I thought that we had treaties precluding us from developing more advanced missile defense systems but it appears that we have withdrawn from those. I worry that this will just end up fueling an arms race in a world that seems to be becoming a pressure cooker.
It certainly impacts defense grants, though. There is a ton of research, some of it open source, that is funded by DoD grants that are in limbo just like the rest of the grants out there.
That’s a pretty fucking weird way to crack your neck. Slightly moving your head around while rolling your eyes in exctacy doesn’t cause your neck to crack.
Huh, as a cis man, I didn’t know this was a thing.
I’m four years free of cigarettes but, yes, they still look nice. I don’t actually crave them, though. It’s more nostalgic for me at this point.
I’m actually interested in trying these! There is no way to say this without some kind of double entendre, but I like to suck on things to keep my mouth occupied sometimes. I get tired of sucking on sweet things so, if these are tasty, they might be a nice change of pace!
Would the six planets ever perfectly align with one another? That would be pretty cool if every so many years they all foed a line!
It might include infrared, but this instrument only has three visible channels (red, green, and blue) and one near-infrared band that is sensitive to methane at about 890nm. So, most of this would be visible light.
It looks like a lot of the work of bringing out the beauty of these images is done by citizen scientists. It would be interesting to find out what was done to produce this particular image.
I might try my hand at some of this, actually. My job is to do data processing for satellite imagery of the earth. I’m curious to learn more about what is being done here.
Thank you for asking this. I’ve been wondering the same question for quite a while but have been too lazy to actually find the answer.
If I lived in Tokyo, though, I certainly wouldn’t want to be a 30+ minute walk from a train station. That makes leaving home a pretty big task.
Agreed. It takes more than Trump, his cabinet, and MAGA to get here, though. It requires complicity and complacency from a ton of other people.
I need to get back to listening to podcasts. I’ve taken a break since the election because many of my favorites were political and I’m currently burying my head in the sand and screaming “I CAN’T HEAR YOU!”.
Maybe I’ll dive back in with BTB. That seems mostly safe…
I agree that governments should be careful about what medical treatments they make mandatory. I think the US government has been pretty judicious with their decisions, though. The vaccines that are mandated for school attendance are wildly effective and have been shown to be safe, both via scientific studies and decades of dispensing many of them.
I 100% agree.
I think that is true for some of the people involved, but I think it is much more complicated than that. There are many people who think vaccines do more harm than good because they believe conspiracy theories and junk science. Not everyone against vaccines is malicious. Some must be, though, for such bullshit to keep propagating the way that it does.
If you want to know more, go read the lawsuit he is associated with to remove FDA approval of the polo vaccine. Essentially, he believes fraudulent research that indicates that vaccines cause autism.
Then, before you take what he says at face value, go read a history of polio.
If you give the materials an honest read, you’ll find that polio is horrific, that the vaccine was one of the greatest medical achievements of the 20th century, and that the evidence indicating that the vaccine causes autism is all junk.
It is amazing to me how short our memories are as a species. There are people who are still in congress who had polio. There are an estimated 300,000 people still alive in the US who survived polio. Even with that, the nominated head of Health and Human Services wants to do away with the polio vaccine.
I don’t know what the problem is. Is it a lack of empathy? Is it willingness to swallow the bait surrounding conspiracy theories? Is it just a lack of education? How did we get to the point where it is even remotely okay for the future head of Heath and Human Services to be against the polio vaccine?
If being pro-polio isn’t disqualifying for being the head of HHS, and if he gets confirmed, the U.S. will have very clearly shown that it is in rapid decline. It will have shown that the government is corrupt to its core and is irredeemable.
Do you have recommendations for tutorials on this?
For raster imagery (and probably vector) I recommend imagemagick.
You must lie about your gender in order to earn the GI bill. It’s the only honorable way.