Cole Rise

Here's an article that took 4 years to write: A Tale of Two Cameras — Unraveling the Mystery of the First Hasselblad in Space. spacecamera.co/articles/2023/…

love the app. feedback: boarding times > flight times, especially with tight connections. thinking of the human path to the plane — using flighty in the hustle of travel, if my lock screen could tell me when i needed to be at the next gate, it would be everything. Airline apps often focus on boarding times, so Flighty info conflicts with that & reads that you have ~30m more than you actually do to get on the plane. Do i have time to eat? grab a snack? the mental load would be great to delegate to Flighty.

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@plastickfox looks like a Buzz Aldrin signature

@newstart_2024 ))<>((

A man with dementia forgot his own daughter’s birthday and quit golf forever. Mini-Mental Score: 21/30 (severe impairment). Dr. Sabine Hazan did something unthinkable: She transplanted his wife’s poop microbiome into him. Within weeks: 21 → 26 → 29 He suddenly remembered the birthday. He went back to golf. He started recognizing family photos again. This is the first published case in medical history showing rapid reversal of cognitive decline after fecal microbiota transplantation. The pioneer of FMT, Dr. Thomas Borody (who started in the 1980s), personally called her: “You HAVE to publish this.” Top Beverly Hills neurologist Dr. Sheldon Jordan immediately began testing every Alzheimer’s patient’s stool after hearing the story. “We are only at the infancy of the microbiome,” says Dr. Hazan. Your gut microbes talk to your brain 24/7 — via vagus nerve, metabolites, gases, toxins. Mind-blowing 3:53 clip with Dr. Sabine Hazan & Dr. Sharon Goldberg below. Pure published science. Zero hype. Just one question: What else don’t we know about the gut-brain axis?

This photo from STS 81 may be the best on orbit photo of the shuttle program 🤯

Where is Schirra’s Mercury Σ7 Hasselblad, the first to fly in space? Is it the camera sold at auction for $275K and featured in the TV show Strange Inheritance? Or is it the camera in my office, that I bought from Schirra via another collector? Cole Rise's Space Camera Co. has spent 4 years researching this, with encyclopedic expertise, and just published his findings: “It was the genesis camera — the blueprint for all cameras that flew to the surface of the moon, and the beginning of Hasselblad’s storied connection with NASA that lasted through the shuttle-era. The excitement within the collector community was undeniably palpable.” And the conclusion? See spacecamera.co/articles/2023/… for the findings.

Dinner party theme inspo: What does space smell like? Some accounts say it’s like seared steak, or a metallic gunpowdery smell. Had an opportunity to ask a shuttle astronaut this question, and after some thought, she said when the hatch opened after an EVA, to her it smelled like raspberries. That’s a main course, smoky cocktail, and a fruity sorbet for dessert right there.

Something for your inner Uber-Geek; capillary rise in a 10mm diameter drinking straw.

In space, you can see stars! I flew a home-made tracking device that allows time exposures required to photograph star fields. Stay tuned for more photos like this.

@rookisaacman so cool. question: how does that maneuver compare to your memory of having done something similar twice?

Damn this is wild

Reflecting on reflections: working in the @Space_Station Cupola setting up for a night pass of imagery while using a flashlight. I captured this moment as a self portrait. Nikon D3s, 8mm fisheye, f2.8, 1/10th sec, ISO 1600, Expedition 30, 2012

We have been looking at aurora out the cupola windows a lot lately. Starliner was doing some testing today so we decided to check it out from the Dragon windows. Timing was great for the aurora to line up nicely with Starliner’s service module thrusters.

@theisaacmed yep. new coke

prediction - x is gonna be rebranded back to twitter soon

During @Space_Station's early days, orbital motion created a challenge to take sharp night #photography. So I assembled a barn-door tracker from spare parts. Operated by a handheld drill, it counteracted orbital motion, allowing for the first clear images of cities at night.

workspace goals.

trying to figure out what to do with the URL grave.site. wrong answers welcome.

This star trail I took from the @Space_Station shows how orbital motion can warp visual phenomena. We @NASA_Astronauts are used to photographing the Earth, but much like different wavelengths of light, there are entirely new and unique ways to perceive the same subject.

@iamkory @jeremiahjw the best

@iamkory 🐰

interesting thread. makes me think it may be a good analogy applicable for to startups / designers. if you break down problem solving into now / next / future, there’s rarely demand for future, even if you’re right. aiming for what’s next tends to be more widely relatable.