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petelawler

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fallor ergo sum
rt ⊬ endorsement
Pirate Party Australia Federal Deputy Secretary 2018-(i don't recall)
maker of broken crap and half arsed projects
not the Peter Lawler you're looking for
"… a crank with (an online) account"

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65dBnoise, to space
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I beg to differ

Processed MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
looking ENE (57°) from RMC 52.4312
Sol 1164, LMST: 12:39:42

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01164/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1164_0770274561_848EBY_N0524312ZCAM03910_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

petelawler,
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@65dBnoise that's 😍🤩

petelawler, to random
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Not quite sure how my last post of this image became unpinned...

nixCraft, to linux
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Satya Nadella says Windows PCs will have a photographic memory feature called Recall that will remember and understand everything you do on your computer by taking constant screenshots. This is a great reason to ditch windows altogether. Switch to 🧑‍💻 They don’t care about your privacy or safety anymore and not hiding it either. Source https://youtu.be/uHEPBzYick0?si=2ekH11gESoyDeq3D

petelawler, (edited )
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@nixCraft we can remember it for you wholesale

glynmoody, to random
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Julian wins high court victory in case against extradition to US - https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/may/20/julian-assange-wins-high-court-victory-in-case-against-extradition-to-us "Judges had deferred a decision on whether Assange could take his case to another appeal hearing"

petelawler,
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@glynmoody actual lol

petelawler,
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@glynmoody when it all started going down, I expected a slow motion train wreck but this is getting stupid

petelawler, to random
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How much do we love people who deploy on a Friday?

petelawler,
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@jpm the sun doesn't deserve them

sundogplanets, to random
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I am talking o a reporter about this in a couple hours: https://regina.ctvnews.ca/from-outer-space-sask-farmers-baffled-after-discovering-strange-wreckage-in-field-1.6880353

This is about an hour away from my farm, so this'll be a fun conversation, and yet another great opportunity to tell a lot of people about what a huge problem we have with unregulated commercialization of orbit. (Also I just redid my slides for my public talk next week, this is going in!)

petelawler,
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@sundogplanets look I may just be some random crazy dude from the other side of the planet who happens to have the same surname as you, but if I were you I'd suggest the farmer throw it up.on eBay with some reasonable asking price for safe retrieval, like $1.5m

petelawler,
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@sundogplanets melon seems somewhat worse than an average human at understanding chance, risk, and probability. and i suspect you're well aware of how excellent humans usually are at these things 😁

sundogplanets, to random
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Having a zillion back-to-back Zoom meetings is even harder when I could be outside watching bouncy baby goats!

A bunch of baby goats and the one mama goat all standing around the same farmyard. One white baby goat is trying to pull himself up onto a tiny concrete ledge next to the building.

petelawler,
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@sundogplanets CHECK OUT THE BOUNCY GOATS @stilgherrian

Some_Emo_Chick, to random
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Grace Jones was filming the James Bond classic 'A View to a Kill' in the adjacent studio at Pinewood whilst Tim Curry was filming 'Legend' during 1984. Jones used to hang out with Tim whilst he was having his prosthetic makeup applied for the character of Darkness. Tim's makeup took up to six hours to apply and the two would chat and pose for humorous Polaroids together throughout the day.

petelawler,
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@Some_Emo_Chick @jwz TIL: Tim and Grace were in the 2001 film Wolf Girl. Am now going to have to watch it for their scenes together (if there are any). Thanks!

nixCraft, to linux
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You can rename . What would you name it? 🤔

petelawler,
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@nixCraft Zathras

glynmoody, to TeslaMotors
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Australian prime minister labels Elon ‘an arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law’ - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/23/elon-musk-anthony-albanese-x-twitter-australia-prime-minister-sydney-church-stabbing-videos-ntwnfb "Anthony responds to X owner who criticised Australian authorities demanding videos of a Sydney church stabbing be removed"

petelawler,
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@glynmoody @russ we had a recent PM who wanted to outlaw maths (sure OK encryption, but still...). And he was the smart one!!!

