65dBnoise

DAIR, 11 hours ago to random

"I’ve written about relationships between tech companies and the military before, so I shouldn’t have been surprised by anything I saw or heard at this conference. But when it ended, and I departed DC for home, it felt like my life force had been completely sucked out of my body."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/17/ai-weapons-palantir-war-technology

EUCommission, 1 day ago to random

Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay.

Today, we launched our new Mastodon instance. It will ensure a privacy-focused space to engage with and get the latest from our Commissioners, departments, and the official voices of the Commission.

We want to thank @Mastodon for stewarding us and helping us make this possible.

Fostering European digital players is vital to our strategy for a stronger #DigitalEU.

This is a unique opportunity to grow the community even more. Let's get there!

jesusmargar, 1 day ago to space

I'm more of a reader than a writer in 'Mastodon Space' but today I bring you something that those people I follow may not have heard of: what's likely to be the first attempt at a space suit, designed as early as 1936 in Spain. It was to be tested with a hot air balloon but unfortunately the whole thing had to be scrapped due to the Civil War. One piece of the original suit has now been found. In Spanish but Google Translate does the trick.

#space #astronaut #mars
https://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/capa-perdida-emilio-herrera-primer-traje-espacial-historia_1_11357855.html

Landru79, 17 hours ago to space Spanish

Tenemos nueva operación de taladro en #Marte

#NASA's #Mars #Perseverance rover

Sol 1151: Front Left Hazard Avoidance Camera (Hazcam)

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/FLF_1151_0769124617_481ECM_N0522638FHAZ00215_04_075J

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/j. Roger

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DAIR, 1 day ago to random

Angie Wang's illustrated essay for the New Yorker, wondering whether her child's early attempts at speech were the same as LLMs, was a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize. "A toddler has a life, and learns language to describe it. An L.L.M. learns language but has no life of its own to describe," she writes.

Read On The New Yorker's Website: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/sketchbook/is-my-toddler-a-stochastic-parrot

PhilStooke, 1 day ago to random

Follow some of story of the map here:

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=4254&st=0

And for the full size map in all its glory, go here:

https://sbnarchive.psi.edu/pds3/multi_mission/MULTI_SA_MULTI_6_STOOKEMAPS_V3_0/document/00_map_guide.html#eros

And here is a reduced image of my LPSC 2008 poster.

PhilStooke, 2 days ago to random

The images and the shape give us a photomosaic. I also made a shaded relief interpretation of the data, shown here. This was used by USGS as their index image for crater names at:

https://asc-planetarynames-data.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/mathilde_comp.pdf

ku2y, 2 days ago to hamradio

At the AMSAT Forum at Hamvention on Saturday, I’ll be showing off this prototype 2U CubeSat Simulator.

If you are there or stop by the AMSAT Booth on Friday or Saturday, make sure you say hi! 🛰️📡😁

https://CubeSatSim.org/wiki-beta

#CubeSatSim #AMSAT #Hamvention #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #OpenSource #RaspberryPi #STEM #CubeSat

Photo of an AMSAT CubeSatSim 2U prototype showing solar panels and camera
Photo of an AMSAT CubeSatSim 2U prototype showing PCBs stacked inside the frame

65dBnoise, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to space

"This way please"

#FreeAssociation

Processed, cropped MCZ_LEFT, FL: 63mm
looking SSW (206°) from RMC 52.0870
Sol 1139, LMST: 12:55:20

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01139/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1139_0768056142_519EBY_N0520870ZCAM09168_0630LMJ02.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

65dBnoise, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to space

Βαυβούς ανάσυρμα.
Baubo, Eleusinian Mysteries, ancient Greece.

Baubo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baubo#Orphic_fragment_52
Anasyrma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anasyrma

#FreeAssociation and the eye of the beholder

Processed, cropped MCZ_LEFT, FL: 63mm
looking S (172°) from RMC 52.0870
Sol 1139, LMST: 12:53:15

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01139/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1139_0768056018_519EBY_N0520870ZCAM09168_0630LMJ02.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

#feminism #mythology #Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

Nonilex, 4 days ago to Law

Apologies for my late start

#TrumpTrial 🧵

Monday May 13

#MichaelCohen is on the stand today

#criminal #law #Trump #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics #NodFarter #GagOrder #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal

bruces, 4 days ago to random

"undetectable to the human eye, but could be deadly to Tesla drivers"

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/10/baidu_apollo_hack/

PhilStooke, 5 days ago to random

Putting all the individual projections together, we get a cylindrical projection map. The extreme elongation makes this very distorted.

