What if the mobile phone company managed to produce a robot that not just ran a marathon, but followed some historic messenger path, delivering a document record time. Like ancient Inca route or Roman Empire route? Some folks think big picture, long-term. 🤷🏻♀️
Blocked for answering the question? 😂
I was about to provide a very serious reply.
Regarding mobile phone company sponsoring the event or funding the winning robot? They’re just investing in technology. There’s probably a parent company actually working on robots.
Also, imagine the ads …
Humans spend billions on competitions to hit tiny white balls across mowed lawns, for prestige or entertainment.
At least the robo competition has practical value, developing better technology for myriad positive applications.
Scouts for setting up data collection devices on Mars. Preparation for arrival of first Chinese colonist transport. Faster than wheels if they add ability to run across rough terrain, around boulders, jumping gullies.
Rapid precise deployment of surveillance devices or explosives in a war zone where wheels are useless?
Fast delivery of Amazon orders to remote roadless areas?
Artemis and one her dogs?
This image brings me joy, the hand gently holding the coiled leash, the dog looking back at her for assurance or approval or just excited anticipation of Artemis about to let her go to explore. I can feel the energy. A walk or hunt. Thanks for sharing the photo. 🙂
Concentric, or irregular swirling bands of iron oxides have formed in porous sandstone through secondary chemical processes.
Leisegang banding, Carboniferous sandstone
Mornings in the #bog. It's like its own little utopia. It's hard to imagine a more cool place to be. The pitcher plant bogs of North Florida are otherworldly. From a recent foggy morning. #photography #landscape #ECK #bogs #pitcherplants #Sarracenia #fog #bogplants
On this date, 112 years ago, members of the Colorado National Guard and private security opened fire on striking miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado, in the southeast of the state. 21 people were killed, mostly women and children.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_...
We keep hearing that the LLM Genie is out of the bottle, but so were CFCs, leaded gasoline, and so many issues we’ve pushed back on. There is no reason we need to accept things that harm us individually and collectively.
Push back.
Or grow as an annual? 😬
(Not aloe, but our jade plant is so out of control I’m tempted to stick a bunch of pieces in the ground to see how large they get before frost hits.)
Also, flexible work hours where possible so the roads aren’t overwhelmed twice a day.
One change that really helped was encouraging remote work wherever possible to reduce load on infrastructure. And indirectly raised income slightly, improved quality of life, good for families, took pressure off demand for gas … but oligarchs and DJT did everything possible to kill remote work. 🙄
The katy freeway in houston tx, a wide mess of concrete lanes packed with cars. Its like 26 lanes wide or something, i lost count
Just one more lane bro, please bro, just one more lane and ill be good, i promise we just need one more lane and it will be fixed i swear bro please
Enhanced color image shows a close-up of extensive, large dunes in the north polar region of Mars. There is seasonal, bright ice on the slipface of many of the dunes, and dark patches between the dunes as well.
HiPOD: Translucent Ice on Dunes
At the time of year we took the image, the whole scene was probably covered in carbon dioxide ice. Some of this ice is translucent, so you can see the dark dunes through it.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076844_2550
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
#Mars
An English Bluebell
An English Bluebell
An English Bluebell
An English Bluebell
The law of the land also has their back. Uprooting or destroying bluebells is illegal. Penalties can be expensive. Not as bad as the ancient myths of course. Unless it is in our woodland
There is also the fact that every part of them is toxic
An English Bluebell
An English Bluebell
An English Bluebell
An English Bluebell
British mythology looks after our native bluebells
Trampling or picking them will result in a fairy putting a spell on you, resulting in you wandering around the woodland in a trance forever. And if you hear a bluebell ring, the same fairies will ensure you don’t last the day
Bluebells at Worfield.
A carpet of bluebells in Chempshill Coppice, Worfield. The fragrance was almost overpowering as I followed a footpath through this woodland near Bridgnorth, which I make a point of visiting every spring. Half the world’s bluebells are to be found in the UK, with... #Shropshire
Thank you. I’ll look into this.
Science scrolling tonight …
Got science? Learned something interesting over the past few days? Learned something not interesting? Let the world know.
I’ve occasionally wondered whether there’s been sufficient time for some sort of civilization, a different species, to rise and fall, and leave zero trace.
Not relevant to this shared post, really. Just reminded me about the wondering.
Property from Goucher College Mummy Portrait of a Man, Roman Egypt, Flavian Period, circa late 1st century CE. Painted with encaustic (pigmented wax) on wood (probably sycamore), his head turned to his right, and wearing a white chiton (tunic) and white himation (cloak) falling from the nape of the neck, his solemn face with full lower lip, long aquiline nose, translucent hazel eyes, bushy eyebrows, and furrowed brow, his wavy gray hair brushed forward above the forehead. 12 3⁄4 by 6 in.; 32.5 by 15.4 cm Auction page: https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2026/master-paintings-sculpture-part-i/mummy-portrait-of-a-man-roman-egypt-flavian-period
This realistically rendered Flavian era mummy portrait from Roman Egypt gives us a rare look at an older person from that era. It has been on loan for over 70 years to the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, but was recently sold at auction. Will it disappear into a private collection? 🏺
📸 Sotheby’s
Cliff outcrop adjacent to an arroyo with layered coarse rocks and a big smiley face shaped channel filled with a massive finer grained unit
Channel filled with welded tuff, incised into volcaniclastic debris flow deposits, central Baja. ⚒️
Despite the war, Ukraine continues to care for the future of the planet. In Lviv Oblast, around one hectare of new forest was planted in a single day
Activists and volunteers planted nearly 6,000 saplings of pine and oak
📷 Maxym Kozytskyi
Need this in the US.
I could barely see a pedestrian crossing in front of an oncoming car because the car’s headlights were so bright. And it was an urban street. There were overhead street lights. The glare was overwhelming. Barely a silhouette of the pedestrian visible.
Another sun sets on an Irish Atlantic rainforest.
A contractor driving an X-mobile clearly charges too much for his work, and probably not focused enough to do a good job. Just fact, not political opinion.
My goodness. I've seen some Popes but Leo is something else. A timely Pope-plus. An actually comforting presence in the awful ether. 'When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment.' Perfect.
The first time I heard about the TDS thing I thought it was a term for DJT’s followers!!! 😂
And it’s still my first thought every time it appears in a post! 😂