Made it to the crossing point, tomorrow I've got 3 very low bridges and a 4.5 mile water crossing.

The cool thing about where I am is that I got a lot of research and old artifacts in a box with the boat. One of those artifacts is from the late 1930s when the boat stopped here and they gave a receipt for payment which I now have. It's changed a lot, but we're back.

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Taken at 9:15pm under a full moon. The stuff phones can do today 🤯

And this is an older pixel and I own a very nice canon

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Here is the 98 year old boat in absolute darkness. The stuff phones can do today is amazing.

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On a boat that is 98 years old, partly run by oil lamps, currently full of stuff cause I need to move it's morning, but it's the absolute dream

Other random fact, this boat has an ELECTRIC inboard engine from 1927 to at least 1949 😱

Where did the batteries live and why has it taken until the crazy man decided to make electric cars to make the tech consumable?

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A cool thing about this boat is that it's nearly 100 years old and comes with one of it's old log books. These 2 consecutive pages stood out to me...

Literally like nothing happened, except one was 1939 the next was 1946. A whole world war happened between these pages and you'd never know...

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Fun fact, our open source X Ray Spectrometry software writen for came second in NASA's software of the year awards.

It you happen to have an X Ray spectrometer sat around and want to visualise the data, its free to use: pixlise.org/public/pixlise

What is it with Scotland and funk bands, of course the Average White Band are also Scottish. Not a genre I would have associated with over the border.

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I'm always late to this type of thing, but came across Tom McGuire & The Brassholes the other day, a Scottish funk band.

Some of the songs are absolutely banging

youtube.com/watch?v=uLVo3g15Z_

Found this cool site from the NASA ICB which lists a lot of the main software releases that they've open sourced or made available in other ways over the years: software.nasa.gov/

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein

Cycling off of the Mars stuff at the end of the fiscal 😭

I've enjoyed the last 3 or 4 years on my little part of the rover ecosystem.

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