James Garry

@JamesGarry
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76 Following
160 Posts

Ronin yorkshire physicist, Ph.D, currently in Vancouver (Canada).
Happiest with cryogens and tight mass budgets.

Maker of odd and sometimes silly things. For 'tis said, "A shiny machine is a happy machine"

Making things
Physics
James GarryAug 23, 2023
Ian BrooksAug 23, 2023
I do believe I've just found my first exam answer submission that was written by an AI...very poetic, but saying almost nothing.
James GarryAug 23, 2023
<on the edge of my seat watching Chandrayaan 3>
James GarryJul 20, 2023
<raises mug to Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins>
James GarryJun 30, 2023

A reminder for folk that today's Asteroid Day.

If your skies are clear, please look up and take a few minutes to wonder anew at the scale and mysteries that abound.

James GarryJun 13, 2023

Best patent figure of the day.

<brrrrr>

James GarryMay 25, 2023
Benjamin Young Savage (ᐱᓐᒋᐱᓐ)May 24, 2023
Home made zen garden
James GarryMay 25, 2023
John Carlos BaezMay 25, 2023

A year in the gamma ray sky! Small specks are mainly supermassive black holes in distant galaxies. Big short-lived blips are gamma-ray bursts... also from distant galaxies.

I think I recognize some of the persistent bright spots near the Galactic plane, like Cygnus and Vela. Others are mysterious to me. Let's compare a map of the X-ray sky, where these objects are named!

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James GarryMay 13, 2023
Thorwegian (old account)May 13, 2023
i will talk about extremely nerdy shit that not a single other soul on the planet cares about too. that's what my @lore account is for.
James GarryMay 13, 2023
Dave AndersonMay 13, 2023
The 40m band is complete garbage today, but it did let me opportunistically relay for the Aurora net! Station in central BC couldn't be heard by either net control or their relay station. I could hear the isolated station and net relay, but not net control. It's a pretty good illustration of how long the band felt today: 800km away loud and clear, 450km doable with some lucky antenna gain, <400km complete silence.
James GarryMay 13, 2023
48kRAMMay 26, 2022

I can't move to the Fediverse properly until I reproduce my famous pinned post from the birdsite, so here it is:

P.S.A. To all vintage computer and video game collectors:

Go through your collections and GET THE DAMN BATTERIES OUT!

Now! Don't wait! Seriously, put down the phone, go to your collection and take out all the batteries. Right now! Even if they look "okay" they are NOT SAFE after this much time.