Tim Hamilton
@TSHamiltonAstro
🇺🇸 Mild-mannered professor by day. Astrophysicist by night. Methodist, Smoky Mountain hillbilly. Observational research on active galaxies & galaxy evolution.
I think I need this GIF on my office door.
HAIR-RAISING HARE (1946) Dir: Chuck Jones | See IMDb for artist info | goo.gl/8XVB2E
Math. You are a burglar attempting to open this lockbox. Three keys appear to be dirty, suggestive of repeated use for a 4-digit PIN. How many PINs might you need to attempt to open the box?
If you ever doubted that a dog could multitask, wait until the mailman appears as the dog is throwing up
At Mach 1.7, Overture outflies Earth’s rotation. So you can have breakfast in London… and fly to New York… for breakfast. And then to San Francisco just in time for breakfast. In fact if you just keep flying west you can keep having breakfast indefinitely.
At Mach 1.7, Overture outflies Earth’s rotation. So you can have breakfast in London… and fly to New York… for breakfast. And then to San Francisco just in time for breakfast. In fact if you just keep flying west you can keep having breakfast indefinitely.
Habituation. Google it. Don’t ask Grok.
Habituation. Google it. Don’t ask Grok.
These curtains look like they could star in a billion dollar James Cameron sci-fi movie
1, 3, 2, 4…wait, there’s a 5?
Rank all 5 Indiana Jones adventures.
More call for an Austrian naval ensign back then than there would be ~25 years later.
Illustration depicting the national ensigns for naval warships from various countries, published in "Orient Line Guide" (Fifth edition), authored by William John Loftie, London, 1894. Collection: British Library.
Watch the REGENT crew describe Seaglider prototype sea trials: #letsgo #floatfoilfly #engineering #careers #seatrials #datafirst
Happy Orthodox Pi Day to all who celebrate
I observe Orthodox Pi Day, which falls on July 22
Good advice here from one of my colleagues. Expand to read the whole thing:
This meme reminds me of some episodes from when I was a member of the Fermi LAT collaboration. This collaboration is primarily composed of astrophysicists and particle physicists who have converted to astrophysics. When discussing the significance of a gamma-ray detection, the…
"I heard you needed to kill 10¹⁰⁰ shrimp?"
We were there to see it. It was early in the morning and mostly dark, but we could see the silhouette against the smudge of dawn light. We heard it much more easily. Our youngest was in a stroller and was rattled by the double sonic boom.
Today in 2011, the space shuttle program came to a close with the final landing of Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center, ending decades of service from an icon of American spaceflight.
Yes there will be a search committee for the new dean. The president told me to form a committee and go find Andy.
Hand-loading artillery shells on a Mitchell! I didn’t know about this at all.
The AC-130’s 105mm howitzer is the biggest gun ever mounted on an aircraft - but do you know who had the second biggest? The WWII-era B-25G Mitchell carried a 75mm M4 cannon, nearly identical to the one carried by the Sherman tank. Designed for anti-ship and ground attack roles,…
virtually unknown comics resurfacing: bill watterson (calvin and hobbes) drew this in 2015:
Would watch:
Hear me out: Muppet Master and Commander movie.
On This Day 1969 - Apollo 11 Lunar Module Ascent - 16mm Film Enhanced by Moonpans. This is the 16mm film footage captured by Michael Collins from the Command Module of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module Ascent Stage returning from the first lunar landing to dock with Collins in the CSM…
Endorsed:
"Okay, so imagine a magic button." "I'm imagining the button." "If you press the button—" "What color is it?" "It's the only button. It doesn't matter what color it is." "Nah, I ain't falling for that again. Last time there was a red button and a blue button—" "That's a…