16 05:58:58 I noticed that most of the errors the AI is making in its code are because it can't anticipate the _behaviour_ of the program. The syntax is fine. Then I realised "oh yeah, that's the Turing halting problem". Undecidable. No AI or human will ever solve it in general. |
2025-Feb-15 19:15:54 Put PARROT food in the bird feeder, let's see what sorts of bird I get. |
2025-Feb-15 01:27:35 Car turned the check engine light _off_ this morning; never seen that before. |
2025-Feb-14 21:34:32 Don't need the online integrator any more when I can do this: #maths #computing #python
from sympy import * b,C,D = symbols('b C D') print(integrate(C/(1+(b*D)**2)*2*pi*b, b)) Output: pi*C*log(D**2*b**2 + 1)/D**2 |
2025-Feb-13 22:54:12 Decided to run something I'd been doing this week through Grok 2 step-by-step. It did the algebra correctly and generated working C code, which was embarrassing because when I tested it, the AI's code was correct and I'd made an algebra mistake! |
2025-Feb-13 04:47:37 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/11/democrats-tricked-strong-economy-00203464
#economics |
2025-Feb-13 01:58:20 Air-breathing ion engines for very low orbit satellites:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250207-sky-skimmers-the-race-to-send-satellites-into-very-low-earth-orbits |
2025-Feb-12 19:52:30 Kanazawa, Japan in recent snow. [video]
RT https://x.com/cram_box/status/1888898391608013167 |
2025-Feb-12 19:29:31 I am now trained to put up barricades (caution or danger tape) at work, although the training title said "Barrricades" at one point. |
2025-Feb-12 15:19:57 Last night I dreamt that I was being chased around an abandoned shopping mall by a turtle carrying a smaller turtle in its mouth that had a smaller turtle in its mouth that was high enough to bite my finger. |
2025-Feb-12 02:58:14 Formula for the roots of a cubic polynomial --> "I'll never use that"
I actually used it for something sensible for the first time today. |
2025-Feb-12 01:08:39 Clouds on #Mars.
[timelapse] #space #astronomy https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-science-laboratory/nasas-curiosity-rover-captures-colorful-clouds-drifting-over-mars/ |
2025-Feb-11 01:21:53 The planetary "alignment" is quite good. I walked out (in the snow) to see the Moon, Mars, Jupiter near Aldebaran ("fake mars") and Venus about to set.
#space #astronomy |
2025-Feb-10 23:45:41 39m Extremely Large Telescope under construction. #astronomy
https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2506a/ |
2025-Feb-10 03:24:56 In modern 3D games they put yellow paint to guide you, but I'm curious about the opposite: a relatively small game map that is designed to be as unintuitive as possible to navigate. |
2025-Feb-10 02:00:14 Baltic states unplug from Russia and join EU power grid
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crlkwyljl8lo |
2025-Feb-09 18:05:01 2.3% probability #asteroid impact arc for Dec 22, 2032. #space #astronomy
RT https://x.com/astroEdLu/status/1887939413054996494 |
2025-Feb-07 19:11:20 Walked past the radio telescope at work.
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2025-Feb-07 00:12:01 ESA Solar Orbiter may have found the origin of the solar wind. #space #astronomy
https://scitechdaily.com/solar-orbiter-just-solved-a-major-mystery-about-the-sun/ |
2025-Feb-06 22:50:09 Apparently, in my calculation, the orbits of mutually repelling particles with an inverse square law have negative eccentricity (hyperbolic orbits with e<-1). If I make them attractive, I get positive eccentricity again. |
2025-Feb-06 22:49:33 AI calculates the wrong amount of #cheese.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2j15r1g09o |
2025-Feb-06 22:49:10 Nice video of a smaller boat and crew docking to a #SpaceX droneship with a booster on it.
RT https://x.com/JerryPikePhoto/status/1887308840271491088 |
2025-Feb-04 23:19:46 Concentric star-forming rings formed from galactic collision:
#space #astronomy https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-006 |
2025-Feb-04 02:31:03 60kW laser fired from US destroyer [photo]
https://x.com/dustinemills24/status/1886531917186527687 |
2025-Feb-03 20:57:12 They took so many disused cables out of the underground laboratory! Also there is wi-fi down there now.
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2025-Feb-02 21:30:48 The groundhog says we get 6 more weeks of wintry weather.
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c78xeg59y83o |
2025-Feb-02 21:15:40 Could I use the reflections on the trombone bell to reconstruct the rest of the AI world?
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2025-Feb-01 19:59:11 Had a really funny dream where there was a + shaped tug-of-war with four people at the corners and the goal was to make the fifth person attached to the middle fall down a hole. Later on there was a less-unfair 2 v. 2 version (not sure where the person in the middle fit in). |
2025-Jan-31 21:03:44 The Swan and Mallard.
RT https://x.com/NoContextBrits/status/1885276335909544272 |
2025-Jan-31 19:06:21 Five key impacts of Brexit five years on, facts and figures.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrynjz1glpo |
2025-Jan-31 19:01:05 India doubles tiger population in just over a decade from a combination of conservation techniques.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly9d4n1rgmo |
2025-Jan-31 16:09:16 Sometimes I have to revise #physics things, like "Why does the Larmor frame work?"
Suppose you have circular motion at two angular frequencies A and B: x(t) = R(At)a + R(Bt)b Now define the average C=(A+B)/2 and difference D=(A-B)/2 and "un-rotate" at rate C: R(-Ct)x = R(Dt)a + R(-Dt)b Looks hopeful, the rotation rates are now equal and opposite. We can use R(x)+R(-x)=2cos(x)I and R(x)-R(-x)=2sin(x)R(90°) but first have to rearrange to: R(-Ct)x = (R(Dt)+R(-Dt))(a+b)/2 + (R(Dt)-R(-Dt))(a-b)/2 = cos(Dt)(a+b) + sin(Dt)R(90°)(a-b), where the first step uses (p+q)(r+s)+(p-q)(r-s)=2pq+2rs. The second line is two-dimensional simple harmonic motion at angular frequency D, in a frame rotating at rate C, as required. |
2025-Jan-31 01:53:11 They have two-for-one chicken wings, but you have to have the same sauce on both. 🫤 |
2025-Jan-30 23:03:07 Fancy #bollard:
https://streetartutopia.com/2025/01/30/i-found-this-bollard-last-week-and-i-still-think-about-it/ |
2025-Jan-30 22:31:29 Tax season is one of the few times I use Adobe's PDF reader rather than Foxit PDF, because the latter corrupts the fillable forms somehow. |
2025-Jan-29 18:12:52 What's in an asteroid? 14 of 20 amino acids found in 120g of gravel from asteroid Bennu.
#space #astronomy https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7vd1zjlr5lo |
2025-Jan-28 20:29:17 Boom Aerospace just broke the sound barrier in the first American civil supersonic jet.
https://boomsupersonic.com/ RT https://x.com/boomaero/status/1884320653840392587 |
2025-Jan-27 18:25:14 Bald eagle nest cam, 🦅 currently in the snow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-L2nfGcuE |
2025-Jan-27 18:20:52 🪨
RT https://x.com/SheriffAlert/status/1221881862244749315 |
2025-Jan-27 03:35:49 I used pliers to crack some pistachio nuts that wouldn't open. Now there are shell pieces scattered 10ft across the room. |
2025-Jan-26 20:29:38 There's a stone missing from the sea defences.
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2025-Jan-26 17:13:54 Look at those cats!
https://x.com/RaminNasibov/status/1882443208191353111 |
2025-Jan-26 17:12:42 AI LLM bots are inserting fake backdated posts in online Physics Forums:
https://hallofdreams.org/posts/physicsforums/ |
2025-Jan-25 21:30:24 Early Medieval manuscripts now open access (copyright terms are ridiculous aren't they?)
https://www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/01/more-than-300-medieval-manuscripts-from-the-bibliotheca-vossiana-now-available-in-open-access |
2025-Jan-25 19:48:31 Not sure if it's still alive. |
2025-Jan-25 19:46:12 Ice formations at the beach.
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2025-Jan-25 03:10:58 Noctua (the PC fan company) is suggesting you use fans to increase convective heating from household radiators.
https://noctua.at/en/active-radiator-ventilation-benefits-and-efficiency I don't _think_ this was published on April 1st... |
2025-Jan-23 16:33:02 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subterrene |
2025-Jan-23 15:30:52 RT https://x.com/like_gudim/status/1881782162003034561 |
2025-Jan-22 21:14:43 My office phone only makes outgoing calls now, because incoming calls are redirected to Microsoft Teams, which I never use. |
2025-Jan-22 15:41:03 Large domestic cat travels between Australia and New Zealand twice on its own.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70qn5yyw57o |
2025-Jan-21 18:19:26 I don't like all these prompts to back up my photos on Android and "proactive" notifications sound pretty bad too.
