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btschumy

@btschumy@mas.to

Amateur astronomer; Astronomy educator; Zoologist; Weather buff; Mobile software developer; ME/CFS
• Co-author of "SkySafari" planetarium app.
• Latest app: "Our Galaxy". Shows the 3D locations of objects in and around our galaxy.

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VeroniqueB99, to random
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Imma be so there for this.

btschumy,
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@VeroniqueB99 They won’t be quite as equally spread out as shown in that image. Here is a screenshot grab from SkySafari at 5:15 near Denver showing the correct spacing. As a bonus, a thin crescent Moon will be in the mix.

btschumy, to mecfs
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After a week of feeling crappy, my ME/CFS wasn’t too bad today. However, I decided to take a nap just to recharge my batteries. When I awoke my dizziness and brain fog was much, much worse. It’s almost like my brain didn’t completely wake up and I’m permanentliy groggy. This ever happen to others of you with ?

@mecfs

btschumy,
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@LLS @mecfs It could be I was due for a crash. I’ve been yo-yoing for the past week. But I didn’t do much yesterday and I felt good before the nap. Sure seems like the nap caused it. It makes me wonder if some of the “unrefreshing sleep” and brain fog are just the brain not coming out of sleep correctly. That would be an autonomic nervous system thing.

astro_jcm, to astrophotography
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Have you ever seen an image where something looked off, like an oddly large or the where it shouldn't be?

I just wrote an article in the ESO explaining some methods and tools you can use to find out if these images have been doctored.

Check it out: https://www.eso.org/public/blog/csi-astronomy/

btschumy,
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@astro_jcm Great article. Thanks for writing it. I’m pretty good at spotting fake Astro images but you give some good tips. It always pisses me off to see these heavily composited images presented as done with one exposure.

waysandbeing, to philosophy
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🙌🏽🥳 Ahhh, the elation of simply not feeling absolutely terrible!

I dedicate this special moment (passing as it might be 😝) to folks out there also with (1 or 10+ of them 😂) 🤙🏽

You rock, even if / when you don't feel like it! 🤘🏽


@chronicillness @mecfs

btschumy,
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@waysandbeing @chronicillness @mecfs I certainly don’t rock today. I’ve been trying to get my taxes finished. I find I can work on them for about an hour before I’m triggered and start feeling crappy the rest of the day. A few more days and I should be done.

tomkindlon, to mecfs
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ME/CFS, Long COVID and School

https://www.emerge.org.au/your-child-or-young-person-with-me-cfs-and-school/

I haven't read this myself so far.

@mecfs @longcovid

btschumy,
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@tomkindlon @mecfs @longcovid This is a good summary of the affects of ME/CFS and long Covid in schools. I’ve sent it to a couple of teachers I know. Should be useful.

ai6yr, to solar

August 2017 solar eclipse traffic, in a nutshell... apparently turned some routes into hours and hours long traffic jams.

Photo of Eclipse Traffic jam on Aug 21, 2017

btschumy,
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@ai6yr My drive home from Casper, WY to the Boulder, CO area took over 8 hours. It should have been a two hour drive. Lesson learned.

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@ai6yr It was weird. Just like rush hour, stop and go traffic the whole way. Most of it was through extremely rural areas.

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@N9DRB @ai6yr @petes_bread_eqn_xls Just plan on heading back the next day or at least 5-6 hours after the eclipse. Then you are probably fine.

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@N9DRB @ai6yr @petes_bread_eqn_xls Yeah, might want to rethink that. Sounds dicey.

WeatherGoddess, to random
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A “new star” is set to appear in the night sky anytime between now and September. The expected brightening event, known as a , will occur in the Milky Way’s Corona Borealis. https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/19/world/t-coronae-borealis-nova-new-star-scn/index.html

btschumy,
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@WeatherGoddess @ai6yr Fortunately, Corona Borealis is soon to be well placed to watch for this event. Currently, it rises around midnight, but in another month it will rise at 10 pm. Throughout the summer it will be high in the eastern evening sky.

If you are an early riser, you can also currently see it high in the west before the Sun rises.

andrealuck, to space
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The newly discovered Noctis Volcano on Mars!

Full size image 3555x2000: https://flic.kr/p/2pDNRuG


Instrument: HRSC
Orbit: 19576 2019-06-24
Product IDs:
3x HJ576_0000 R+G+B

More info: https://seti.org/press-release/giant-volcano-discovered-mars

Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY

A zoom in on the Noctis Volcano with an arrow pointing on its caldera.

btschumy,
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@andrealuck Are you sure that’s not an amoeba viewed through a phase contrast microscope? 🤔

ai6yr, to cycling

Replaced my brake pads. Originals from 1992 or so I think, LOL.

btschumy,
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@ai6yr Careful when you first put on the brakes after new pads. You could go over the handlebars.

