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Maybe because FIRMS uses data from satellites in polar orbits, which only pass over the area once every few hours? With choosing near-Earth polar vs. farther geostationary orbits there's a tradeoff between space and time resolution.

No, just a student on winter break who got curious why CA Fire's map wasn't showing the up-to-date extent of the Eaton fire. Do they have this kind of heat data?

No, looks like they're doing a way better job! Thanks for sharing. I was only aware of the GOES sats. Seems like VIIRS is more intended to do this kind of monitoring.

It's accurate. Stellar winds are the primary driver of mass loss for stars near the end of their lives. Asymptotic red giants have extremely voluminous and sparse atmospheres very loosely bound by gravity; any excess radiation pressure would create an instability and blow away portions of the outer envelope.

Further reading: Ch. 13, Carroll & Ostlie, Introduction to Modern Astrophysics

I swear submitted this post last night but now it shows I did it two hours ago? Spooky

radius vs diameter

According to the description of this NASA image [1], they flew a 7-million-cubic-feet super-pressure balloon in 2009. Approximating as a perfect sphere, that's around 120 feet in radius / 80 yards in diameter. And "When development ends, NASA will have a 22 million-cubic-foot balloon", which is around 170 feet in radius / 110 yards in diameter. These things also look squashed when inflated [2], so they're probably even wider horizontally. Basically, you can fit an entire football field inside along with some stands.

1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA-NSF_super_press...

2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Super_v_zero_pressur...

AI couldn't have started any of the artistic and literary movements, which don't just blend between traditional styles but reject some aspect to forge something new. You can't get AI to generate cubism from training on Victorian art.

Welp. It worked on the school-issued Chromebooks and my friend's Macbook Air but not on iPads or iPhones, so guess I have to test it on more Apple stuff :/

Newer studies have put doubt to olivine's effectiveness: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/03/30/1048434/why-usin...

Can be pulled off with enough context https://i.imgur.com/pXA69Xw.png

Floating bar numbers are an interesting way of giving terminating representations to more commonly used decimals. Each number is essentially a numerator and denominator pair, with some bits to indicate the position of the division bar separating them.

https://iquilezles.org/www/articles/floatingbar/floatingbar....