Patrick McGovern

@planetpatman

Planetary Scientist, Husband, and Father. Was hockey player, now sedentary blimp. Board/strategy gamer with minimal playtime. Tsundoku Master. Opinions are mine alone.

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Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· 1d

This just in: Renegades walk off HR!

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· 1d

Probably better than the Prize Pack I won for playing Baseball Bingo™️ at tonight’s Hudson Valley Renegades game. It includes a classic version Renegades cap covered with the autographs of future Yankee stars*! *Probably at least one.

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· 5d

#LGBD #LGM

Set of posts by a dark-helmeted red panda, including a picture of a list that includes the immortal Bobson Dugnutt.

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· 6d

Nice! @jtkantor.bsky.social

An epic baseball game box score, with accompanying text:
“That game was un-fucking-believable, Also, the Red Sox have just won 31 of 36 for the first time in the team's 126-year history, and I'm commemorating the occasion by playing Peabo Bryson & Roberta Flack's "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love For You."”

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· 18d

Found it, and it’s in rough shape. 😟 It’s part of the vintage-oriented “Cooperstown Collection”, and I think part of the problem is that they also used vintage hat construction techniques and materials! It hasn’t held together like more modern hats do.

On the right, a beaten-up baseball cap with a deformed blue brim and white main cap with thin blue vertical stripes and a capital “B” in an old-timey font. On the right and further back, a TV screen with a baseball player wearing a blue uniform with white script and red numbers on it, and a blue-brimmed white hat with numerous vertical thin blue stripes and in front a blue-outlined baseball diamond enclosing a stylized blue letter “B”.

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· 24d

Alright! I’ve got my iced tea in my [redacted fast food franchise] Lamine Yamal World Cup Meal souvenir cup, and I’m ready to watch Spain win the World Championship!

Plastic cup covered with smiling man with brown skin and blond hair in foreground, fuzzy TV image (of same guy) in background.

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· Jul 3

Happy Victory over Oppression and Treason Day to all who celebrate! #July3rd #Gettysburg #Vicksburg #TheGettysburgFlag

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· Jul 1

‘Tis the season… …to put down Treason! #GettysburgExtended

Three military men in 19th-century-style dark blue coats with multiple columns of brass buttons, and all wearing blue forage caps. The tallest man, in the center foreground, bears a formidable light brown mustache and an alert, determined expression. A shorter man to the left appears to be an assistant to the first. A third man in the background to the right stands at attention, shouldering a rifle. Several whitish tents are seen in the background.

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· Jun 26

Here to enact the Triumph of Hope over Reason (baseball) and the Triumph of Love over Hate (real life) because someone’s got to do it! I’m here with son @josephmcgovern845.bsky.social and sister Mary at Citi Field for the New York Mets’ Pride Night.

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· Jun 21

The strong pro-Union, anti-oppression vibe that’s been building up, both inside me and sensed from the (blue?) aether has me wanting to share some recent (mostly) activity on my gaming table. FYI: #Gettysburg season is nearly upon us!

A map of wooded and rocky hills rendered into a hexagonal grid, with several blue & green cardboard pieces on one hill and several gray pieces on another. Several dice appear to enclose the region containing the pieces.

A map depicting roads, woods, orchards, and farm buildings, with several shades of beige/tan reflecting elevation and a superposed hexagonal grid. On the map are numerous cardboard game pieces apparently representing military units, leaders, and game functions.

A board consisting of depictions of wooded, hilly terrain, with blue squiggly lines and straight black lines defining a hexagonal grid. Numerous blue, gray, and white cardboard game pieces cover the map.

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· Jun 7

So get this: A few minutes ago I bought tickets for two baseball teams' Pride Nights (Hudson Valley Renegades and New York Mets), and then immediately afterward this appears in our backyard! 🌈🏳️‍🌈⚾

A branch of a bright rainbow oriented from lower left to upper right, with leafy trees in the lower right foreground and a bare-ish branch in the upper foreground.

A branch of a bright rainbow oriented upper center to lower right, framed by leafy trees.

A backyard scene with a wire fence, lawn, shed and trees in the lower part, and a broad rainbow visible through gaps in the foliage in the upper part.

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· May 29

My counterpart in the MCU was constantly fishing metallic versions of these out of the wind tunnel my Junior Year (84-85).

Three shiny red and gold action figures standing on a wooden table.

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· May 23

One more...

Starship Enterprise-D orbiting a blueish cloudy planet with title in blue letters "Darmok and Jalad at Studio 54".