NanoRaptor, to random
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rest in peace pac man gone too soon.

btschumy,
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@NanoRaptor @clive Does anyone actually know what animal that is/was? Interesting skull.

btschumy,
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@NatureMC @clive Yeah, I did a reverse image search as well. Didn’t really clarify things. It could be a fake. Thanks.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to Economics
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    btschumy,
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    @GhostOnTheHalfShell Not my area of expertise, but if the path ever intersected itself, it would have to form a closed loop. That’s because the path is completely determined by the values x1, x2, etc. You can’t have two different paths with the same values for x1, x2, etc.

    maxleibman, (edited ) to microsofttodo
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    You've probably seen posts joking about programming errors making things go sideways on 2/29—this is not just a joke. Microsoft To Do scans task titles for clues to due dates and reminder times. This is what happened when I dated a task for today.

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    @maxleibman
    Calendar programming is hard and error prone. There are just too many quirks to contend with.

    That said, you'd think people could get it right by now.

    sundogplanets, to random
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    I was outside for 10 minutes, and I saw one super bright satellite and yelled a lot of swear words at it (turns out it was the ISS - sorry astronauts! I used to be excited about seeing you, but now I hate it). I saw another satellite flare that was as bright as Jupiter, despite being low on the horizon so very far away.

    The night sky is looking exactly how we predicted, and being right has never made me feel worse.

    More positively, I saw 4 moose by the side of the road earlier today.

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    @sundogplanets
    I’ve been doing some variable star photometry the last couple of nights. Two of my images, on different nights, had parallel satellite tracks in a less than 1° field of view. Almost certainly these were StarLink sats that haven’t been fully deployed.

    I hate them too.

    ai6yr, to ai

    Over application of AI, Wyze (actually, maybe just overeager application of the generic term AI, this is really more traditional neural-network-based object-detection/recognition vs. generalized LLM, AI-as-we-know-it-now)

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    @ai6yr

    All this AI processing is fairly energy intensive. Having something continually scanning images will probably take more power than the light itself. I hope it is designed so the image processing happens only after the dumb detector has detected motion.

    ai6yr, to random

    Hmm, I wonder whose phone is listening, Just said "colonoscopy" in casual conversation, and now getting this YouTube ad for some colonscopy thing.

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    @ai6yr I would assume that if you are getting the ad on your YouTube account then it must be your phone (or other device logged into your Google account) listening. Someone else’s phone is not going to know about you.

    btschumy, to Collapse
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    This is one of the most terrifying and depressing articles I've ever read on the future of Earth and humanity. I'm trained as a population biologist so I'm familiar with much of what he says. It is just scary to see it all laid out at once.

    https://www.okdoomer.io/10-reasons-our-civilization-will-soon-collapse/

    sundogplanets, to random
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    I have had 2 radio interviews about the solar eclipse on Sat. and I keep having SUCH TERRIBLE impostor syndrome. I'm like...99% sure I'm telling people the right time to watch for it. But what if I'm wrong?! Everyone in Saskatchewan (who listens to the 2 radio programs I've been on) will miss it! (Also the library where I volunteered to show it haha). Anyway, if you're near me, you should make a pinhole and watch the projected sun be eclipsed at 10:30am CST on Saturday. (I'm pretty sure).

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    @sundogplanets

    For Regina, I see the eclipse starting at 9:22 AM; max at 10:27 AM; and ending at 11:55 AM. This is assuming you are currently UTC-6. So I think you got it right.

    sundogplanets, to random
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    Currently watching the plenary talk on JWST and OH MY GOD JUPITER

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/52302207952/in/album-72177720301006030/

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    @sundogplanets

    Amazing that the aurora is bright enough to throw a diffraction spike.

    sundogplanets, to random
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    Goats milked, cheese strained, kids fed+loaded on bus (including taking at least 10 novels out of 11yo's backpack at the last moment...why??), drove to work, printed labs, set up equipment and taught lab assistants how to teach it, run back to office, ready for radio interview in 5 min (not ready for teaching 2 classes later today, but I'll get there. Maybe.)

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    @sundogplanets

    You have the energy of at least 3 people. I'm so impressed!

    davidho, (edited ) to random
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    It's hard for people to visualize removing tons or billions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO₂). I propose we talk about CO₂ removal () like a time machine (e.g., this machine will take us back 5 minutes). For example:

    Q: How far back in time does planting 100 million trees take us?

    A: If one mature tree takes up an average of 25 kg of CO₂ per year, then 100 million trees will take up 2.5 MtCO₂. That's a time machine that takes us back 33 minutes and 6 seconds in a year. It's not a lot.

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    @davidho

    We can’t plant our way out of the problem. We need to stop burning fossil fuels.

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