"Hobby group may have the answer to what the US shot down over Canada last week" by Politico / Matt Berg / Lee Hudson - More on Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade (NIBBB), #K9YO and their educational #HamRadio #balloon projects https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/16/mystery-object-balloon-illinois-biden-00083355 #military #aviation
Some promising and exciting research from my own university (#RMITUniversity) on development of very clever catalytic #chemistry to allow production of #hydrogen from seawater without prior desalination. Find out more in this news article and in the primary research published in Small on:
https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/media-releases-and-expert-comments/2023/feb/hydrogen-seawater
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#generative #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #Processing #glsl #shaders #monochrome #maze
Often, math is beautiful. When it isn't beautiful, that kind of blows my mind.
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RT @KangarooPhysics
The optimal known packing of 17 equal squares into a larger square - i.e. the arrangement which minimises the size of the large square.
https://twitter.com/KangarooPhysics/status/1625423951156375553
Apropos everything, I’m reminded of this from Douglas Adams:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Being a Linux developer is just repeated adventures in discovering that almost any electronic device you purchase is in violation of international treaties and you're technically in a position to enforce that