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This is the model I had at about age 11 in the early 60s. The biggest issue was tracking down a source of dry ice and safely handling it.
II worked at a nuclear power plant as a health physicist and chemist in the mid 70s. Kind of a scaled up version of the kit ;-)

Aurora borealis on Jupiter, imaged by the Hubble telescope on Sept 29, 2022.
See the odd, comet-like streak at right? That's the magnetic imprint of Jupiter's moon Io! Its volcanoes spew out fumes that create their own aurora display.
planetarylightshow.com/jupiter #space #Hubble

Not Benzie's idea of a walk. He loves the snow, although rare where he lives.

5 year old boy: *brings me a romance book* what's this?
me: a story about two people falling in love!
b: .... is there a dragon in it?
me: no..
b: then why do you even have it on the shelf?

The Python parser of my Twitter archive to Markdown is running. Took a bit to get it going, but now lots of things scrolling past in the terminal window and files being created. Plan now it to go to bed and hope for the best...

Downloaded by Twitter archive. Now I have to remember where I bookmarked the website on what to do with it. A bit over 5 gig as a zip file. 13 years of Tweets, most over the past couple of years.

Just published
@ScienceMagazine

A universal influenza mRNA vaccine effective against all 20 lineages of influenza A and B, protective in experimental models
science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

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