sundogplanets, (edited ) to random
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Quick poll: off the top of your head, without searching online, do you know what "Kessler Syndrome" is?

petelawler,
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@sundogplanets I'm looking forward* to one happening the same day as a Carrington Event 😧 (which, I suspect, will actually be a trigger for said syndrome)

nixCraft, to linux
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A user walks into a solar viewing party...
...and spends the whole time configuring their telescope's drivers.

petelawler,
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@nixCraft IT ME!! (well, would be, if it were viewable from here;)

petelawler, to climate
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Big Auto's Aussie Dumping Ground by @danilic & Ors
https://youtu.be/BfTPdAsqOvA

sundogplanets, to random
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New paper thread! "Visibility of Satellites During the April 2024 Total Solar Eclipse" by me, @hannorein, and Aaron Boley. https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19722

This paper started when we asked the question "Oh shit, are there so many bright Starlinks now that people will be able to see them during totality?!"

Later this week, this will be published in Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, and hopefully an accompanying plain language article will be in the Conversation Canada.

petelawler,
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@sundogplanets I don't have time to read this post, I'm getting ready for work! 😉🤪🤩

nixCraft, to linux
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meanwhile on tumblr
https://www.tumblr.com/systemdeez/745983430586728448/linux-is-like-the-nonbinary-of-operating-systems

petelawler,
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@nixCraft great to see they're all still perfectly normal over there and will never change! (No, really, I love how weird that lot are. This planet needs more harmless weird)

sundogplanets, to random
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Watch this satellite obliterate the Kuiper Belt object moving through this set of images.

The dumb satellite is so bright that our auto-detect software threw out the whole stack, because it destroyed the average brightness.

It pisses me off to no end that my taxpayer-funded telescope time is now less and less effective because of one for-profit private company.

(P.S. software dudes: please don't try to mansplain workarounds, believe me, a LOT of astronomers are working hard on this)

A gif of a Kuiper Belt object slowly moving across a set of images. It just looks like a fuzzy dot. Toward the end of the sequence, there's a super bright diagonal line that covers up the moving dot - that was a satellite.

petelawler, (edited )
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@sundogplanets sometimes I wish Arthur C Clarke were still alive to tell these LEO satellite bozos where to get off, cos I figure there's an actual remote chance they'd have listened to him.

petelawler, to random
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Been asking Google Gemini for obscure facts about Tasmania and I am now TIL:
'"Pineapple rain" occurs here. Powerful rain cells over Tasmania can pick up organic matter from the island's extensive pineapple plantations. Sometimes, this material is then redeposited far from its source, giving the rain an unexpected pineapple scent!'

campuscodi, to random
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Me: Watching YouTube videos solely on 3 topics.

YouTube: Hey... look at these three videos about anti-western conspiracy theories! Did you know Biden is to blame for everything? derp derp derp....

Literally... how did those videos get even remotely in my recommendations?

petelawler,
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@campuscodi I've been wondering about odd recommendations turning up in my generated feed recently and the best I can come up with is it's trying to get me to be erm "more balanced" or some shit?

petelawler, to random
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@sundogplanets I realise you muted that thread because fair enough reasons, just wanna say I'm pretty excited about the JAXA wooden satellite study

petelawler,
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@sundogplanets I know bugger all except press releases, but was chatting to couple electronic engineers the other day and they first laughed but quickly could see the light go on in their eyes as I explained what I understand to be the core problem of debris.

65dBnoise, to space
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Here is a timeline of my posts wrt the events of 's & , dissecting publicly available information and images, for those who want to follow the events:

Jan 10:
https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/111730860649965790
https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/111733156669782334
Jan 12:
https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/111743044636502500
https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/111743110730267485
Jan 13:
https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/111750833533763835
Jan 14:
https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/111753635633151547
Jan 17:
https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/111773177473027071
Jan 18:
https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/111774596892276058

Image captured late on Sol 1040

1/2

petelawler,
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@65dBnoise thanks for the list of cites, you're a champ xo

65dBnoise, to random
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The press conference is now over.

petelawler,
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@65dBnoise thank for your posts, really appreciate waking up and being able to read the news from you.

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