Reminder: All the amazing high quality video you’re seeing from the Artemis II mission is being transmitted back to Earth using a laser communications system first tested with a video of a cat named Taters
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![John Cage - 4' 33'' Death Metal Cover by Dead Territory [ORIGINAL VIDEO]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mvmgx3tyslg244ladzukyrid/bafkreiedxl7vcmsuykgbc2ghm2plodlcral4iqhzonkfe3wfszfyh6aftu)
Hello.
I just found out that a death metal band has covered John Cage’s 4’33”, and now I need you lot to know that a death metal band has covered John Cage’s 4’33”.
youtu.be/voqCQSDAcn8
a screenshot of a google search for "nearest star" with a pop-up asking if you'd like to "see results closer to you?"
i don't think that'll make the result any more precise, but sure
Look at those EYES! I read that their retinas are a diffuse sheet (rather than a small spot like ours).
Imagine the entire front of your head being eyeball
Don’t make macaroni and cheese, make buffalo ranch dip and put it on noodles
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The Kīlauea volcano is putting on a show again! Let's hope it doesn't eat any more webcams
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXKu...
Peacock design printed on black in four metallic-looking colors, blue, yellow-green, green, and bronze-yellow. Red is notably absent, but the metallic effect is still very cool, looking like what you'd get from drawing with metallic gel pen
Inkjet printed structural color! This is the kind of effect that gives butterfly wings their color. Normally the printing process destroys the structure, but this group made a structure impervious to the dreaded clumping effect and it looks very cool.
www.photonics.com/Article.aspx...
Food generally tastes less flavorful in space, hence the prime importance of hot sauce!
Food generally tastes less flavorful in space, hence the prime importance of hot sauce!
This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥
I love how so many people simultaneously screenshotted and posted the blurry, squished image of the crescent earth going behind the moon
yes we will get better photos later
yes we're all seeing the same thing
not being sarcastic, i genuinely love this about people
Hmm window 1 might be t-shirt window, and window 4 has a different sort of shroud (or possibly another tshirt) plus the air blowing over the window
BUT CHECK IT OUT you can see the crescent earth and moon in the same view!!
The t-shirt was making the window too hot, so they asked the crew to remove it.
It's still too bright so the current compromise seems to be to replace the t-shirt but blow some air over the window to help cool it
They keep referring to it as “t-shirt window”
"The earth is so bright in window four that they have had to temporarily cover it with a t-shirt"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-j1...
Very cool! Where is this graph from? Interested to read more.
This kind of laser transmission system uses low amounts of power and can carry lots of data. It’s exactly why we look for laser transmission from SETI target candidates!
A horse eyeing a cake that says "Happy 30th Birthday." It is covered in M&Ms, and has a single carrot in the top, in lieu of a candle.
A horse eyeing a white-frosted cake, covered with rainbow sprinkles in the shape of the number 31. There is a carrot in lieu of a candle.
A brown horse, eating a slice of cake on a plate, being held in a hand.
A brown horse, visibly happy, his lips covered in white frosting.
Since people seem to be extremely into the horse-cake photo...here are his 30th and 31st birthday cakes, and a before-and-after of him eating a slice. There was always singing and sometimes balloons. He died just short of his 34th birthday, a good, long life for a horse.
Give the horse cake!
I wanted to see what this would physically look like on the desk so I made a quick mock-up in Blender
And zoom in to see the auroras!
If you’re curious about this I recommend reading Because Internet by @gretchenmcculloch.com which explains how the no-caps thing is Internet generational (and ties it back to old postcards in a fascinating way)
soon there will be tiny Eiffel Tower everywhere and the world will be improved
Elevator Surprise: Place a tiny camera in the elevator, and when someone gets in, snap a photo saying, "Welcome to Space Station!" Or build a miniature model of the Eiffel Tower next to it for a dramatic effect. Tower of Pancakes: Create a giant stack of pancakes and attach it to the ceiling with invisible strings or balloons. They won't believe it's real! Lost Cat: Suspend a toy cat from the ceiling using fishing lines. Watch as friends climb chairs trying to catch it. Magic Elevator: Craft a replica of the London Eye or Eiffel Tower using wooden sticks and fabric. Paint it gold and install it beside elevators. Call it "New Year's Eve Countdown." Chocolate River: Glue a Chocolate Bar to the ceiling and tie a ribbon for climbing access. See who dares to brave the sweetness! Cake Melted Magic Trick - Bake a cake and melt it using a hair dryer. People will assume magic happened.
New AI Weirdness post! In which a large language model attempts to give April Fools prank ideas, except with one of its neurons tweaked to make it obsessed with the Eiffel Tower.
www.aiweirdness.com/get-working-...
Photograph of a car with a squirrel inside of it, perched on the steering wheel. The car is the color of champaign at a beige convention, and the squirrel is the color of squirrels. The squirrel is holding a package of crackers in it's mouth. They are the kind like you get at a restaurant, where you get two crackers wrapped in plastic. The driver's side window is slightly cracked. This is how the squirrel got in, and how it got out. It threw the crackers out first, and then climbed out after them. Everything in this operation suggested that this was not the squirrel's first rodeo.
A closeup of the squirrel sitting on the steering wheel. The squirrel deserves a name, so we'll call her Anjeloma, and she's what you might call a winner. She is still squirrel colored. The crackers are white, and labeled "Zest." As if Anjeloma needed more zest. Squirrel, please. You can't see much of the car, but you can see smudges of grunge at the edges of the windshield, where the wipers have cast aside the debris of previous rains and pollen-falls.
The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.
I guess it’s a matter of priorities. Faced with the choice between “tell a fun story” and “convey every item of this 28-point bulleted list about our facility” they keep picking the 28-point list
Page of a comic book showing teens in space age leotards standing around and talking about the definition of laser fusion. One of them is about to summon the Professor to explain fusion better!
I mean this sure is a comic book! People sure worked hard on it. I’m not sure who the target audience is. lasers.llnl.gov/education/co...
I can’t exactly explain it but this is a whole genre of “big science or tech facility tries to appeal to kids and somehow is less appealing than you could possibly have imagined”
My most popular Sora video was “elaborate regency romance where everyone is wearing a live duck for a hat (each duck is also wearing a hat), a llama plays a flute, prestige drama”
I am not sure why OpenAI has decided their compute has more valuable uses & is discontinuing Sora. Really a mystery.
Trapped ion quantum computers use programmable holograms to move atoms around for their calculations.
But when their computer goes to sleep, the hologram disappears.
A Boulder quantum company came up with this solution to keep the computer from auto-sleeping: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ0p...
A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
