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My hot Thanksgiving take: Whatever you eat or do to celebrate Thanksgiving is fine, so long as it makes you and yours happy and does not harm another. Love pie? Have two. Hate pie? Eat cake.

Just be good to each other.

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I think about this one a lot

I think it is field dependent. It wasn’t done in chemistry when I was interviewing in 2000. When I heard about it from a colleague in another dependent I couldn’t believe it. But it was really true. Just staggering.

That’s awesome! How have I never heard of this? Thanks.

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It doesn't seem like it.

Basic light pollution diagram showing four different streetlight set ups ranging from more light pollution on the left to less light pollution on the right. The most pollution option, labelled "very bad" is a street lamp with a round uncovered bulb on top, making a sphere of light in the air. The next option, labelled "bad" has a tiny cap on top, that limits the upward pollution a bit. The "better" option is mostly uncovered on top, limiting pollution above the streetlight. The final option, labelled "best" has a full shroud overtop, limiting the light to only below the streetlight, where it is needed for pedestrians and vehicles.

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"

guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

I should add. I saw lady spring and fall from NC. May 2024 was bright naked eye with some color (and covered the whole sky). October was barely visible. This was both from a relatively dark site. Sadly, I missed this week’s show.

Thanks!

I’ve tried to find anyone who saw both May 10, 2024 Aurora and last night’s for comparison. Haven’t seen any one directly compare them.

Ha. I wonder. Never identified with their religion, but that aspect - screw these people, I’ll leave the known world - I have.

It’s the longest by innings. I’m fascinated by this but haven’t seen it anywhere else. Longer than both 8 game series.

Longest World Series in history

Tied with 1919.

2025 now tied for longest WS in history in number of innings with 1919.

The 2025 World Series will see more innings than any series since 1921 (Giants 5-3 win in best of 9). The only series with more innings was 1919 (Reds 5-3 win with one 10 inning game). 11 innings tomorrow gets us the longest series in history. #baseball #worldseries

Ha. We did it by winning some fluky close games, having the usual conference powers suck and playing the title game in the rain. Alas, not a repeatable formula (as we showed).

I completely agree that Trump will likely be president in 2028. Odds on favorite

There are far too many people who scoff at just having a good time for its own sake.

This comment should be a vegetable.

I sure hope so. But I also have a bad feeling. I’m hoping that bad feeling comes from all the rest of the news and not logic.

We had ours a few hours south of last night. Just a perfect night.

Griffey Sr never homered in the postseason?! Wouldn’t have guessed.

Same. But the way I figure it is, no one learns something fully and deeply the first (or even tenth) time they see it. In the beginning facts have to get wedged in heads so that they can illuminate when the matter is taken up again down the road.

Better than 51. Good luck!

Almost everyone assumes that “more light” is always the answer. The world therefore gets both brighter and harder to navigate at night.

Absolutely. It’s the only object with a 100% success rate in my experience.

I think true in every field. Ideas are easy. Deciding which are good and executing the work are hard. Which is why highly paid (and usually self-proclaimed) “idea men” piss me off so much.

Maybe 0.03% of the population appears to listen to lyrics.

Here is a gif from the Sept. 20 transit and shadow transit. This covers about half an hour of rotation. #astrophotography 🔭🧪