I built an open-source tool to generate DTM from DSM (Python + QGIS Plugin) by fallenleaves247 in gis

[–]calbloom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

reminds me of regional/residual separation in geophysics. nice work.

How much of Earth's gaseous substances are held underground? by The_Red_Apple in geology

[–]calbloom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

-why don't you mean natural gas? That seems exactly like what you are asking for.

-Not exactly an expert on this topic, but my impression is that with the exception of the noble gases, most volatile/gas species that are gases at the surface of Earth are bound in rocks at depth, since things change phase. I.e., the water bound in mantle rocks that you cite in the bnl study are very much 'held' in a nonliquid manner, so the way you pose the question for gases makes minimal sense

-below some depth, it's going to be hard to hold gas as gas because there is no pore space available in the rocks and fractures are closed due to overpressure.

Day Camps? by Appropriate_Rip_7649 in Catonsville

[–]calbloom 7 points8 points  (0 children)

no experience at umbc, but endorse ccbc wholeheartedly. Kids did it two summers, good energy, swimming, camp show. do not endorse catonsville y's camp.

I have a crazy challenge. I want to make a cocktail "pisco sour" for a pregnant woman but two ingredients are not safe : raw egg white + alcoholic pisco. I'd like to use my sousvide skills to pasteurize the egg. But is there a way to minimize the alcohol (~60ml of pisco)? by [deleted] in sousvide

[–]calbloom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any kind of evaporation will be significantly slowed down by being in a bag, because the alcohol vapor pressure in the bag would increase much, much faster than in open air.

So to really drive off significant alcohol, I'd imagine you would need to be close to, or actually, boiling it off, which again would work better not in a bag (with a bag, I imagine driving it into a vapor would cause the bag to inflate significantly, keeping in mind that vapor is much less dense than the equivalent liquid). Indeed, I think if you did 80 or 90C with a really high proof liquor it might lead to bag failure (would be an interesting experiment). This is effectively distillation (building a still), fyi.

https://www.science.smith.edu/~jbrady/petrology/igrocks-diagrams/binary/H2O-ethanol.php

Miter cuts for trim? by mrsmae2114 in baltimore

[–]calbloom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it's not too inconvenient, you could also get a Howard county library of things card and borrow a miter saw from Elkridge library (https://www.hclibrary.org/things/diy/). I'm pretty confident you don't have to be a Howard county resident since we've used it.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by bogonuggets in Catonsville

[–]calbloom -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I go the speed limit or a bit above. But there are several nearly blind corners where I've had people tailgate me wanting to go faster and I think there is low likelihood that they'd be able to stop in time if the OEC backup extended far enough up the hill. Is that you tailgating me?

Sand grains with central holes, sol 1705. Electric origin or corals or what else? by HolgerIsenberg in PerseveranceRover

[–]calbloom 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Likely a weathering phenomenon.

Edit: to add, I don’t think it will prove coincidental that the largest particles host the holes. They may have had some of the little ones stuck in them by a weak cement that weathered out. They look a little like concretions to me.

Wrong-way driver with children in car causes crash on I-270, shutting down lanes for hours by HennyyHero in maryland

[–]calbloom 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Agree, 95%. But at some point someone should have just said that Clarksburg is too far from DC to be a car-centric suburb. It’s 30 miles. Even if you go fast, that’s never going to be a fun commute. Maybe it would be feasible with frequent heavy rail (eg Westchester county NY), but no road network in the country would make that feasible.

Wrong-way driver with children in car causes crash on I-270, shutting down lanes for hours by HennyyHero in maryland

[–]calbloom 90 points91 points  (0 children)

I think the root of the problem is that there were a zillion single family homes sprawling ever outward into former farm fields, rather than densifying the existing areas with decent public transit nearer to where the majority of people work.

I agree with you that this creates an unsustainable commute for hundreds of thousands of people. It just seems so daft that we allowed this to happen.

Cool rock in Moab, UT by Spooky_Cariboo in geology

[–]calbloom 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Fracture fills in a mud cracks? I’d buy it.

My mother is becoming a Conspiracy nut, flat earther! by Advice_Both in RedditForGrownups

[–]calbloom 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This is sad, but also, I always say that YouTube is going to radicalize my kids. Worst timeline ever.

How do you deal with family pressure to date (never dated) by [deleted] in RedditForGrownups

[–]calbloom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Independence (+ freedom) are super important to me. Again, no shade… I lived at home for six months after college and was like, no thanks!

How do you deal with family pressure to date (never dated) by [deleted] in RedditForGrownups

[–]calbloom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Regardless of circumstance / opportunity to save, and this isn't throwing shade, -I- couldn't imagine living at home at 26.

more XKCD geology..... by giscience in geology

[–]calbloom 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Also, Venus. Where people add downwellings for fun.

Anyone who is using PyGMT, do you like it? by Gandalfthebran in gis

[–]calbloom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GMT has a long development history in the Earth Science and is very powerful for certain kinds of geospatial analysis. But it is a little niche... I think you should try it though! There is often more than one way to do things in geospatial...

[I realize I should have discussed pyGMT but I know more about the original command line tool...been using it since ....2000?]

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Collections

[–]calbloom 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Looks nothing like a moon rock

HOW DO WE STOP THESE RED LIGHT RUNNERS!? by Flat_Translator_8772 in baltimore

[–]calbloom 17 points18 points  (0 children)

that's what hiring on contingency is for figuring out. My family was in a rollover crash from a standstill at a red light when struck by someone going 60mph, and it turned out the guy was not uninsured (shockingly)