Casey Handmer
@CJHandmer
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Physicist, Immigrant, Pilot, Dad. Former Caltech, Hyperloop, NASA JPL. Founder @terraformindies. Hiring!
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Joined June 2012
Also I spotted a high latitude bug so I have to change one character and re-run the shell script. Schedule slips 4 days, including solving the kernel panic. I got sassed by a sales rep at the Apple store today for using my Pixel 9. Sorry bro, I use Linux because I have self
As of now I have 32000 unbelievably *crisp* images of 1 square degree graticules featuring mostly lumps, bumps, craters, sand dunes, geological contacts, strata, big rocks. So we're half way there. Tomorrow, we reach the polar zones. Here's a random one to keep you going. From
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Stay tuned...
As of now I have 32000 unbelievably *crisp* images of 1 square degree graticules featuring mostly lumps, bumps, craters, sand dunes, geological contacts, strata, big rocks. So we're half way there. Tomorrow, we reach the polar zones. Here's a random one to keep you going. From
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Can't wait to see how Roscosmos blames this on a female NASA astronaut.
Lots of implications for the Soyuz incident at Site 31 in in Kazakhstan, where one source told me the damage is "significant." https://t.co/hrHbKW36q1
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Breaking stuff is by far the best way to learn what the universe really thinks of your designs. Anyone who insists on a development program breaking nothing wants you to fail.
Side note, these are the exact same losers who lectured everyone after every SpaceX crash about why SpaceX needed to become more like Boeing and the ULA to succeed. Look how that turned out. They aren't just wrong, they are anti-right.
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Big oops!
New photos of the damaged launch pad at Site 31 of Baikonur Kosmodrome were published in Telegram channels and on Novosti Kosmonavtiki forum. Sad to see it like this.
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As of now I have 32000 unbelievably *crisp* images of 1 square degree graticules featuring mostly lumps, bumps, craters, sand dunes, geological contacts, strata, big rocks. So we're half way there. Tomorrow, we reach the polar zones. Here's a random one to keep you going. From
Do you lie awake at night worrying about NASA's low resolution Mars topography map in @googleearth? I do. So I'm doing something about it. In a month or so, you'll be able to download a colormatched 300 GB superoverlay for the entire planet. Start deleting your old memes to
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My head cannon is that if Hugo Eckener had defeated Hitler in the 1933 election, instead of focusing on keeping the Zeppelin company alive through the horrors of the German great depression, that we would have a) avoided WW2 and b) had thousands of passenger airships by now.
Hugh White - Australia’s foremost strategic analyst - takes me through the 11 books that have most shaped his thinking on strategy, international relations and defence policy. Available on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc. Enjoy! Timestamps: 0:00:00 - Introduction.
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I really hope we can deorbit at least parts of the ISS with Starship and preserve them in a museum.
On the left is a wide-angle view inside Destiny, the first U.S. research module on the ISS, just after its hatch was opened in 2001. This milestone marked the beginning of decades of groundbreaking science in orbit. On the right, the same module years later and in full lab-mode,
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The name of this volcano has no translation in English.
JUST IN - Volcanic ash from Russia’s Bezymianny volcano is blowing east and is expected to reach about 33,000 feet.
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I think it's time for us to accelerate the development of antimatter production as the most compact form of energy storage for high performance space propulsion applications. https://t.co/qws74FAjsr
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Printable PDF of this post. “Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist…
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Let's play Mars geoguesser! Where is this eroded crater ejecta? Image is about 30 miles wide, and within 30 miles of the equator! That makes it a lot easier.
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Grab your Gale original .jpgs here: https://t.co/xbVA27q3fI Global render should be done in 2-3 days. Full dataset will be about 1.3 TB. D= Yes, this is with lossy jpg compression. If anyone wants to give me a 1000 TB RAID that would be lovely. Planets are absurdly big.
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Imagine explaining that if your plane is 1 minute late it has to slow to 1/3 the speed for the rest of its flight! Lol. Just go around.
When I was a freshman in high school I commuted into New York City from my suburb, along the New Haven Line. I wanted to get there a little early, so I was on a train that left at 6:49 southbound towards the city. There was a northbound local train that arrived in the same stop
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The great miracle of capitalism is to turn the desire for wealth and status into a path to serve others by creating value. All of history before this it was warlords, conquest, slavery.
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There is actually a company doing this.
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You might think you're golden if you lie well enough and get hired anyway. Not so. The truth will out. Then you'll probably be fired for cause and have two awkward firings on your resume to explain. https://t.co/vSX52Mn3M9
@CJHandmer Where’s that image of the plane with the red dots? Or the people who pretend to hate plastic surgery looks because they only notice the bad ones?
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I have noticed a great improvement at writing @mathematica.
It is crazy how good Grok 4.1 is. It just solved a week's worth of lunar soil mechanics research in <1 minute and wrote the results in Mathematica script ready-to-go. It even went ahead and did the parts I was going to ask it to do next.
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