Some people have noted to me that I’m not as vociferous in conference sessions as I used to be. This is sort of the template I use now.
It would have served me well in my younger, more impetuous days.
Heading into the park for the day. I’m check back in tonight. If you don’t hear from me, send out a search party. #Joking
[Monday-morning update]
Hope no one sent out a search party. We got in, not that late, but WordPress was playing its little game with me that doesn’t allow me to log in to post or edit comments.
We went all the way to the end of the road in Kantishna. Fall is happening rapidly up here — you can almost see the leaves on the alders and birches turning yellow in real time, and winter will be here very soon — there was a fresh dusting of snow on the lower peaks on Saturday. It didn’t rain on our trip out and back, but it was cloudy. We saw most of the mountain, in terms of mass (everything below about 12,000 feet), but not the upper reaches.
We sighted several bears, one of which — a big blonde grizzly — was right by the roadside, then wandered around the back of the bus over to the other side, too busy eating blueberries and low-bush cranberries to pay much attention to us. It looked pretty plump and ready to hibernate to me, but it obviously had a different opinion. I may post video later.
Also saw ptarmigan, grouse, ducks of several varieties, a golden eagle and falcon, ground squirrels, red squirrel, several caribou. What didn’t we see? What we most expected to — a moose. Except for one that I might have seen running the opposite direction to the bus through the dwarf spruce, that we didn’t have time to look for at the end of the day.
Today we head up to Fairbanks, and then down to Copper Center, where the red salmon are still running, presumably with accompanying bears.
Is gravity not quite inverse R squared? That would be a pretty amazing result if it’s true.
Imaging them at an atomic level.
When I took chemistry, I always wondered if the structural diagrams that chemists came up with were accurate depictions, or just a conceptual model. Now we know.
Randall Munroe is asking the important questions.
…has lost a reaction wheel.
This is bad news for exo-planet hunting.
Having a deep-space capability would allow the repair of systems like this.
Are they the cause of lightning?
Dinosaur killing, climate change, is there anything that extraterrestrial influence can’t do?
Answering the important questions.
What would good displays look like?
Is it continuing to occur?