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mostly made of water. must be refrigerated. 🧊🍦 working on solving space data… and where I put those car keys.
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The Mercury 13 were thirteen American women who in 1959-60 took part in a privately funded research program run by physician William Randolph Lovelace II, a private contractor to #NASA, which aimed to test and screen the women for spaceflight #InternationalWomensDay en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury...

submitted 76 days ago • 5 comments

You know what's fun about working with space data? If you get bored with interoperability, you can Flat Earth it and be like, "These satellites are driving drunk as hell."

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Part 1 of showing off my “I’m a big boy and I can do what I want!” toys. Next up, more comics. Or Legos. Or diabetes!

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Also, Mad Libs — that fun, classic word game — should now be a fill-in-the-blank game for what the current president says at any given moment, all you have to decide is if it's The Onion or not. You won't even have to change the name of the game.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

There should be a game where trending topics are Scrabble pieces or Mad Libs: CPAC made Steve Bannon tweet an Apple Statement about Severance packages for Yankees who had facial hair. Payment delayed by USPS Control.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

I have high-functioning ADHD, which is supported by ADDA... ADDA? That reminds me of ABBA! Oh man, Dancing Queen is such a fun song. Did you know that ABBA was ... Wait, why did I walk into this room?

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

me at work combining datasets. also, me at home deciding which streaming service's thumbnails i want to endlessly click so i can decide what to watch after i've run out of thumbnails to look at. xkcd.com/927/

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Many people have been tricked by AI that MLM stands "Machine Learning Model", but really it's mathematical calculations and algorithms known as Multi-Level Marketing, which facilitate selling you vast amounts of data at marked-up rates, and asking if you have 10 friends to refer for a commission.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

The advances in astronomy during my lifetime have been spectacular. Left: Image of galaxy pair Arp 107 taken the year I was born, using the Palomar 200" (the world's most powerful telescope at the time). Right: Image of Arp 107 taken last year by JWST. 🧪🔭 ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Arp/A...

submitted 93 days ago • 9 comments

A rocky planet less than half the mass of Earth seems to have an atmosphere made almost entirely of sulphur dioxide – this could be due to a huge amount of volcanic activity.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments