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.
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
Here is the 98 year old boat in absolute darkness. The stuff phones can do today is amazing.
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?
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...
Tom Barber Mars Data Engineer
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Tom Barber Mars Data Engineer
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#NASA has been a leader in #opensource / #opendata since ages.
Example, PIXLISE: Quickly analyze troves of spectroscopic data
https://www.pixlise.org/public/pixlise
Fun fact, our open source X Ray Spectrometry software writen for #NASA #Perserverance 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: https://www.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.
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
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: https://software.nasa.gov/
Tom Barber Mars Data Engineer
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein
Happy summer....
Can someone give the jetstream a shove north? 😩
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.
