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· 2026-10-08T12:40:08+00:00Margaret Hamilton, who led the team that wrote the code that put humans on the moon, has died at 90
AI visual note: The black-and-white photo shows Margaret Hamilton standing next to a tower of computer printouts of code—likely from the Apollo program—practically as tall as she is, illustrating the vast amount of software she and her team authored to land humans on the moon.
· 2026-10-08T09:03:44+00:00Hey @grok what chemical produces orange fumes like the ones in the video?
· 2026-10-08T03:19:25+00:00What I do think is: you live in a world where machines are outperforming humans on mathematics problems that we’ve fought for years. Do you also think humans just nailed it down the line with our analysis of Module LWE and ECDLP and (already weirdly subexponential) factoring?
· 2026-10-06T16:06:17.058000+00:00“Prices are rising.. Ice shelves are melting… But you know? The weather is quite nice today. Enjoy life while you still can.”- Gert Mossel
· 2026-10-08T14:00:39+00:00Don’t miss the Draconid meteor shower, a celestial event that won’t take all night
· 2026-10-08T13:25:53+00:00One year ago today - New Glenn first stage booster Never Tell Me The Odds rolled out from Blue Origins production site at Rocket Park to LC-36. Roughly one month later, it flew NG-2 and became the first New Glenn booster to land at sea on Jacklyn.
· 2026-10-08T13:52:14+00:00#BREAKING | During the morning of this Thursday, October 8, it was reported that Tropical Storm Simon remains off the coasts of the Mexican Pacific, which will cause torrential rains in areas of Guerrero and Oaxaca. Meanwhile, Category 1 Hurricane Isaias will cause intense rains
· 2026-10-08T14:08:56+00:00Do these women know that this week is " 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝑾𝒆𝒆𝒌 "?
· 2026-10-08T13:04:57+00:00Raptor North Test Stand over at The Farm , performed a test for 557s. Here is Raptor Vertical having its Tank Farm expanded with a new GSE tank for more longer burns. Follow along as we wait for Falcon 9 Booster for its Static Fire, the moos are out nsf.live/mcgregorlive
· 2026-10-08T13:38:27+00:00The extended holiday will be marked by the passage of a cold front, associated with instability areas that are expected to cause moderate to heavy rain at times. Friday (09) TMin 18°C TMax 30°C. In the late afternoon, isolated showers of short duration. cgesp.org/v3/index.jsp
AI visual note: A Portuguese weather forecast graphic for Thursday (Quinta-Feira, 08) showing a minimum temperature of 15.7°C, maximum of 28°C, humidity range of 60-95%, with icons indicating partly sunny skies and no rain expected in São Paulo.
· 2026-10-08T14:04:44+00:00Margaret Hamilton died on September 30 at 90. MIT announced her death on October 7. She led the team that developed Apollo's onboard flight software, helped establish software engineering as a profession, and understood something that many technology companies still struggle
AI visual note: An infographic titled 'MARGARET HAMILTON: THE PROGRAMMER WHO PLANNED FOR HUMAN ERROR' featuring a black-and-white photo of her holding a stack of papers taller than herself, with details about her Apollo 11 work, 1936-2026 lifespan, and quote 'Software has to be reliable.'
· 2026-10-08T13:03:13+00:00THE GULF COAST NEEDS TO GET READY NOW, BECAUSE THE FIRST HURRICANE OF THE SEASON IS HEADED STRAIGHT FOR IT. Forecasters say it could strengthen to around 110 miles per hour, which would make it a Category 2 storm, before it weakens a bit over the Gulf.
· 2026-10-08T14:07:11+00:00La primera astronauta española tiene mucho que contar en la #UGR @Astro_SaraG conversa con @ArqueoInquieta sobre ciencia y exploración espacial Sala Triunfo 19:30 9 de octubre Info: canal.ugr.es/noticia/encuen …
· 2026-10-08T14:06:22+00:00Is dream content similar across cultures and time? Tune in to this rebroadcasted episode of Inner Cosmos to find out what this tells us about the brain. "Why do brains dream?" Available wherever you get your podcasts or at eagleman.com/podcast/51
· 2026-10-08T13:57:04+00:00*Addressing the simulation-reality gap in nanophotonic inverse design* 1/
· 2026-10-08T13:03:00+00:00El fisicoquímico Leopoldo García-Colín falleció el 8 de octubre de 2012. Fue miembro distinguido de la Sociedad Mexicana de Física y obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes en 1988. Ingresó a El Colegio Nacional el 12 de septiembre de 1977.
AI visual note: A distinguished older man with white hair and glasses, identified as Dr. R. García-Colín, sits in a wooden chair wearing a brown tweed jacket and striped tie in a library setting, with "El Colegio Nacional" branding visible in the upper left. The accompanying text honors his legacy as a physical chemist, member of the Mexican Society of Physics, National Sciences and Arts Prize recipient (1988), and his 1977 induction into El Colegio Nacional, where he remained a distinguished member until his death on October 8, 2012.
· 2026-10-08T13:34:28+00:00I built this with Grok — try it out: branch-granite-honey-sail.grok.me We will build a factory on the Moon to manufacture AI satellites and install a mass driver. These are things I’ve only seen in science fiction, but I will make them reality. -Elon Musk
· 2026-10-08T13:27:29+00:00Moisture from Isaias could reach Rochester & Finger Lakes by Sunday evening. We'll be very near the sharp cutoff of its northern extent, before being shunted east, but at the moment it looks good for a solid half inch of rain area wide.
AI visual note: An ECMWF weather map showing precipitation, mean sea level pressure, and 1000-500mb thickness forecast for Sunday, October 11, 2026 at 21z, from TropicalTidbits.com.
· 2026-10-08T14:34:32.825000+00:00I built a machine to visit parallel universes. I thought it failed 41 times. It never failed once. I'm not going to tell you my name or where the lab is. If I'm right about what I did, it don't matter anyway. For six years I worked on what we called the transit rig. The physics ain’t important, the short version is that you can't punch a hole into an adjacent universe, but you can convince a small region of space that it belongs to one. You change its address, the universe does the rest. The first test was a Tuesday in March. I stood on the platform, my colleague Dana ran the sequence, there was a sound like a held breath, and then nothing. Same lab. Same Dana. Same damn coffee going cold on the same bench.
· 2026-10-08T14:07:34+00:00Polar bears often slide on their bellies to conserve energy and speed up travel across ice.
· 2026-10-08T14:10:28+00:00Flavio Salazar cuestiona los recortes al Ministerio de Ciencia y advierte que reducir la inversión pública en ciencia y tecnología debilita las capacidades del país, desincentiva a las nuevas generaciones y profundiza la dependencia tecnológica de Chile.
· 2026-10-08T13:54:49+00:00"I don't have a technical mind, so it's hard for me to explain. But they wait until there's an alignment of some kind, or when corridors or thresholds are lined up, then they enter and arrive here.” — Dorothy Izatt