The Space Shuttle had a 59-pound printer on board, known as the Interim Teleprinter. Putting this heavy printer in orbit cost $1.5 million per flight, but it was a key piece of flight hardware,
providing the astronauts with mission plans, weather reports, and other documents from Mission Control. Let's take a look inside... 1/12
To be clear I think critical cartography is fine as a thing to do, I just don't know if I need to think hard on how maps are theoretically rhizomes in a state of becoming to appreciate critical cartography
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-83/ this week in sentences: a pack of tricks, cocaine-infused, problems of European boundaries, simply do nothing, a French perspective, an orderly universe, one of two holes
All #EarthEngine users recently got an email to link their account to a Google Cloud project. Google Cloud can be quite daunting for beginners, so we have compiled a simplified guide with FAQs to help you migrate your legacy GEE account to a cloud project. https://courses.spatialthoughts.com/gee-sign-up.html
#Ireland’s #datacentres overtake #electricity use of all urban homes combined
Statistics raise concerns that rise in demand for #data processing driven by #AI could derail #climate targets
Research published in Nature Geoscience has found that polymetallic nodules—the subject of highly controversial plans for deep sea mining for technology metals—are a source of oceanic oxygenation.
The paper suggests the nodules electrolyse seawater due to their positive charge (up to 0.95V). These geological deposits, formed over millenia and now sought after for their battery metals, are already producing electrical phenomena with an ecological value.
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Also on this call he had to tell them we're getting married so this was a real rollercoaster of a day
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-82/ this week in sentences: Werewolf Month, first theft, gendered, exhausting, rectangles and, hackers, worms