Christian Manahl

should i start using twitter

Artemis ii

This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet. The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy. There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one. That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure. 📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center

Yes... In case anyone was wondering, Microsoft still sucks in space.

@mamaswati whether he's saying 'freaking' or 'fucking' should be the new yanny or laurel this is insane

@mamaswati i thought he said freaking, is this ai?

Why are you here? "We're going back to the fucking moon, that's why." The kids are ok.

@Mikeggibbs space is very far from cell phone towers

Can anyone explain why the video quality from Integrity is so poor? This is awful video quality...is this temporary? #Artemis2

NEW: Kid gives a blunt answer after a CNN reporter asked him why he was excited about the Artemis II launch. Reporter: "Why do you want to be here? Why do you love space? Why do you love being a part of history?" Kid: "We're going back to the freakin' moon, that's why!"

@IsaacKing314 i thought i heard someone bothering him in his ear when he paused, like he was waiting to hear something important

Really funny moment at T - 25 seconds where the NASA commentator says "four brave explorers, ready to ride the most powerful rocket-" *pauses for several seconds* "NASA has ever launched."

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF TOMORROW! #space #nasa #artemis

Nice view of the core stage separation!

NASA DIRECTOR JUST SAID "FOR ALL MANKIND - FULL SEND"

they have to launch in the evening to surprise the moon while it's sleeping #artemisii #nasa #artemis

@jazzloaf makes me think again of just how alien aliens can be

Guys look at the life cycle of pfiesteria piscidida. How on earth does something like this evolve

This cute little guy is the crew's zero-gravity indicator for Artemis II, called Rise. Inspired by the Apollo 8 earth-rise image (shown behind it) Designed by Lucas Ye of Mountain View, California #ArtemisII

WE ARE GOING BACK TO THE MOON

@agraybee i would be pretty impressed if that grocery store was 238,000 miles away

"I thought you went to the grocery store." "I did." "Then why didn't you get anything?" "I circled a ten block radius around the grocery store and returned safely."

It's because your definition of "to the moon" is different than their's.

The objective of the war has become undoing the consequence of the war. The stupidest war in history.

It's funny how in the 90s white collar crime was super complex and deep. Enron, Bernie Madoff defrauding people with complex webs of lies for decades, etc. In our era it's just people committing crimes and being like lol what are you gonna do arrest me

@skyly1225 This is also a practical restraint preventing space terrorism. You can't slam your tiny spaceship into an enormous space station or planet at relativistic speeds without getting annihilated by tiny particles on the way. (This was my explanation for some flight mechanics in Elite)

亜光速宇宙船は航行中常に星間塵と星間ガスの衝突に備えなければならない ヘイルメアリー号は減速時なら540兆Wの化け物みたいな赤外線で進路上の塵を蒸発させられるが加速時は無防備 「アバター」のISVベンチャースターも巡航中と減速中はシールド複数枚で守られるが加速中は無防備である