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2025-Jan-21 16:31:55 It's cold outside (20F) and a small bird is now sitting in this corridor, not sure how it got in. 🐦 |
2025-Jan-21 15:46:36 Found I pressed Windows-L (for lock screen) with my simulation focussed on Friday, meaning the "L" made an error instead of it running through the weekend. At least it had an autosave I could pick up from... #physics |
2025-Jan-20 20:53:40 Zoomable Andromeda Galaxy image.
#space #Hubble #astronomy https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2025/005/01JGY8JKWBHBWJ71V3QQTKM382?news=true |
2025-Jan-20 19:56:08 #Hubble #space #telescope gets 2.5 GigaPixel mosaic of the Andromeda #Galaxy, resolving over 200 million stars (and obviously hundreds of times more actual stars too faint to resolve).
#astronomy https://esahubble.org/news/heic2501/ |
2025-Jan-20 19:34:57 US Army driverless equipment transport system.
[video] https://x.com/ArmedwScience/status/1881325809643712724 |
2025-Jan-20 18:04:28 1-2" of #snow this morning. ❄
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2025-Jan-19 20:20:59 Findings about life's common ancestor ~4.2bn years ago.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jan/19/luca-is-the-progenitor-of-all-life-on-earth-but-its-genesis-has-implications-far-beyond-our-planet |
2025-Jan-19 20:09:22 Turtles in Singapore.
RT https://functional.cafe/@loke/113853715252167301 |
2025-Jan-19 19:50:05 Wait, they eat mice?
RT https://x.com/trivia_hour/status/1880439556027138193 |
2025-Jan-18 21:06:11 For British citizens - you can sign this petition asking to stop companies disabling video games people have already bought.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702074/ |
2025-Jan-18 20:47:58 Inside a cornflakes bag (this photo is on the Wikipedia article for "Cornflakes").
https://panoviewer.toolforge.org/#Inside_a_cornflakes_bag_%E2%80%93_360%C2%B0_photo.jpg |
2025-Jan-18 01:13:10 My car is leaking oil at the rate of 1 quart per 8 days. It's going to the garage tomorrow. |
2025-Jan-17 20:38:50 Roman bath complex unearthed in Pompeii, complete with paintwork.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15zgvnvk4do |
2025-Jan-17 01:19:24 Initial Starship v2 explosion analysis:
RT https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1880060983734858130 |
2025-Jan-16 23:29:42 The cool booster catch video.
#space #SpaceX RT https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1880024050048589841 |
2025-Jan-16 23:28:03 Starship Flight 7
the booster: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1880025578398720330 the upper stage: https://x.com/adavenport354/status/1880026262254809115 #space #SpaceX |
2025-Jan-16 15:25:53 RT https://x.com/MasashiJSHIRAKA/status/1879871952179101977 |
2025-Jan-16 15:22:40 Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket reached orbit on the first launch attempt last night.
#space https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-glenn-ng-1-mission |
2025-Jan-14 23:25:47 Ryan is installing a permanent magnet irradiation experiment.
https://mastodon.online/@evenkolder/113829281432989186 |
2025-Jan-14 22:51:19 Loop-the-loop with a barnacle washed up from the sea.
RT https://x.com/LegoLostAtSea/status/1879163892812910763 |
2025-Jan-14 18:29:46 Moment slackliner conquers highline walk between Dubai towers
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cdjd3rgdxj2o |
2025-Jan-14 02:33:32 #Mars disappearing behind the Moon.
#astronomy #space
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2025-Jan-13 23:37:24 Mars is about to disappear behind the Moon.
#space #astronomy https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/lunar-occultation-mars-13-january-2025 |
2025-Jan-13 23:32:21 Always thought wireless keyboards were a stupid idea. |
2025-Jan-13 15:23:56 Finally managed to turn off Google Assistant (voice recognition), that keeps popping up when I don't want it on my Android phone.
Settings -> Google (services) -> All services -> Search, Assistant & Voice -> Google Assistant -> General -> slide "Google Assistant" to off. |
2025-Jan-13 01:33:05 The big X3D Ryzen 9000 chips are here:
#CPU #computing https://fudzilla.com/news/pc-hardware/60334-amd-officially-announces-ryzen-9-9000x3d-series-desktop-processors-with-3d-v-cache |
2025-Jan-12 05:24:00 My social media posts now show on the bottom of my website https://stephenbrooks.org/ . I hope to add an RSS feed of this later. |
2025-Jan-11 21:50:00 Just a dusting of snow this evening.
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2025-Jan-11 20:09:00 The McRib is back, but not available after midnight because it becomes evil. |
2025-Jan-11 01:35:00 Single Rotor Moiré Clock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubjwEHqmXWg |
2025-Jan-11 00:16:00 They've re-used a Falcon 9 booster 25 times, which is about how many times I can drive my Audi before it wants a quart of oil. |
2025-Jan-10 03:41:00 https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-says-intels-horrible-product-is-causing-ryzen-9-9800x3d-shortages |
2025-Jan-09 23:08:00 Apparently #VLC has skins.
#video #software https://videolan.org/vlc/skins.html |
2025-Jan-09 22:36:10 New images of #Mercury captured by UK spacecraft.
#space #astronomy https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2v2r1jm7go |
2025-Jan-09 22:36:00 Can you get two totally different particles to have the same optics in the same place at the same time? I think this note shows it is possible, at least approximately. #physics #accelerators #iontraps
https://stephenbrooks.org/ap/report/2025-3/ponderomotive.pdf |
2025-Jan-09 01:51:00 Why am I making ice cubes in my freezer when I could just put them outside? |
2025-Jan-09 00:00:00 RT https://fosstodon.org/@foo/113795261121148837 |
2025-Jan-08 23:57:00 Starship Flight test 7 is scheduled for no earlier than Monday, January 13.
#SpaceX #rocket https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-7 |
2025-Jan-08 23:56:00 Cat getting on a bus.
RT https://x.com/CatWorkers/status/1876800740062294038 |
2025-Jan-08 23:54:00 My well-used and battered Sennheiser HD206 headphones finally fell apart. I don't think they sell them any more. I look in the drawer and there's a spare pair! |
2025-Jan-08 01:55:00 😆
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c70e2g09ng9o |
2025-Jan-08 01:07:00 🤨
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2025-Jan-06 23:50:00 Growing lettuce on the ISS.
#space #NASA https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/iss-research/space-gardens/ |
2025-Jan-06 23:27:00 Talk that a Raptor engine from Starship Booster 12 will be re-flown on Flight 7 in a few days.
#space #SpaceX [infographic] RT https://x.com/spacesudoer/status/1875950119071445433 |
2025-Jan-04 15:00:00 RT https://banderkat.social/@sciencetechimages/113479028611911172 |
2025-Jan-04 14:00:00 RT https://astrodon.social/@cgbassa/113770318993975063 |
2025-Jan-04 13:31:00 Saw a widgeon on a lake today. #bird
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigeon |
2025-Jan-04 13:00:00 Optical illusion (I see blue and yellow).
[video] RT https://x.com/shapoco/status/1875247116358217736 |
2025-Jan-04 12:57:00 New Year's cat.
RT https://x.com/sanrinoq/status/1875486124317274304 |
2025-Jan-03 20:34:00 Bournemouth beach.
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2025-Jan-03 17:07:00 Upgrades to be tested on Starship flight 7:
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1875219215390757043 |
2025-Jan-03 16:59:00 The Moon is right next to Venus now. #space #astronomy
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2025-Jan-02 23:11:00 The forestry commission land had a fence around it to stop the trees from getting out. 🌲 |
2025-Jan-02 22:42:00 A mole farted through grass, having swallowed a handful of grains.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C4%8D_prst_skrz_krk |
2025-Jan-02 22:03:00 UK's biggest #dinosaur footprint site discovered.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c24nzeqq1l2o |
2025-Jan-02 20:50:00 A few hours later Mars 🔴 is visible further on. Also very bright but not as red as I expected. |
2025-Jan-02 17:32:00 In the early evening sky in a row:
Crescent Moon 🌒 - Venus ⚪ - (Saturn 🪐) --- (Aldebaran 🟠) - Jupiter ⚪ --- is a big gap to the other side of the sky and (bracketed) things are dimmer. #space #astronomy |
2025-Jan-02 16:58:10
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2025-Jan-02 16:58:00 Lichen dripping water.
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2025-Jan-02 16:52:00
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2025-Jan-02 16:47:00 Went for a walk in the New Forest. |
2025-Jan-02 16:09:00 RT https://x.com/BobGolen/status/1874600577835155680 |
2025-Jan-01 21:00:00 RT https://social.avali.zone/@avali/113752197580397306 |
2025-Jan-01 20:18:00 Tomorrow's World predictions from 1995 for 2025. #future
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjdn10yk0k1o |
2025-Jan-01 19:07:00 These job ads are a little worrying. |
2025-Jan-01 14:00:00 RT https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/113752873453490050 |
2025-Jan-01 13:59:00 😶 |
2025-Jan-01 13:26:00 Left-over spaghetti is now on the bird table. Will the crows eat the spaghetti? |
2025-Jan-01 01:00:00 RT https://astrodon.social/@esoastronomy/113752700085566049 |
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