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• Post #3960431

  Mouse living in a tennis ball. https://x.com/domdyer70/status/2078388977787089039

• Post #3960430

  Interesting that the Beta Pictoris system is sending a dust stream our way. #space #astronomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Pictoris#Dust_stream

• Post #3960429

  New mile world record set in London: 3:42.66 https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/cx2jl1wge2po

• Post #3960428

  Orion Artemis I/II heat shield comparison. #space #NASA RT https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2078665527166455875

• Post #3960427

  RT https://x.com/CatsGiant/status/2078918531987431627

• Post #3960426

  The 40000 M_sun intermediate mass black hole postulated to exist in the Omega Centauri globular cluster is large enough that a human being can get to the event horizon without being pulled apart, although they *would* feel the tidal forces (comparable to +/-1g over your height). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Centauri#Evidence_of_a_central_black_hole #space #physics #astronomy

• Post #3960425

  Spent a while trying to find a bug in a complicated routine, only to discover it was a bug in a much simpler routine that I'd *assumed* was correct because it was simpler. This happened twice. #programming

• Post #3960424

  My tree hollyhock is flowering, it has grown quite tall.

• Post #3960423

  I can't believe England beat France 6-7

• Post #3960422

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_KzwZDchG4

• Post #1619735

  Another reason I may have had ants in my recycling bin is I put it on top of an ant nest when I put it out last week.

• Post #1619734

  You can see Earth from #Mars (at least, through this telescope). https://x.com/NASAMars/status/2046931058084782348

• Post #1619733

  Bug spray in my mailbox so the ants don't try and put their eggs in there like they did on several previous years.

• Post #1619732

  Oh yeah, and BBC News has switched from a nag screen to an actual paywall but all the articles are still readable in the HTML source so <shrugs>

• Post #1619731

  16 Polands. RT https://x.com/TerribleMaps/status/2047279507732877474

• Post #1619730

  Found out today if you set marker fill colour to 95% transparent in #Excel you can make it shade the density of points if you have too many to plot (like 10^5 green ones here).

• Post #1619729

  The deuterium-hydrogen ratio in comet 3I/ATLAS suggests it formed under different conditions to our own solar system. #space #astronomy https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02850-5

• Post #1078762

  Reading fediverse while waiting for my burger 🍔

• Post #1015730

  It changes by the minute (half Moon).

• Post #1015729

  What's that thing behind the Moon?

• Post #1015728

  So when the sun rises or sets on the Moon you always get a view of the corona, like half a solar eclipse from Earth. The astronauts just saw it, that's neat.

• Post #1015727

  Higher-res images from the lunar flyby. #space #NASA #Moon #ArtemisII https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyv183v02j3o

• Post #1015726

  So what does the Moon do exactly? Not much, it just floats in space. > Photo of the Moon floating in space WHOA https://x.com/NASAArtemis/status/2041606250291515482

• Post #1015720

  It turns out you get quite a good view of space from space. RT https://x.com/NASA/status/2041707173428748594

• Post #1015718

• Post #947696

  They got quite a lot further out in their orbit last night. Trans-Lunar injection burn is this evening. #space #NASA #Moon #ArtemisII

• Post #935350

  #ArtemisII is now over 1 light-second away from Earth. #NASA #space #Moon

• Post #932734

  #ArtemisII is 182000km from Earth, meaning that the round-trip time for signals at the speed of light is about 1.2 seconds. #physics #space #Moon #NASA

• Post #932733

  Underground lab is dark for 27 days because the steam heating system leaked into a 13kV line _in a different building_.

• Post #932732

  My laser might be ordered soon though.