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1. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 20:20:13 EDT Stephen Sekula

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   From arstechnica@mastodon.social on Mastodon: NASA wants the Voyagers to age gracefully, so it’s time for a software patch Around a half-dozen full-timers and a few part-timers are keeping Voyager alive. https:// arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/ nasa-wants-the-voyagers-to-age-gracefully-so-its-time-for-a-software-patch/?utm_brand=arstechnica
2. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 20:05:12 EDT Stephen Sekula

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   This week is a good week for getting seasonal vaccinations! (Which I am doing...)
3. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Sunday, 22-Oct-2023 06:45:13 EDT Stephen Sekula

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   From TheSpaceshipper@socel.net on Mastodon: Denis Villeneuve's Dune was released 2 years ago today! Dune: Part Two is now set to be released on March 15, 2024. To celebrate the second anniversary of this movie, my article on the creation of the ships is available to all today ==> https:// patreon.com/posts/58752280
4. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 21-Oct-2023 18:25:19 EDT Stephen Sekula

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   From sjsekula@media.cooleysekula.net on Mastodon: Chapter 7： A Sky of Shadows (A Reading by Stephen Jacob Sekula) https:// media.cooleysekula.net/videos/ watch/a9b0265f-3116-4cdd-9bbb-43c42ec746d0
5. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 21-Oct-2023 17:50:19 EDT Stephen Sekula

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   Here is the photo taken by our tour leader when we exited the # Modane Underground Laboratory. That is the tunnel highway between us and the tour leader. He then helped us safely cross the highway before we departed back to the surface building. https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/da7d6201cf59b14a6772646038ac180cb246beac21fe1c28b125720510c6da25/view
6. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 21-Oct-2023 17:45:18 EDT Stephen Sekula

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   I was WAY too tired to post this last night, but here was the view when I woke up from a nap during my last flight, last night around 11:30pm. # Toronto I made it home today and am recovering from the 24 hour travel day that was Friday. https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/04a7f00cbc7ae31f7c09ca244fc19977fccfbccba9725786d381798e96b7fc08/view
7. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 20:56:23 EDT Stephen Sekula

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   From oldbookillustrations@mastodon.social on Mastodon: Total eclipse of the sun. Observed July 29, 1878, at Creston, Wyoming Territory. Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, from "The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings: atlas," New York: 1882 # illustration # astronomy # art https://www. oldbookillustrations.com/illus trations/eclipse-sun/
8. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 20:55:12 EDT Stephen Sekula

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   Made it to Washington DC. Just a short wait until my last flight, to Toronto. Whew.
9. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 09:55:14 EDT Stephen Sekula

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   About to board my flight back to North America. I won't get into Toronto until quite late tonight, but I am approaching the halfway mark on getting home today ... or, at least, back to Canada. :-) This was quite a trip, and there is just a little bit left to go!
10. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 09:40:17 EDT Stephen Sekula

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    Just me hanging out with the # SuperNEMO demonstrator (for neutrinoless double beta decay) in the # Modane underground laboratory. SuperNEMO https:// supernemo.org/ https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/10e299728562cf604a6490978bdfe890ec0436cae67de3cd5e8d55c1195a4259/view
11. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 06:00:16 EDT Stephen Sekula

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    Very much enjoying speeding through the # French countryside on the # TGV . https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/4bd862a5b714fa8d07db1ab4c9821ed7965d30e1ec5fb22a283bcea40446f9a7/view
12. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 05:40:13 EDT Stephen Sekula

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    My Time at Modane The Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane, or LSM, is located directly adjacent to the Italy-France border. Nestled below the Frejus Peak and connected to the Frejus Road Tunnel (a 13km underground highway currently under expansion), the laboratory can be driven into and shields its projects with a maximum of 1700m of rock overburden (the equivalent of 4800m …
13. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 11:15:21 EDT Stephen Sekula

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    Had a nice walk through Modane and Forneaux, grabbed some light groceries to make a simple dinner, and am enjoying some rest this evening before the big travel day tomorrow. https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/6bf95d45b5ca71c7b4af1a76a9227b1d3a7e1cd3c612813bcf01f96fe52604a1/view
14. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 11:10:13 EDT Stephen Sekula

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    From erictopol@mstdn.social on Mastodon: https://www. nature.com/articles/s44161-023 -00358-z Covid increases the risk of heart attacks. A mechanism that has recently been supported, at least in some people affected, is promoting coronary atherosclerosis and plaque instability
15. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 11:06:32 EDT Stephen Sekula

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    From mcnees@mastodon.social on Mastodon: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was born # OTD in 1910. He established an upper limit on the mass of stable white dwarf stars, and made numerous contributions to astrophysics and relativity. Above the Chandrasekhar Limit – about 1.44 solar masses – stars eventually explode and then collapse into a neutron star or black hole. Photo: Stephen Lewellyn / AIP
16. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 11:05:13 EDT Stephen Sekula

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    From mcnees@mastodon.social on Mastodon: Here's a chart showing the various mergers detected by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA. Clicking this link takes you to an interactive version that shows data for each merger: https:// ligo.northwestern.edu/media/ma ss-plot/index.html Image: LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA / Aaron Geller / Frank Elavsky (Northwestern)
17. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 09:05:22 EDT Stephen Sekula

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    On the way back from the underground lab we stopped at this house, which was hugely displaced from further up the mountain by Nazi bombing in World War II. It is a testament to its construction that it fared so well. Because it is tilted, when you walk inside vertigo or motion sickness sets in immediately. Gravity points one way but the eyes tell a different story, and th…
18. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 09:05:16 EDT Stephen Sekula

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    Had an absolutely WONDERFUL visit to the underground laboratory at # Modane today. Our hosts were so gracious in taking lots of time to discuss ideas and problems and entertain questions. I was particularly excited about discussions of open data and data standards, as well as shield design for their germanium counters. # UndergroundScience # Laboratory # Physics # Biology https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/e0538bc8be62cabb50c25fa868bd2482e37684fa92146b446daaec2165503029/view
19. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 02:15:15 EDT Stephen Sekula

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    Really excellent discussions during the first day of the Multidisciplinary Workshop at Laboratoire Souterrain de # Modane . I was particularly obsessed with some of the # underground biology discussions focused on improving sensitivity in studies of the effect of a lack of # radiation on living organisms. I was deeply obsessed with a discussion of # potassium -40 in the g…
20. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 02:25:14 EDT Stephen Sekula

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    The Journey to Modane It was a good trip from Toronto to Modane. Two planes, two trains, and a bus ... and I was standing at the feet of alpine mountains in beautiful Modane. Here are some scenes from the trip. https:// steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/20 23/10/18/the-journey-to-modane/

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