cubinator

I bought some mealworms today and started a colony.

I just did my nightly check to see if it's exploded. It has not.

As of about 14 hours ago, I think not.

Took some more images and the brightness does not appear to have changed over these last few hours. All clear as far as I can tell!

I took a few images a couple hours ago and I think it looked a little brighter than expected. Like somewhere between magnitude 9.35 and 10? Could easily still be in the 10 range though based on the variation in my data.

Testing the control system, see it's very good at keeping balance.

I think they lost basically all credibility to me when they decided to tell the same story that had already been concluded years ago. "Somehow, the Empire is the big bad again and our heroes, who very conclusively won as far as the story has been told, are underdogs fighting a rebellion a second time." The reason to make more Star Wars was not to tell a new story, it was very clearly "to make more Star Wars". There has constantly been rumor that the sequels are to be thrown out and remade, I don't count on it. I just pick and choose which parts are interesting to me and that I actually want to think about, and chuckle at the messy enormity of the story threads they're constantly tying together arbitrarily to tell a story that absurdly is ALWAYS centered on "Luke and Anakin Skywalker and their immediate acquaintances".

Looks to me like the total duration of 'going well' was about 2 frames.

I could follow the time travel well enough, it was the rich people sending others to fight and destroying the world on a whim I couldn't understand.

That's quite the turnaround. Each flight will come quicker and quicker after the last.

Usually what I do with his channel is I click on the video, pause it, and then go read from his citations linked in the description. He's all right, but likes to focus on more speculative topics than I care for, in a way that leads uninformed viewers to wild conclusions. (For instance, there was a video about extremely massive asteroids recently that came from a study that used a notoriously imprecise method and had to throw out 90% of its data for giving unrealistically high mass estimates for asteroids...but for some reason THESE unrealistically high estimates are OK) And I don't stand for clickbait, even when the video would otherwise be fairly good.

It's true...think I might start studying ground school this week...

Good luck, hopefully it takes you less than a year to get a job...

*one extremely late night later* That was really impressive. They really filled the sky for long parts of the night. I was out of the city from sundown to 2:00, and even when I got back to the rather bright suburbs they were extremely clear and a bit green, alternating between flashing rapidly and flowing more smoothly. The flashes were almost like lightning. I didn't go to bed till 4:00 The most color I saw was right as it was getting dark, unfortunately, although we did get to see some reds and greens later at times. Just at nightfall there were purples and greens and reds, and I heard they were seen in the city at that time. There were really distinct pillars in the north around 1:00, and overall great aurora ever changing throughought the night. I believe it - they filled the -southern- half of the sky in Minnesota for many hours.

I have a high chance of clear skies in the northern US. This solar forecast is crazy, I'm definitely going out tonight! I saw a faint aurora from a park about an hour's drive away in December where I've been doing stargazing, I will be back there tonight!