Stephen Brooks 🦆 @[email protected]

Ah, today they were bringing hundreds of eggs in there. Interesting, but I opened it up and used ant spray...

Virgin Orbit test flight not a complete success but at least the rocket ignited: RT https://twitter.com/Virgin_Orbit/status/1265069850180771840 #space

Lots of ants in my mailbox today. This happens sometimes with various insects, I don't know why they like it in there

A friend pointed me at this YouTube channel of vintage computer graphics: https://www.youtube.com/user/VintageCG/videos

Installed a brand new nozzle and coupler on my 3D printer, seems to work...

Crew Dragon on the launch pad RT https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1264633864627957761

Twitter says I can follow "topics" - in other words news feeds that look like every other site... WHY?

Well-preserved dinosaur RT https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1264294451939119104

The turkey in my garden just chased off a squirrel

Three-yolked egg -> RT https://twitter.com/duckoftheday/status/1263794300095258624

Interesting that watching video footage of a game on a 144Hz monitor still looks smoother on my 60Hz screen because you get several frames averaged together

A Dyson sphere looks a lot like a rubber band ball with ~675 strips about 1/214 the total diameter in width (1.4M km out of 300M km) having the same gravitational stresses as a 1km tall building on Earth

I've updated this to include a numerically-stable way of doing the required integrals, now confirmed to work in code #physics #accelerators

It's great making u^v be the cross product of vectors in C (u*v is the dot product) until you realise that ^ associates _after_ +. More brackets needed

6 days to liftoff: RT https://twitter.com/NASAKennedy/status/1263488927954079753

I should try this under some of the pylons near here RT https://twitter.com/HelenJMacdonald/status/1263374630527684608

Do a barrel roll RT https://twitter.com/Jet_Driver_/status/1262867033940787200

Virgin Orbit launcher test in 4-5 days RT https://twitter.com/Virgin_Orbit/status/1263204623629692929 #space

Find a piece of work that suits your mood

uninspired = calculate derivatives

Freezing mud flows like lava on Mars https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52713131 #space