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NASA chose Jezero Crater as Perseverance's landing site because the entire region was flooded in the ancient past. If the conditions for life were present at any time on Mars, this would be the place. Geologists are extremely excited about the rover's latest find, a rock containing elements made in water. These minerals preserve a history of the habitability of Mars, even trapping its atmosphere. If ancient biosignatures are available, they'll be in a rock like this.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/rock-sampled-by-nasas-perseverance-embodies-why-rover-came-to-mars

Detailed View of a Solar Eclipse Corona

Image Credit & Copyright: Phil Hart

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240402.html #APOD

Evening Light.

When you get a new IT job break the biggest computer you see then all the other computers will leave you alone

Asimov's first Foundation novel has a wonderful scene that I think prefigures the LLM arms race we're going through at the moment. A bunch of characters are using formal mathematical tools to analyse the meaning of verbose and seemingly eloquent political statements:

"That," replied Hardin, "is the interesting thing. The analysis was the most difficult of the three by all odds. When Hoik, after two days of steady work, succeeded in eliminating meaningless statements, vague gibberish, useless qualifications - in short, all the goo and dribble - he found he had nothing left. Everything canceled out."

Make way!

Wait WHAT?! A user made a mandelbrot viewer using Hoot, Spritely's Scheme->WASM toolkit! https://github.com/nanomonkey/hoot-mandelbrot

It works!

Welcome to #curl up 2024 in Stockholm, May 4-5: https://github.com/curl/curl-up/wiki/2024

contributors, maintainers, fans

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The 12-month running mean global temperature anomaly continues to tick upward...

Graphic from https://zacklabe.com/climate-change-indicators/

This is your periodic reminder of the single greatest US #licenseplate plate ever.

Shel Silverstein doesn’t get nearly enough credit for predicting ChatGPT.

Every turtle should be provided with a skateboard.

Happy Pi Day to all of you that use 14.3 to calculate your circles.

Timelapse of the sun's chromosphere featuring solar spicules—narrow jets stretching up to 6,000 km high and reaching speeds over 100 km/s.

Credit: Luc Rouppe van der Voort, University of Oslo / Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope

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Light Pillars Over Inner Mongolia

Image Credit & Copyright: N. D. Liao

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Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus