In 1965, Paula Harris would find algorithmic improvements that made LP solving 50% less expensive. She was a senior mathematician in the computing group at British Petroleum
Today, 60 years later, her former colleagues still speak in awe of her intelligence
I thought the punchline was going to be about getting stung 🤪
Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon.
Why are biofuels being so heavily pushed despite their obvious, MASSIVE inefficiencies?
Because they're a fig leaf for continuing to burn stuff, above all fossil fuels.
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Here is Earth's rotation realized in an unusual way: using a camera scanning the landscape of Tivoli, Namibia, Bartosz Wojczyński focused on the sky.
He created a timelapse spanning 24 h that has a focal point in the sky rather than on the ground.
➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20070...
🔭 🧪 #galactic
A black and white photo of Dr. Reatha Clark King from the 1960s. She is wearing a white lab coat and has short hair. Dr. King is adjusting the stopcock on a lab apparatus to fill a vial that she is holding in her left hand.
Chemist Reatha Clark King was born #OTD in 1938.
Her calorimetry work on gaseous fluorine compounds at the National Bureau of Standards contributed to NASA's investigations of various rocket fuels for the space program. She was the first Black woman to work as a chemist at NIST. 🧪 👩🏾🔬
I noted the plaintiff in the case against the military transgender ban that just resulted in a nationwide injunction against it, out of WA state, is Commander Emily Shilling, a Navy fighter and test pilot who transitioned while in the service.
glaad.org/transgender-...
70 km above Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Captured during the Huygens probe's descent
Gamma ray image of the Milky Way taken by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope's Large Area Telescope. The bright glow along the middle is the Milky Way's central plane.
Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
#galaxy #space #milkyway #universe #astrophysics
Radon xkcd.com/3037
Happy Gareth’s tide!
Saturn, taken by the JWST
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Tiny but mighty 💪
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