Electrical engineer
Marveling at the world
Lots of Martian rocks and landscapes, looking all too familiar, but don't be fooled by that: Mars is an inhospitable toxic planet. Let's not mistake fiction for reality.
I like dirt and rocks, but I Am Not A Geologist (IANAG).
I also do rocky political commentary at times. We are all political animals by nature, according to Aristotle.
@guidojansen6
IMO it's not so much the people who voted for him in a political system that offers no real alternative, but the corrupt system of oligarchs that support him.
Europe has had a different political past, and Europeans have quite different political reflexes. Not sure for how long those differences will last though.
@guidojansen6
He's the symptom of a chronic disease. He himself may be a laughable clown, but the system that put him there and supports him is not.
America's reality today.
Image just screen-captured from "Truth" social: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114441543826801216
@JoseAC
It's not this madman, it's the whole system that's heavily skewed toward the oligarchs and corrupt.
The #Trump administration intends to terminate #NASA's Mars Sample Return mission (#MSR), in favor of "putting an American on Mars" and on the Moon "before China".
#Kleptocracy in plain sight. Taxpayer money that was allocated to scientific missions will now be shoveled to the pockets of the fascist billionaire who hasn't set foot in one of his spacecraft, even for a short trip beyond the Kármán line.
And you thought that science was not political.
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/president-trumps-fy26-budget-revitalizes-human-space-exploration/
@osuosl has been around for 22 years. They kindly host our gitlab for 6 months now, and provide important services for more than 150 other free and open source software communities such as @alpinelinux, @chimera , @debian, @fdroidorg, @gentoo, @gnome, @LineageOS, #ReplicantOS, @torproject. Now their future is in jeopardy 😢
We usually don't ask this, but please boost for reach, this is important infrastructure for so many FLOSS projects! :boostRequest:
Science Communication and Trust
Edited by Antoinette Fage-Butler · Loni Ledderer · Kristian H. Nielsen
Open book:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-96-1289-5
Via @vicgrinberg @IRAP
Sample page (my highlighting)
Via the #IAU office for Outreach newsletter:
"Science Communication and Trust"
Open Access Book
Editors: Antoinette Fage-Butler, Loni Ledderer, Kristian H. Nielsen
▶️ https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-96-1289-5
While it is the boulder that occupies the center, it's the diagonal skyline that gives the image its visual appeal, if there is one.
A reminder that things have in the past and will again be moving, given time. History is not dead.
Processed, leveled MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 63mm
looking NNE (32°) from RMC 73.0000
Sol 1492, LMST: 10:17:31
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise
This is a rock sample library. The rocks are collected from around the world, ground into a fine powder, and cataloged in a big database you can search online. Each of these trays holds about 60 jars, ~23 trays per column, ~50 columns per aisle, and five aisles. This is just their short-term storage facility. Everything is collected and cataloged by hand.
As an apex data consumer, it’s good to appreciate the sheer amount of work which goes into that online database you casually query.
#science
Following up on @marcolangbroek.bsky.social 's post on the upcoming Venera capsule reentry, I've done a writeup describing my own analysis of this object, which I first got interested in a quarter century ago!
planet4589.org/space/debris...
planet4589.org/space/debris/n...
On May 1st 1890 in Paris, left-wing activists wore a red triangle:
🔻
One for 8 hours work,
one for 8 hours leisure,
one for 8 hours rest.
"Red triangle: the working-class origins of an anti-fascist symbol" (fr) https://www.solidaire.org/articles/triangle-rouge-les-origines-ouvrieres-d-un-symbole-antifasciste
#antiFascism #struggles #labour #labor #workHours #redTriangle #invertedTriangle #triangle #Mai1st #unionism #tradeUnions #Paris #LabourDay #LaborDay #OTD
Let's look at the images first. They were produced by a scanner which scanned a line from horizon to horizon, successive lines being displaced by orbital motion. This image shows an example, with the raw scan above and a roughly projected version below, attempting to remove foreshortening towards the horizon. The area is in highlands south of Mare Tranquillitatis with Sinus Asperitatis at right. The line is an antenna or other object in the scanner field of view. #moon #luna22
Estas son todas las patatas que he encontrado en los datos nuevos
#Emirates #Mars Mission مسبار الأمل
2024-08-24/31
EXI 635f 546f 437f LEVEL2A data
EMM/EXI Level 2A Data Product
https://sdc.emiratesmarsmission.ae/
UAESA/Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre/j.Roger
@PaulHammond51
I meant that as a joke 🥴, but the fact that the core hasn't slid down the tube is noticeable. Also, this rock's bottom seems surprisingly solid and intact, maybe the smoothest core break-off we've seen so far? The gap left with the tube walls measures much less than a mm; no wonder it hasn't slid to the bottom. Hopefully the depth measuring tool will push it further down and make space for the cap to fit.
This is another post outside our regular sequence. China's Yutu 2 rover is still operating on the far side of the Moon after more than 6 years. There are very few official announcements about it but the rover can be monitored in LRO images every month or two. Here is the latest, just released, taken on 30 December 2024 at lunar noon. The rover (shadow) is visible, plus tracks. Two previous locations are indicated. A map will follow eventually. It's moving very slowly. #moon #yutu2
Every one out of six throws to solve a mathematical equation, the dice computes the result logically and correctly with the systematic context of the question. For the rest of the times, it hallucinates.
@PaulHammond51
Looks filled to the brim.
#29 imaged by CacheCam 😀
