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Last Notes npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 Haha what was that, all the engines came on for half a second and then the switched the rocket off again. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…h6ty Depending on the licensing conditions of the "replacement" projects. Like, you could put a BSD-licensed regex project in with just a shim to change the API names. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…7n8e That's a really nicely written paper! npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…h6ty If it's *new* you might want to write all that in the standard library just because there's not that much code for your language out there yet. In the case of a mature language, I'd remove anything that's likely done better by an independent project. Like there are really fast regex projects in C/C++ and it would be silly to rewrite a worse one for a standard library. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…7n8e That's not so surprising. Still, is there even a definition of something like GL(0.5)? npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…7n8e Does this mean there's a mathematical theory of matrices with noninteger number of rows? npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 Went on a tour of the GANIL ion cyclotron facility yesterday. Do you prefer the 1980s control panel for the cyclotrons or the 2010s one for the superconducting linac? #physics #accelerators https://media.mstdn.io/mstdn-media/media_attachments/files/116/622/476/883/944/270/original/dcfde6a1e9c7fcbe.jpg https://media.mstdn.io/mstdn-media/media_attachments/files/116/622/478/226/170/935/original/2659c701fe247cfa.jpg npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…h3yp OK but the guy who empties your septic tank might object to being Chris Shitfunnel. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 I'm using radius because I don't have 40 horizontal axes for each dimension, but you can see some features already, with points on the bottom left being particularly good, and there's a radius beyond which things get worse again. #optimisation #physics npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 I have a 40-variable optimisation problem that seems to have a lot of local minima. One of the simplest ways to explore them was to drop a load of optimisations from different starting points and run them downhill, which is what you see in the video below. Vertical is error score (in this case, the degree of mismatch of some particle beams), and horizontal is radius of the parameter vector away from the origin (in this case, related to magnet power consumption). https://media.mstdn.io/mstdn-media/media_attachments/files/116/535/559/485/873/480/original/f886e40a13b9ce8b.mp4 npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…h3yp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eider npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…h3yp Isn't this a classic job for MySQL and PHP? npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…h6ty White with orange beaks. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 Two massive #swans by the highway as I was going to work, seems strange. One flapped its wings at me. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…7n8e There are often algorithms that resemble "long division" that let you get one term at a time for series like this, on the assumption that the previous terms were correct. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…h6ty I didn't intentionally vectorise that code but it seemed power hungry for some reason. But that was back in 2010. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…h6ty https://stephenbrooks.org/muon1 is only for Windows and no longer updated, but it was the one that blew the fuses in someone's rack when they tried to run it. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…h6ty I've had floating point specifically heat CPUs up in ways other things don't. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…h3yp Could it have multiple instances? (Like each fedi server has its own moderation, it's not centralised) npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 Saw my first rabbit of the year in the garden this evening, not quite in time for Easter. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…mfuj It's going to be odd having these people trying to give legal personhood to a chat bot of them after they die. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…rykp Originally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erymanthian_boar npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 The Moon eclipse photo with labelled planets. #NASA #space #ArtemisII https://x.com/NASASolarSystem/status/2042308573850681740 npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 Never seen LaTeX put a table between two references before. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 One thing AI is pretty decent at is digging out references for similar prior work to a modern PDF. For instance this book on potential theory including a section on ellipsoids. #physics #accelerators https://archive.org/details/elementarytreati00ferruoft/page/108/mode/2up npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 Actually donated $20 to the Thunderbird e-mail client. