Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary Scientist and general nerd in Winnipeg, Canada.
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Also in this picture. Blurry reflections of you on the toilet
Sodium walks into a bar, orders a drink and tips the bartender an electron. The bartender asks what it is for. Sodium says: “nothing. Just feeling positive today”.
Also, typically notoriously hard to fence, cause nobody knows what the fuck they’re going to do with a gamma ray spectrometer or whatever.
Troy@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Conservatives update platform to include omitted 'anti-woke' promise6·6 days ago☑️Satire ☑️Serious
Please check one to help me parse
I work in scientific equipment. It helps to focus oneself to occasionally imagine the box as being full of $100k in $100 bills, when I debate whether to leave it in the car or take it inside overnight…
Troy@lemmy.cato PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2English4·6 days agoVery cool. Always impressed by debugging skills
To do what? Block energy projects needed to wean society off of oil?
Troy@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•The perils of per capita GDP: No, Canada is not poorer than Alabama13·7 days agoCaught me off guard too. It’s quite a significant number.
Troy@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Can homes built in a factory fill Canada’s housing gap?16·10 days agoNot quite true. Many homes in Canada literally were ordered from the Eaton catalogue. Truck arrives with all the components, you assemble it yourself. We used to do these things.
Troy@lemmy.cato [Dormant] moved to !space@mander.xyz@lemmy.world•We have migrated the community to !Space@mander.xyz16·11 days agoNerds of the scientific persuasion.
Troy@lemmy.caOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•British Canadian Asbestos bag on display in random restaurant in Chile10·14 days agoI have no idea. But they had amazing food haha. Ceviche and Pisco sours… I didn’t taste any asbestos or anything!
Nothing active. But even Santa Lucia is a former volcano (about 15 million years old).
Troy@lemmy.cato Fediverse@lemmy.world•Does anyone know what's up with lemmy.zip?English26·19 days agoMaximum compression reached
Troy@lemmy.cato Gaming@lemmy.zip•Fallout 76 is currently testing the one thing that makes every game better: fishingEnglish2·24 days agoYou say pickerel and know about Goldeye. Manitoba or Minnesota or similar? ;)
Troy@lemmy.cato United Kingdom@feddit.uk•I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centreEnglish285·24 days agoThat would qualify as work according to the US gov. Because by doing these chores, you are potentially causing someone to not need to pay a nanny or whatever. Be careful how you define work – you don’t need to be directly paid.
Troy@lemmy.cato Gaming@lemmy.zip•Fallout 76 is currently testing the one thing that makes every game better: fishingEnglish9·24 days agoI hate fishing games. Just chance games to waste time. But I also hate fishing so…
Troy@lemmy.cato Ask Science@lemmy.world•Why haven't we ever landed a Rover on Mercury? Are there plans too?English17·24 days agoThe orbital mechanics thing is probably the most important. The delta-v to land isn’t that bad once you’re in orbit, but even getting to orbit is crazy. Also, you’d need a retro rocket for landing that could withstand the temperatures – which would be a super interesting engineering problem. It already is for the orbital probes, but they don’t have to carry enough fuel to land and have different mass budgets.
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