Cool picture from our cleanrooms for extraterrestrial materials at JAXA! Regular pencils and paper create too much dust, so the team use tablets or special shed-free "clean paper". Videos (which are often shared on their twitter @jaxa_curation) are taken with head cameras 📷 (credit: JAXA)
In wilder discoveries of recent days, I found out that the Paris Fashion Week did a photoshoot on the "Space Exploration Field" at our JAXA campus, which is a 400-square-meter simulated lunar terrain used for testing exploration robots!
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I’ve been at work all day and am still not back home yet. Casper is horrified by how downhill this place has gone. A poor yelp rating is coming my way.
Japan has tanuki (raccoon dogs) that are decked out in the same burglar gear, but with dog-like paws. This… was the work of dexterous toes. And don’t they know it. I’d previously (but rarely) seen a solidarity raccoon on the balcony but never two: I had thought they were somewhat rare.
Not a catastrophe but a coon-astrophe! (See what I did there? It was epic.) Racoons are an invasive species in Japan, brought over in the 1970s by addicts to the anime, Rascal the Racoon: a story (both anime and reality) that ends with how raccoons cannot be kept as pets 🤦🏼♀️
People. Shocking news from the balcony cat cam this morn! I casually checked the images on the train to work (having apparently not looked out the window the whole time I was getting up) to find a scene of destruction! Casper the stray cat is looking scandalised! BUT WAS HE ALSO THE CULPRIT?
What we (really don’t) know about habitable exoplanets, the search for how our own life began on Earth, a how-to for not dusting asteroid grains when going through airport security AND my favourite exoplanet. A very fun chat with the Royal Institution ✨🔭🛰️🧪
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Podcast mercifully now fixed! You can now hear about my favourite space rocks and how in fact how NOT to destroy these going through airport security!
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Also, some of the tech coming down the VR-pipeline would be great as an AR overlay, such as face recognition (I am really terrible at that! I do better with voices) and automatic transcription and translation would be game changing for communication.
I actually like the idea of AR glasses, and the look doesn't bother me 🤷 I don't think the tech is *quite* there yet, but the idea of replacing my computer display with glasses, where I can change the size, number etc of screens to suit my current use and location it powerful.