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 https://media.mstdn.io/mstdn-media/media_attachments/files/116/372/023/391/653/929/original/695879e900d1652f.png npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…rykp https://media.mstdn.io/mstdn-media/media_attachments/files/116/371/502/308/589/017/original/c1bd717875f5aeff.jpg npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…rykp https://media.mstdn.io/mstdn-media/media_attachments/files/116/369/604/739/085/671/original/df3f94c8cff6bf87.webp npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…7n8e The Higgs field also has a nonzero vacuum expectation value, which might make its effect scale differently (by amount of fermion rather than fermion squared). npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 It turns out you get quite a good view of space from space. RT https://x.com/NASA/status/2041707173428748594 npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…g0zc I mean it worked for 5000 years why change it? npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…gak2 @nprofile…g0zc Now I seriously want this: https://www.amazon.com/Touchscreen-Android-Resistant-T-Mobile-Compatible/dp/B0CKXL587M npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…g0zc I always liked the roll-up screen idea better. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…7n8e Is this similar to the Higgs mechanism? npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 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 npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 Higher-res images from the lunar flyby. #space #NASA #Moon #ArtemisII https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyv183v02j3o npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 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. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 What's that thing behind the Moon? https://media.mstdn.io/mstdn-media/media_attachments/files/116/360/151/640/179/854/original/a2508c32df197164.png npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 It changes by the minute (half Moon). https://media.mstdn.io/mstdn-media/media_attachments/files/116/359/960/339/699/584/original/755fc85f3aaec5b2.png npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…rykp Is it the internet? npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 Big Moon. https://media.mstdn.io/mstdn-media/media_attachments/files/116/359/860/259/404/569/original/7bb4d975891c17f4.png npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 Why is my simulation 3x slower now? I had relativity turned on for some particles that were only going about 10m/s. #physics npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 #ArtemisII surpasses the Earth-distance record set by Apollo 13. #NASA #space #Moon RT https://x.com/NASA/status/2041214639988478110 npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…valu I got that one a few times a couple of years ago. The other one is copying "official" looking e-mails, but oddly they can never actually resist putting in blatant typos or out-of-place unicode characters. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rx7xzd10xo npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 #Moon's getting quite big in their forward camera now. #space #NASA #ArtemisII https://media.mstdn.io/mstdn-media/media_attachments/files/116/353/632/756/034/374/original/76d673a0e29c34d5.png npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 Weather forecasts can be a case of "error bars on the wrong axis": there's uncertainty of temperature but it could be a smaller uncertainty of cloud position that gets mapped to temperature with a large derivative. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 High-fps interpolated Apollo 16 lunar rover footage with mission audio. RT https://x.com/Moonpans/status/2040835097343991871 npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…h6ty Velocity. https://mstdn.io/@sjb/116332453202894642 npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…xja6 @nprofile…g0zc --[I think the correct strategy is to increase risk if you're doing well and decrease it if you're doing badly,]-- Yes, I recently came to a similar conclusion about my cash (savings bonds/certificates) vs. stocks (outside my pension). I was searching for an "ideal percentage" of stocks but what I really wanted was a constant (real terms) amount of cash. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…h6ty On one technical screen they have nautical miles and ft/s (which I find worse than normal miles and mph). npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…g0zc Or if Microsoft Outlook wants 8 round trips to the cloud to render a line of text. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…h3yp https://mstdn.io/@sjb/116207222950836792 npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 #ArtemisII is now over 1 light-second away from Earth. #NASA #space #Moon https://media.mstdn.io/mstdn-media/media_attachments/files/116/349/949/958/955/985/original/4681e10cb01c4bd1.png npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…g0zc Also probably depends on what you call a "high" probability (like 80% or 95%). npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…g0zc I think you only want to withdraw what you need, as it gets taxed on withdrawal. I also never understood the idea of converting stocks to less volatile bonds as you get older. If "averaging through bear markets" is valid on the way in, it's valid on the way out. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…afw4 The "I" stands for accuracy and the "A" stands for intelligence. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…h3yp I worry this expression might mean something different to a cat than a human ("I'm going to bite your head off" etc.) npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…rykp Annoying they didn't include a script to update the filenames. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 The spider crickets in my bathroom have a life cycle. There are a couple of mini-hoppers right now. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 I asked for a $326.81 tax refund and they gave me $327, who says they aren't generous? npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…my3l The surrounding exhibits have images that connect with the human experience, but if you don't like that you can have the Google Pixel with Nano Banana and Gemini! npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…h3yp A bit like quoting the most upmarket configuration my car's manual mentions rather than what my car actually is. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…h3yp In other words, all the 5Gbps ones are identical, and all the 10Gbps ones are identical, and there is only one 20Gbps one, so they should have just called it USB3-5G, 3-10G, 3-20G. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 Underground lab is dark for 27 days because the steam heating system leaked into a 13kV line _in a different building_. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 #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 npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 It's the Earth [photo] RT https://x.com/NASA/status/2040059770237849635 npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 A barrel of oil is 42 gallons, so I figured out the heating oil I had delivered yesterday cost $215 per barrel. However, that includes the wages of the guys who brought it to my house. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 "Microsoft Outlook doesn't work on the Moon"? It doesn't work on Earth npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 RT https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2039857997556416676 npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 OK, actually reversibly because the Moon's gravity sends them back. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 IRREVERSIBLY TOWARD THE LUNAR SPHERE OF INFLUENCE npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 Trans-Lunar injection livestream from NSF in 30 mins. #NASA #space #Moon #ArtemisII https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBYXljV7FK4 npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 https://x.com/nypost/status/2039716057531781275 npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 Blue Origin's Moon melty thing, produces oxygen, iron, silicon from #Moon dirt. [gif] #space https://x.com/blueorigin/status/2039758550130417786 npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 Giant marshmallows cause problems for UK value added tax legislators. https://www.ft.com/content/eb37569d-0a2b-4df6-bd11-4d0c4e81cdc9 npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…the5 NASA has a live youtube feed (two I think, including the external camera). Just make sure you find NASA and not some other TV channel when you search. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 They got quite a lot further out in their orbit last night. Trans-Lunar injection burn is this evening. #space #NASA #Moon #ArtemisII https://media.mstdn.io/mstdn-media/media_attachments/files/116/335/825/751/661/307/original/2f55d0ac63f18e66.jpg npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…rykp "Not even Kerbal Space Program would use such stupid units" (nmi, ft/s) https://media.mstdn.io/mstdn-media/media_attachments/files/116/332/452/061/614/707/original/9839b9346fd4d780.png npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 There's actually a full moon right now, it's worth a look. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 World's oldest known tortoise, Jonathan, dies aged 193 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c393xmpzjwko npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 Schedule says ~30mins of night. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 Looked like it was going to be a sunset but they're also receding from Earth, so it might not be. https://media.mstdn.io/mstdn-media/media_attachments/files/116/332/314/559/748/599/original/21dff0417be8b75f.png npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 Apogee raise burn is underway, taking them from LEO to HEO. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 https://media.mstdn.io/mstdn-media/media_attachments/files/116/332/148/034/603/271/original/31cfdb228188607b.png npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…rykp Later on they'll start mixing and matching, apparently a Centaur V will get stuck on as a second stage because they've only made 3 of the current version. Also I only realised just now that solid rocket boosters are very large fireworks. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 Here's the #ArtemisII mission schedule. #NASA #space #Moon https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/artemis-ii-overview-timeline-public-final.pdf npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…my3l They have this here in the US, but they also have recycling pick-up of plastics from my house, so I use that. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…mfuj Oh I see what you're doing here. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 https://x.com/NASASpaceflight/status/2039471877249216837 npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 Liftoff! npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 GO for launch at T-10 mins. Terminal count. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 Apparently being classified as an instrumentation fault and won't prevent launch. npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 Launch abort system battery temperature is out of range (tell me it's not a Lithium battery...) npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 Live coverage of #ArtemisII from #NASA. #space #Moon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_UjBMIzNo npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…sgwz Turns out it does have it, but I was typing "python" or "py" and I had to type "python3" or "python3.13". npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…rykp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1beEuBV7M0 npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…t6jg In the same newspaper: Why is Property Insurance So High? npub1uza23672am24xv9g0fqxstrg6y7r4y28wk6pvpc7mhh9na6tjckq6pux8m Stephen Brooks 🦆 @nprofile…rykp Are you feeling the weight of wisdom?