Anton Kiriwas

Anton Kiriwas

@antonkiriwas.com

Father, husband, maker, player, and sometimes NASA engineer

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Busy weekend. Artemis II has rolled out of the VAB, on the way to Tanking Test, and then after we successfully get through that we will set our final launch date to send four dear friends around the moon for the first time since Apollo!

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DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

No star wars, no star trek. Name a favorite sci-fi franchise "What is built, endures, and what is loved, endures. And Babylon 5... Babylon 5 endures"

No star wars, no star trek. name a favourite sci-fi franchise. “The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an indispensable companion to all those who are keen to make sense of life in an infinitely complex and confusing Universe . . .

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Making @bsky.app billionaire proof means making real commitments to community - that's why, today, we're open sourcing our core engine for algorithmic matching. This is a work in progress, but we wanted to get it out as quickly as possible - and if you're a dev, and want to work with it, DM us!

github.comGitHub - graze-social/grazer: Graze Core Algorithm EngineGraze Core Algorithm Engine. Contribute to graze-social/grazer development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Samples from asteroid Bennu contain A, G, C, T & U nucleotide bases, and 14 of 20 amino acids used by life—but while we use only left-handed versions of these molecules, Bennu has equal L/R, puncturing theories that the Earthly bias was due to initial cosmic seeding. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.comAsteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomedSamples from Bennu contain the chemical building blocks of life — but with a twist.