motd - 02/##/2025 ----------------- 03/29/2025 Alkanes on Mars: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/alkanes-mars @13:20 03/24/2025 Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus: https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/03/scientists-just-found-a-fossil-that-doesnt-belong-to-any-known-life-form-what-is-it/ "Between 420 and 375 million years ago, during the Silurian and Devonian periods, Prototaxites dominated prehistoric landscapes. ... [They were] large, multicellular structures composed of various types of tubes, [that] contain[ed] complex biopolymers resembling lignin, and fe[d] on decaying organic matter. These three characteristics are not known to occur together in any modern life form." @00:01 03/23/2025 Towards a thorium nuclear clock: https://phys.org/news/2025-03-dialing-temperature-precise-nuclear-timekeeping.html @13:22 03/03/2025 Artificial lonsdaleite (hexagonal diamond): https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-create-lab-grown-diamond-even-harder-than-natural @23:57 03/03/2025 New desktop pictures from Basic Apple Guy: Mountains beyond Mountains: https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/mountains-beyond-mountains Ultramarine Haze / Violet Flare: https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/ultramarine-haze @23:53 03/02/2025 Kadomaru desktop pictures: https://lmnt.me/blog/wallpapers/kadomaru.html Kagome, in particular, looks quite nice. @23:07 03/02/2025 Testing the longevity of vinyl records: https://www.headphonesty.com/2025/02/many-plays-take-destroy-vinyl-record/ @01:44 03/02/2025 Leap years for Mars: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/02/28/martian-leap-years/ @01:33 03/01/2025 The orbits of Earth and Mars compared: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/02/28/a-calendar-for-mars/ @23:42 Older ----- 02/##/2025 https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2025/02/motd.txt https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2025/02/index.html 01/##/2025 https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2025/01/motd.txt https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2025/01/index.html ##/##/2024 https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2024/motd.txt https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2024/index.html ##/##/2023 https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/motd.txt https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/index.html ##/##/2022 https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/motd.txt https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/index.html Links ----- Text: https://srirangav.github.io/motd/motd.txt HTML: https://srirangav.github.io/motd/index.html RSS: https://srirangav.github.io/motd/rss.xml Validation -------------- HTML: https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fsrirangav.github.io%2Fmotd%2Findex.html RSS: https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A//srirangav.github.io/motd/rss.xml