Collin Secor

[Kyle Brittain @BadWeatherKyle]

"Just put the fires out!"

Ever seen a boreal wildfire? I have. I used to fight them.

When fire behaviour becomes extreme, you're not getting close to them.

The radiant heat from a crown fire is face-melting from hundreds of metres away.

All attempts at direct attack will fail, because dropping water on it becomes akin to trying to spit on a campfire...it evaporates before it even hits the flames.

Additionally, reduced visibility, high winds, and turbulence makes aerial attack hazardous.

As a wildland firefighter, I've been extracted off of wildfires twice as our fires blew up, both times having our gear burned over. We returned to find firehoses and metal melted into the ash.

I've seen fireballs launched hundreds of feet high, and fires intense enough to produce lightning, influencing the weather around them. I've seen wildfires grow to the size of a major city in a short period of time.

So no, we can't just put the fire out.

Not being able to stop such a natural process is a truly humbling feeling.

[Elisa @eeelistar]

Nuno Loureiro was assassinated yesterday

He was a professor + the director of MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

> 47 years old
> Studied nuclear fusion (= energy source of the Sun + stars) for 10 years at MIT
> His award-winning work focused on creating a virtually limitless, clean energy source on Earth - one that doesn’t produce carbon or radioactive waste (usual biproduct of fission reactors)
> His research was essentially a threat to companies in the energy sector (fossil fuels, wind, solar, etc)
> Nuno was vital to the development of fusion nuclear power plants, without him the path ahead is less clear + his death will set back the entire field

Nuno is not the first MIT fusion scientist to be brutally murdered, in 2004 Eugene Mallove was also shot in his home

I hope this opens eyes – there is an agenda at play

[MyRadar Weather @MyRadarWX]

LOOK AT THESE! You've probably never heard of "mesovortices," but the eyes of major/intensifying hurricanes, like Category 5 Melissa, actually contain addition, smaller whirls a few miles across.

Mesovortices are a few miles across; they form as a way to balance an extreme discontinuity in angular momentum. In the buzzsaw-like eyewall – that ring of winds spiraling around the eye – there's an incredible amount of extreme wind and "angular momentum." But in the eye, there's hardly any – the air is calm.

That means the eyewall "chafes" against the calm eye. Since the atmosphere is a fluid, that chafing pinches off into eddies and vortices.

Think about when you're kayaking or canoeing through a pond. You might notice a few whirlpools shedding off your oar as the moving oar sweeps through the stationary water. A similar premise exists here.

In this case, the atmosphere handles the transition from the eyewall to the eye by having some of the fluid "curl back" on itself, forming 4, 5 to 6 smaller "mesovortices." This eye exhibited a "wavenumber 5" pattern, meaning there were five mesovortices.

The mesovortices often contort the inner edge of the eyewall into a wonky "sawtooth" pattern. That means that, if you stand right near the interface, you'd have about 5 minutes of "in... out... in... out" where, despite being basically in the eye, ebbs of the eyewall could still swing through and bring you a sudden, extreme gust.

Welcome to the magic of fluid dynamics in the atmosphere.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

https://t.co/Mg0oHBVoxf

[Collin Secor @collinsec_]

@NWSLaCrosse B

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

NEWS 🚨: China's artificial sun sets new record by sustaining 100-million-degree heat for 18 minutes on Earth.

[Collin Secor @collinsec_]

@CIRA_CSU @NOAASatellites Real time footage or sped up?

[Diana Dukic @diana_dukic]

This could possibly be the greatest feat of engineering in human history

[Collin Secor @collinsec_]

@NWSLaCrosse Your image is early by an hour for the forecasted front lines fyi

[Mike Posner @MikePosner]

I have found happiness lies in the balance of growth and presence.

1. I need a vision of the future that inspires me. I need goals. I need things I'm looking forward to.

AND!!!!

2. I need the ability to be deeply present. To appreciate what already is, exactly how it is. To not be in a tug of war with reality. To appreciate the goals that I set in the past that I already accomplished.

Presence without Inspiration = Stagnation
Inspiration without Presence = Anxiety

I cultivate both every day. God bless you. Keep going,

mp

[Collin Secor @collinsec_]

@IKE_Packers Wide receiver coach

[Eli Berkovits @BookOfEli_NFL]

It's Cardinals week so you had to know this was coming...

4th & 20 at his own 4 yard line and gets the #Packers into the end zone.

There will 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 be another Aaron Rodgers.

[Collin Secor @collinsec_]

@JERMS___ *all the time

[Collin Secor @collinsec_]

@broccolibouquet Run for prez

[Elle Kaiser @ElleKaiser]

Fire and ice 🔥🧊 It’s firefall week in Yosemite - an annual reminder of just how amazing and mysterious our planet really is.

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Giant Sequoias with human for scale.

via everchanginghorizon/IG https://t.co/8tFDJpxOmF

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@flcnhvy That free fusion reactor in the sky conveniently converts ~4 million tons of mass into energy every second. We just need to catch an extremely tiny amount of it to power all of civilization.

[CleanTechnica @cleantechnica]

Batteries For Dummies Like Me: Tesla’s Tabless Battery & Why It Matters https://t.co/9CZDJko86Z

[Inky Johnson @inkyjohnson]

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

View from the International Space Station.