Aaron DeVries

@Aaron_DeVries
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He/him, DIY Aerospace, game dev, 3D modeling, 3Dprinting, writer, Terran 🌎
I make things.

Beautiful shot & beautiful metaphor. The "Man in the Moon" drifting off at right. The lunar farside coming into view at left. (Processing: Damian Peach)

From the evolution of the eye, ~500 million years ago, until October 7, 1959, no creature on Earth had ever seen the far side of the Moon. #space #science #artemis #technology

In the 1957 Disney feature "Mars and Beyond" there is this little segment about media depictions of Mars including the war of the Worlds. The animation is silly but the martian fighting machine walk cycle is fun and interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7fFJ-hIIs0

Cool War of the Worlds Segment from Disneys “Mars and Beyond”

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I'm thinking of getting a small used cargo van and filling it with astronomy stuff. Make it a mobile observatory/camper.
I was watching a video about CERN testing that antimatter containment unit by transporting 19 antiprotons. One of the comments I saw was just "who wants to brake check the antimatter truck" and I found that profoundly funny.

I just concluded a decade long experiment. I had a USB flash drive in a jar buried in my back yard since 2015. I dug it up, plugged it in and it suffered no data loss after 11 years idle underground.

It's a usless experiment but everyone needs hobbies.

I feel we really should stop calling LLMs AI, They aren't artificial intelligence they are simulated intelligence. There is no real intelligence, no thought no persistence. It's just word prediction.

I find it interesting that most billionaires and CEOs of large corporations seems to have the mental capacity and social/emotional maturity of children.

Like they are so isolated and removed from normal human society they don't understand how a normal human thinks acts or functions. The McDonald's CEO doesn't even know how to handle a hamburger, and doesn't know how to talk normaly or convey normal human emotions.

I hope they get their billionaire space resort and it suffers a hull breach.

I am so stoked for season 5 of For all Mankind.

For All Mankind Season 5 gets a trailer. Watch it here https://bit.ly/4b5loi5

#ForAllMankind #TV #scifi

The world’s solar capacity reached 1,419 gigawatts in 2023, way beyond any predictions. 1 gigawatt = power for a medium sized city