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
@65dBnoise give it a few weeks and I'll be freezing 🥶
When I bought the boat the previous owner said "I don't think you really own the boat, you're just preserving it for future generations."
He's got a point. But at the same time when your usual daytime is just staring at computers, these really help with the balance
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
@PricklyHeart@mstdn.social 1926 broads cruiser. Gaff rig and fin keel, draws a whopping 2ft 6 inches 😀
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
@popey oof! I'd missed that LXD news 😩
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/
