New (computational) video up! Using some Matlab I wrote to Gerrymander or un-gerrymander the state of North Carolina - lots of fun math.

Favorite fact from my most recent project: the ion "cyanide" ([CN]-) was named after the color "cyan" because it was first identified in a light blue pigment called Prussian Blue.

Turns out if you show up to a rocket launch carrying a huge tripod, people think you'll know exactly where to look and what's going to happen. There I was hoping for the best, waiting for T-0 on my out-of-sync analog watch😂.Got some great footage though!

Forgot the link to the actual video!.

Finally got the hexagonal ice crystals growing! This is a single-crystal of water ice, stuck to a Peltier cooler, in a vacuum chamber, in my freezer, with a camera pointed down at it through the chamber window. (timelapse of 3-4 days)

Hey @DJSnM and @Erdayastronaut - A couple weeks ago I was looking for a good explanation of how asteroid imaging works and couldn't find one, so after some scattered reading, took my crack at it. Arecibo needs all the press it can get right now.

There were so many people packing into Lompoc this morning I couldn't even park on the same road I did last time - It makes me so unreasonably happy to see so many people excited about space! Made my face hurt from grinning while I struggled to find a parking spot. .

I'm a huge rocket fan, and this morning visited Lompoc CA (alongside a whole lot of other rocket fans!) to get some footage of today's Falcon 9 Launch with the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich ocean-monitoring satellite. #SeeingTheSeas @SpaceX @NASA @ESA_EO.

Found out recently that ice freezing actually makes a sound. and it's JUST like in the movies! Does anybody know where the shattering-glass-means-freezing Foley effect started? cause it's spot on.

Soap bubble rafts are awesome! If all the bubbles are the same size, they make a beautiful hexagonal crystal. Scientists in the 50s actually studied bubble raft dynamics to learn how metals bend before microscopes got good enough to see atoms…

@neiltyson Thought you might like this image - I think planetary defense missions (like bringing WISE back online as NEOWISE to scan for asteroids) are SUPER important to humans as a species. Someday one of those rocks is going to land. .

@DJSnM - I saw your recent video about WISE and thought you might like this image! (I think ~90% of my space news is from your channel).

You've got to look real close cause it's SUPER faint, but I was able to catch "Comet NEOWISE" alongside the orbiting telescope that discovered it, WISE! Goes along with a recent video of mine about satellite flares and the twilight effect:

Astronomers vs. SpaceX, the orbit of the ISS, and why certain rocket launches create massive nighttime lightshows while others just leave a trail of smoke!.

I've always been super annoyed at how soldering iron smoke seems to do it's best to actively attack your eyes at all moments… It's just like campfire smoke that follows you around a firepit…. Good news: I figured it out!!!.

New video time! This one's about creating perfect seals between parts with metal gaskets. Vacuum-tight joints are a whole lot harder to achieve than air-tight joints!.

"Star-stabilized" timelapses are making it big on the internet over the past couple weeks - figured I'd show my favorite! It required filming for literally days, and took an awful lot of math in matlab to process accurately.

Well gee I guess now that I have like 5 followers from @code_bullet, I guess I should start using this account. Boom! I just published a new video! It's about random numbers, quantum physics, and splitting the very fabric of reality *cue ominous music*