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A safety engineer doing his part to make the world a slightly better place. Bigfoot, multiverse, space plane, and telescope enthusiast. Adrift.
Joined Nov 2022
I can let a dumb meme slide, but this one annoys me for being terrible and involving the JVLA in such unforgiveable terribleness.
Small but important: The Daniel K. Inoyue Solar Telescope's heat-stop. The heat-stop is a liquid-cooled aperture which reduces the light from the 4m primary mirror to a very narrow beam to protect the secondary mirror and instruments from excessive heat. Failure of the cooling system automatically shuts down the telescope by deploying covers over the primary and secondary mirrors, and closing the dome.
(photo by NSO/NSF/AURA)
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So umm... This year's Christmas dinner is being cooked underground.
The family have yet to find out about this plan 😬
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This whole thing is extra-despicable. Ban trophy hunting.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/12/22/governor-gianfortes-war-on-wildlife/
I've reached that point in life where you start lusting after cargo bikes.
So Green Launch is a thing (new to me). Someone's giving Super HARP another try at using a ballistic launcher to replace rocket first stages.
(photo by Green Launch)
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“Science is, at least in part, informed worship… If a traditional god does not exist, then our curiosity and our intelligence are the essential tools for managing our survival in an extremely dangerous time.” - Carl Sagan, who died on this day in Seattle in 1996
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Artistic #CatsofMastodon
Mantas likes vertical as opposed to horizontal blinds. No pesky dust build-up❣️😺
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In the beginning, the earliest version of our Milky Way galaxy formed from the merger of two or three smaller galaxies. Now Hans-Walter Rix and colleagues have identified stars from that earliest period - the "poor old heart" of the Milky Way: http://www.mpia.de/news/science/2022-19-ancient-heart
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The Chilkat Indian Village of Klukwan is challenging a state permit approving construction of a gold and metals mine that would tunnel under the Saksaia Glacier on 6,100-foot Flower Mountain near the headwaters of the Chilkat River watershed https://alaskabeacon.com/2022/12/18/chilkat-indian-village-says-alaska-mine-poses-risk-to-watershed/
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Traditional knowledge that comes from having a balanced spiritual, cultural, and respectful relationship with the land isn't a trick Mother Jones.
Call it what it is: #Indigenous Science.
Reading about Oceanix, a prototype floating community that's planned for Busan. One of the more frustrating things about ideas like this is that it sells the notion as long as you throw enough clean technology at the problem, there doesn't have be any decrease in the standard of living. On our current chaotic climate course, where resources are dwindling and life support systems failing, it doesn't work like that.
(image by Oceanix)
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Borders don't exist. They're a construct put in place to ensure the furtherance of colonialism.
Social constructs are lies colonizers hide behind to excuse their participation in an ongoing genocide that upholds white supremacy.
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Decided to find out what would happen at that other site if I mentioned a #mastodon recently acquired by my museum.
May be on here more often very soon...
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#P22 was a reminder that there's no clear distinction between cities and nature. But as walls and highways go up, the landscape becomes fractured. Our job is to reconnect it.
Fun fact: Homes that were in the way of the planned telescopes and buildings were moved to other locations and got new owners, instead of being demolished.
(photo by NRAO/AUI/NSF)
Green Bank Observatory was built on several farms that were acquired by the NRAO in the '50s. This meant that initially farmhouses were used as work spaces, leading to this one, 'The Nutbin', looking like my dream home.
(photo by NRAO/AUI/NSF)
A safety engineer doing his part to make the world a slightly better place. Bigfoot, multiverse, space plane, and telescope enthusiast. Adrift.
Joined Nov 2022
