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“Companies like SpaceX have stated repeatedly that their method is to “move fast and break things.” They are now close to breaking the atmosphere, the night sky and anything on the ground …
"We're just going to run a physical simulation of a human brain to achieve AGI"
"Won't the brain die instantly if it's without a body and oxygen supply etc?"
"Well, we'll just also simulate a body."
"Won't the body die instantly if it's in a vacuum?
"Fine, we'll just simulate an atmosphere too."
"Won't the body die if it's without food and light and gravity and stimulation?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate all the physical processes on the Earth."
"Won't the Earth just freeze instantly without the Sun being there?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate the sun, too."
"Will the solar system work properly if there's only the sun? What about gravitational influences of other mass in the galaxy, what about cosmic rays?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate the whole universe, too."
Increasing amounts of metal, such as lithium, as a byproduct of the modern-day space race, are beginning to alter the chemical composition of Earth’s atmosphere.
Robin Wing, and his colleagues at the Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Rostock in Germany, measured a 10-fold concentration of lithium atoms in the upper atmosphere around 20 hours after the uncontrolled re-entry of a Falcon 9 rocket.
The findings are detailed in a new studypublished Thursda…
City Spot ⭕️
城市点阵 ⭕️
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
For reasons I am revisiting an old classic: Manabe and Stouffer, 1980.
The field of climate science is now effectively mostly about proving how correct those first simulations of the gigantic carbon experiment in the atmosphere were.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247488071_Sensitivity_of_a_Global_Climate_Model_to_an_Increase_of_CO2_Concentration_in_the_Atmosphere
Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
SERVALAN: To soulful music?
TARRANT: Oh preferably. How did you get away from the Liberator?
SERVALAN: It was difficult.
TARRANT: It was impossible.
SERVALAN: Manifestly not.
TARRANT: So how?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/409/205 B7B2…
For #footpathfriday I'm using this photo!
We went out on a very cloudy day, assumig that we'd also get into rain.
But we didn't want to hold ourselfes back and hike into the clouds. of course, we didn't have epic vistas - but the mood up there was just unique. The limited visibility, the lack of sounds, the dim light.
I really enjoyed that day!
Guardian article today about crappy jobs. I haven't read it and this post isn't commentary on it, but to lighten the atmosphere, which is sombre in our house following another bereavement, it might be fun to share our first jobs - Saturday jobs, holiday jobs etc, not careers.
Mine, dahlings, was in an art gallery in Guildford in the mid 80s when I was 15. £10 a day, thought I was paid handsomely, and netted a boyfriend with a car who was one of the framers 👍🚗🖼️ Got pissed at a …
What comes next is the next stage of enshittification: monetization
Has anyone seen any hint of a real revenue source for BSky? I know that at one point they had a domain registrar partnership deal, but that can’t pay for a billion-user social network. @…
Terrestrial atmospheric ion implantation occurred in the nearside lunar regolith during the history of Earth’s dynamo: #moon is eating up molecules from Earth’s atmosphere: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/13/science/moon-stealing-earth-atmosphere-magnetic-field
The long dream of gentle machines which would equally appreciate the music, calm and general atmosphere of tracks in this amazing compilation:
Music For Machines (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLOJds0V1f0FbNG4pWArzxUe40K8Hp-8cC
Favorite …
RED (Ocassionally) 🔴
红 (有时) 🔴
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Harman Red 125 (6x6)
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
'Weidetiere' #FotoVorschlag 'grazing animals' (okay, I learned a new term)
This one is from our first vacation in #scotland .
It's funny - a couple of years ago, I made my photos quite saturated, how they also popout on classical Instagram.
Nowadays I pr…
Coupled 1D Chemical Kinetic Transport and 2D Hydrodynamic Modeling Supports a Modest 1–1.5× Supersolar Oxygen Abundance in Jupiter’s Atmosphere: #Jupiter: https://news.uchicago.edu/story/computer-models-let-scientists-peer-mystery-beneath-jupiters-clouds - atmospheric study finds surprises about our largest neighboring planet and its deep atmosphere.
Urban Demons III 👻
城市鬼魂 III 👻
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Rollei RPX 400
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
From that well-known hotbed of leftist radicalism, the daily Bloomberg markets newsletter.
That (paywalled) column is at https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-02-11/the-insurance-crisis-is-about-to-get-even-worse
"The center, founded in 1960, is responsible for many of the biggest scientific advances in understanding of weather and climate. Its research aircraft and sophisticated computer models of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans are widely used in forecasting weather events and disasters."
Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle NCAR Research Lab - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/climate/ncar-breakup-plan-nasa-noaa.html
Having dinner on Lake St hours after the big protest, we saw not one but two smaller anti-ICE protest groups pass by. The atmosphere tonight is restless, jubilant, nervous, empowered.
Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
AVON: We will do nothing to counter the force acting upon the Liberator. We then plot the Liberator's course on the main battle computer flight predictor to see exactly how she is behaving. Once we understand how the force is operating we may be some way toward defeating it.
TARRANT: Strange. The Liberator's following a curve. Traction beams produce straight-line motion. Zen, I want a prediction of the Liberator's course based …
JWST Discovers the Vertical Structure of #Uranus' Ionosphere: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL119304 -> Webb maps the mysterious upper atmosphere of Uranus: https://esawebb.org/news/weic2602/ - Webb provides the first vertical view of the planet’s ionosphere, revealing auroras shaped by its tilted magnetic field.
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These photos are fabulous. Moss and fog, such atmosphere!
“100 years ago flight outside the atmosphere was science fiction.
Just because we can't do it now doesn't mean it is impossible.”
My guy, flight is literally “movement through air”.
I’m pretty sure outside the atmosphere there’s still no air.
RED (Ocassionally) II 🔴
红 (有时) II 🔴
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Harman Red 125 (6x6)
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Light Streaks — generative photography
A small selection of long-exposures of randomly generated IFS (aka Iterated Function Systems), a family of very oldskool primitive/trivial fractal functions, but which can produce a fairly wide variety of outcomes. Each image is the result of billions of iterations of a single particle being iteratively transformed (meaning the particle's current position is used as the input for computing its next position etc.) For each iteration & posit…
Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
AVON: Does it generate a beam or a total field? We will need to know that if we are to work on these equations.
GROFF: Total field.
AVON: [Writes] Clever. It must require a great deal of energy.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/304/315 B7B4
Methane emissions cause 25% of global heating today,
and there has been a “scary” surge since 2007
UCLA Scientists have warned that this acceleration seriously risks triggering catastrophic climate tipping points.
However, cutting methane emissions has a rapid impact,
because the gas is naturally removed from the atmosphere far quicker than carbon dioxide.
Some experts call cutting methane the climate “emergency brake”.
“It is really maddening,” said Cara …
"Atmosfeer binnen vijftig jaar giftig voor mensen door CO2 uitstoot"
h/t Chris Julien.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11869-026-01918-5
Views from the train during commute.
Winter has come back for a couple of days.
#commuting #Winter
TIL you can just break apart Thomas’ English muffins easily without using a fork (or knife) - i’ve been using a fork for decades as the best solution and now…this.
“🤣🤣 necessary keyboard 🎹 moments
“ALL MY LIFE I HAD TO KNIFE””
https://bsky.app/profile/invadeherzim.
Gloom & Bloom IV ☁️🌺
黑暗绽放 IV ☁️ 🌺
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
We have too much snow where I live. Going to the train this morning felt like walking in a maze of snow. The 'true detective 3' feeling. Apparently it has been continuing to snow during the day so now I hope that I'll make it home from the train station
Although the growth rate (%) of global CO2 emissions has gone down, the increase in absolute terms is still pretty much a straight line:
On average, we're increasing the amount of CO2 that we dump in the atmosphere by around 450 million tonnes every year. Making the climate crisis worse faster.
#emissions
Ubiquitous High-frequency Waves and Disturbances in the Active Region Corona Observed with Cryo-NIRSP: #CORONA STAYS SO HOT AND HOW THE SOLAR WIND IS LAUNCHED INTO SPACE.
Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
JARRIERE: [Shakes his head]
SERVALAN: The secret of Star One's location is of no use to a criminal like Krantor. However, that knowledge can bring about his death. Not only that. With any luck the Federation will be finally convinced, as I have argued for years, that we can no longer tolerate this pestilential rathole so close to our own territories. Freedom City will be finally burnt out.
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes, astrophysicists have for the first time found firm evidence that a companion is disrupting the atmosphere of Betelgeuse.
Like a boat moving through water, the companion star creates a ripple effect in Betelgeuse’s atmosphere.
Astronomers now see direct signs of this wake, confirming that Betelgeuse really does have a hidden companion shaping its appearance and behavior.
Different Corners IX ▶️
不同的角落 IX ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Rollei RPX 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Valentine walk to our local hill.
#hiking #fog #isartal
Rare Colours Red II 🟥🟥
稀有的色彩红 II 🟥🟥
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Cinestill 800T (FF)
#filmphotography #Photography #Art
Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
BLAKE: For the past year now, I've been collecting all the information I could find. With Orac's help, I now know more about Control than anyone outside the senior echelon of the Federation. I think I can destroy it. [Avon claps slowly.] I'm not going to minimize the danger. It's a high-risk operation. That is why I'm not going to ask any of you to come with me.
GAN: You think you could do it without us?
'Tierische Begegnungen' #FotoVorschlag
'animal(ic) encounter'
I wasn't sure if I have a good or funny one to share with this topic. But I remembered visiting a wildlife park nearby at an autumn day.
It was a beautiful stroll through the park, watching the wildlife there when this situation came to be. Unplanned, just by pure luck.
And well.. I thin…
Frozen silence.
