Snap Blocks
I was looking for something relating to the snap package on Debian, but happened up on another programming tool using blocks. So am sharing.
Snap is produced by the University of Berkley in California, and allows you to create code using blocks, but at the same time displaying corresponding Python 3 code. As with Scratch everything is stored in the cloud.
Something to take a look at during code club at some point.
More information can be found in the links below.
Visually create, save, and share projects, in the cloud, with Snap!, a blocks-based programming language. Brought to you by
UCBerkeley,
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#Snap,#Coding,#Blocks,#Python,#Education,#CodeClub,
#PaigntonLibrarySTEMGroup
Sending life to the stars
Reposting with an update
Interesting article from Science daily on Sending life to the stars. Looks like we are getting closer to being able to propel objects to near to the speed of light.
Granted this research they are looking at 20-30% but this is a big step forward.
Original Mastodon post
Happy do discuss on Mastodon, Discourse or at the Paignton Library STEM Group meetings.
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#Space,#Travel,#ScienceDaily,#PaigntonLibrarySTEMGroup
Citation
University of California - Santa Barbara. "Sending life to the stars: Scientists contemplate launching tiny lifeforms into interstellar space." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 6 January 2022. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/01/220106133257.htm>.
Related (or seems to be) article from Biorxiv – Nematodes can survive in a suspended form of life for indefinite time
Lots of life which can survive in very harsh conditions.