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· May 23

Alright, this one's much better, and fitting for our times.

A starship pointed towards the lower left corner with a starry background, superposed by yellow/reddish letters repeating the phrase "MAKE IT STOP" all the way down the screen.

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· May 23

Using Finite Element models of lithospheric flexure subject to loading from the volcanoes that compose the island of Hawai'i, I showed that the depths and focal mechanisms of the 2006 earthquakes corresponded to highest-stress regions in the flexed lithosphere.

Two graphs showing stress magnitudes on the horizontal axis and depth below sea level on the vertical axis. Black, red, and blue lines cut diagonally across the plots, with greatest leftward extent on the top and greatest rightward extent on the bottom. These stress maxima correspond to purple and pink bars labeled "Mahukona" and "Kiholo Bay", respectively. This is Figure 3 from McGovern, 2007 in GRL.

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· May 23

First, the "Kiholo Bay" event at 7:06 AM local time, Mag. 6.7, depth 39 km, and "normal" fault focal mechanism, followed 6 minutes later by the "Mahukona" event with Mag. 6.0, depth 19 km, and a "reverse" focal mechanism.

Map of a tan-yellow island with topographic contours showing several peaks ("Kohala", "Hualalai", surrounded by light to dark blue regions representing the ocean. Dashed and solid lines cut across the northwest section of the island, and two seismic "beachball" signals labeled "Kiholo Bay" and "Mahukona" lie just off the northwestern shore. This is Figure 1 from McGovern 2007 in GRL.

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· May 23

Alright, I'm game!

A still from an animated view of a desolate planet in the right foreground and a galaxy scene in the background, with the phrase "HE WHO SMELT IT" in large yellow letters in the upper right and "WRITTEN BY HARLAN SMELLISON" at the bottom.

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· May 21

Anywaaaay, you've prodded me into making this meme instance I've been pondering for a long time... (My productivity does not thank you).

The Drake Meme, with "Saxons, 6th Century to 1806" upper and "Saxons, 1807 to 1813" lower.

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· May 21

godDAMMIT, I'm here all working nicely, starting to get some flow on work tasks, and y'all go posting all this stuff HYPER-RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS!! Anyways...

A distinguished-looking, confident rider in 19th Century elite military apparel, atop a white horse. The rider is extending his arm, with pointed fingers, to his right, while the words "Don't Call It a Comeback!" apper to his left.

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· May 12

This oughta be real good…

Bardavon (Poughkeepsie) Theater Marquee showing a lineup including tonight’s act, Joe Jackson!

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· May 7

I’ve seen that movie!

Man with grotesque scars over his eyes and face, and a broad evil grin.

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· May 6

Alright, I may distribute this to the #VeSCoor membership! #VenusProgram

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· May 5

I have some questions for the NASA Robotics team... bsky.app/profile/kevi...

Scary dull-red-armored robot with bright red glowing visor-like eyes menaces a much shorter and cuter robot.

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· May 5

Wait a minute...😳

Scary looking robot with dull red armor and glowing bright red visor-like eyes on a truncated conical head.

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· May 5

Alright, now I'm cooking! 👨‍🍳🔥🍔

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· May 5

I got nothing...

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· Apr 30

Alright, y’all behaved (mostly), so here’s the report from Citi Field , where @josephmcgovern845.bsky.social and I will rage against the apparent deep structure of the universe by rooting for @mets.com to defeat the Washington Natinals <old joke> and start digging themselves out of MLB’s basement.

The exterior of a neo-classic (in the baseball sense) ballpark, Citi Field.

Two baseball fanatics ready to defy the universe, dressed in “City Connect” apparel, where that city is NYC and the connection is with the New York Mets

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· Apr 30

Here's a screenshot of my pinned tweet from the long-ago-abandoned hellsite. Please just let me do my work, person who studies galaxies and stars who just wrote a popular press screed calling me irrational and weepy for JUST DOING MY JOB!

My twitter homepage with the Pinned Tweet: "I really wish scientists from other disciplines would stop telling me how I should go about my business, and especially stop imputing irrationality to my informed and credentialed rejection of their overreach. #subtweet"

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· Apr 29

"CRAH-tons".

Distinguished looking dark-haired man in a blue suit earnestly providing important pronunciation guidance to a person whose only visible presence is via pair of clasped hands in front of an inclined tablet (with keyboard).

Patrick McGovern@planetpatman· Apr 28

This Vannevar Bush quote from a 1955 report (cited in the excellent article reposted below) is so sadly prescient.