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Robert McNees
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Shooting raw so I can process from scratch
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Professor and physicist. Black holes, quantum gravity, cosmology. Rocky Top. Tar Heel. Reposts are spooky action at a distance. These are my views, not my employer's. Just terrible at this.
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Robert McNees
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Shooting raw so I can process from scratch
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Robert McNees
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It feels like it’s engineered exclusively for the very newest iPhone, and everything else is on the trash heap.
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Robert McNees
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Halide served me well for a long time, but now it’s practically unusable. Shooting on an *iPhone 14 Pro* and responsiveness and performance are both so poor, I wonder why I bother.
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Robert McNees
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About a 2 mile round trip for us, starting on a trail about 0.7 mile in from the parkway. Brief forest, then immediately opens up and you’re hiking across bald with gorgeous 360 degree views of the mountains below. Grand Balsam Mountains, Black Mountains, and Smokies all visible.
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Robert McNees
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Made it up to the top of Black Balsam Knob this morning. Blue Ridge Parkway was practically empty, despite the 4th of July holiday.
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Robert McNees
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But probably not in a way they’d like.
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Robert McNees
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I gotta say, I’ve got no doubt about their coverage, their framing, or their motivations.
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Robert McNees
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Hello, Asheville.
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Robert McNees
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(We were driving through the forest, and this chicken just appeared on the side of road. No houses around, just a spontaneous chicken.)
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Robert McNees
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The wild chickens of Pisgah National Forest.
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Robert McNees
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Color variations in this WMAP image show small departures – about .00002 K – from the average CMB temperature of 2.726 K. Tiny local variations in density caused CMB photons to lose a bit more or less energy as they climbed out of slightly more or less dense regions. 🔭 🧪 Image: NASA / WMAP
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The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) launched from Kennedy Spaceflight Center #OTD in 2001.
Three months later it would reach the L2 Lagrange point and begin to assemble an exquisitely detailed map of the cosmic microwave background. 🧪 🔭
Credits: NASA / Kennedy SFC, WMAP
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Robert McNees
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“Ulysses” was the first one I thought of.
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Robert McNees
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(I’m traveling, so I’m off by a day. Pretend this is yesterday.)
Physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer was born #OTD in 1906. She developed the nuclear shell model of the nucleus, for which she was awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics. 🧪 👩🔬
Image: APS
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Robert McNees
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“Love books but hate words?”
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Robert McNees
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By hiring someone who will be worse on that (and a million other things)?
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Robert McNees
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I hope this email finds you at the end of all things.
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Robert McNees
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RIP, Gene Parmesan.
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Yes, things seem bad now. But in 150 billion years, most of the Universe currently visible to us will have slipped behind a cosmic horizon. Our little archipelago of gravitationally bound galaxies will find itself huddled and alone, dead stars bathed in dim thermal static. Oed' und leer das Meer.
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Robert McNees
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"Your honor, this TeX distro doesn't have the packages I use."
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Robert McNees
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final_arxiv_v3_final_really_final.tex
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Robert McNees
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[Astrophysicist pointing at makeshift poster made from legal pads] "We're calling it ANAGRAMS : A New model for AssiGning antitRust dAMageS"
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Robert McNees
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Anyway, check out this muppet.
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Robert McNees
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Just said "Sit Ubu, sit" out loud at my desk
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lawyer conducting voir dire: "Do you think you can be impartial and apply the law, as instructed?" Astrophysicist: "Yes, of course." lawyer: "And in the event the plaintiffs succeed, will you follow the accepted model for calculating damages." Astrophysicist: "Am I under oath right now?"
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Robert McNees
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Post an image that people will hear when they see it
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Robert McNees
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This is a good astrophysicist-on-a-jury joke.
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[frantically trying to prepare the note with the verdict] "I'm sorry your honor, I have never TeX'd a verdict before. Do you have the phyzzx macros?"
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"Your honor, motion to transfer these proceedings to a venue with higher impact factor. Wait what do mean jurors can't make a motion."
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Robert McNees
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Perfect
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"The jury has more of a comment than a verdict."
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Robert McNees
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[judge reads note from jury foreperson] "The jury appears to be deadlocked on the question of whether or not anything heavier than helium is a metal."
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Robert McNees
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All the other jurors sending each other this @xkcd.com
xkcd.com/793/
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Robert McNees
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New Fermi problem just dropped.
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Robert McNees
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I am giving a final exam right now, and I have already sketched out a model.
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“Your honor, can we get a chalkboard in here? Yes, your honor, it’s necessary. Tell them to get the Hagoromo chalk.”
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Robert McNees
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I would totally do this.
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This belongs in the 🧪 and 🔭 feeds, for the astrophysicist trying to bang out their own model for calculating damages in an antitrust trial.
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NFL just lost their antitrust trial. The jury ordered them to pay $4 billion in damages to the consumer class, which is tripled to $12 billion. One of the jurors is an astrophysicist. They requested a bunch of data that wasn’t in evidence. Judge suggested they were devising their own damages model!
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Robert McNees
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And tell your friends to buy it, too.
Then tell them to pick up this beautiful, poignant novel about motherhood, friendship, and how some young women were stripped of agency during the Baby Scoop era in the US.
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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Robert McNees
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For example, you should buy this achingly beautiful book about the love affair between Lorena Hickok and Eleanor Roosevelt.
bookshop.org/p/books/undi...
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A conversation on our Discord has prompted me to say again: remember, y'all, what really sells books is not the author talking about their work, but *readers* talking about it. Word of mouth drives far more sales than advertising or any other engine. So if you loved a book, tell your friends!
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Robert McNees
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This would be a great bio.
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Sometimes folks are so focused on M13, they skip right past nearby M92. But look at that thing. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA Acknowledgement: Gilles Chapdelaine
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In 1974 we* beamed an interstellar radio message in the direction of M13. If anything picks it up, maybe a reply shows up in around 44,000 years, give or take.
*Humanity. Not you and me personally
bsky.app/profile/mcne...
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Hello new friends! Have a look at Messier 13. Visible to the naked eye, if the sky is dark enough. Edmund Halley spotted it in 1714 and wrote “This is but a little Patch, but it shews it self to the naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent.” Which, same. Image: ESA/Hubble, NASA
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Robert McNees
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I can’t watch The Bear until after the 4th, so please no one talk about it.
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Here's a short read from NASA, discussing the image:
www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
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Showing this to the kid, it's worth sharing again for everyone to have a look. Most of the things you see in this JWST image are distant galaxies – only the objects with diffraction spikes are stars! This deep field image was one of the first JWST releases. Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
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Robert McNees
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Starter Packs are bad, unless you want to include me, in which case they are good.
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