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simonbp

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Linux, Railway, Beer dork; Astrophysics PhD; occasional interplanetary explorer

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Anyone who rants about safety regulations "stifling innovation" should be forced to read this article. Clockwork Orange style if necessary.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/inside-the-titan-submersible-disaster

“Titan and its safety systems are way beyond anything currently in use… I have grown tired of industry players who try to use a safety argument to stop innovation and new entrants from entering their small existing market,” Rush wrote to McCallum. “Since [starting] OceanGate we have heard the baseless cries of ‘you are going to kill someone’ way too often.” (Spoiler: Rush's arrogance killed himself and others)
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    I’m having to join the morning push into Yokohama and was not expecting the trains to be as crushed as central Tokyo.

    I was not correct about that assumption! I am now Elizabeth in 2D.

    simonbp ,
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    @elizabethtasker The secret second largest city in Japan strikes again

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    Thank you to the store checkout assistant who dived into the box of discarded receipts because he saw I'd dropped a 1 yen coin from my change in there with my receipt.

    Truthfully, not particularly necessary, but I appreciate the service 😂

    simonbp ,
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    @elizabethtasker He didn't want to have to deal with a 1 yen coin

    elizabethtasker , to random
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    Who wants to name an ?

    ... and where do those alphabet soup monikers come from?

    The Science Museum in London has published a blog post on asteroid naming, and describing the campaign to name asteroid 2001 CC21!

    https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/want-a-chance-to-name-an-asteroid/

    simonbp ,
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    @sundogplanets @elizabethtasker The first retrograde asteroid, (20461) Dioretsa takes it for me

    (even through it's really a Centaur)

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    I’m in the Science Museum in London… searching to find the tiny asteroid grain I smuggled in from Japan last summer!

    … this is somewhat of a challenge. Grain is small. Museum big.

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    @elizabethtasker Better response than the Bennu grain in Houston was getting last month. (But then the Science Museum is a far better museum than Space Center Houston).

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    "Riven" (the sequel to Myst) is coming to #VR!

    The beginning of Myst drops you on an island with... absolutely... zero instructions. While that can be a frustrating start for the uninitiated, it felt incredibly realistic with the headset where game play details can ruin (a little) the immersion.

    So, super excited! There's also an updated version for the computer (presumably with free movement) for keyboard warriors.

    https://cyan.com/2024/03/19/a-classic-reimagined-riven-set-for-2024-release-for-flatscreen-and-vr-platforms/

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    @elizabethtasker @marcoshuerta LOL when CRD on YouTube reviewed an old SCSI ten CD changer, he used Riven because that was the only use he could think of for a consumer

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    @elizabethtasker @marcoshuerta https://youtu.be/oRuhRfvIkn0?si=T9JJ8fFEQjn1pHNi

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    My AirPods are dying: the right pod in particular doesn't last my whole journey home from work, which is wimpish!

    I currently have the first generation AirPods without noise cancelling but... since I mainly l listen to them outside... do I want the noise cancelling Pros? (As outside, I wouldn’t be able to use the noise cancelling, due to the risk of being hit by a car!)

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    @elizabethtasker You need these, obviously
    https://mastodon.nl/@ErikSchouten73/112055751724852046

    elizabethtasker , to random
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    Now this, my friends, is what we call a serious conference proceeding 😂

    simonbp ,
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    @elizabethtasker I've literally used a handmedown copy of P&P IV as a monitor stand

    elizabethtasker , (edited ) to random
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    Apropos to nothing... let's have a quiz! Which of these is NOT the name of an animal that went to space?

    simonbp ,
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    @elizabethtasker Miss Baker retired after her Space Monkey days to the US Space Rocket Center, the museum in Huntsville, where she was quite popular. Her grave is visible when you enter the museum; in lieu of flowers, they keep a banana on her grave.

    elizabethtasker , to random
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    While discussing a possible site for a telescope array in India:

    “Without domes, won’t the monkeys make a complete mess of the mirrors?”

    “No, the leopards with deal with the monkeys.”

    Which led me to a different… yet distinctly related… question 🤔

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    @elizabethtasker Baboons have often been an issue with South African occultation campaigns. They like disassembling things.

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    I have made it to Delhi but am probably going to miss my connection 🤦🏼‍♀️

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    @elizabethtasker The Raj never died, just mutated

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