Marslakes
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Mid- (!) Career Scientist [according to my joints]. Feed may be mostly irrelevancies.
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New paper drop led by former postdoc Jacob Adler now at ASU. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Pressure, temperature, & composition affect the transport and morphology of sedimentary flows on Mars - in space and time!
☠️ beware of using earth analogs to interpret Hesperian and Amazonian deposits☠️
Pressure, temperature, & composition affect the transport and morphology of sedimentary flows on Mars - in space and time!
☠️ beware of using earth analogs to interpret Hesperian and Amazonian deposits☠️
Microclimate governs the morphology of sediment flows on Mars - Communications Earth & Environment
Gravitational flow deposits on Earth may not be meaningful analogues for those on Mars or other planetary bodies according to laboratory experiments conducted at Mars-like temperatures and pressures w...
www.nature.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
New paper drop led by former postdoc Jacob Adler now at ASU. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Pressure, temperature, & composition affect the transport and morphology of sedimentary flows on Mars - in space and time!
☠️ beware of using earth analogs to interpret Hesperian and Amazonian deposits☠️
Pressure, temperature, & composition affect the transport and morphology of sedimentary flows on Mars - in space and time!
☠️ beware of using earth analogs to interpret Hesperian and Amazonian deposits☠️
“It’s called weaponized incompetence, mother”…
October 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
“It’s called weaponized incompetence, mother”…
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The wide-ranging abilities of large language models like ChatGPT can give users the (mistaken) impression that AI understands our world. A scaled-down world model is a long-sought and still unrealized goal. www.quantamagazine.org/world-models...
‘World Models,’ an Old Idea in AI, Mount a Comeback | Quanta Magazine
You’re carrying around in your head a model of how the world works. Will AI systems need to do the same?
www.quantamagazine.org
September 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The wide-ranging abilities of large language models like ChatGPT can give users the (mistaken) impression that AI understands our world. A scaled-down world model is a long-sought and still unrealized goal. www.quantamagazine.org/world-models...
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opportunityinsights.org
August 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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I assume this is a typo on page 145, but I'm glad to see the Juno spacecraft finally getting the 27 trillion dollars it deserves
July 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I assume this is a typo on page 145, but I'm glad to see the Juno spacecraft finally getting the 27 trillion dollars it deserves
If true, National security problem too
July 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
If true, National security problem too
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America has failed.
July 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
America has failed.
Twin 2 was complaining about Bingo and how she isn't good at it. I said it's only game-mechanic is Pure Luck, and she said, no, the main thing is Listening. Touche.
June 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Twin 2 was complaining about Bingo and how she isn't good at it. I said it's only game-mechanic is Pure Luck, and she said, no, the main thing is Listening. Touche.
The strategy being run right now over decades seems to be destroy federal tax revenues by repeatedly dropping the marginal tax rates, then use the fact that debt is getting out of control to destroy state capacity, then destroy the social safety net.
June 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The strategy being run right now over decades seems to be destroy federal tax revenues by repeatedly dropping the marginal tax rates, then use the fact that debt is getting out of control to destroy state capacity, then destroy the social safety net.
I can say with some confidence that the brain-drain going on at NASA right now is extreme, at least if my narrow window/set of touch points is representative. Truly excellent, experienced people are climbing off the ship.
June 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I can say with some confidence that the brain-drain going on at NASA right now is extreme, at least if my narrow window/set of touch points is representative. Truly excellent, experienced people are climbing off the ship.
This just in: Iranian state plans to issue long-delayed album, Chinese Democracy
BREAKING: Iranian State TV has said: "Tonight, a great surprise will occur, one that the world will remember for centuries."
June 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This just in: Iranian state plans to issue long-delayed album, Chinese Democracy
I want to be completely clear on this. I’m not going to lpsc unless the material that were disappeared from the scientific record gets restored. You are either a conference of record with archival responsibility or not. www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...
LPSC 2026 - Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
For over five decades, the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) has been the premier forum for scientific collaboration and discovery, bringing together more than 2,000 planetary scientists a...
www.hou.usra.edu
June 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I want to be completely clear on this. I’m not going to lpsc unless the material that were disappeared from the scientific record gets restored. You are either a conference of record with archival responsibility or not. www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...
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The NASA planetary science fleet chart if the president’s budget is enacted.
May 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The NASA planetary science fleet chart if the president’s budget is enacted.
Thinking more about usra statement (since it is still in my inbox). Remarkable that no -person- signed it. Just the org. Again, no leadership, ownership.
May 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Thinking more about usra statement (since it is still in my inbox). Remarkable that no -person- signed it. Just the org. Again, no leadership, ownership.
“He is a Sox fan, which makes him more than qualified to fight for those less fortunate around the world.” So good.
Wrote about Pope Bob from Chicago being a White Sox fan! open.substack.com/pub/mollykni...
They Elected A White Sox Fan Pope
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May 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
“He is a Sox fan, which makes him more than qualified to fight for those less fortunate around the world.” So good.
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As of today, ROSES 2025 is 84 days late.
May 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
As of today, ROSES 2025 is 84 days late.
+1 to Adeene. Plus, nowhere in USRA’s statement does it say the government asked them to do this. Shameful performance.
“You call it ‘erasing our history,’ we call it a ‘good faith effort’!” Incredible statement: www.usra.edu/posts/remova...
Removal of DEI Content | USRA
www.usra.edu
May 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
+1 to Adeene. Plus, nowhere in USRA’s statement does it say the government asked them to do this. Shameful performance.
I love my colleagues but the standard NASA messaging default of being upbeat is really hard to listen to when sitting here stewing in ennui-driven despair
May 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I love my colleagues but the standard NASA messaging default of being upbeat is really hard to listen to when sitting here stewing in ennui-driven despair
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Rule of law is only preserved if institutions are willing to stand up for it. But lawyers involved have been trained to keep institutions out of conflict (eg: law firms folding).
Perversely this means that (some) lawyers are complicit in, & actively enabling, the collapse in the rule of law.
Perversely this means that (some) lawyers are complicit in, & actively enabling, the collapse in the rule of law.
April 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Rule of law is only preserved if institutions are willing to stand up for it. But lawyers involved have been trained to keep institutions out of conflict (eg: law firms folding).
Perversely this means that (some) lawyers are complicit in, & actively enabling, the collapse in the rule of law.
Perversely this means that (some) lawyers are complicit in, & actively enabling, the collapse in the rule of law.
“White House sources later confirmed that Americans in a few key leadership positions would be exempted from pushing the Wheel of Pain.”
“Pulling off your garments and crawling into the pit in order to lash yourself to the Wheel of Pain is something that Americans are just going to have to get used to,” said the billionaire senior advisor to the president
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Musk Announces All 340 Million Americans Must Strip And Take Turn Pushing The Wheel Of Pain
WASHINGTON—In a controversial move that has outraged those critical of President Trump’s agenda, Elon Musk announced Friday that all 340 million Americans must strip and take a turn pushing the Wheel of Pain. “Pulling off your garments and crawling into the pit in order to lash yourself to the Wheel of Pain is something that […]
theonion.com
April 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
“White House sources later confirmed that Americans in a few key leadership positions would be exempted from pushing the Wheel of Pain.”
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NASA HQ at CAPS: Regarding reported cuts, they do *not* know what grants have been cut, and can’t validate claims of cost savings. They can verify they’ve had to remove building-managed potted plants from inside HQ.
March 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
NASA HQ at CAPS: Regarding reported cuts, they do *not* know what grants have been cut, and can’t validate claims of cost savings. They can verify they’ve had to remove building-managed potted plants from inside HQ.
“People came in and took away all the public space plants” at nasa hq. Big doge savings.
March 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“People came in and took away all the public space plants” at nasa hq. Big doge savings.
Ponzi continues to ponzi. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
MicroStrategy Unveils $21 Billion Stock-Sale Plan to Buy Bitcoin
MicroStrategy said on Monday that it plans to raise up to $21 billion to turbocharge its bitcoin accumulation bet.
MicroStrategy, which holds nearly 500,000 bitcoins worth $40 billion, intends to sell...
www.wsj.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Ponzi continues to ponzi. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...