2025-Aug-31 19:06:52 "Extreme Nuclear Transients" are the largest detected explosions in the universe since the big bang. #space #astronomy
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/biggest-explosions-the-universe-since-big-bang |
2025-Aug-30 20:59:29 267 in hex is one hundred and 🐝 |
2025-Aug-30 01:40:32 It's kind of surprising - even basic voice recognition isn't going so well in the real world.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgyk2p55g8o |
2025-Aug-29 17:24:05 Radioactive elements reach Earth from a variety of sources: #astronomy #physics
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-radioactive-isotopes-earth-surfing-supernova.html |
2025-Aug-29 15:52:07 Chemical analysis of an #asteroid grain that predates Earth. #space
https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=222568&btw=1 |
2025-Aug-28 23:04:10 Bunny bunny bunnl |
2025-Aug-28 22:06:08 That #Starship splashdown high-def you wanted. [video] #SpaceX
RT https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1961165064666312956 |
2025-Aug-28 21:52:07 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunken_lane |
2025-Aug-27 23:04:59 This box of crackers has fold lines that enable me to make it into a tetrahedron, but why would I ever want to do that? |
2025-Aug-27 22:12:11 Future #Starship versions. #SpaceX [table]
RT https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1960812698037518540 |
2025-Aug-27 00:42:01 #Starship flight 10 splashdown video. #space #SpaceX
RT https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1960502324050133328 |
2025-Aug-27 00:11:22 In-space relight of a Raptor engine on #Starship. #SpaceX [video]
RT https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1960495065081503769 |
2025-Aug-26 23:58:01 Starship deploying dummy satellites [video]
RT https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1960490432715993216 |
2025-Aug-26 22:12:33 Self-orgonating model of Carbon Sonk Node Provision
RT https://fediscience.org/@nadiah/115094238928671314 #AI |
2025-Aug-26 21:52:44 #Planet absorbs dust from its orbit in a protoplanetary disk. [image] #astronomy #space
https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2534a/ |
2025-Aug-26 21:14:24 A truck in the car park had a shiny chrome bumper and a turkey was pecking its own reflection. |
2025-Aug-25 21:30:57 Today we put deuterium beams through this prototype section of radiotherapy accelerator. It's a fixed-field beamline with different energies going on different orbits (hence the "energy ruler" for alignment). #physics #accelerators
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2025-Aug-22 03:42:28 Recompiled an old sound program I last touched in January 2002. Still some minor graphical glitches but it plays.
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2025-Aug-21 17:14:28 Worth posting again: #asteroid impact video. #NASA #space
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/dart/close-up-views-of-nasas-dart-impact-to-inform-planetary-defense/ |
2025-Aug-20 23:45:02 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnard%27s_Star_b |
2025-Aug-18 15:38:29 In more "garbage Windows 11 multiple desktop implementation" news, when I restart and it restores windows, it only creates one desktop and piles them all on one screen. |
2025-Aug-18 01:47:38 Was thinking about a #maths problem on the plane: prime numbers are those with two factors (1 and n) and that's the minimum attainable by arbitrarily large numbers. I wondered what the minimum total factor count for n-1 and n+1 was for n prime, and then for those cases how do you minimise factors of n-2 and n+2 and so on.
It turns out the best you can do is one prime neighbour being a multiple of 4 and the other being a multiple of 6, giving 6+8 total factors respectively. |
2025-Aug-17 14:55:06 Been seeing a strange "early autumn" in England.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2enmn7j3zjo |
2025-Aug-15 20:18:14 #SpaceX analysis of Flight 9 anomaly and Ship 36 explosion.
https://www.spacex.com/updates#flight-9-report |
2025-Aug-15 13:46:16 In the local museum - a cost-saving idea from the 18th century: fake bricks. 🧱
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2025-Aug-15 13:39:31 🚦🍅 (actually these are my dad's tomatoes)
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2025-Aug-15 13:22:42 Duucks #ducks 🦆🦆🦆 |
2025-Aug-14 13:08:22 Oak trees with acorns and some parasites (oak galls, plus something on the leaf).
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2025-Aug-14 12:51:13 Found a medlar fruit tree.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mespilus_germanica Not sure what the other one is, maybe crab apple.
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2025-Aug-13 19:41:20 New big grid fin for #SpaceX booster.
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1955715300256616451 |
2025-Aug-13 16:18:36 Today we saw trains. This is Project 62's more rusty one. https://www.project62.co.uk/
This is a video explaining the whole North Dorset Railway restoration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1AAMkoOoag |
2025-Aug-12 21:42:36 Found if I put pepper and herbs on buttered toast it's a bit like garlic bread. |
2025-Aug-12 14:50:13 Forest arch.
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2025-Aug-12 14:46:08 There was a 🐸 on this path but no photo because my mum poured water on it(?)
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2025-Aug-12 14:36:44 Some geese at the cider farm.
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2025-Aug-11 20:22:42 They drew some ducks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe#/media/File:G%C3%B6beklitepe_Building_C_5372_(cropped).jpg |
2025-Aug-11 17:29:04 Sea temperature increases have caused new fish and jellyfish to come to UK waters.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05enyryqvmo And then the jellyfish clog up a nuclear power station. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx299eyg7qko |
2025-Aug-10 18:22:42 Bluff erosion and beach side woodlands at Hengistbury Head.
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2025-Aug-09 16:35:13 Fire near here today.
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2025-Aug-09 01:38:52 Z-NAND is back. #computing #memory
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/samsungs-revived-z-nand-targets-15x-performance-increase-over-traditional-nand-once-a-competitor-to-intels-optane-z-nand-makes-a-play-for-ai-datacenters |
2025-Aug-09 01:31:43 #WiFi 8 to prioritise worst-case performance. #computing
https://fudzilla.com/news/network/61510-qualcomm-wants-wi-fi-8-to-work-when-everything-goes-wrong |
2025-Aug-08 19:38:32 Couple of interesting #physics news releases from #CERN:
Top-antitop quarks can briefly form a meson, if produced with low relative velocity. It had previously been assumed their lifetimes were too short to hadronise. https://home.cern/news/press-release/physics/elusive-romance-top-quark-pairs-observed-lhc Coherent superposition of an antiproton's spin has been produced, leading to more accurate measurements of antimatter. https://home.cern/news/news/physics/quantum-leap-antimatter-measurements #accelerators |
2025-Aug-07 22:22:18 Mostly packed for my holidays. This week has been weird, sandwiched between two trips, but I did a few things. Work-wise, accounted for all the types of kinetic and potential energy in my ion trap simulation, checked energy conservation (re-stepping if too much error) #physics |
2025-Aug-06 18:41:18 NIF achieves burning plasma, introduces new capsule with windows to diagnose X-ray generation. #fusion #energy #physics
https://www.newswise.com/articles/los-alamos-lawrence-livermore-achieve-fusion-ignition-with-groundbreaking-approach https://lasers.llnl.gov/science/achieving-fusion-ignition |
2025-Aug-05 21:38:35 Mowed the lawn, but it seems growing season is over, so I didn't have to do all of it. |
2025-Aug-03 18:29:36 Now the Moon gets in the way of the Sun instead of the Earth. #astronomy #space
RT https://x.com/NASASpaceAlerts/status/1952036892582482246 |
2025-Aug-01 14:20:37 Went up the hill to the villa where Galileo was put under house arrest for saying the Earth goes round the Sun. #history #astronomy
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