Ownership of Remotely has been transferred.
Hello, all.

For those who aren't already aware, I wanted to officially let you know that ownership of Remotely has been transferred to Immense Networks. They are now maintaining the GitHub repo and the public server.

You can find more info on Immense here: https://github.com/immense

In case you're wondering why this happened, it was due to the two issues I've always had with this project: time and money. As the project grew in size and popularity, the requests for features, fixes, and support grew with it. But the amount of money coming in from sponsorships did not.

Ultimately, without a revenue stream that would allow me to work on Remotely full-time, the project was unsustainable. Once it gained some popularity, it became a second job, one that paid mere cents an hour. I simply don't have time or energy to keep up with it anymore. That energy needs to be redirected into my family and the job that pays the bills.

Thank you to everyone who helped, encouraged, and contributed. Your support was what kept me going this far.

Take care, and best wishes!

• Jared

Under the current limits, set by NASA in 1989, the effective dose limit for an astronaut's career is based on a maximum 3% lifetime excess risk of cancer mortality. That risk is evaluated with a sliding scale based on age and sex, ranging from a lower career limit of 180 millisieverts (mSv) of radiation for a 30-year-old woman to an upper career limit of 700 mSv for a 60-year-old man.

So why is there a lower career limit for radiation exposure for female astronauts than for male astronauts?

According to R. Julian Preston, a special government employee with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Radiation Protection division, NASA's lower radiation threshold for female astronauts was based on the following finding: When women and men were exposed to high levels of radiation for similar periods of time, women had more than twice the risk that men did of developing lung cancer. //

"It has been generally considered — based largely on the survivors from the atomic bombs in Japan — that, particularly for lung cancer, that women were more sensitive" to ionizing radiation than men were, Preston, who serves on committees for the National Council on Radiological Protection and Measurements, told Live Science. //

However, NASA's radiation thresholds are expected to change in the near future. In 2021, NASA asked a panel of experts convened by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to assess the space agency's plan to change its career radiation limit to 600 mSv for all astronauts of all ages. NASA determined that limit by applying the agency's cancer risk model to the most susceptible individuals: early-career women. NASA calculated the average risk of exposure-induced death for this group and converted that risk, which allows for a much larger margin of error than previously, to a dose. That 600-mSv dose translates to the exposure an astronaut would receive during four six-month expeditions on the ISS. For comparison, the average annual dose of radiation received by a person on Earth is about 3.6 mSv, according to NASA, versus 300 mSv per year on the ISS.

The Crew That Found Shackleton’s ‘Endurance’ Wasn’t Just Looking for a Sunken Ship
The team behind the shipwreck’s discovery sought more than just a shipwreck

Abigail Barronian
Mar 18, 2022

In January 1915, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, became icebound in the Antarctic. What happened next would become legend: Shackleton and his crew watched their ship slowly sink, survived a year and a half stranded on the ice, and eventually secured their own rescue with an 800-mile journey in an open lifeboat. Every member of the 28-man team survived.

Now, 106 years later, the wreck has been found, in remarkable condition, at a depth of nearly 10,000 feet in the Weddell Sea. An expedition team from the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust led by polar geographer John Shears located the wreck using an underwater autonomous vehicle on March 5, after a month at sea. They announced the discovery to the world four days later.

The mission to locate Endurance had other goals—ones that focused on environmental dynamics and scientific research that Shackleton and his men likely could have never envisioned a century ago. The crew spent nearly six weeks off the coast of Antarctica aboard the South African icebreaking polar research vessel Agulhas II, during which time scientists and researchers conducted studies on a wide range of topics, including maritime navigation and how the changing climate has affected ice levels around Antarctica.

“A lot of these snow and ice properties we measure here are needed to learn about the structure of the ice and snow in the Weddell Sea,” says Lasse Rabenstein, the expedition’s chief scientist. “It’s a complicated and special one, more complicated than other parts of the Antarctic or Arctic.”

If you lack a shortwave radio and a dig around all your family’s junk hasn’t turned up a relic from decades past, then the simplest way to get one is of course to buy one. AliExpress is full of “world band” radios starting from somewhere under $20, and if you don’t mind waiting for shipping from China then it’s the path of least resistance.

But there’s the problem, international events are moving fast and there might not be the luxury of waiting three weeks, or even for that matter of being able to order one at all in a warzone. How can you make one? //

geocrasher says:
March 17, 2022 at 8:56 am
If anybody would like to build a Direct Conversion receiver from scratch, I have documented a design and build on my site. It covers the theory of operation as well as construction techniques, and uses the si5351a as an oscillator with an Arduino for control. Has to be heard to be appreciated :)

https://miscdotgeek.com/building-direct-conversion-receiver-part-1/

http://websdr.org/

Belarus’ army is 20,000 men and not trained to the exacting standards of the Russian Army. It would be mauled by Ukraine Territorial Defense Forces and have a minimal impact on the war.

The real effect of Belarus joining the fight would be an expansion of the conflict that would be unlikely to remain limited to Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.