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  • After a long break back to some scientific coding. Remembering back to the 70s and the struggles to read binary data files in FORTRAN. With modern tools in has only been 2 days to read a csv file into MATLAB and the times still aren’t right. :-) πŸ’Ύ

    β†’ 9:27 PM, Jan 25
  • Want an automatic dark mode for you blog but are unsure how? @yorrike has an easy to follow howto for you. It works great, thank you! Found it in the very useful Custom.micro.blog tutorials.

    β†’ 7:00 PM, Jan 18
  • Laser-guided Lightning Demonstrated

    Using a laser to guide lightning has been demonstrated! A Swiss group used a high power, high repitition rate laser to guide lighning down a laser beam. The application here would be to use lasers to steer lightning away from damaging structures.

    Briefly what happens is as follows. A large electric potential develops between a cloud and the ground, which can lead to lightning. What we see as lightning is the return current from the cloud to the ground. But before the flash the cloud has to, figuratively, drop a wire down to the ground for the current to flow through. It does this by ionizing a channel through the air. This feature is called a dart leader, and it takes a jagged path to the surface. What the Swiss group was able to do was make an ionized path to the ground using the laser, which the lightning followed. IMHO pretty amazing work.

    Popular Article in the Washington Post here. Inside that article is a link to the Nature Photonics paper if you want the details.

    🌞 🌩️ πŸš€

    β†’ 1:34 PM, Jan 18
  • aaronpk. Hopefully I got this Webmention syntax figured out now.

    β†’ 3:47 PM, Jan 17
  • Some Photos to enjoy in my Archive

    I was wondering how I could best introduce myself to the micro.blog community and maybe my old pictures are a good window to some aspects of my Bobiverse. Older posts in the Archive are mostly photos I took and put on Instagram between 2014-2018. Haven’t really used any social media platforms since then, but I’m giving micro.blog a shot. Most of the 2014-2015 pictures are from our stay in Switzerland during my sabbatical, a great opportunity I had to work with colleagues at Meteoswiss. Hope you enjoy them.

    I debated putting some of my older blog posts here but decided you can go to the About page and link to them if you are interested.

    β†’ 7:53 PM, Jan 15
  • giant ochre sea star

    β†’ 9:56 PM, Feb 22
  • #madame

    β†’ 6:11 PM, Oct 8
  • cheysunset we had some good looks at them as well. Hope they stop soon #bcfires

    β†’ 3:14 PM, Aug 25
  • #pat & #bob reflecting

    β†’ 5:42 PM, Aug 13
  • Shut up legs! Jens took the time to come across the barriers to us for photos. Thanks man! Also kudos to Emmanuel for VIP passes to étape 5 @ tdf2017

    β†’ 6:49 PM, Jul 8
  • Moon over Collège St.-Michel #fribourg #suisse #suisseromand

    β†’ 4:42 AM, Jun 17
  • Happy Bloomsday.

    β†’ 2:21 AM, Jun 16
  • Always worth it to get out the door early, surtout en suisse Γ°ΒŸΒ‡Β¨Γ°ΒŸΒ‡Β­ #arc-en-ciel #rainbow #cycling

    β†’ 10:51 AM, Jun 3
  • #clouds

    β†’ 11:10 AM, May 18
  • The David Jackson memorial tree is now complete with the arrival of the permanent commemorative marker! Go have a look! @physicsandastronomyatwestern @westernuniversity @purplecrowlidar

    β†’ 8:09 AM, Apr 26
  • Woman, Lake Erie and #iceFlows. #LongPoint #ontario

    β†’ 8:55 PM, Feb 23
  • Or your Honour Student. #ldnont #starwars

    β†’ 4:04 PM, Feb 20
  • Goodnight @westernuniversity #ldnont #westernu

    β†’ 6:10 PM, Feb 17
  • So welcoming #failedBizPlan

    β†’ 7:54 PM, Oct 13
  • My wife puts things in trees. In our yard. #creepy

    β†’ 7:07 PM, Oct 11
  • Leaf on table

    β†’ 2:06 PM, Oct 10
  • Retro-femme #murten #bitcam

    β†’ 8:23 AM, Jun 12
  • #woman by lake at sunset

    β†’ 8:54 PM, May 15
  • «No one, I think, is in my tree I mean, it must be high or low That is, you can’t, you know, tune in, but it’s alright That is, I think it’s not too bad» #strawberryFieldsForever

    β†’ 4:04 PM, May 7
  • “red sky at morning, sailor take warning” #ldnont

    β†’ 5:37 PM, Apr 28
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