Because it's loud with the shop vac on -- Jonathan Coulton
Sometimes I post interesting wikipedia articles, usually focused on science.
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The kid walks into my office this afternoon and says, “do you think I could get one of these to play with?”
I look and it’s an ESP32 dev kit of some kind on Amazon.
I open one of my drawers that has a dozen ESP32 dev kits in it and he lights up, “sure here you go!”
He comes back a few seconds later and says, “trouble is, all the projects I’m looking at need breadboards.”
I open a different drawer.
Featured at #Revision2025 (@revisionparty): "The Silvamancer", my entry into the ASCII/ANSI/PETSCII Graphics Competition!
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Possibly the weirdest planet yet discovered?
Newfound world 2M1510 (AB) b appears to orbit not one but two stars...and they are actually failed stars, known as brown dwarfs...and the planet orbits sideways, in a unique up-and-down polar orbit.
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2508/ #space #science #astronomy #nature
Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these ‘polar planets’ orbiting a stellar pair. The surprise discovery was made using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT).
garlic!
This is our first year doing #garlic. A number of things we did in the fall did not really work out, so was very happy to see how strong and vibrant these are.
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Supermassive black holes can be quiet, or they can be active, spewing high-energy radiation into space. Now, astronomers have watched a black hole 300 million light-years away switch from inactive to active, suddenly producing flashes of X-ray radiation. The first signs came in 2019, when astronomers watched the core of a galaxy brighten, with the central black hole switching on and entering an active phase.
The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton is playing a crucial role in investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of X-rays seen from a newly awakened black hole. Watching this strange behaviour unfold in real time offers a unique opportunity to learn more about these powerful events and the mysterious behaviour of massive black holes.
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