Notices by Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD (ericfielding@mastodon.social), page 4

@AkaSci @spacegeck Thanks for the link to the NOAA viewer, it is much more informative with the streets labeled and other annotation. The Maxar images I saw before were hard to navigate. The data may be the same, but the NOAA viewer is much better.

@AkaSci @spacegeck Yes, I have seen a Maxar very-high-resolution satellite image acquired on Jan. 10 in several viewers.

@kevinrothrock I thought the apocalypse was supposed to have four horsemen.

@mloxton The name will be different.

@alienghic Thanks for doing this comparison! I have been busy with other tasks and didn’t get a chance to look at the LA County maps yet.

@alienghic Thanks for the hint!

@dansup

German media now has the story...

Thanks to @ajsadauskas here is a first example of German media picking up the story of Meta blocking links to Pixelfed:

https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/113820189442440223

link to article: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Unprecedented-growth-Facebook-blocks-links-to-Instagram-alternative-Pixelfed-10237928.html

Will update if and when there is any US tech media story, but don't hold you breath.

@sundogplanets They can’t allow those Canadian dollars to cross the border. Thanks for trying though.

@chad I hope that large passenger planes are more resistant, since they have to deal with hail and large birds.

@chad I expect that changes in regulations will happen after this incident. The 249 grams drone is enough to do damage to the Super Scooper.

@DoomsdaysCW Those earthen bricks may be fire-resistant, but they look like the worst possible building material for earthquake risk.

@alienghic That is great news! I am grateful to the firefighters who stopped the fire from reaching the Observatory.

The Los Angeles County Fire Department made a short briefing this morning (Sunday, January 12), on the status of the Eaton Fire. The containment of the fire perimeter has increased greatly, but the southern part in residential and commerical areas of town of Altadena and city of Pasadena is complex for firefighters to declare no chance of spread. #EatonFire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8w3GUMcIqU

@dsmdexter @ai6yr @acdha The town of Altadena was full of modest houses, many a century old. It was a place where people could live in a home close to the city for a lower price than nearby cities and had a large Black population from the time when it was one of the few places that Blacks were allowed to buy houses.

@ohmu I know Kyle MacDonald very well. He used to be in the office next to me. He has moved to New York to be a professor at City University of New York, but he maintains an affiliation at JPL. I still work with him often on radar image analysis. He and I both work on the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission.

@realTuckFrumper The USA has troops stationed in dozens of countries. Does Vance want to invade Germany next?

@ohmu Yes, I work at JPL. I don’t put that in my profile to be clear that I don’t represent or speak for JPL.

@Schouten_B @elticoloco It seems that they only stopped using the 747 tanker in 2021, not that long ago.

@ohmu @ErickaSimone The Eaton Fire was stopped just before the Arroyo Seco near JPL. I think the closest homes that were burned were about 200 yards from the East Gate of JPL.

@andybrwn @ai6yr Oh, I don't know where the LADWP transmission lines are, but I know that at least some of the big lines in Eaton Canyon are SCE.