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Dan Bowen

@steamfire

High Altitude Balloon Systems Design Engineering, Weather Balloonist, Maker. I tweet balloon educational info @BalloonSciDan

San Francisco, CA Katılım Temmuz 2008
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Dan Bowen@steamfire·
@Mjreard @SFBART Better, but don't let your guard down, people regularly tailgate in the gates behind paying riders.
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Matt Reardon@Mjreard·
@SFBART People in the comments don't know they have full-body fare gates now so bart is fast *and* chill
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BART@SFBART·
Get BARTmogged, gasmaxxers!!
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Dan Bowen@steamfire·
@SFDamnPodcast @SFBART I take it specifically so that they have more money to operate with, not to penalize them as you seem proud to do.
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SanFranciscoDamn🎙️📚🎨@SFDamnPodcast·
@SFBART The only people taking bart, are people who have to I don’t have to so I’m not taking bart Sure, it’s convenient. Sure, it’s fast, but I refuse to support it currently because you guys need to get your act together .
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Dan Bowen@steamfire·
BART, a dream built for us, paid for by the citizens of the 1960s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s. They funded, in faith, this dream for their tomorrow. The Bay Area Rapid Transit system @SFBART youtube.com/watch?v=ebf1KG…
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Henry Shevlin@dioscuri·
The single best advice I ever got on conversation is “ask questions the other person will enjoy answering” which sounds insultingly obvious, but almost nobody does it, and it instantly makes conversations vastly more fun.
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Turbine Traveller@Turbinetraveler·
A student pilot practicing landings and takeoffs was suddenly told to stop mid-taxi. The instructor opened the canopy, stepped out, and said, "You're flying solo now." His first-ever solo flight. How was your first solo flight experience back in the day? 📹: u/Fat_Argentina
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Dan Bowen@steamfire·
@Astropartigirl Oh you know, we just used the space telescope we keep at MARS. NBD or anything
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Sophia Gad-Nasr@Astropartigirl·
Surprise: NASA just confirmed that comet 3I/ATLAS is just a comet! Yet, not JUST a comet: it's from a system far far away... so it's certainly special. Here's an image they just released that was taken by the MRO HiRISE in October, which is the closest image any instrument could get of the comet due to its trajectory.
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Dan Bowen@steamfire·
@starsandrobots I just fired it up the other day for a call when i was in a weirdly lit room at the lab! That was nice to have in the times overseas during COVID
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Dan Bowen@steamfire·
@bhargreaves That required a staggering amount of extra fuel to run the engines in that low altitude density air for that long
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Brad Hargreaves@bhargreaves·
About to take off Pilot gets on the intercom, says he got “some weird routing” due to ATC staffing issues We’ll be flying the entire flight at 8,000ft, “four times lower than normal” “Upside is you’ll have some great views!” Wish me luck fam
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Dan Bowen@steamfire·
@berglar @emzanotti Perhaps design/3D print smaller knobs, or knobs that have baby-proof locking mechanisms integrated.
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Larisa Berger McCune
Larisa Berger McCune@berglar·
@emzanotti We have a similar range and I can’t baby proof the knobs. What did you do?!? All the covers I’ve found are too small. Ours light up so kiddo is obsessed with turning them.
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Emily Zanotti 🦝@emzanotti·
A few people have asked for a full shot of my kitchen, so here it is, weirdos
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Halen Mattison@HalenMattison·
McMaster-Carr is going to make McMaster-Cards (!!!)
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John Dean@johndeanl·
For anyone wondering about more size details of the payload part of the balloon system. Banana for scale very important.
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Dan Bowen@steamfire·
Choo-choo train, train, train, choo! Dance, The Train of Peru has arrived. Choo-choo train, train, train, you can do it! Get on, it will take you to Chosica."
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Dan Bowen@steamfire·
Full translation: "The Peruvian Train came from the north, crossing the sea with a happy face, ready to go. The bus looks at it and starts to shake, because this train is going to revolutionize! ...
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Dan Bowen@steamfire·
Has @Caltrain been written into folk song? "The train for Peru came from the north, crossing the sea with a happy face, ready to go!" -singing in this video 🌶️🌶️🌶️. Caltrain's old engines and cars are on the tracks of Lima, Peru, in their second life: youtube.com/shorts/bEkuBIF…
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Dan Bowen@steamfire·
@elonmusk Can we please use starlink terminals as a planetary-wide microwave laser to say hello to Alpha Centauri?
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