Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD

@EricFielding
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Geophysicist at lab in Pasadena, California. Statements and opinions posted by me are my own and not those of my employer. he/him. Header image is interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) map of surface displacements caused by the 2015 magnitude 7.8 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal.
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Researchhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6648-8067
Work websitehttps://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/fielding/
@hllizi @sundogplanets The figure shows Starship V3 that has not yet been tested, so we don’t know if it will blow up or not. They plan to launch it next month
@mitch The Apple M* MacBooks are far better in one important aspect. I replaced my Intel MacBook when the battery was dead in less than an hour of a meeting/
@mitch I checked and Apple is ending support for Intel Macs in macOS 27 later this year. There is no way that we would be allowed to use Intel Macs then.
@mitch We work for NASA, so we must follow their IT security rules. Staff to maintain two completely different computer architectures is not free.
@sundogplanets Beautiful views of the stars! The sky doesn’t look like that in Los Angeles
@mitch My employer is making every one still using an Intel Mac to get a replacement by next month. The security software they use no longer supports Intel Macs
@ai6yr Now revised to magnitude 6.6. Not really Antarctica, but the South Shetland Islands that are an active tectonic plate boundary.
@KimberlyN @gottalaff.bsky.social George W. Bush worked hard to get NATO on board before starting his disastrous war. It is delusional to ask for help after starting a war.

I saw southern auroras last night!!!! Rakiura! Holy cow that was AMAZING

(View from a bit south of Arthur's Pass, New Zealand)

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Rebecca Lee Crumpler

Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the first Black woman in the U.S. to earn a medical degree, graduating from the New England Female Medical College in 1864. After graduation, she devoted herself to treating formerly enslaved people in Richmond, Virginia, In 1883, she published A Book of Medical Discourses, the first medical book by an African American,