PhilStooke, 5 days ago to random

And another - we did this for every image. Then each one was reprojected separately.

PhilStooke, 5 days ago to random

Here is an image of asteroid 243 Ida with a lat-long grid added. The shape model was provided by Peter Thomas. My friend Maxim Nyrtsov was visiting and helped digitize the grid intersections and reproject them to intersections on a rectangular grid to make a photomosaic.

NeV_T, 5 days ago to random

MSL 4176 MR
Gigapan - http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/234765
GIGAmacro - https://viewer.gigamacro.com/view/QE4g38L0rzDGOMS6?x1=27264.00&y1=-6508.00&res1=28.40&rot1=0.00
© NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/NeV-T
Gigapan Website - http://www.nev-t-gigamacros.com/

russss, 6 days ago to random

Shout out to whoever is still responsible for making these beautiful hand-drawn synoptic charts of the sun every day for NOAA. Just stumbled across this page today.

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-synoptic-map

PhilStooke, 6 days ago to random

And leaping ahead, a test map sheet, the only one I made in this format. Next we will look at how we get here.

PhilStooke, 7 days ago to random

This somewhat less attractive set of map sheets makes up the southern side of Gaspra. The globe effect would be better if the maps were divided into more sections (gores) but this works surprisingly well. I have globes like this of Phobos and Deimos plus the northern side of Gaspra. But it really is tricky to do!

I have been involved with this for 40 years but I realize maps like these are rarely seen by others, so I'm putting them out there.

Next: time to move on to Ida.

PhilStooke, 7 days ago to random

An unanticipated bonus from these Gaspra maps is that the map sheets fit together to make a globe. Not exactly perfect but pretty darn good. I join them and print them in the format shown here. Cut them out carefully, leaving a strip of paper on one side of each gap. Then with surgical precision - it's not easy - they can be joined. This set of 7 sheets makes the northern hemisphere of Gaspra, which I have done (as Arne Saknussem might say). Same for Phobos and Deimos on yesterday's link.

tom30519, 7 days ago to random

Clear sky at lunchtime enabled me to get a photo of the giant, splotchy sunspot on our Sun. That thing is several times the size of Earth, which boggles my tiny mind.

Sony A7R3, 600mm, ISO 200, f/11, 1/500

#sunspot

astro_jcm, 8 days ago to Astronomy

Paranal Observatory was my home away from home for many years. In this blog post Vanessa Peidro Cid, the Head of Paranal Logistics and Facilities, takes us on a behind-the-scenes tour of what it takes to run this small "town" in the Atacama Desert. A lovely piece by Elena Reiriz Martínez, one of our communication interns at ESO.

https://www.eso.org/public/blog/tiny-town-in-the-desert/

#astronomy #astrodon #chile #science

minimalparts, 8 days ago to random

In the long term, #degrowth does not mean lower algorithmic quality. It means algorithmic diversity. Machine learning is much more than the one architecture that is currently being sold as ‘intelligence’. Machine learning is wonderful. But it can and should be small, energy-efficient and planet-friendly.

Landru79, 8 days ago to random Spanish

INTERNATIONAL #ROSETTA MISSION
COMET #67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO 1

Date 19 apr 2015
Distance to Target 112 km
Camera OSINAC 16x Near_Ir Orange Blue filters

https://rosetta-osiris.eu/image/NAC_2015-04-19T22.07.47.113?gallery=custom&ipp=120&page=7&sort=startTime&seq=asc&target=67p&content=DM,DPA,DLS,DJ&camera=NAC&filterNAC=Blue,Orange,Near-IR&filterWAC=UV245,CS,UV295,OH,UV325,NH,UV375,CN,NH2,Na,Vis610,Red_WAC,OI&maxImage=8258&imgNr=806&dateStart=2004-04-29&dateEnd=2016-09-30&startLikes=0&endLikes=1336&startViews=0&endViews=2058546&targetDistanceFrom=&targetDistanceTo=

ESA/Rosetta/MPS/OSIRIS/IAA/INTA/j. Roger

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PhilStooke, 8 days ago to random

And sheet 2. My Gaspra maps and many others are in NASA's Small Bodies Node of the PDS, here:

https://sbnarchive.psi.edu/pds3/multi_mission/MULTI_SA_MULTI_6_STOOKEMAPS_V3_0/document/00_map_guide.html#gaspra

I only just noticed that some of their links are broken, always to the ones with labelled grids. I think this is because of an update which changes the way some coordinates are defined.

Spoiler alert - that page will lead to lots of maps of other bodies which I will be posting about later. So do not look past Gaspra! I know I can trust you because you are on the Internet.