Randy Noseworthy randynose@identi.ca

Now more dangerous than ever...

I used to think i know what's going on, but now i know better.

I’m writing to let you know that we will end our investment in Unity8, the phone and convergence shell. We will shift our default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

My whole life, I've thought the reason women threw differently from men, was a nurture thing. I assumed young girls just didn't do as much throwing. Yesterday, I learned there is a physical/biological difference between male and female shoulders. Personal mystery solved.

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Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2017 April 3

Explanation: Many details of Saturn appear clearly in infrared light. Bands of clouds show great structure, including long stretching storms. Also quite striking in infrared is the unusual hexagonal cloud pattern surrounding Saturn's North Pole. Each side of the dark hexagon spans roughly the width of our Earth. The hexagon's existence was not predicted, and its origin and likely stability remains a topic of research. Saturn's famous rings circle the planet and cast shadows below the equator. The featured image was taken by the robotic Cassini spacecraft in 2014 in several infrared colors -- but only processed recently. In September, Cassini's mission will be brought to a dramatic conclusion as the spacecraft will be directed to dive into ringed giant.

Hi there, inhabitants of the pumpiverse! o/

I've just released a new version of Dianara, my Pump.io client for desktop computers.

Not much new, mainly a reworked image viewer that now allows zooming the image with the mouse wheel (or equivalent touchpad mechanism), dragging the image around also with the mouse, shows the zoom level, and actually rotates animated images correctly =)

Besides that,

• Fixed case-insensitive sorting of contacts in auto-completion lists, when typing @ while creating a post. This means that “Person A” will appear next to “person b”, not after “Z-contact”.
• Your server's version will be shown in the log.

As for the future, this will be the last of the 1.3.x series. Next release will be 1.4.0 and will not support Qt 4.x.

jancoding.wordpress.com/2017/03/26/dianara-v1-3-7-released/

Cheers! 🖖

>> Randy Noseworthy:

“What I want to know, is if we could get an atmosphere back on mars? - That would be an awesome thing.”

It's certainly hypothetically possible. Asa species, we are very good at putting CO2 into the air. We could mine a hydrocarbon-rich body (e.g. Titan) and burn the spoils on Mars, trap more heat, kickstart plants, generate oxygen, and try to keep the process going. What really matters is having an ocean. That's the trick. A planet hospitable to life like earth is successful at balancing its carbon chemistry because it has an ocean. Venus lost its ocean early on, causing runaway atmospheric carbon-ification (if you took all of earth's trapped carbon and converted it to CO2, you'd get Venus's atmosphere), and Mars has water but its trapped in ices. So, maybe, heat-trap on Mars; melt the ice-water to liquid water, and kickstart plants...

What does that do that pump.io doesn't?

RT @TheEconomist: Isaac Newton died #OnThisDay 1727. Few scientists have shared his influence http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21604535-real-sir-isaac-newton-was-not-first-king-reason-last?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/sirisaacnewtonmagiciansbrain https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/847836311750930432/photo/1

"Climate Change"

This week, there have been new insights into the link between climate and weather. Specifically, about how extreme weather happens but also how they get stuck, leading to prolonged heat waves, droughts or wildfires. Earth is certainly an active place climate-wise and it looks as though Mars may have also been a little livelier than it is now. If you look a little closer, you can find dried out rivers where water once flowed. New research reveals what happened to the Red Planet’s atmosphere and why it is now a cold, dry place. We also hear how you can join in the search for the missing mysterious ninth planet of our solar system. We meet the scientist who is trying to understand how accents either get diluted or become more distinct. But we delve further into understanding our brains because to even have different accents we needed to socialise as a species – is that why humans evolved big brains? Or could it be our diet? (Photo caption: Pakistani flood survivors wade through the flood water in Khairpur Nathan Shah on September 18, 2010 © Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Getty Images) The Science Hour was presented by Gareth Mitchell with comments from BBC Science Correspondent Jonathan Amos Producer: Graihagh Jackson

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04xyqkd

How Mars lost its atmosphere, and why Earth didnâ^TMt - a dance of solar wind and Biot-Savart. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/03/30/how-mars-lost-its-atmosphere-and-why-earth-didnt/ https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/848531926742958080/photo/1

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