In hindsight, as a 1980's kid "walking the marble" probably was never a good idea to begin with. Would feel strange not to have those lights, but if it allows higher throughputs, I'm all for it.
Aden YGiving up the flashing circular platform edge lights for platform screen doors is not something I had considered. RIP
The parking lot where I learned how to both ride a bike and drive a car could soon be mixed use housing next to three rail lines and the intersection of major multi-use path and local "bike beltway"
RAIL MagazineWho’s gonna be the first to capture a train on all 6 tracks of this corridor outside of Silver Spring? Tracks left to right are: 1) CSX/MARC/AMTK🚆 2) Metro Red Line🔴 3) Metro Red Line🔴 4) CSX/MARC/AMTK🚆 5) MTA Purple Line🟣 6) MTA Purple Line🟣
You got your pyrocene in my anthropocene! You got your anthropocene in my pyrocene!
Reeses Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups OopsAlt: Two people colliding and mixing chocolate and peanut butter.
Reeses Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups 1981 commercial .. two great tastes that go great together.static.klipy.comClimatologist49Welcome to the Anthropocene. 😷
Climate change being mitigated until there aren't enough forests left to burn is not the termination shock we were promised but without change might be the termination shock we deserve.
Richard WaiteI’m at the heatwave. I’m at the wildfire smoke event. I’m at the combination heatwave and wildfire smoke event
You want a diagram of the bad idea nuclear turbojet rocket? The article has a diagram of the bad idea nuclear turbojet rocket.
Geoff BrumfielEXLCUSIVE: An analysis by two MIT researchers shows how Russia's nuclear-powered cruise missile actually works. And guys, it's not pretty. 🚀☢️🤢🧵 www.npr.org/2026/06/18/n...
"We are going to draw on the Well of Conservatism to downgrade this safety control" "Has anyone else already drawn on this well? Did they document it?" "I don't know" "Is the conservatism there because of uncertainty?" "Uh, yes" "Did you do the work to reduce uncertainty?" "Umm, no"
Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton)Because @jfoy.bsky.social asked for it, it is time for Linear-No Threshold (LNT) Hypothesis & As Low As Reasonably Acheivable (ALARA) chat. One is a philosophy and the other is a model operating within that philosophy.