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Matthew Parrott

@parrottmatthew.bsky.social

41, father of two, a fascination with wildlife and aviation, manager at RAF Air Defence Radar Museum, Norfolk @rafadrm.bsky.social

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RAF Air Defence Radar Museum @rafadrm.bsky.social · last wk.

An amazing day celebrating all things SR-71 at the American Air Museum at IWM Duxford today, meeting the real crews, demonstrating the heat resistant strength of the Blackbird's materials and a bit of friendly competition between the IWM volunteers and the RAF cadets on the reaction test!

Photo colour the SR-71 blackbird reconnaissance aircraft at the American Air museum in the UKPhoto colour volunteer Clive demonstrates the resistance of different metals to heat using a heat gun Photo colour Imperial War Museum volunteers compete on the computer reaction test gamePhoto colour a model SR-71 blackbird painted black and covered in silver and gold signatures of pilots and crew members on a red table cloth
Matthew Parrott@parrottmatthew.bsky.social · 5d ago

A wonderful evening at Sculthorpe Moor Nature Reserve as a birthday treat to see our first ever beavers We watched three beavers for some time, two juveniles and a baby, going about their business and noisily gnawing on trees.

wargen@funeralpig.bsky.social · 5d ago

CIA operative: the aliens didn't conduct any experiments on you? me: i think they forgot about me at one point my cell door opened and an alien came in with a mop and seemed shocked to see me CIA operative: and after this they dumped you into a lake? me: they didn't even slow down the ship

HappyToast@happytoast.co.uk · 2w ago

It's 12 minutes of Harry trying to persuade the Hogwarts toilet inspector that he needs to go into the girls toilets to rescue Hermione from a Troll and that he shouldn't have to show them his genitals first.

Announcement of Harry Potter going back to cinemas with 12 minutes extra footage.
RAF Air Defence Radar Museum @rafadrm.bsky.social · 3w ago

Whilst we tire of the AI slop filling social media (including from some high-profile museums), it's our pleasure to share this beautiful montage of our museum created by talented work experience student Daisy last week. The art shows some of her favourite objects in the museum, see Alt text.

Art, colour, colouring pencil drawings of objects at the RAF Air Defence Radar Museum, clockwise from top left: bloodhound missile, spitfire, 259 radar, plotting table, RAF ensign, Cold War ops room, Jaguar aircraft and radar console. Drawn by work experience student Daisy.
F.O.@get-effed.bsky.social · 4w ago

For the price of 100 missiles, we could send Nigel Farage to the moon. For the price of 200 missiles, we could send Nigel Farage to the moon and then fire 100 missiles at the cunt

Matthew Parrott@parrottmatthew.bsky.social · last mo.

Not 1, not 2, but 3 purple emperors on the same branch at Foxley Wood this morning. Not surprising as they were all congregating to feed on tree sap, battling with hornets, flies and the odd red admiral. Many thanks to the kind observers who pointed out where to see them.

photo, colour, 3 purple emperor butterflies on a green mossy branch of a large oak tree. The butterflies are a dark purple colour with brown, orange and white patterned underwings.
Stephen Schwartz@atomicanalyst.bsky.social · last mo.

Today in 1998, “Atomic Audit”—the first and only comprehensive, cumulative accounting of the full costs of US nuclear weapons and weapons-related programs—was published. We conservatively estimated total spending at nearly $5.5 trillion (1996 dollars). It now exceeds $12.1 trillion (2026 dollars).

The front cover of the 1998 book, "Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940," showing a yellow radiation symbol with a gray trefoil under the title and over a black and white photograph of Poseidon C3 submarine-launched ballistic missile erupting from the ocean after being test launched from the ballistic missile submarine USS Daniel Boone on September 21, 1970.The back cover of the 1998 book, "Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940," showing quotes of praise: "Atomic Audit presents an unprecedented complete and authoritative review of the history and high cost of the entire U.S. nuclear weapons program. Included is a provocative extraordinarily large estimate of casualties from nuclear fallout and a welcome analysis of the adverse consequences of unwarranted nuclear secrecy." — Glenn T. Seaborg, Co-discoverer of plutonium, Nobel Prize winner, and former chairman, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission " Atomic Audit lays bare the staggering price of exacted upon the most technologically proficient of the Cold War antagonists. More important, it begins to expose the policy, planning, and operational flaws that undercut both the logic and implementation of deterrence as perceived by its American practitioners." — General Lee Butler, retired former (last) commander of Strategic Air Command and the first commander of its successor, U.S. Strategic Command.
Frank Swain@frank-swain.bsky.social · last mo.

It's probably time European journalists wrapped their heads around Heat Index (temp + relative humidity). In high humidity, sweating is less efficient, making heat worse, e.g.: Experiencing 35°C in London UK (70% RH) is more dangerous than 50°C in Phoenix Arizona (15% RH)

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