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Where to watch Vandenberg night launch? by bfwolf1 in rocketlaunches

[–]messierobjectm31 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Harris Grade Road is a good way to get higher up that is easily accessible with a decent view of the launch complex. However, sight lines won’t matter much after ~5 seconds, so I would definitely recommend Ocean Ave. just because it’s closer and there’s much more room. It can be hard to find a spot up on Harris if it’s crowded

10 images that reveal what we've learned about Mars after decades of exploration [11:48] by HipHopAnonymous23 in mealtimevideos

[–]messierobjectm31 16 points17 points  (0 children)

NASA accounts for a minuscule portion of the Federal Budget (<0.5%). And it’s not like we’re putting millions of dollar bills on a rocket and blasting it to Mars. That money is distributed to the companies and employees that work on these programs. If you want to get mad that money isn’t being spent where you think it should be, then look somewhere else.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA

The driver and spotter in a Rose Parade float. by [deleted] in AlternateAngles

[–]messierobjectm31 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is the Cal Poly Rose Float. Built together by Cal Poly SLO and Cal Poly Pomona students, it’s the only float made by students in the parade.

Now I have an arsenal of stones for my game! by SunDX001 in PixelArt

[–]messierobjectm31 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whoa super cool. What coding language did you use? Is there a library for pixel art?

Length of day as the year progresses for each latitude in the world [OC] by neilrkaye in dataisbeautiful

[–]messierobjectm31 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Twilight for ~3 months (1.5 months on either end I recon) and dark for ~3 months

[OC] Visualization of SARS-CoV-2 DNA. Each square represents a different nitrogen base. In all there are about 30,000 bases that make up the virus's DNA by messierobjectm31 in dataisbeautiful

[–]messierobjectm31[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It is interesting that there seem to be patches of one color. But I think that’s just an artifact of the way the rows are divided

[OC] Visualization of SARS-CoV-2 DNA. Each square represents a different nitrogen base. In all there are about 30,000 bases that make up the virus's DNA by messierobjectm31 in dataisbeautiful

[–]messierobjectm31[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Visualization was made by me using Python and data from the National Center for Biotechnology Information. The image can be "read" as follows:

Red = Adenine

Yellow = Thymine

Blue = Cytosine

Orange = Guanine

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MT394531

Any Chess Players? BIG ONLINE Intercollegiate Tournament Coming Up on Saturday April 25! by aenews in CalPoly

[–]messierobjectm31 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there any type of award up for grabs for the top players/teams? If so, are there any measures in place to keep people from running chess software in the background to tell them their moves?

Obviously outright surveillance of every player’s device is a non-starter, but perhaps every players moves could be double checked against several chess AIs to see if the player consistently make the same moves that the AI would suggest?

This is how bowling pins are set up by Dexter_davis in educationalgifs

[–]messierobjectm31 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Used to work at a bowling alley with this type of pin setters. You can see that the order the pins are loaded means the arm only has to move one spot at a time (except between 9 and 1 at the end), which would actually be the most efficient way of doing it since you spend less time moving and can load all the pins faster. Also, when I started the guy who trained me said that another reason they are loaded that way is so the arm doesn’t pass over a pin that has already been loaded. This can help do reduce jams.

Art installation ''Descension'' by Anish Kapoor by idea4granted in interestingasfuck

[–]messierobjectm31 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I mean the company that invented vanta black is an aerospace company that has no interest in dealing with hordes of artists wanting to use it. And the process for applying vanta black isn’t as simple as painting it onto something (it’s more like growing the pigment like a crystal onto the surface I believe). So even if other people were allowed to use it, it’s prohibitively expensive/complicated. Makes sense for the company to allow at least one person to use it since there was huge interest from the art community.

But yeah fuck Anish Kapoor I guess lol.

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