Brian Swift

Sorry Marc. Hugs.

Maybe 12VDC out of generator to a sine wave inverter.

YouTube video by United Launch Alliance The Burn Sequence Episode 3: Jeff Armstrong

youtube.com/watch?v=TFVv...

Congrats to JPL radar peeps and everyone responsible for REASON instrument and creation of radargram captured during Europa Clipper March 1 Mars flyby. Strip image at photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA2... REASON (open access) paper at link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"Damn, B." deserves a follow on the off chance it's a Buffy/Faith reference.

+1 to Anthropic for naming their agentic AI infra Model-Context-Protocol (MCP) which non-coincidentally also stands for Master-Control-Program, the protagonist in Tron. EOL

A rule of thumb for tsunamis is that in open ocean, they move at similar speeds to commercial airliners. If you're ever curious how long it would take for a tsunami to get from one place to another, look up the duration of a similar-length flight.

A nebula with a bright star at its center. The nebula has three distinct layers, and the pattern in the layers repeats in a way that implies there are more layers outside the image boundaries, though they would be faint. The shape of the nebula is something like nesting yin yangs, with the center smallest one bright and dense, shining, smooth and golden. The middle one is orange and textured like a sherpa blanket. The largest, outer shell is fainter, and red like an ember. Its texture has softened along with its dissipation into space. There are some small stars speckled around the image, and one annoyingly bright, spiky one that's got too many colors because of the way the light spreads from point sources through the telescope's optics. A pale haze of grayish cloud also covers the scene, but it is sheer and translucent.

Apep. JWST. It's weird. Just look at it.

From GO 5842: What lies beyond the inner spiral of Apep?
Principal Investigator: Yinuo Han

flic.kr/p/2riELBn

NASA Shares How to Save Camera 370-Million-Miles Away Near Jupiter An experimental technique rescued a camera aboard the agency’s Juno spacecraft, offering lessons that will benefit other space systems that experience high radiation.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory: NASA Shares How to Save Camera 370-Million-Miles Away Near Jupiter www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-sh...

Happy Moon Day. First photo of a human taken from surface of another world. Buzz Aldrin egressing from Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle on 7/20/1969. Full Rez at flic.kr/p/2gDbHUn

Since JunoCam hasn't been feeling well for the last two perijove passes, here's a rewind back to Perijove 1, August 2016. Image JNCE_2016240_00C06160 acquired 2016-08-27T11:59 from altitude 73,009 km.

Animated gif of Juno/JIRAM 3.5-micron observations of Io from December 27, 2024. This gif covers roughly 45 minutes of time as Juno passed Io at a distance of 74,444 km. The eruption at West Illyrikon was so intense that it saturated the detector and caused internal reflections within JIRAM's optics

Now hear me out - interstellar spacecraft the size of a comet, covered in solid volatile fuel, with reflective panels for controlled heating and thrust during a close stellar flyby, falling from one system next...

Many remotely accessible amateur owned telescopes in row of buildings with slide-over roofs.

Texas dark skies telescope ranch (from x.com/astrofalls/s... )

Of late he's given a number of explosive demonstrations.

First Images from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory | #RubinFirstLook YouTube video by Rubin Observatory

First Images from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory press conference live at www.youtube.com/live/Zv22_Am...

Thank you for your service.

San Jose Giants @ Modesto Nuts

Riding dinosaurs rocked, till they were devoured by the rodents.

And not that new-fangled thing filling the first 5 pages of google results. www.bitsavers.org/pdf/elxsi/EL...

Could I interest you in some EMBOS

If damn AT&T hadn’t yeeted UNIX at all the uni crazies, all our OSes would be Pascal/Modula derivatives.

Time sink ahoy.

Happening now: NASA's Juno mission is closing in on Jupiter for the spacecraft's 73rd close encounter with the giant planet.

Follow along virtually in real time at eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_juno

See the latest real images from Juno at missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing

JunoCam Jupiter images from PJ72. Exaggerated color/contrast. Full resolution version at flic.kr/p/2r9L22Y

Check out "On the Toes of Giants – How SRTM was Born" web.archive.org/web/20221104...
These too if you have access: www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-p... The processing paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc... cal/val: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...

YouTube video by Konstantin's video archive Dis Mons on Io – Revised Visualization of the ‘Steeple’ Mountain

Cool Io flyover. "Dis Mons on Io – Revised Visualization of the ‘Steeple’ Mountain" www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rh9... with description at www.weareinquisitive.com/news/hidden-...

JunoCam is back! PJ72_21 Jupiter image, exaggerated color/contrast. Altitude 40325km, image data captured 2025-05-07T02:26 (51.3 hours ago)

This image presents a stunning deep space view centered on the Cat’s Eye Nebula, with intricate structures and vibrant colors. The nebula itself glows in an ethereal blue and violet hue, surrounded by delicate, symmetrical, and concentric gaseous layers that form its iconic shape. The surrounding space is filled with an intricate web of faint reddish and brownish wisps on the outer region surrounding the nebula. Bright stars with distinct diffraction spikes punctuate the scene, adding depth and contrast to the dark, star speckled background. Numerous galaxies are also visible in the background. The image showcases a great balance between sharp details in the nebula's core and the softer, ghostly tendrils of interstellar gas beyond.

1/n 🧵

Cat's Eye Nebula NGC 6543 as seen by @esa.int Euclid Space Telescope

Full size & full info: flic.kr/p/2qTiGsj
Credit: ESA/Euclid/EuclidConsortium/NASA/AndreaLuck CC BY

Latest data release available on: eas.esac.esa.int/sas
Filters: HSC G, VIS, NIR H, NIR J, NIR Y 🧪🔭

Io Images from JunoCam, PJ70. Raw data acquired 2025-03-02T12:03:24 to 12:43:17 from altitudes ranging 79483 to 84543.2km.