michael_w_busch

astro_jcm, 3 days ago to Netflix

Ever since 'Scavengers Reign' moved to #Netflix I keep seeing everywhere posts raving about how mind-bendingly awesome it is, and I couldn't be happier. I really hope Netflix takes note and treats this fantastic #scifi show better than HBO did.

michael_w_busch, 5 days ago to random

Today on the arXiv:

Kohout et al. 2024, "Impact disruption of Bjurböle porous chondritic projectile" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.00379 .

Reanalyzing the fall of a ~400 kilo ordinary chondrite that came down in a solid block and impacted sea ice in a frozen bay in Finland in March of 1899.

michael_w_busch, 6 days ago to random

Re. last repost of @skrishna :

I'm glad that switching #Hubble to single-gyro pointing was not necessary until now; because the telescope did important observations of the #DARTMission impact and its aftermath through last year.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01700

michael_w_busch, 6 days ago to random

It is always fun to find a book by someone I know in a local library.

Today I have Dante Lauretta's "The Asteroid Hunter", a popular account of OSIRIS-REx, from the Saint Paul Public Library: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-asteroid-hunter-a-scientist-s-journey-to-the-dawn-of-our-solar-system-dante-lauretta/20225451

Also in the SPPL collection:

Emily Levesque's "The Last Stargazers"
Katie Mack's "The End of Everything"
Moiya McTier's "The Milky Way"
Phil Plait / @badastro 's "Under Alien Skies"
@chanda Prescod-Weinstein's "The Disordered Cosmos"
Kelly & @ZachWeinersmith 's "A City on Mars"

michael_w_busch, 6 days ago to random

Re. my repost of @Wolven :

I am now considering how many different computers healthcare data can pass through.

When I get an echocardiogram; the images are displayed on the technician's machine, the radiologist's machine, the cardiologist's machine, & eventually my machine.

At least four possible places where Windows 11's "Recall" screen capturing could leave a copy - and only one of which is prevented by me personally not running Windows.

I can only assume Microsoft ignored all its lawyers.

sundogplanets, 1 month ago to random

I am talking o a reporter about this in a couple hours: https://regina.ctvnews.ca/from-outer-space-sask-farmers-baffled-after-discovering-strange-wreckage-in-field-1.6880353

This is about an hour away from my farm, so this'll be a fun conversation, and yet another great opportunity to tell a lot of people about what a huge problem we have with unregulated commercialization of orbit. (Also I just redid my slides for my public talk next week, this is going in!)