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🚨 JUST IN: Artemis II pilot Victor Glover just gave this BEAUTIFUL Easter message "So far from Earth, looking at the BEAUTY of creation." “When I read the Bible and I look at all of the amazing things that were done for us...this amazing place." ❤️🙏🏻

My mind is totally blown this week! 🤯 It's the adventure I've been waiting for most of my life, and they are on the freaking way. So much great stuff has just been released by NASA just in this past 24 hours too. 👨‍🚀👨‍🚀👩‍🚀👨‍🚀 Lots to catch up on here! youtu.be/fYm7-eWFy60

Pleased to share my favorite high-resolution capture of the Artemis II launch- the moment the SLS is clearing the tower, captured by a sound-triggered camera placed near the pad. I'll have prints linked in my bio for this one, and here's a short thread about how it was captured

The shots from my remote cameras are absolutely unreal. Hopefully will have something mind-blowing to share tomorrow :)

🎙️ T+326: Artemis II Underway Some thoughts on the launch and first day of Artemis II! mainenginecutoff.com/podcast/326

L-0 It’s finally Launch Day Let’s go to the Moon today!

@ApoStructura The constraint in most places is reserve generating capacity not price. You're saying Scotland has excess generating capacity. So build to use it! More jobs, more industry, more of Scottish engineering ingenuity on the cutting edge of technology again!

@aeroroar That’s the problem! It is currently illegal to sell cheaper electricity in Scotland. If that were changed then Scotland would be a great place for industry in Europe.

The UK has massive offshore wind electricity capacity, mostly in Scotland, but not enough transmission lines to bring power down to the south where it’s needed. So on windy days Scotland generates a lot more power than it needs, but can’t sell it south. You’d think that it would mean prices drop significantly in Scotland during these periods thanks to the over supply. But no. The UK doesn’t allow regional pricing, so wind turbines have to be turned off! Instead of using the spare capacity to lower prices in Scotland they just turn them off… And it gets even dumber than that: the wind turbine owners have to get compensated, meaning they are being paid to offset the lost revenue, so everyone pays for electricity that is not being generated. It’s completely kafkaesque.

Countdown clock is officially started! (Although I kinda liked what was on it before) 😝

@TheBabylonBee If it's not noticed it's not a church.

Couple Looking For Smaller Church But Also One Large Enough That No One Notices When They Aren’t There buff.ly/w11lTmC

@elonmusk So we'll allow for occasional grammar slipups! 🤪

Given that I have built two companies in widely different fields to trillion dollar plus valuations simultaneously, I am might be getting a few things right once in a while

Artemis II launch window opens in 5 days. Here’s my (unofficial) step-by-step infographic - “There and back again, an astronaut’s story”.

Mixing it up on the @offnom podcast yesterday. Nothing too controversial, unless you consider rating each aspect of NASA's new Ignition program for leadership, quality & feasibility controversial. Episode 234 - FREEDOM! (with Lori Garver) youtube.com/live/Tv8GbeyiQ… via @YouTube

We're flying around the Moon. Come watch with us. Live coverage of Artemis II prelaunch activities begins Friday, March 27, when the crew arrives at @NASAKennedy. Here's the full Artemis II event schedule — keep checking back for the latest updates: go.nasa.gov/4s0lHjB

Whatever we choose to do, I want people to make those choices with their eyes open. I don’t want anyone to say “oh, well, this feature claims to be private so why not click Ok this one time” and five years of confidential data flow into the ingestion pipeline.

The past is a great predictor of the future. When we look back, some of the greatest technical advancements of our time are based on a simple change in the availability of key raw materials. Take for example, the Washington Monument; it's capped with aluminum. Not because it looked cool or was in some way a utilitarian choice, but because in 1884, aluminum was more precious than gold.

@DJSnM It's one way to reduce the number of licences required.

I’m amused that the FAA press release about transitioning to the new launch licensing system leads with New Shepard

@RAF_Luton That, sir, is a lovely day for flying, not a typhoon.

Photo of the Day: US F14 flown by Major Tant-Rumm and Capt Bonne-Spurs leads 3x British Eurovision Typhoons in Operation Epic Distraction and The wider Operation Tangerine Micro-Mushroom which sees 717.5 tons of bombs dropped every 800.85mins! Photographed from a Canberra

Meta appears to be reversing its strong stance on encryption. The first obvious casualty is that they’re abandoning and disabling end-to-end encryption in Instagram DMs.