Lasermom @lasermom@qoto.org
Retired community college physics/engineering technology professor. Current consultant developing #PBL case studies in STEM. Grandma. #Knitting #Gardening #Physics_Outreach (especially #optics)
@lasermom on Spoutible too
Joined Nov 2022
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New paper by Schwamb et al.: "It is now certain that the accelerating industrialisation of near-Earth space will have major adverse effects on astronomical observation. ... [Rubin] will have to observe into a hyper-industrialized sky."
Don't usually do this but...
At a NJ astronomy event the presenter asked my granddaughter how she knew so much about astronomy. "My grandma told me" :) :)
All is well, back to normal.
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Your child is too delicate to hear RuPaul read Dr. Seuss. Also, too busy. He needs to clock in at the factory.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/arkansas-child-labor-law-sarah-huckabee-sanders/
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot Revealed
This enhanced-color image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot was created by citizen scientist Kevin Gill using data from the JunoCam imager on NASA's Juno spacecraft.
Credits: Enhanced image by Kevin M. Gill (CC-BY) based on images provided courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS.<br/><a href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/imagepolicy/" target="new">Media Usage Guidelines</a>
Instrument: JunoCam
Mission: Juno
Tags: Jupiter
More: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21395
#astrodon
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Reminder: Billionaires are not “self-made.” They’re made via a combination of inherited wealth, government subsidies, tax loopholes, labor exploitation, and policy failures.
Can we stop perpetuating a myth that blames the wealth gap on the choices of everyday Americans?
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“‘It’s just like we’re trying to do with global warming,’ Janka added. ‘How do we modify our behavior so we can live modern lives without unnecessarily damaging the earth?’”
But we’re failing at global warming, too.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/03/05/low-orbit-satellites-ozone-layer/
It's a beautiful day to write letters to Democratic-leaning folks who may not vote in WI.
www.votefwd.org
(Not even letters, tbh, just a few sentences inserted in a letter- easy!)
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Social Security ought to be better funded, we all agree. That should come from lifting the cap on those who make more, especially those who make millions a year in income.
Don’t raise the age limit. Raise the cap.
It seems northern NY, New England already sold out in places for #Eclipse 2024 https://nationaleclipse.com We're booked for a VRBO in the Adirondacks- if it's cloudy (not unlikely) we have fussball and air hockey, of more interest to grandkids than solar geometry anyway. 2017 in NJ the eldest had fun with pinhole images.
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February 21 is the last official day of the 2nd Globe at Night campaign of the year. If it's clear where you are, please take 5 minutes to make a skyglow observation: https://www.globeatnight.org/webapp/
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"For millennia, humans have peered into the heavens, and people around the world have seen a night sky that’s virtually identical to what their ancestors saw. But in recent years, that has clearly changed. Artificial light from glowing urban areas continues to encroach into surrounding regions, while dark-sky areas, such as in minimally populated national and state parks in the United States, recede."
https://www.wired.com/story/citizen-scientists-show-light-pollution-erases-stars-from-the-sky/
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The next Globe at Night campaign officially starts on February 12, but for many people in the Northern Hemisphere, it will be possible to take data tonight already: https://www.globeatnight.org/webapp/
For example, tonight in Berlin it's possible to observe during 7:05-10:25 pm.
Fascinating!
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Fixed it for you: Mr. Biden, whose age is a source of obsession for the New York Times, at first raced through the early pages of his text.
“Mr. Biden, whose age is a source of anxiety for Democrats, at first raced through the early pages of his text.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/us/politics/biden-state-union.html
All this balloon chatter reminds me of when I was a kid and my dad joked about owning an "official weather balloon". There was some catalog that came to the house that had them. So we got him one for his birthday, inflated it to 5 ft or so- then promptly popped it when it caught on a bush. I'd completely forgotten about that until now.
Nearly two inches of rain overnight and yarrow sprouting. This is not a New England winter I'm familiar with.
Thread spools used to be made of wood. Not that long ago, really. Then plastic, and the price increased (not cause and effect).
Scraping scale insects off the allspice tree and cleaning up the mess they leave behind is oddly satisfying. When it was half this size, spouse said it it's too much work get rid of it. Now he's gone it's my duty (plus his two banana and lime trees, also scale-prone).
Retired community college physics/engineering technology professor. Current consultant developing #PBL case studies in STEM. Grandma. #Knitting #Gardening #Physics_Outreach (especially #optics)
@lasermom on Spoutible too
Joined Nov 2022
