Dan Bowen
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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
947 Takip Edilen513 Takipçiler
@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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@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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@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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Many friends work here! Go you!
John Zuchelli@tvzuke
An experimental electric air-taxi was spotted in the skies over Oakland today! The Marina California based Joby aircraft was seen shortly after the Alysa Liu ceremony. The aircraft is undergoing test flights before it receives operational approval. @nbcbayarea
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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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Dan Bowen retweetledi
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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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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BTW we have a space telescope orbiting Mars.
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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@Astropartigirl Oh you know, we just used the space telescope we keep at MARS. NBD or anything
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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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@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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May you live long enough to see Apple integrate their own version of your project as an OS-level feature macrumors.com/2025/11/12/app…
Star Simpson@starsandrobots
I built this Mac app called "GoldenHour" 🌅 that adds bright light bars of varying color temperatures to the sides of my screen in 2015, and I still use it on every. single. video call 🖥️💻
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@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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Link to the flight for people who think I made this weird story up for Elonbucks or something
flightaware.com/live/flight/AA…
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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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@berglar @emzanotti Perhaps design/3D print smaller knobs, or knobs that have baby-proof locking mechanisms integrated.
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@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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A few people have asked for a full shot of my kitchen, so here it is, weirdos
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@HalenMattison @starsandrobots Possibly the first trading cards I'd get into
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McMaster-Carr is going to make McMaster-Cards (!!!)
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@BrucePerens @johndeanl It isn't required, legally, most small balloons don't have them
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@johndeanl Did this simply _not_ have a corner reflector, or was it lost or broken?
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Rode along on the BART train speedrun today and got interviewed live onboard by @BikeCuriousLive ! He does weekly livestreams while biking around San Francisco on Twitch/Youtube.
Segment with me:
twitch.tv/videos/2566400… #speedrun
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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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