Webb’s Fine Guidance Sensor Is Guiding! Posted on 2022/02/21 by Carl Robitaille Reply Webb’s Fine Guidance Sensor Is Guiding! This is how the James Webb telescope points so accurately – checks a star 16 times per second to update mirror steering. Could see an eye blink 500 km away. Made in Canada! Details: https://t.co/tiNHhEE2iv @csa_asc @COMDEV_Intl pic.twitter.com/dryJ9MinSB— Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) February 20, 2022
Amount of daylight throughout the year changes based on Latitude Posted on 2022/02/21 by Carl Robitaille Reply Amount of daylight throughout the year changes based on Latitude Took me a little bit to understand this animation. It shows how the amount of daylight changes throughout the year based on latitude. Source: https://t.co/0SWHb83QwN pic.twitter.com/r0OP3zPbq2— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) February 20, 2022
I was a bit surprised that you can post a Pringle through a letterbox Posted on 2022/02/21 by Carl Robitaille Reply I was a bit surprised that you can post a Pringle through a letterbox-because twisting straight lines trace out the hyperbolic paraboloid Pringle shape pic.twitter.com/dzhXQaAspn— Matt Henderson (@matthen2) February 20, 2022
In 1957, John Conway built a water computer called WINNIE (Water Initiated Numerical Number Integrating Engine) Posted on 2022/02/21 by Carl Robitaille Reply In 1957, John Conway built a water computer called WINNIE (Water Initiated Numerical Number Integrating Engine) pic.twitter.com/k8iVPdo0dY— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) February 20, 2022
APOD: Peculiar Galaxies of Arp 273 Posted on 2022/02/21 by Carl Robitaille Reply APOD: Peculiar Galaxies of Arp 273 Peculiar Galaxies of Arp 273: https://t.co/j0I6QNOZKO— Astronomy Picture Of the Day (@apod) February 19, 2022
“Everyone who confuses correlation with causation eventually ends up dead.” Posted on 2022/02/21 by Carl Robitaille Reply "Everyone who confuses correlation with causation eventually ends up dead."Favorite new way to teach this, hands down.— Emily Rauscher (@rauscher_emily) February 18, 2022
Another nice way to visualize complex functions: “x-ray plots” Posted on 2022/02/21 by Carl Robitaille Reply Another nice way to visualize complex functions: "x-ray plots". Below a plot of Riemann zeta from https://t.co/qvVdZKvwvB. Here is the Python script to draw all x-rays in Fungrim: https://t.co/p8q2WD00xP (I stole this technique from Juan Arias de Reyna's https://t.co/tYwUlnrWbp) pic.twitter.com/JU2U8skEp7— Fredrik Johansson (@hypergeometer) February 19, 2022
Happy Valentine’s Day! Posted on 2022/02/21 by Carl Robitaille Reply Happy Valentine's Day! pic.twitter.com/B5svmIRs6M— Jay Cummings (@LongFormMath) February 14, 2022