Dan Bowen

Interesting!

Two scientists at DLR in Germany, in mint coveralls and blue-green shiny goggles touch a laser optical mirror on a table. One scientist looks through what appears to be a 1975 home movie camera.

"Franz! Fire ze LASER!" Eurodance cleanroom scientists building the Giant German Space Debris Laser.

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BBEdit is the worst for this, I have 75 unsaved text files that auto open each time I launch the app and it never asks me to save

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ULA's vulcan kept the pointy end up today, but that cat is running out of lives. The side booster nozzle appeared to have burned through sending a plume toward the main core. youtube.com/shorts/gWEQV...

Remembering the sage admonition from XKCD, if the bottom of your rocket starts pointing towards space, you are having a bad problem and **you will not go to space today.** -Up-goer 5

⛴️ do you mean not enough Ferries? There are about 10 regular ferry routes across

A better response would be to make this easy - some billionaire to offer to immediately hire them all at increased wage for doing a positive contributing job.

Nice, App Store wen? 🚀

Twist ending- the bike has wheels AND legs. It was carrying you all along.

Basically "Less-than-truckload" semi truck shipping, you can list your thing and get bids from small freight companies, and a truck will come to you to pick it up. I've used uShip before www.uship.com/business/ltl

Where in the world is Carmen San Diego, mathblaster, Oregon trail, infocom text adventures

That satisfying smooth hum when you can 3D print a layer using "Archimedian chords" a continuous spiral, for a starting layer on prints, there's no jump over to to the next circle path, just smooth sailing

Did the @bart.gov speedrun today, and got interviewed while on the train by @bikecurious.bsky.social ! He does weekly livestreams while biking around San Francisco on Twitch/Youtube
Segment with me:
www.twitch.tv/videos/25664...

That one brown tree on the redwoods Mac background..

thank you for asking, no.

Plumbing is the new turing test.

Cover page of the candidate brochure for a Senior Research Associate / Climate Data Scientist post at UEA

Do you want to work on improving some of the most widely used global climate datasets?

We are offering a 34-month research / climate data science post to further develop CRU TS and CRUTEM @climateuea.bsky.social @ncas-uk.bsky.social
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/14...

Mass firings of probationary federal workers begin at NOAA, including many in Boulder Employees received emails Thursday informing them of their abrupt termination, despite a U.S. District Court ruling calling such firings’ legality into question

Probationary employees eceived emails and were given an hour to empty their desks, despite a U.S. District Court judge in San Francisco ruling ordering the Office of Personnel Management to stop indiscriminate firings because they are likely illegal.

The invisible toxic threat of air pollution - NCAS Find out about air pollution, how researchers are helping to tackle this issue, and what steps are being taken to protect public health.

It’s the UK’s biggest environmental health risk - impacting us from birth to old age.

Researchers are tracking pollution, identifying the most toxic particles, and pushing for effective policies. Cleaner air is possible - but we need action.

Read the story:
ncas.ac.uk/scientists-e...

Home - NOAA Ocean Acidification Program NOAA's Ocean Acidification Program prepares us for the impacts of ocean acidification through research and interdisciplinary partnerships.

One of the people fired from NOAA today is the director of the Ocean Acidification Program. That program also leads the U.S. government's effort on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The destruction of American science is incomprehensible.

Weather and climate office hour 02/27/2025: Update on mass firings at NOAA/NWS - YouTube The latest in a recurring series of live, virtual, & interactive "office hours" hosted by Dr. Daniel Swain on various topics related to extreme weather and c...

Late-breaking livestream this PM (4:30pm PT) to discuss the sudden mass firing today of #NOAA and National Weather Service (#NWS) staff, including those in mission-critical and life-saving roles. youtube.com/live/W2V...

GPT-4 still seems nicer for casual conversation than the newer models. It doesn't usually write 5 page responses to simple questions.

This is your regular reminder that government mandated backdoors for end-to-end encrypted comms are bullshit, make everyone less safe, and should be resisted at maximum volume.

Done. :-) it's a big one

You know, if you don't ask any Dutch submarine captains you meet if you can go visit any cool boats, you're doing yourself a disservice.

Enjoy broken windows and parking tickets

Just throw money at a car