Mr Romano
@mrromano.bsky.social
Teacher of physics and maths in Edinburgh, Scotland.
In 1965, Paula Harris would find algorithmic improvements that made LP solving 50% less expensive. She was a senior mathematician in the computing group at British Petroleum Today, 60 years later, her former colleagues still speak in awe of her intelligence
Sophie Huiberts@sophie.huiberts.me · last yr.In 1962, solving a large linear program could take weeks and cost over £10,000
Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon.
Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies at 95
nytimes.com
Why are biofuels being so heavily pushed despite their obvious, MASSIVE inefficiencies? Because they're a fig leaf for continuing to burn stuff, above all fossil fuels.
Project Drawdown@projectdrawdown.bsky.social · last yr."It would require about 31 hectares of corn ethanol to produce the same amount of energy generated by one hectare of land covered in solar panels." www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/04/new-...
🧵 Here is Earth's rotation realized in an unusual way: using a camera scanning the landscape of Tivoli, Namibia, Bartosz Wojczyński focused on the sky. He created a timelapse spanning 24 h that has a focal point in the sky rather than on the ground. ➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20070... 🔭 🧪 #galactic
Chemist Reatha Clark King was born #OTD in 1938. Her calorimetry work on gaseous fluorine compounds at the National Bureau of Standards contributed to NASA's investigations of various rocket fuels for the space program. She was the first Black woman to work as a chemist at NIST. 🧪 👩🏾🔬
I noted the plaintiff in the case against the military transgender ban that just resulted in a nationwide injunction against it, out of WA state, is Commander Emily Shilling, a Navy fighter and test pilot who transitioned while in the service. glaad.org/transgender-...
Transgender Military Service Member: “I am proof that we are qualified to serve” | GLAAD
Commander Emily Shilling, a U.S. Naval aviator who is also an out transgender woman, is already serving in the military, already making our country safer and stronger, already well qualified. "I have ...
glaad.org
70 km above Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Captured during the Huygens probe's descent
Gamma ray image of the Milky Way taken by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope's Large Area Telescope. The bright glow along the middle is the Milky Way's central plane. Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration #galaxy #space #milkyway #universe #astrophysics
