dr. nick wagner (he/him)

Budget Cuts and the End of the Line — The Map Center Well, the budget cuts come for us all, in the end. For the past year I've been a contractor for Amtrak where I've been working remotely from my desk at The Map Center. I've effectively been doing two ...

In continuation of my spotless record of earnestly oversharing about my career, I offer yet another blog post: www.mapcenter.com/blog/budget-...

A carving of a Martian crater presented with low-angle lighting

A cedar carving of a Martian impact crater presented atop a solar panel.

I carve landscapes into wood using a CNC machine. Here is Jezero Crater, Mars, featuring a water-carved close up of the carter's interior. It is a carved from an aged piece of eastern red cedar.

comic book authors: we invented the punisher as a cautionary tale about vigilante crime fighting
the director of the fbi: at long last, we are implementing the ethos from the classic comic book the punisher

im not joking when i say that anthony bourdain’s episode about waffle house should be enshrined in the library of congress

stealing this idea

Absolutely stunning display as episode 34 of the Kilauea eruption came to life with dual lava fountains looking like wings of a Phoenix!

Live here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqmp...

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A relatively cool lunar farside mantle inferred from Chang’e-6 basalts and remote sensing - Nature Geoscience Basalt clasts returned by Chang’e-6 suggest a lunar farside mantle potential temperature that is approximately 100 °C cooler than the nearside mantle, according to a petrologic study combined with thermobarometric modelling and remote sensing data.

⚒️ Article: Basalt clasts returned by Chang’e-6 suggest a lunar farside mantle potential temperature that is approximately 100°C cooler than the nearside mantle

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global color image of Mars from Hope Probe with north polar ice cap visible on the top of the image, Valles Marineris on the left and lots of clouds over Meridiani Planum on the right. Date: December 21, 2024. 14:46 UTC. Credit: Emirates Mars Mission (EMM)/EXI/D. Machacek.

Global color image of Mars from Hope Probe with north polar ice cap visible on the top of the image, Olympus Mons near the center, bright cloud over Alba Mons on the right near terminator and fan shaped clouds around Arsia Mons in the lower center. Date: December 5, 2024. 13:07 UTC. Credit: Emirates Mars Mission (EMM)/EXI/D. Machacek.

Global color image of Mars from Hope Probe with north polar ice cap visible on the top of the image, Gale crater (landing place of Curiosity rover) near the center and interesting cloud between Elysium Mons and Albor Tholus near terminator. Date: November 28, 2024. 15:20 UTC. Credit: Emirates Mars Mission (EMM)/EXI/D. Machacek.

Color image of crescent Mars from Hope Probe with south polar ice cap visible at the bottom of the image, the giant Tharsis volcanoes near the center, Noctis Labyrinthus in the center right near terminator and Olympus Mons volcano at the upper left of the image. Date: February 6, 2025. 04:04 UTC. Credit: Emirates Mars Mission (EMM)/EXI/D. Machacek.

A few selected images of Mars processed from a new batch of data from the EXI camera aboard the Hope probe.
The dates and times of the images and some details are in the ALT text.

Weird how this is always go to Jupiter or live in the center of the earth but not “everyone has a good union job and healthcare”, like that’s the thing that is believing in unicorns

Dave Portnoy tweet saying ‘absolutely disgusting and disturbing video from Charlie Kirk shooting today. Hoping for the best for him and his family. Anybody who is happy about this is a disgusting human.’

Pop Crave Tweet: ‘Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy says he hopes a missile hits Greta Thunberg’s boat as she sails away with aid: “I hope they hit a f*cking, like, a missile on her boat. Knock that boat down. Greta or whatever her name is”

This explains it better than I can

Please, please listen to me:

MAGA world has a lot of money to pay "researchers" to trawl niche social media sites like this one, and take posts that will provoke enormous outrage and plaster them across multiple platforms.

Please think about what you're posting before you hit "Post"

Everyone writing about Perseverance today should be asking how many of the scientists and engineers who were involved in this discovery no longer work for NASA bc of Trump.

Duffy says today's announcement is consistent with "the president's vision and mission of continuing science to support human exploration beyond Earth."

Fact check: this administration has proposed canceling Mars sample return.

The rover uncovered a rock that had “oh my god did you see Brian’s hat” etched into the underside

why do one thing well when you can do two things half as well

spongebob looking at two pages at once

trying to watch the LSSW workshop and this press conference rn

Watching a NASA press conference being led by the guy who is stripping NASA for parts is particularly galling.

The path of Halley’s Comet is so long and narrow that it looks like a hot dog.

Once again, the classic question of whether a comet’s orbit is a hot dog.

From E. C. Krupp, The Comet and You (illustrated by Robin Rector Krupp)

Light up construction/road sign that says “DO NOT HONK”

Another light up construction/road sign that says “DO NOT HONK”

Tim Robinson yelling voice

especially like, chicxulub sized

i remember talking to one of the authors at their poster and I was really skeptical of it at the time. really cool to see it further flushed out like this

hahahahaha holy shit

sometimes a scientific field takes giant leaps in a short timeframe. its crazy to see it in real time

SLAY

well, at least its not jet

An excellent summary of one week on the path to dictatorship from Bill Kristol

tell your friends! tell your grandparents! tell your enemies!

New Geophysical Constraints for Intrusive Magmatism at Large Martian Volcanoes: Implications for Crustal Thickness and Volatile Outgassing The proportion of intrusive versus extrusive (I/E) volcanism on Mars has implications for its past atmospheric thickness and composition There are conflicting estimates of the I/E ratio from diff...

new paper alert!! by bridging disparate estimates of intrusive and extrusive volcanism on Mars we update our understanding of how thick the crust on Mars may be and quantify how much volatiles these volcanoes contributed to the early martian atmosphere
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

A SKLETON BUSTIN OUT OF YOU'RE MONITOR!!!!!! AND THERE SCREAMIN "I ANT SCARED OF SHIT EXCEPT CONFLICT " - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

NOPE - dashare.zone ADMIN

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