(Amazing atmosphere in this cold blue-purple light & halo near sunset and a crispy -11℃ [12℉] temperature... The only sounds were from the biting wind and the crunch of our steps on frozen ground)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
NASA’s #Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has also achieved its target orbit, positioning the spacecraft to capture the first repeated observations of the ultraviolet glow from Earth’s outer atmosphere, the geocorona: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/carruthers-geocorona-observatory/2026/01/12/nasas-carruthers-geocorona-observatory-reaches-target-orbit/ - the achievement was confirmed following its third and final orbital maneuver, a 2-minute thruster fire, on Jan. 8; the spacecraft has now entered its intended halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point, a position of gravitational balance approximately 1 million miles from Earth.
US CHILDREN II 🧒
我們這些孩童 II 🧒
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
An Irish man who has been held by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement for five months
despite having a valid work permit and no criminal record
says he fears for his life and has appealed for help from Ireland’s government.
Seamus Culleton said conditions at his detention centre in Texas were akin to “torture”
and that the atmosphere was volatile.
“I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff.
They’re capable of anything.”
Speakin…
Oh #thicktrunkTuesday might be a good day for this photo that I took on a recent hike.
It's one of my usual hikes but clouds or fog always make it so special as the usual background is gone and I see the motives in a complete different way.
And believe it or not - I went this path over 10 times but I've never seen that tree the way like at that day.
Different Corners XI ▶️
不同的角落 XI ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Rollei RPX 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
I'm a little behind with posting my recent photos. but here you see one of my favourite lokal "afternoon hills".
This is one of the RARE hills, where I often walk without camera. But that day the clouds were so low that I just brought it - hoping for some exceptional shots... Exceptional for the location - not wordlwide exceptional ;-)
Enjoy!
#photography
Habitability of Tidally Heated H2-Dominated Exomoons around Free-Floating Planets: #exomoons habitable for billions of years: https://idw-online.de/de/news867330
Series C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
CHESKU: You keep talking like that, you'll get us both killed. [Two troopers show up.] Yes? What do you men want?
SULA: I'm afraid they want your security pass and your clothes. The rabble aren't quite as crushed as your speech suggests. [She point a gun at him]
https://blake…
Gloom & Bloom V ☁️🌺
黑暗绽放 V ☁️ 🌺
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400 Plus, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
SOOLIN: Couldn't we make an intercept?
TARRANT: In the atmosphere, with a shuttle at full drive? We have to be stationary for a docking.
DAYNA: Look, I'll go down with the bracelets and we can teleport back.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/421…
Here's my #mountainMonday from the weekend. It's been a nice hike up there.
I almost didn't make it out but finally went to the mountains.
By the time I came there I was really happy that several peoplpe went this trail before. Otherwise ... I'm not sure if I would have gone there without snowshoes to be honest.
Next time, I might really bring snowshoes. …
Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
VILA: And Cally?
AVON: She'll be all right, she's sleeping. Zen, course.
ZEN: Course zero three two zero for the planet Kaarn.
AVON: Kaarn?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/596 B7B3
#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
RO: Let her go.
KOMMISSAR: She's no good to you, Ro. None at all. You must be rid of her. She should not have been brought back to the palace.
RO: You are, I think, mistaken, Kommissar. She means us no harm.
The dramatic transition of the extreme red supergiant WOH G64 to a yellow hypergiant: #stars
Bird View 🐦
鸟瞰 🐦
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
HUNDA: I know where it runs! It's still shown on the plans!
LEITZ: You could bring an army in through there right into the heart of the city.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/293 B7B2
Sickly Red II ⭕️
病态的红 II ⭕️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ CineStill 800T
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography …
Series C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
TARRANT: I bet you are.
DAYNA: Cally!
TARRANT: She's in some sort of coma. Describe what attacked you.
DAYNA: Well, that's the point. It was Cally. But not Cally.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/309/272 B7B4
Sickly Red ⭕️
病态的红 ⭕️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ CineStill 800T
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
TARRANT: This is the Liberator, go ahead.
[Obsidian control room]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/634 B7B1
Rare Colours Blues IV🔷🔷
稀有的色彩蓝 IV🔷🔷
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Harman Phoenix 200 II (FF)
#filmphotography #Photography #Art
Series D, Episode 10 - Gold
AVON: Dayna!
TARRANT: Go! [Some shots are exchanged.] There's more!
DAYNA: Avon, they're disengaging.
TARRANT: We've got about ten seconds before the airlocks close automatically.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/410/344 B7B4
Withering Heights 🫥
消失的巨人 🫥
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Some Places with Snow III ❄️
一些有雪的地方 III ❄️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Lanny Cordola and the Miraculous Love Kids:
🎵 Atmosphere/Heroes feat. Beth Gibbons
#LannyCordolaandtheMiraculousLoveKids
Some Snow ❄️
一些雪 ❄️
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography