Chip @chip@talking.dev

“Astronomers announced today that they had pierced the veil of darkness and dust at the center of our Milky Way galaxy to capture the first picture of “the gentle giant” dwelling there: A supermassive black hole, a trapdoor in space-time through which the equivalent of 4 million suns have been dispatched to eternity, leaving behind only their gravity and a violently bent space-time.” A photo of Sagittarius A* 😮

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/12/science/black-hole-photo.html

In the final stages of my garage clean up and reorg. Got my two 3D printers up and running again and they’re spitting out peg board parts. It’s so cool you can just go on the internet, download a part that someone on the other side of the world designed, and in a couple hours turn a spool of plastic into perfectly useful bins, hooks, holders, etc.

Ida's surge caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards. From a forward flow of ~330,000 to a reverse flow of ~40,000 cubic feet per second.

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?cb_00060=on&cb_00065=on&cb_63160=on&cb_63680=on&cb_72255=on&format=gif_default&site_no=07374525&period=&begin_date=2021-08-23&end_date=2021-08-29

I think I've found the best gif...

Someone’s been told they can’t put a basketball hoop on their public street before.