Steven R. Cranmer
@solarstellar.bsky.social
Astrophysicist & associate prof at the University of Colorado Boulder. I study the hot, expanding outer atmospheres of the Sun & other stars. Other weird stuff (infinite math? sci-fi? Tolkien? Harlan Ellison? Hesse's Glass Bead Game?) may show up here, too
Yup! Thanks! There's also a 2023 Jupyter notebook on Zenodo that's probably easier to use than the 2021 stuff...
November 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Yup! Thanks! There's also a 2023 Jupyter notebook on Zenodo that's probably easier to use than the 2021 stuff...
Silly joke. The person he's singing about in "Stick Season" probably isn't a fan... 😁
October 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Silly joke. The person he's singing about in "Stick Season" probably isn't a fan... 😁
Well, there's that one woman in Vermont, right?
October 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Well, there's that one woman in Vermont, right?
No worries. We've been pretty happy with Kaiser.
August 30, 2025 at 11:50 PM
No worries. We've been pretty happy with Kaiser.
No... it must depend on which insurance you use? I don't think I've set foot in one in 10 years...
August 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
No... it must depend on which insurance you use? I don't think I've set foot in one in 10 years...
There's usually an official notification sent to the PI (not FI) with links to debrief/feedback docs, but I don't know how thumbs-up's are timed with respect to thumbs-down's...
July 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
There's usually an official notification sent to the PI (not FI) with links to debrief/feedback docs, but I don't know how thumbs-up's are timed with respect to thumbs-down's...
I thought this means Elmer has taken over Lockheed's advanced aircraft division... 🦨
June 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I thought this means Elmer has taken over Lockheed's advanced aircraft division... 🦨
I think that's from Galaxy Quest (Another Tim Allen movie!) 😁👍
June 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I think that's from Galaxy Quest (Another Tim Allen movie!) 😁👍
Someday, humanity can take a Foray to those planets...
February 3, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Someday, humanity can take a Foray to those planets...
I hit "like" because there's no button for "sigh..."
January 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I hit "like" because there's no button for "sigh..."
Lee Majors may have some comments about the remake status of #25...
December 30, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Lee Majors may have some comments about the remake status of #25...
One movie that really went for that connection was 'Hawk the Slayer!' Crow the elf was very Spockesque...
December 4, 2024 at 1:26 AM
One movie that really went for that connection was 'Hawk the Slayer!' Crow the elf was very Spockesque...
Bluto Blutarsky's GPA...
November 24, 2024 at 3:36 AM
Bluto Blutarsky's GPA...
I hadn't heard of this either, and it got me curious. For example, why is Wednesday split into two colors for morning and evening, but not the other days?
March 3, 2024 at 5:24 PM
I hadn't heard of this either, and it got me curious. For example, why is Wednesday split into two colors for morning and evening, but not the other days?
If it could fit into my office, I'd claim it! :-)
February 29, 2024 at 11:01 PM
If it could fit into my office, I'd claim it! :-)
"And if I had a dollar [of support funding], I might give you $0.99..."
(This reply thread can't *all* just be Two Princes quotes...)
(This reply thread can't *all* just be Two Princes quotes...)
February 29, 2024 at 9:12 PM
"And if I had a dollar [of support funding], I might give you $0.99..."
(This reply thread can't *all* just be Two Princes quotes...)
(This reply thread can't *all* just be Two Princes quotes...)
wait, Phil's official home is called what?
February 2, 2024 at 10:16 PM
wait, Phil's official home is called what?
I think it means they're small enough to fit into a triple-stacked set of 3U cubesats...
January 18, 2024 at 7:31 PM
I think it means they're small enough to fit into a triple-stacked set of 3U cubesats...
There's so much mind-blowing stuff there. Later this year, I hope to finish writing my ~50 page "Intuitive Explanations of Infinite Numbers for Non-Specialists" & upload it to arXiv. I *think* I understand the inaccessible cardinals, but the Mahlo cardinals are still whooshing over my head...
January 8, 2024 at 5:32 PM
There's so much mind-blowing stuff there. Later this year, I hope to finish writing my ~50 page "Intuitive Explanations of Infinite Numbers for Non-Specialists" & upload it to arXiv. I *think* I understand the inaccessible cardinals, but the Mahlo cardinals are still whooshing over my head...
5 for me (thanks, George Field!)
January 6, 2024 at 9:32 PM
5 for me (thanks, George Field!)
"As a small child, I was fascinated by the movie Interstellar..." (Sorry, when I was a small child, Matthew McConaughey wasn't born yet...) 😵
December 20, 2023 at 5:22 PM
"As a small child, I was fascinated by the movie Interstellar..." (Sorry, when I was a small child, Matthew McConaughey wasn't born yet...) 😵