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2025-Apr-18 13:52:37
Narrow bridge.

2025-Apr-18 13:51:05
Egret.

2025-Apr-16 18:40:49
Extremely Large #Telescope construction reaches maximum height.  #astronomy #space
https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann25002/
2025-Apr-15 23:34:33
Found $5 on the road.
2025-Apr-15 23:34:28
Today I fixed a bug where I had to link a g++ program to a 64-bit .lib made with 💩Visual Studio💩. It turns out if you put __declspec(dllimport) in the headers, instead of __fastcall, it magically works.
2025-Apr-12 22:18:59
Couple of deer wandering through my garden.

2025-Apr-12 17:37:31
I put some pistachio nuts that I couldn't open outside and just watched a squirrel open them and leave the shells on the deck railing.
2025-Apr-10 23:38:04
Went to see the trees.

2025-Apr-08 21:09:41
3D scan of the Titanic.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy6gjwd0g6o
2025-Apr-07 22:15:59
Boris Johnson gets bitten by an ostrich.
RT https://x.com/MailOnline/status/1909277771609612679
The King plays tunes on a woodwind instrument made out of carrot.
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cn91x90241go
2025-Apr-05 22:52:48
Default trajectory. 
#space #SpaceX
RT https://x.com/dpoddolphinpro/status/1908146388417843337
2025-Apr-05 22:52:23
The microplastic mouse and the microplastic cat found each other.
RT https://x.com/LegoLostAtSea/status/1908424370399158301
2025-Apr-04 23:50:41
I went to see the #quantum internet today.
https://www.bnl.gov/instrumentation/quantum/index.php
2025-Apr-04 00:41:11
Crush crinkly plastic wrapper and throw it into the bin.

Get freaked out by crinkling noises coming from the bin.
2025-Apr-04 00:02:05
They've tested a big booster for reflight on #Starship flight 9.
#space #SpaceX
RT https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1907876664274473132
2025-Apr-03 23:56:22
Seeing if Europa Clipper gets anywhere near Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster.
https://www.whereisroadster.com/europa_clipper_charts/
2025-Apr-03 23:16:59
How were Donald Trump's tariffs calculated?  #economics
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93gq72n7y1o
2025-Apr-03 23:16:42
Timelapse from Antarctica to the Arctic.  #space
https://x.com/satofishi/status/1907705976356221108
2025-Apr-02 21:58:34
US tariff values for selected countries:
#economics
https://www.ft.com/content/8351fd09-ceea-4a3d-9eb2-cd18bee8c7e9
2025-Apr-02 00:47:38
Cool video showing what it's like riding in the Dragon capsule (Fram2 mission).  #space
RT https://x.com/satofishi/status/1907225381721227312
2025-Apr-01 22:13:01
What really happened on the faulty Starliner craft.  #space #NASA (but why did they publish this on April 1st, just makes it extra confusing!)
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/the-harrowing-story-of-what-flying-starliner-was-like-when-its-thrusters-failed/
2025-Mar-30 22:54:45
My dryer door kept opening on its own, turned out to be because fluff was building up around the sides of the filter as well as inside it.  So eventually it wouldn't seat fully and stuck out enough to make the door hard to keep closed.
2025-Mar-30 22:54:36
Pistachio nuts are a good source of fibre but only if you eat the shells.
2025-Mar-30 22:36:45
I thought it was getting sunny for spring time, but today was grey and has now outright turned into fog.

2025-Mar-30 19:08:10
Dandelion roots are long
RT https://x.com/ChihiroMacavity/status/1906243973875982398
2025-Mar-30 19:06:39
Test flight #rocket launch and landing in Norway, missed the pad this time.
[video] #space
RT https://x.com/KSpaceAcademy/status/1906341521097400526
2025-Mar-29 20:36:11
Rudy Rucker's Cellular Automata video.  #maths #computing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyZUzakG3bE
2025-Mar-27 22:25:53
Really good example of a gravitational lens.
#space #relativity #astronomy #cosmology
https://esawebb.org/images/potm2503a/
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.

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
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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

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

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.

2025-Mar-08 19:55:58

2025-Mar-08 19:55:31
A dry canyon had formed on the beach.

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

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
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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
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