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@Xoey80239413 @LucasBotkin If you have a bad glove you can just have a spare glove right?

@LucasBotkin The soviet system with a door in the back is probably better to put on than the American style where it takes far longer to put it on in it's many parts. That said I'm sure there's other reasons we don't do it like that.

Today, I learned how spacesuits were put on. At least - the Soviet ones.

@FussuV @hoodii30 That's hilarious.

@hoodii30 Why would you need indoor plumbing when chamber pots work just fine.

What In The Fuck Would You Need This For?!?

@IanRunkle I genuinely really enjoy @WaffleHouse. All star, hashbrowns covered smothered and peppered.

I thought Waffle House had basically three kinds of customers: 1. People who are high and have the munchies. 2. Cops. 3. People who want to throw chairs at the staff.

@slut4ghostie Can confirm. Was awesome.

can’t even imagine how amazing it must had been to have read the project hail mary book before the movie came out. like going through it being announced, the trailer, the reviews and then seeing it yourself… while already being a fan. i wish i read it sooner😭

@MayraFlores4TX Not possible.

I wish Americans loved America as much as Texans love Texas.

Name a movie you've seen more than 7 times with just a GIF

@james_xond RHD standard is pretty fun to drive.

Trying to prove a point: Could you jump into a stick-shift car and drive it without a problem right now?

@GeminiApp should have a voice that sounds like a redneck.

@anthonyayers @DJSnM I think the toilet worked but the tank wouldnt empty?

@Jexthis @DJSnM Didn't Koch fix the toilet the next day?

So the capsule is recovered, the crew are flying to home. Artemis III is the next flight, ideally in spring 2027 to hit the planned 10 month cadence, and there's a lot to do: * The core booster is about to leave the factory * SRB segments are rolling into KSC * The Mobile Launch Tower Needs repairs (again) * NASA needs to either use its last ICPS, or identify substitutes (like structural test articles) * Lockheed need to deliver an Orion spacecraft ahead of schedule. * KSC needs to stack all this. * SpaceX & Blue Origin need to get HLS hardware in orbit for the test. * Axiom should deliver suits for testing. * And of course, NASA needs to select some astronauts for this test flight. In the meantime the moon will be visited by multiple landers from US providers under the CLPS program, hopefully most of them make soft landings on their legs.

@DJSnM @anthonyayers I wonder if its at all frustrating for them to have to deal with a broken toilet for 9 days and then have to spend how ever long documenting the experience.

@anthonyayers Their main job will be to document the lessons learned in operating the vehicle, everything from the 6DOF control, the toilet, photography and donning the suits.

@eIeven I had an app where I would try to catch it as often as I could. Super dope every time.

how many of yall have seen the ISS in the night sky with your own eyes? its the coolest thing ever and each time im left in so much awe that there are humans up there in the small little dot moving really fast across the sky

@Neveszzzzzz @CalimanYaro @SmunchyMaggot @showgirlmaroon Nice, like I said. I feel like a static image isnt enough. I got a smooth brain. I need moving pictures.

@Jexthis @CalimanYaro @SmunchyMaggot @showgirlmaroon They are not turning. They are coming in faster than the rotation of the planet and when they start to break earth will start to spin faster than they are moving so land will move under them

this could be a dumb question but i’m going to ask it. will i be able to see them during re-entry from melbourne or will they still be too high

@CalimanYaro @SmunchyMaggot @showgirlmaroon Also just angles. If you trace a parabolic flight at a shallow enough angle it looks sharp bit from another angle it looks gradual.

@Jexthis @SmunchyMaggot @showgirlmaroon I feel it could make sense… remember these dudes are not gently falling but totally precipitating… so I could envision an angle that on the 3D is on that side, but earth rotation and angle of attack makes it draw that sharp turn

@CalimanYaro @SmunchyMaggot @showgirlmaroon I feel like trying to extrapolate 3d data from a 2d map is just not intuitive. Is the turn after they hit air resistance?

@SmunchyMaggot @showgirlmaroon Why do they have to take that ULTRA sharp turn on that graph. Wonder if its because the merkator projection?

Ender's Game author Orson Scott Card on the problems with how religion is portrayed in current fantasy and science fiction: "In our culture, intellectuals have become so uniformly a-religious or anti-religious that our fiction, with few exceptions, depicts religious people in only two ways: the followers are ignorant and stupid and easily fooled, and the leaders are exploitative and cynical, manipulating others' faith for their private benefit. I know some people who fit those descriptions. But they are in a tiny minority. Most religious people I know are smart, well-educated, independent-minded, stubborn, honest, and generous -- at least as much so as the average intellectual, and usually more. The hostility toward religion among American intellectuals arises, I think, from a clear awareness that it was against a publicly religious culture that their own culture rebelled. Now that rebellion is completely successful in terms of capturing control of all the public instruments of transmission of culture -- the universities, the media, and the literature and art -- but it has become such a shibboleth of intellectual life to snipe at religion that, like the aging "revolutionaries" of the old Soviet Union, they mindlessly continue to "rebel" in order to defend their tight grip on the establishment. Indeed, those intellectuals are the establishment. And what was once a daring and rebellious stance is now just another example of lockstep conformists mindlessly echoing ideas that they haven't examined. That's when contemporary fiction mentions religion at all. Most of the time, in and out of speculative fiction, religion simply doesn't exist. Characters don't believe in God or even think about believing in God. Nobody talks about religion. Nobody belongs to any kind of church. Religion simply doesn't exist. ... This is, I think, a serious lapse, a dishonesty in our contemporary literature. It is most seriously dishonest because in fact, even the supposedly a-religious intellectuals behave exactly as religious people always have. That is, the behavioral and cultural patterns that we have always associated with religions are indistinguishable, except by vocabulary, from the behavioral and cultural patterns of the a-religious intellectuals. They band together with fellow believers, feel sorry for or hostile toward unbelievers, immediately punish heretics -- intellectuals who, having once been accepted in the 'faith,' dare to question its premises -- anoint their priests and theologians (psychologists and therapists being their ministers, scientists and, more usually, science popularizers being their doctors of atheology), and insist on their absolute right to put forth their religious ideas with public funding and the authority of the state behind them, while doing their utmost to silence or marginalize the beliefs of others. Most fiction has become, in short, an instrument of propaganda for the established religion of our time, which differs from other religions only in the particular content of the faith and the vocabulary used to describe it. Naturally, the true believers are sure that the real difference is that their beliefs are objectively true. But then, true believers have always believed that. This is not what distinguishes them from other established religions, but rather what makes them fundamentally identical to them. The honest depicter of human life will include the religious aspect of that life. This is not to say that stories need to be about religion, any more than stories about our contemporary culture need to be about cars. But the cars need to be present, at least by implication, and if a character doesn't know how to drive, we'd need to know why." Is this why Hollywood stopped adapting his books into films?

@Cmdr_Hadfield @ArtClark @mickeysplasht I heard about the bathroom troubles they were having and the conversation was they were going to hold it for 10 days. I thought to my self they have to renter, not a chance of holding it through that.

@ArtClark @mickeysplasht They're wearing diapers, just in case :)

Hey @Cmdr_Hadfield! Does it get warmer inside a vehicle re-entering Earth’s atmosphere?

@DrTessaT @IanRunkle This seems like the most likely.

@IanRunkle I used to do some work at music festivals. They have medical tents on site with qualified personnel. They probably don’t want people who are intoxicated attempting any advanced first aid on their own.

@projecthailmary "Bulk bean bags" "How to moonwalk" "Etsy knitted sweaters" "Best medicine to take for motion sickness for riding in a F/A 18 super hornet?"

The comments are now Ryland Grace’s search history. Proceed ⬇️ #ProjectHailMary

Hi! I’m Rise! About a week ago, I launched aboard the Artemis II mission with four of my besties. Since then, I have been serving a very important purpose aboard the Orion spacecraft… I float. (And I look cute.) Today, I am taking over the Artemis social media accounts! -Rise

@wabisabiforlif3 @NASA This post by @NASA is attempting to educate people the importance of protecting your eyes while viewing solar eclipses.

NASA posting the Artemis II crew rocking eclipse glasses and calling it “Moon joy.” Cute selfie. But this is the same agency that spent decades and billions to repeat what Apollo did in the 60s with less computing power than your phone. They’re 250,000 miles out doing a flyby and the big highlight is astronauts wearing paper glasses. This isn’t historic. It’s expensive nostalgia with better cameras.

Safety first! The Artemis II astronauts can be seen in their eclipse glasses, worn to protect their eyes when they experienced a solar eclipse on April 6. The Sun, the Moon, and the Orion spacecraft aligned — and Moon joy was had!