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Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ES

I'm back on my laptop.

"Back?"

Yes, last Friday, just before my date came over, my laptop experienced a hardware failure.

I tried to figure out what happened on Friday, to no avail. I had to set my work aside to take care of my date.

Yesterday, I used my desktop to access Mastodon, Discord, etc. I continued looking for what had happened, but that was also futile.

After an upgrade on Friday, my laptop was not rebooting normally. I eventually was able to get to the BIOS screen, but the computer clock was off. The Windows installation looked fine, but I never actually used it. The Linux partition looked zapped... I'm not sure what happened there. Did the BIOS try to perform a recovery maneuver and zap it?

I recovered my data from a backup. The SDD hasn't given more problems. I'm tempted to chalk it up to cosmic rays hitting the BIOS.

#backups#HardwareCrash#BIOS
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BonnettsBooks

5/10/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

Right now, visit the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration site and find out if you might get to see the northern lights this weekend.

swpc.noaa.gov/

But don't count on getting super powers!

#BonnettsBooks #DaytonOhio #BrickAndMortar #UsedBookStore #WorldsOldestComicShop #FantasticFour #WorldsGreatestComics #GraphicNovels #CosmicRays #SolarStorm #SpaceWeather #AuroraBorealis

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8 graphic novel spines and one cover, featuring Marvel's Fantastic Four superhero team, as follows: Fantastic Four, Heroes Return–The Complete Collection, Volume 1. Fantastic Four 1: Fourever. Fantastic Four 3: The Herald of Doom. Fantastic Four 5: Point of Origin. Fantastic Four 8: The Bride of Doom. Fantastic Four–Visionaries: Byrne Fantastic Four–Visionaries: Péréz, Vols. 1 & 2.
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StratoCat

Launch of #CREPE experiment from Fleming Field (MN) on September 4, 1970.

The experiment consisted of 240 square feet of detectors housed in a 20 by 12-foot package. The detectors (plastic track, nuclear emulsion, & fast film Cernekov) were designed to record the intensity & direction of trans-iron primary cosmic rays in the stratosphere.

The balloon drifted for more than 347 hours before landing 20 miles west of Regina, Canada.

#BalloonImageOfTheDay
#Cosmicrays #Research #Science #History

Detailed view of the payload of the CREPE II (COSMIC RAY EMULSION PLASTIC EXPERIMENT) launched by Winzen Research Inc. from Fleming Field, South St. Paul, Minnesota on 9/4/1970 (Image: NASA)
The moment of the balloon release of the CREPE II (COSMIC RAY EMULSION PLASTIC EXPERIMENT) launched by Winzen Research Inc. from Fleming Field, South St. Paul, Minnesota on 9/4/1970 (Image: NASA)
The ascending balloon of the CREPE II (COSMIC RAY EMULSION PLASTIC EXPERIMENT) launched by Winzen Research Inc. from Fleming Field, South St. Paul, Minnesota on 9/4/1970 (Image: NASA)
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Spaceflight 🚀

#Computer errors 🐞 from #OuterSpace from a vote-counting machine that added thousands of non-existent votes to a candidate's tally, to a commercial #airliner ✈️ that suddenly dropped hundreds of feet mid-flight ⤵️, injuring dozens of passengers. A pacemaker's ❤️ built-in computer data got corrupted mid-flight. A group of researchers investigated more than 2,000 bit errors logged by a #satellite 🛰️ over roughly two years in #orbit. A huge number of the errors were clustered in an area called the South Atlantic Anomaly. According to #Nasa, #astronauts 👨‍🚀 on the #SpaceShuttle used to notice that their #laptops 💻 sometimes crashed when the space shuttle passed through the #SAA bbc.com/future/article/2022101

BBC · The computer errors from outer spaceBy Chris Baraniuk
#SpaceWeather#SolarStorm#CosmicRays
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Euclid Consortium

#ESAEuclid is a space mission. While that means it's not susceptible to rain and clouds, it is affected by "SpaceWeather"!

The #sun ☀️ is ramping up its activity in the #SolarCycle, and when emitting substantial bursts, these will be noticed by 🛰️ #spacecraft - and Earth. For #Euclid this can mean many more hits by #cosmicrays.

(👉🏼 See also: euclid-ec.org/whats-in-euclids)

For Earth this can mean #aurorae! This picture of an #aurora above #Edinburgh just now was taken by our EC member Gordon Gibb.

Nighttime picure of Edinburgh, UK, taken from outside the city. To the side are dark silhouettes of hills, the city is showingin orange lights. Above that is are green clouds and vertical stripes of an aurora. Even higher some blue of remaining dusk, and first stars. Image Credit: Gordon Gibb, Euclid Consortium
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Spaceflight 🚀

#Voyager found that 75% of the #CosmicRays heading our way from #InterstellarSpace 🌌 get filtered out in the #heliosphere’s outer reaches. If the encounter with the next cloud squeezes the heliosphere all the way down to #Earth’s #orbit, life forms would be exposed to an intense #radiation environment that would riddle #DNA 🧬 with mutations. There’s evidence of such an event around the time early #hominids were just beginning to pick up stone tools science.org/content/article/vo

www.science.org‘Voyager on steroids.’ Mission would probe mysterious region beyond our Solar System$3.1 billion probe would seek to reach interstellar space in 16 years
#DeepSpace#Research
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Euclid Consortium

Another feature that you can see in #ESAEuclid's first images: What are these? Satellite streaks 🛰️? Asteroids ☄️? Superwoman (or Superman) 🦸🏽 ?

No, much smaller: these are traces by #CosmicRays ⚡, hitting #Euclid's #VIS and #NISP detectors directly, depositing energy and electric charges in their pixels.

Read more about all the features and objects you can see in #Euclid's #FirstLight images:

👉 euclid-ec.org/whats-in-euclids

White streaks across black background with some white dots.
Long white streak ontop of black and reddishbackground with some white dots.
#ESA#DarkMatter#DarkEnergy
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Spaceflight 🚀

“There’re a lot of hazards we don’t know about. In #LEO, we are protected by our #magnetosphere from #SpaceRadiation. If we go outside of that, all of the sudden we have #galactic #CosmicRays ☢️ we have to deal with, we have a lot of #SolarParticles we have to deal with and we also have variable #gravity”. Even a short flight beyond #ISS altitude impacts various aspects of human physiology and #microbiome 🦠 composition. asm.org/Articles/2022/October/

ASM.orgOut of This World: Microbes in Space | ASM.orgWhen humans go to space, microbes go with them. Researchers are learning how space impacts the microbes living in, on and around astronauts—and how they can be used to advance future missions.
#HumanSpaceflightHealth
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