Mars Ingenuity helicopter flew almost half a mile during one flight in December
The mission on Mars still going is amazing. What an incredible feat of engineering.
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter set a new Mars record last month, by the skin of its robotic teeth.
The 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) Ingenuity covered 2,315 feet (705 meters) of Red Planet ground on Dec. 20, according to the mission's flight log. The old mark was 2,310 feet (704 m), which the little chopper set in April 2022.
Ingenuity reached 22.4 mph (36 kph) during the Dec. 20 hop, tying its Martian speed record.
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Online Echoes & My Need for Short Term RSS Filters
There's an almost yo-yo / echoing effect as people hear about something, then the time it takes them to make their content about it, before it then circulates again. And being as deeply online, I tend to be more aware of it as I see things very early and quickly, before they spread broadly. It's obviously reminiscient of traditional media, something happens, local news highlights it, then state news, then national, etc. Online is less directional, and more of a chaotic bounce between spheres people might see it or interact with it.
I posted about the kid beating Tetris on December 23rd. We're more than 2 weeks past that, and it's continuing to circulate and be reposted on various sites. An article about him on techspot.com is now in the top posts on Reddit for the day.
This echo is added to by the platforms which derive attention for upvotes / likes. I may already have seen something, but it still brings me joy, so I upvote it again. So perhaps Reddit and other platforms worsen this echo and noise.
For some things, this is an example of why I so badly want an RSS reader which has short term filtering built in. Once I see the Tetris story get a second post, I could add a short term filter and any posts which use the selected keyword(s) would be hidden. Ideally the feature would allow either a definite timeout (X days), or even better, how long since the last filtering. So if a post doesn't appear in my feed after, say, 3 days, the filter would expire.
2024 is going to be the year of elections
Obviously the US election will be a major item, but India as well as Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and more than 40 others means there's going to be a lot of politics going on this year, and the transitions all taking place at once is going to be chaotic as hell.
2024 is the year of a rare planetary alignment. The world’s biggest democracy, which has parliamentary elections every five years, will go to the polls within months of the world’s second-biggest democracy, which has a presidential vote every four years. India and the United States join three other of the world’s six biggest democracies—Indonesia, Pakistan, and Bangladesh—in what will be the year that the greatest number of people in history vote.
Automated Archives for January, 3rd 2024
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Wallabag Additions
These are articles that which I saved today so that I may read them later. Substance and quality will vary drastically.
- The Crypto Whistleblower at the Center of the Sam Bankman-Fried Storm
- The Amazing Story of How Cheesesteaks Became Huge in Lahore, Pakistan
- Quinta Brunson Is Finally Putting Herself First
Chess For the Day
Record: 1-0-2
Net Elo Change: -5
Games Played
Blog Posts On This Day
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