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A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
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You're standing in a nondescript room.
There is a door opening to a hallway that vanishes in darkness to your left. Before you is a man staring at you with a bemused expression on his face.
What do you do?
now that I know what it is, I'm sure I've seen a thrasher, but I don't know what species
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxostoma
#birdside
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Dear #Fediverse,
Hi! I'm Trisk, and I was raised a young-earth creationist (YEC, or as I sometimes call it, Ken-Hamism).
I'm realizing that I am extremely poorly versed in understanding modern, secular, scientific theories of evolution, cosmogony, and abiogenesis.
I also know that there's a lot of other people like me who want to know more about what the rest of the world *really* teaches about these things.
So, what is the best way I can ask questions and organize answers for others?
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I am alive today because I always wear a high quality full face helmet.
Never go cheap on safety gear.
You can't predict everything.
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@tsturm some tips from someone who lives in a desert area - 1)blackout curtains, or even just hanging up a bunch of towels against your windows, are your best friend. Where I live it can get up well past 40C, but there are days where I don't even need to turn on the AC bc blocking out the light works wonders
2)wet a few washcloths and put in the freezer/fridge to put on the back of your neck
3) if its really bad for a long time, you can really easily build a swamp/evaporative cooler using a box fan (there are a ton of tutorials online and they don't cost too much to put together!).
4) at night, place a fan in front of the window to help pull the hot air out but! In the morning, turn it off. Before it starts to get hot, close all windows to keep hot air out
5) turn off any incandescent light bulbs or other appliances that may give off heat during use
6) if its REALLY bad, contact your local community centers - they may have or have a list of local cooling centers
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Oysters are ecosystem engineers. They build reefs made of piles of shells and sediment! Every generation settles on the shells of their ancestors, and the shells act as "baffles", catching sediment that builds up between nooks and crannies like mortar. These reefs slow erosion and reduce storm surge. One study found that they can reduce wave height by up to 50%! This is one reason NYC has been seeding oyster reefs, to protect against the flooding that occurred during Superstorm Sandy. #clamfacts
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everytime someone uses "eutopia" to mean something good, a little part of me dies
I don't hear #Defiance talked about much, but it was a solid TV show. May not have broken ground on this, but it's one of the only TV shows I know to go into any depth on the syncretic culture and politics that could develop among multiple sentient species on earth. Star Trek is my closest parallel, but it differs in that most species characteristics were depicted through individual differences on an interpersonal level, and generally there was the framing of some mission or conflict which deemphasized cultural aspects. Maybe Babylon 5 has some of the aspects I see in Defiance, but the scale there is a bit too grand to focus in on control of the local mine or the mayoral election.
also, there were some really memorable characters in there. Datak Tarr stands out to me: he was a scoundrel, a crook, and a murderer, but damn if he wasn't compelling-- just the will to survive, even when there was only the slimmest hope, kinda made me respect the jerk.
Then there was the bond between Nolan and Irisa: although they weren't individually that interesting to me, the ways that dynamic shifted over the series as we learned about Nolan's past and Irisa's destiny really gave me something to think about between episodes.
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Encounter at Night.
Shot with a Kodak Monitor Six-20 from the early 1940s.
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This is what Jupiter’s North Pole in infrared looks like
https://www.bonfirestudios.com/
I don't play video games these days except, occasionally, solitaire or something, but I hope this company works out -- I noticed Morgan Webb is working there and I was a fan back in the G4 days
also they have a couple openings if you're looking for work
this monkey's face pleases me. it seems so calm
(source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2202569/The-colourful-new-species-African-owl-faced-monkey.html)
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NGC 6188: Dragons of Ara
Image Credit & Copyright: Shaun Robertson
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Milky Way Galaxy Doomed: Collision with Andromeda Pending
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Z. Levay and R. van der Marel (STScI); T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger
ok, the summary in the intro is misleading: suggests that the scenario in the thought experiment indicates something true about the universe rather than being an absurd consequence of the theory underlying
having read half the Wikipedia article, it's not clear to me why Boltzmann brains are a thing people consider seriously
A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
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