Flying Circuits
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Will Work for Launch. Spacecraft troubleshooter at Flying Circuits. Building hardware for the ISS (and beyond!) with BioServe Space Technologies at CU Boulder. Former toymaking elf at Sparkfun Electronics. Friend of parrots. He/him/ally.
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LOGGING ON
(AND: SO SAY WE ALL!)
(AND: SO SAY WE ALL!)
Stop doomscrolling and watch a rescue mission in fascist territory instead.
November 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
LOGGING ON
(AND: SO SAY WE ALL!)
(AND: SO SAY WE ALL!)
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This is my Chinese cave gecko. It caves less than the Democrats.
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 AM
This is my Chinese cave gecko. It caves less than the Democrats.
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Cute day of superb parrot babies 😍
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Cute day of superb parrot babies 😍
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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If you don’t do research you’re not an observatory, you’re a tourist attraction. Solidarity to the excellent astronomers at Lowell.
Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.
Lowell Observatory slashes research funding in the midst of financial struggle
Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:28 AM
If you don’t do research you’re not an observatory, you’re a tourist attraction. Solidarity to the excellent astronomers at Lowell.
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Man, life in America could be soooo so so so so easy for EVERYONE. We fumbled this bag hard.
November 11, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Man, life in America could be soooo so so so so easy for EVERYONE. We fumbled this bag hard.
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Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.
Lowell Observatory slashes research funding in the midst of financial struggle
Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.
buff.ly
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.
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One more skeet for Edmund Fitzgerald Day. Behind this historical marker is the famed Whitefish Bay. Today the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Paradise, Mich., rang the recovered bell 31 times, 29 for the victims of the wreck, once for all Great Lakes shipwreck victims, and once for Gordon Lightfoot.
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 AM
One more skeet for Edmund Fitzgerald Day. Behind this historical marker is the famed Whitefish Bay. Today the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Paradise, Mich., rang the recovered bell 31 times, 29 for the victims of the wreck, once for all Great Lakes shipwreck victims, and once for Gordon Lightfoot.
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#OTD in Weather History, 48 years ago, on November 10, 1975, the ore freighter SS EDMUND FITZGERALD was lost with all hands in a severe storm on Lake Superior.
She is perhaps the best known shipwreck on the Great Lakes, and today we remember her loss. 1/
She is perhaps the best known shipwreck on the Great Lakes, and today we remember her loss. 1/
November 11, 2023 at 12:23 AM
#OTD in Weather History, 48 years ago, on November 10, 1975, the ore freighter SS EDMUND FITZGERALD was lost with all hands in a severe storm on Lake Superior.
She is perhaps the best known shipwreck on the Great Lakes, and today we remember her loss. 1/
She is perhaps the best known shipwreck on the Great Lakes, and today we remember her loss. 1/
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Another species no longer on the global Endangered list:
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
a man with a mustache says there be whales here in a dark room
Alt: Scotty from Star Trek Original Series (played by Jimmy Doohan) says there be whales here in a Klingon vessel's cargo hold.
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Another species no longer on the global Endangered list:
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
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Librarian: "Can I help you?"
Me: "Yes, I'm looking for a book about...“
Librarian: "Clairvoyance?"
Me: "No..."
Librarian: "That'll work one day."
Me: "Yes, I'm looking for a book about...“
Librarian: "Clairvoyance?"
Me: "No..."
Librarian: "That'll work one day."
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Librarian: "Can I help you?"
Me: "Yes, I'm looking for a book about...“
Librarian: "Clairvoyance?"
Me: "No..."
Librarian: "That'll work one day."
Me: "Yes, I'm looking for a book about...“
Librarian: "Clairvoyance?"
Me: "No..."
Librarian: "That'll work one day."
LOGGING ON
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
LOGGING ON
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New Season of Behind The Wings® on @pbs.org: this excellent series returns for a seventh season, with complementary 'behind the scenes' podcasts, and episodes on the Hurricane Hunters and the enduring F-16. (📸 @noaa.gov | SrA A. Schwier-Morales, USAF) | 🛩️ 🎙️ 📹 ⚔️ 🥇 | 🔗 wingsmuseum.org/resources/po...
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
New Season of Behind The Wings® on @pbs.org: this excellent series returns for a seventh season, with complementary 'behind the scenes' podcasts, and episodes on the Hurricane Hunters and the enduring F-16. (📸 @noaa.gov | SrA A. Schwier-Morales, USAF) | 🛩️ 🎙️ 📹 ⚔️ 🥇 | 🔗 wingsmuseum.org/resources/po...
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In high school we patched the rom of the math class computer to make it click the cassette-recorder relay every time it typed a character. Which was very funny for a few days until the relay burned out. 💸
but bring back hard drive clicking and disk grinding sounds we're supposed to be able to hear data being accessed
My opinion of modern technology is that everything needs to beep less
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
In high school we patched the rom of the math class computer to make it click the cassette-recorder relay every time it typed a character. Which was very funny for a few days until the relay burned out. 💸
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50 years ago today, Nov. 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank beneath the waves of Lake Superior during a massive storm.
The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song.
This is the story of this terrible tragedy.
🧵1/20
The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song.
This is the story of this terrible tragedy.
🧵1/20
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
50 years ago today, Nov. 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank beneath the waves of Lake Superior during a massive storm.
The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song.
This is the story of this terrible tragedy.
🧵1/20
The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song.
This is the story of this terrible tragedy.
🧵1/20
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I know I've been whining about it but, for the record, I am actually ok with more or less shutting down US air space indefinitely and wrecking my plans if it means that my countrymen can see the doctor and get the meds they need. It's much more important honestly!!
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I know I've been whining about it but, for the record, I am actually ok with more or less shutting down US air space indefinitely and wrecking my plans if it means that my countrymen can see the doctor and get the meds they need. It's much more important honestly!!
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Last night, I watched one of the best nature videos I have ever seen, from Cornell Lab of Ornithology. I have been in love with hornbills since I lived in Indonesia and Malaysia and saw them every time I went out in the jungle.
You really owe it to yourself to watch this.
You really owe it to yourself to watch this.
Islands of the Hornbills
YouTube video by Cornell Lab of Ornithology
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Last night, I watched one of the best nature videos I have ever seen, from Cornell Lab of Ornithology. I have been in love with hornbills since I lived in Indonesia and Malaysia and saw them every time I went out in the jungle.
You really owe it to yourself to watch this.
You really owe it to yourself to watch this.
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We got to meet a sweet old hornbill once, during a visit with the curator of birds and invertebrates at the zoo here. Would love to see them in their natural habitat.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
We got to meet a sweet old hornbill once, during a visit with the curator of birds and invertebrates at the zoo here. Would love to see them in their natural habitat.
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Please tell me I'm the first one to make this joke
November 9, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Please tell me I'm the first one to make this joke