Jerri Muskrat Khan

What a great video. I never saw this one before. 1960 Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra singing each other’s songs.

@NamelessSoul11 Since you asked I can get some in later :)

@JerriMuskRat Huskies too????

Finally I'm on Fanvue! fanvue.com/jerrikhan

Right now, 250,000 miles from Earth, an astronaut is filming the Moon’s far side on the same phone in your pocket. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman approved latest-model iPhones for Artemis II in February, the first time personal smartphones have been permitted on a deep-space mission. Within hours of reaching orbit, crew videos surfaced showing Christina Koch filming Victor Glover while iPhones tumbled through the cabin in zero gravity. Standard consumer hardware. No radiation hardening. No custom chips. The same device you use to check the weather is operating beyond the Van Allen belts where cosmic rays flip transistor states at random and no cell tower exists within a quarter million miles. NASA qualified the phones through radiation characterization, EMI testing, and thermal vacuum screening. They run in airplane mode. All communication routes through Orion’s Deep Space Network and laser links. The iPhones are cameras, not communicators. But that distinction contains the entire future of human spaceflight. Consider the economics of what is happening. The SLS rocket carrying these phones cost $4.1 billion. That figure comes directly from NASA’s Inspector General, who called it “unsustainable.” The rocket is fully expendable. Every RS-25 engine, every solid booster, every tank is destroyed on a single use. The phone floating inside it costs roughly $1,200 and contains more computing power than every machine used during the Apollo program combined. A $1,200 consumer device just proved it can function in deep space without modification beyond a qualification test. A $4.1 billion launch vehicle proved it cannot come back. This is the inflection point nobody is naming. When Isaacman announced the policy change, he framed it as crew morale. Personal photos. That framing undersells what happened by several orders of magnitude. NASA just demonstrated that consumer-grade silicon, optics, and sensors designed for terrestrial mass markets can survive translunar flight. The qualification barrier between Earth electronics and space electronics collapsed for an entire hardware category in a single policy decision backed by a ten-day live experiment. The reason this matters is Terafab. Musk announced on March 21 that 80% of Terafab’s planned chip output targets orbit. The D3 chip being designed for those satellites runs hotter than terrestrial processors to exploit vacuum radiative cooling. The design philosophy starts from the same premise Artemis II just validated: you do not need to redesign consumer electronics from scratch for space. You characterize their behavior under radiation and thermal extremes, design around the failure modes, and accept that cosmic-ray flux is survivable for silicon never intended for it. The iPhone floating in Orion right now is the proof of concept for every AI satellite Terafab will ever build. Not because the chips are identical. Because the philosophy is identical. Test it, characterize it, fly it. Skip the decade of bespoke radiation-hardened redesign that made space electronics cost a thousand times their terrestrial equivalents. Apollo gave us Hasselblad photos that defined a generation. Artemis II will give us iPhone videos from the lunar far side shot on hardware you can buy at any Apple Store. The $1,200 phone that survived deep space just told the $4.1 billion rocket it rode on that the future belongs to consumer-grade hardware launched on reusable vehicles at a fraction of the cost. The qualification wall just fell. Everything that follows moves faster. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Evening 3DX anoraks

If schedule holds, these 3 giant rockets will launch in the next 3 weeks. From left to right: New Glenn - satellite launch now, planned for the Moon Starship - test flight 12 now, planned for the Moon Artemis - to the Moon and back with 4 crew aboard Pushing the very edge of our capability as we learn how to more safely & cheaply reach space, to explore all that exists beyond. @nasa @SpaceX @blueorigin

I've waited my entire life to do this and now we can. Also Sprach Zarathustra, 3DX.

OK, 3DXers - we now have the ability to make the 3DX movie. Who's with me? Plotlines please :)

Fred Astaire once said that Rita Hayworth was his favourite dance partner. You can see why..

@Chats1 @Substack @WomensInstitute The term "key man" was also used in NATO Gladio networks in the Cold War. Each organisation would have two, one for ops, one for intelligence, I seem to recall!

Read my latest @Substack post on the amazing story of how teens, members of the @WomensInstitute & doctors came together to form a resistance grp, ready to take on the Germans had they invaded & occupied the UK during #ww2 #Yorkshire thesecretnetworks.Substack.com

@Chats1 @Substack @WomensInstitute thesilentnetworks.substack.com/p/piecing-toge…

@Chats1 @Substack @WomensInstitute *gets maps out*

@drhingram When your imaginary pirate leaves you.

@JerriMuskRat That’s it! 🏴‍☠️👻

I need to find something absolutely mental to marry. Might have an affair with my local pub and see how that works out.

@drhingram She probably thought she'd ordered Johnny Depp

@JerriMuskRat I remember the ghost of a pirate..?

🚨Banned - Pot Noodle “The Slag Of All Snacks” 2002