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@AJamesMcCarthy @johnkrausphotos And it's all worth it, so you could make a home for Gregory :) For real though, your eye for stunning shots is fantastic! Love your calendars too and have to work hard to keep my son from stealing my stickers of Gregory harassing the planets.

This photo has a very personal meaning for me if you care to read it. I saw a photo from @johnkrausphotos on reddit nearly a decade ago of the engines on a Falcon Heavy launch. I was working at a tough sales job at the time. The shot inspired me to learn more about space and spaceflight. Shortly after, I bought my first telescope. I saw Jupiter, Saturn, and Nebulae, and started social media accounts where I shared my amateur photos. Then I was laid off, and Covid happened. Moved from Sacramento to Arizona for clearer skies, cheaper cost of living, and a chance to go all-in on space photography. My audience started to grow. Then, NASA contacted me, asking me if they could use some of my moon photos for something called Artemis. I said yes. During the Artemis I rollout my DMs blew up “Andrew- your photo is on the Mobile Launch Platform!”. Now I knew that astrophotography wasn’t enough… I should probably pay attention to spaceflight. I spent a lot coming out to the first launch attempt, which would be my first rocket launch if it flew. Sadly, it was a scrub. I came home from Florida, sharing my stories of touring the VAB and facilities with my grandfather, who worked on Apollo. He passed shortly after, which affected my ability to return to watch the SLS flew. Feeling bummed out, I focused back on my deep sky work, but then I started hearing about something called “Starship”. I caught a video from @Erdayastronaut where a rocket ship fell through the air belly-first and flipped upright and landed. Inspired, I knew I had to witness one of these machines fly, so I flew to Starbase the moment I could afford it, which was for the second fully integrated flight test. The moment Starship lifted off the pad, I was hooked. There was nothing quite like the experience. I did everything I could to catch every launch I could, and worked to become credentialed media to get better access. Last year I flew from Arizona to Florida & Texas over a dozen times specifically to sharpen my launch photography skills with our first human spaceflight to the moon in over 50 years looming. A decade of preparation for a split second moment. When I picked up my camera from the launch pad yesterday morning and peeked at what was captured, I knew it was all worth it. Thank you, NASA, Artemis, and the all people who inspired me along the way. This is still only the beginning.

@AnEriksenWife @ItsMeElisaLou Or nuke the moon to intimidate them into submission, a la @IMAO_

@ItsMeElisaLou The lesson is to nuke Canada, so that in 80 years time we can finally be friends

USA: Makes a joke about Pearl Harbor Japanese: Lol. That was a good one. USA: Makes a joke about the moon. Canadians: HOW DARE YOU?!?!

🚨HOLY CRAP!!! The Charlotte NC judge who gave a $20k bond to a man who was CAUGHT ON CAMERA revving his car, smashing into, and k*lling an 8-year-old little girl who was riding her bike... ...IS A DEMOCRAT JUDGE WITH PRIOR CHARGES HIMSELF FOR FALSIFYING LEGAL DOCUMENTS!!!! He served only 90 days of unsupervised probation and kept his job as a judge. This. Is. Insanity.

I had an 82 Trans Am with the driver facing hood scoop, I took the little metal plate out so it could breathe lol. Anyway saw flames start licking up, fuel line rotted out. Good old manual injector stops when the engine does, and doesn't have much pressure. I was able to blow it out on the side of the road heh.

@scottastronaut Best fix that before that manifold gets hot enough to ignite that fuel. Speaking from experience here.

Well I think I found where that gas smell is coming from.

@monsterhunter45 @jmgwritten No, no. I need to hear from a literary critic what you meant, I can't trust your own words about your own reasoning. Probably a lot of hidden meanings in there, like "Communism is good actually".

@jmgwritten You are so profoundly wrong. Very specifically, every fantasy race I took from Europe, I set them up here as IMMIGRANT GROUPS. And note that all of them adapted in different ways. That was exactly American, by design, on purpose. And I say that as the dude who wrote it.

@Grummz Being single player I think is the great strength here. It's not "OMG I'm going to fall behind if I don't put in 3 hours a day" nonsense that everything has become.

Crimson Desert is entering a strong weekend with 206k players. Imagine how much more it would have been if Game Journalists hadn't tried to kill it. I have about 30 hours into Crimson Desert and it's probably one of my all time favs. Wish I had more time to play.

@DJSnM Huh, I'm a reasonably proficient space nerd and hadn't heard the term "sodium layer" before. @grok what is that?

This looks like it's a daytime shot, but, it's actually taken from the dark side of Earth, with the planet illuminated by moonlight. This lets faint details like the aurora, stars and the sodium layer show up without over exposing the planet.

@harukaawake Perfect usage, no notes

🇯🇵 I recently learnt the word "cringe" in English. When I think of this word, I think of our political party Reiwa Shinsengumi. They argue for more Islamic immigration, trans rights and everything else you'd expect. They currently have 1 seat in the government.

@kniborg @KirkLubimov It's the same sociopaths with more power!

@KirkLubimov Straight from Hayek's road to serfdom. If you want big gov b/c you don't like the sociopaths running big corporations, just wait until you centralize the power into a single source (gov), and discover who gravitates there and ends up on top.

This is the best part from Pierre Poilievre appearance on the Diary of a CEO podcast; "Those who push a socialist ideology have a gross contradiction in their view of human nature. They say that human beings are wretched, self-interested, greedy when they’re in the private voluntary economy, but they’re angels when they’re in the governmental economy. They argue that the government should just control everything because then we have all these angels that will decide for us." 🎯

@conflict_desk @kniborg @KirkLubimov Whoosh so loud it almost took my head off.

@kniborg @KirkLubimov (1/2) Don’t fool yourself thinking government centralization is a moral corrective it’s a breeding ground for the very same traits you despised in corporations, just dressed in bureaucratic robes.

@combatmedic I'm an outlier that prefers Coke Zero over coffee in the morning.

愉快で充実した朝食論争を楽しんでいるのだが、アメリカ人は、朝はコーヒー派が多いらしい。今の所、炭酸飲料派は観測出来ていない。

@markusdd5 I appreciate you posting this, because the linked post's comments show me that Germans are fantastic shitposters.

Finds übrigens bis heute komödiantisch, dass sich Leute wegen "brENnenDeN E-AuToS" nicht mehr einkriegen, wo der Akku im Unterboden mit dicken Stahl- oder Titanverstärkungen geschützt wird, während sie zeitgleich 50l hochbrennbare Flüssigkeit in einem dünnwandigen Container an 3 oder 4 Blechstreifen hängend durch die Gegend fahren. Es war mir immer schon ein Rätsel warum das so eigentlich erlaubt ist. Neulich erst in Thüringen 3(!!!) Stunden im Stau gestanden weils einem LKW durch einen Gegenstand auf der Fahrbahn den einfach frei hängenden Tank aufgerissen hat und er so ne halbe Tonne Diesel auf Fahrbahn und in der Prärie verteilt hat. Die argumentativen Maßstäbe sind so hart verschoben es ist mal krass.

@PhotonEmpress Yet another advantage of a rapid launch cadence enabled by reusable hardware. People running Artemis don't get any practice beforehand!

I don't think there is anyone on the planet who has done more live rocket broadcasts than me. I literally have done *hundreds* of them over the last 18 years. And some of the largest launch broadcasts on the planet too! I say this not to brag, but to convey a level of expertise in launch broadcasts that I think few, if any, can beat. Ok, maybe brag a little 👸 I know a lot of people were not super happy with NASA's coverage, specifically at liftoff. But man, let me tell you... As someone who has done hundreds of these... IT IS FREAKING HARD! I have personally had bad liftoff sequences too. It happens. And it sucks. And I hated it when I did that. To me. And to you. It is hard to convey just how complex liftoff is during a broadcast. It is a moment in time where nearly every view is available, but very few are viable. You never truly know which ones will be viable either, so it's a guessing game and a bit of luck. You have to scan through to find the shots that work, but you only have *seconds* to do this. Seconds. I have learned over the years that a technical director (vision mixer) needs an A and B plan for liftoff. Generally engines -> pass through -> medium -> wide -> super wide -> track scope -> track spot for the A plan. The B plan is usually far easier with engines -> wide -> super wide -> track scope. The switcher control surface needs to be set up to execute these plans extremely quickly. And even if you do all of this, a gust of wind blowing smoke the wrong way can foil the best of plans. It. Is. Hard. I hear ya all, but let's cut NASA some slack here. They have amazing people working the launch. They have many people they need to support in their broadcast including the media, schools, NASA employees, government officials, and the public. It is like getting pulled in a billion different ways all at once. Was liftoff coverage epic? No. I mean, it just wasn't. Will they learn from this and make Artemis III better? I believe they will. I know the people working these things, and they are great. Don't let one launch paint a bad picture here. There is enough space for everyone. If you didn't like NASA's coverage, then @NASASpaceflight, @TLPN_Official, @Erdayastronaut, @SpaceflightNow and more had other, amazing options that may suit your tastes better. We live in a time where you have incredible options. It's awesome and exciting. Oh, and WE HAVE FOUR HUMANS GOING TO THE MOON RIGHT NOW! Lets be excited about that instead!

@pipitaqueens @iranidaturan Protests only work when the regime cares about you, or is afraid of you. Neither apply here, direct action I think will be necessary 😬 But also doesn't seem like it will happen.

@Rob4766 @iranidaturan Iranians have no weapons and get killed on mass if they protest.

It’s day 33 of the war, and my hometown is still being heavily bombed. Iranians are only now, with great difficulty, realizing that for all these years, they have essentially been living inside a massive military base the size of a country. They’re finally understanding why Iran, despite all its resources, has remained so poor: because all the money has been spent preparing the regime for its apocalyptic final war. None of this is defensive. It’s all offensive. After every strike, Israel posts reports in Persian explaining exactly what it has hit. The main reason for cutting off the internet is so that people won’t see or understand what’s really happening. Underground missile cities, bunkers built beneath residential neighborhoods, tunnels upon tunnels upon tunnels. It’s horrifying. This regime must go. #IranWar‌ #ThankYouTrump‌

@wylfcen Downside is no one new will see your posts then! Which is how I just recently started following.

@DocAtCDI It'll make "short" work of the job!

trying to put a new battery in my truck but its heavy and hard to reach so I made a battery puller today, can't wait to try it out tomorrow!

@5ducks5 Texas was its very own nation for a short period of time before joining the United States.

翻訳機能でテキサス州が大好きになった知人が「テキサスを満喫したい！今年の夏は1週間テキサスに行く！テキサスを全部回れる？」と言ってきたのでこの画像を送って「赤枠がテキサス州だ」と伝えてから返事がない。テキサスの人は良い機会なので見どころを端的に教えてほしい。広すぎる。

@Not_the_Bee They probably wanted to harvest his organs.

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