One year ago today. This is a nice video by SpaceX. The double landing still gives me goosebumps…
Category: Technology
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Oversharing
… is the default. Via xkcd.
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So Cold
I was in Atlanta Tuesday for their horrible storm that they closed schools and government offices for. Horrible, it rained for about an hour. Bonus was that traffic was super light since everyone stayed home.
But the last two days in the Midwest and Northeast were seriously cold. Reminding multiple people of this:
I grew up in Wisconsin and it was way colder. And get off my lawn…
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Mars, Mars, Baby
Tfw your mission lands on Mars…
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Rocket Through the Clouds
A beautiful video of the latest SpaceX launch. And I like “flight-proven” as the replacement term for “used”….
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Seven Square Miles
Via Alan Taylor and The Atlantic, a fascinating view using Google Earth of seven square miles of various places. You need to see the whole thing, but some highlights:
Cities:
Manhattan, with Central Park in the middle:
Compare to Mexico City:
And Honolulu:
Farmland:
Near Madison Wisconsin:
Near Plymouth Washington:
and Namibia:
Check the whole thing out, that’s just a small sample. There are so many stunning images.
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Then & Now
If you use Google Photos you have seen this, particularly if you have kids. Since Google can recognize faces, they have some sort of algorithm that tries to find a picture of your child X years ago doing something similar to a recent picture of them. So every once in a while you get a notification with a cute “Then & Now” combination picture.
This is a pretty good example. If a human saw these two pictures separately, I’m not sure it would be clear that it’s the same kid. They are about seven years apart, with glasses and a bicycle helmet in the older picture. And the algorithm interpreted “climbing in a playground” and “sitting in fake dinosaur eggs at the zoo” as similar things. Which is a pretty fuzzy relationship for AI.
Makes a nice picture…
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Release the Dragon
I guess I’m in a funky video phase. This is the SpaceX Dragon capsule being released from the International Space Station. It’s sped up and 4K so watch full screen. Nice lightning flashes towards the end…
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