“NCAR has played a greater role in advancing weather prediction & atmospheric modeling than perhaps any other single entity in the world,” says @weatherwest.bsky.social

Dismantling NCAR would be “like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.” KH

That cloud may be a horseshoe vortex cloud, pretty rare: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsesh...

Hey! That's me!

At Capitol Hill with Bill Nye and Congressman Glenn Ivy, fighting for NASA science funding!
#savenasascience

I'll be there! What a great opportunity.

This is amazing news! Hopefully MSR will continue then...

For what it's worth, you're definitely my favorite cartoonist. I relate to your jokes! Also loved your book on Mars.

You know, if you're looking to build a GUI in Python I'd recommend www.gradio.app

It's simpler to use and looks better than TKinter. The GUI is also a website instead of a desktop app, which can be handy to share it with people.

Where?

Fun read! The whole thread is good too.

Jared Isaacman

I want this shirt! So cool

Me neither!!! So cool that you worked on it.

I interned at JPL a couple months after you started, on the Perseverance Rover Ops team. It felt like we were experiencing the lab for the first time together. A magical place, I am sure they will miss you.

Massive wave of bots just followed me...

Awesome :)

What an awesome first job!!

I want to know what the Galileo Atmospheric Probe saw as it fell into Jupiter

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo...