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Zebra escapes into city
Methane rocket exhaust flames are blue
[photo] #space
RT https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight/status/1638934327105843202
Drifting #clouds on #Mars
[animation] #space #astronomy
https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/27363/perseverance-views-drifting-clouds/
New #spider species found in Australia (5cm long so not _that_ big)
Looks like 2nd stage went phut, good first stage though
Holding at T-25mins because there's a boat in the hazard area 😆⛵️⛵️⛵️
They're trying to launch the 3D printed #rocket again (T-45mins) #space
Spent half the day fighting with it, getting the tube blocked and having to drill the plastic out. Reducing the temperature seems to have worked for now, but there's a cooling fan on the way out
Somehow bits of cardboard got into the 3D printer nozzle and clogged it up 3 times (might be the cardboard reel the filament came on), so I switched to a spool with a plastic reel instead
New style of electricity pylon in Somerset, UK
https://www.nationalgrid.com/national-grid-energise-worlds-first-t-pylons
Spring in Tsukuba
RT https://twitter.com/ChihiroMacavity/status/1638138943496675329
Aperiodic tiling found with only one tile (as opposed to the two tiles of the Penrose tiling) #maths #geometry
SSDs are getting really cheap
#computing
https://www.anandtech.com/show/18777/prices-of-nand-flash-drop-rapidly-so-do-prices-of-ssds
Moons around free-floating #planets can be habitable
#space #astronomy
View from 2nd stage in Geostationary Transfer Orbit
#space [video]
Skew dipoles in an #accelerator
#physics [photos]
One way to verify text is written by a human not AI ought to be to provide a cryptographic signature that can be checked against a public key in something like Nostr's public-private key system, but linked to an institution that stands behind the ID check
Lots of seagulls and geese today. The seagulls were eating some sort of mollusc and dropping the shells to smash them
Of course all this drone delivery nonsense would have been avoided had we built a decent system of pneumatic tubes
The luddites have this thing where:
Working hours decrease = the technology is destroying our jobs!
Working hours increase = the technology is enslaving us!