Nice to see the locals getting on the green bandwagon here, smack dab in the middle of Central Oil ‘n Gas Megacorp USA. Probably never mentioned it before, but Ft. Lupton is one of my favorite stops. They have the best dog park I’ve ever seen, bar none anywhere for starters. CTD has a home-away-from-home at Country Truck®. And there’s a Sonic® keeping the Strawberry Cheescake shakes flowing. What more could a troglodyte like me ask for in a small Colorado town?
NASA Astronaut Candidate Nichole Ayers
This is what I’m talkin’ ’bout. It’s time to put sexism, misogyny and all forms of bigotry to rest, once and for all.
Ayers graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 2011… and the rest is history, with a straight-up trajectory like nobody’s ever seen before.
JWST Update #31
I can’t fathom the bigness scale, which just keeps getting bigger.
“Having these extremely massive galaxies so early in the universe is posing significant challenges to our standard model of cosmology,” Lagos said. Mainly, this is because astrophysicists had not previously thought dark matter structures massive enough to facilitate galaxies as large as ZF-UDS-7329 could have existed in the early universe. Thus, additional observations will be required in order to help piece together the newly emerging puzzle of these early massive monsters.
WW-0
Politics runs AMOC, while the world grinds to a halt.
Proportional Stuff
Greenhouse Effect. Not to worry about California sliding seaward after an earthquake. We’ll just wash it down…
JWST Update #30
“Fundamentally, James Webb is rewriting the astronomy textbooks right now,” O’Brien said.
It’s All About The Data
I remember back in 1999 when the DLA was attempting to implement an early data analytics system thinking “…eventually someone will figure out how to get this stuff running at scale and rule the world.” Here’s a little write-up I did for the CC at the outset of that little experience. Then came AI. All along…
The new project replaced Linux and Kubernetes with a new operating system stack at the bottom of which is a database system, the prototype multi-node multi-core, transactional, highly-available VoltDB, which Stonebraker started. Basically, the operating system is an application to the database, rather than the other way around,” he says.
JWST Update #29
The James Webb telescope took some stunning images in 2023.
Webb spies record-breaking ‘failed star’ that shouldn’t exist.
COP-28
X – The New Symbol for Monetary Black Holes🇺🇸
When MAGA Spaceboy blew north of $40B on Twitter™, I thought “great, maybe that’ll slow him down.” It was after all, at least on paper, his money. They got a little further than last time. Starship should reach IOC by around turn of the century, at this rate.
Made it up to 92 miles. Sucks when ur playin’ catchup to Richard Branson in this business. Really sucks when taxpayers are footing the bill. FAA re-certifications alone are probably into the $milions$ by now. WTF are we payin’ for?
What was that About AI, Again?
Yes, extinction and slavery are issues, but work-forces have historically suffered the most during big economic paradigm shifts. Everybody got all worked up about it for a couple months after the public intro. Just not sure how many realize it’s been here all along, slowly, inexorably seeping into the programming on numerous fronts in the high tech battlespace.
Any Doubt…
…this was AI-generated? They been hiding behind this shyt on an ever-increasing basis for years. Apparently customers stopped rising to the level of human interaction some time ago. Better learn how to train a chatbot if you want anything from these assholes ever again.
EnerVenue
NASA Battery Tech to Deliver for the Grid. I been sayin’ we’re gonna need a battery and/or solar breakthrough for at least the past ten years. Turns out maybe an answer has been sitting right in front of us all along. The more things change…
Best 2023 Nature Photographers
Thomas Vijayan takes top honors for that spectacular ice sheet shot. I liked the Jaguar following, but they are all awesome. I live for voyeurism these days. It’s all about heat and light at the most fundamental levels of our existence. Photographers are working well with the light.
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At the End of the Day…
It’s always about the money.
Muskovite Continues to Strike
Musk’s Neuralink to Start Human Trial of Brain Implant. Probably just trying to figure out how to shut it down for space travel.
CHATSUM: Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup Neuralink has received approval to begin recruitment for the first human trial of its brain implant for paralysis patients, targeting those with cervical spinal cord injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
The UAW needs some better backend …if Twitter messaging is anything important to the cause. Musk’s general outlook on life has become pretty clear. MAGA Spaceboy is out to create havoc and doing a damn good job of it.