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Another setup in progress. Inspection is in one week.

@zedisdeadbaby88 @xAviation No renting, no sponsor plugs, they just pulled those kinds of numbers. Turned Rio de Janeiro into a ghost town because everyone went to the show. (300,000+) Bruce Dickinson (lead singer) flew the plane. Music wasn't always fake.

@xAviation How much that cost to rent? They must sing about sponsors every other word in song

Iron Maiden’s 747 ‘Ed Force One’ taxiing in Berlin 📹: inselvideo

@_LI0n_King @xAviation Excess? That's a logistical necessity when you're a world touring band that can shut down Rio de Janeiro.

@xAviation Did you know? Ed Force One, leased and customized since 2016, is piloted by vocalist Bruce Dickinson—a licensed commercial pilot—and has logged over 150,000 miles transporting band gear and crew for global tours, symbolizing the fusion of rock excess and aviation engineering.

@xAviation @vitoriacsrr

@Dmanphotos You lost me at "short sided".

Real talk, 🧵 Artemis 3 is a waste of an SLS, and a very short sided decision by NASA. It’s basically like cooking eggs in a pot designed to boil water. You can do it, but that’s not what that pot was designed to cook SLS/Orion is a NHRO, or Lunar Orbit vehicle by DESIGN

@miami_rick If it's seat of your pants, turn slower than you'd think.

The 747’s flightdeck sits so high up off the ground that it truly is close to impossible to accurately ascertain the jet’s true ground speed while taxiing which is of the outmost importance with a jet that size especially during 90° or tighter turns. I’ve never flown a jet without ground speed displayed on either the Navigation Display or the Primary Flight Display (or on both) or on the Electronic Horizontal Situation Indicator (EHSI) on the older 757s and 767s. Question for the wise elders… How did you monitor ground speed during taxi? I’ve seen the control interface unit for the Inertial Reference Units (INS) of yesteryear, did you monitor ground speed through there? How about jets before that without INSs? Just seat of the pants?

@efraser77 Rock/paper/scissors Rocket/wood/wind Wind beats wood, wood beats rocket(can't roll without it), and rocket beats wind.

Who wins? Big massive multi billion dollar rocket, or some slices of tree in the wind.

@Muzznzer I would love to know more about how they test that.

Rocket Lab Neutron Stage 2 separation testing Warkworth New Zealand today. The test version of Stage 2 lowered into the test version of the Interstage where it "hangs". A very slow and careful operation - very precise work by the lady that drives the crane. I met her proud parents watching her work while I was there.

Mission complete. After three months in orbit and 49 tests completed validating critical systems, components, and processes, we have successfully performed a controlled deorbit of Haven Demo, our in-space testbed for Haven-1 technologies. Read more. vastspace.com/updates/haven-…

@GeorgiaWhiteWx Does it have to be current chasers? I hung my hat a decade ago.

Calling All Storm Chasers! 🌪️ My name is Georgia and I’m a emergency management grad student at UNT. I am studying risk-taking behavior in storm chasing and need your input! Quick, anonymous survey (just ~10 questions). Please take & repost to help! ⬇️ unt.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6x…

@interesting_aIl ... that's $136/hr. (I'm sure it's not paid by the hour, but I'd give it a shot.)

$680 is not nearly enough for that

@vysaviel @FilmUpdates @HipernovaStar Spitting image.

@sixstringsimple @FilmUpdates @HipernovaStar

‘PROJECT HAIL MARY’ has become the first ever film to premiere in the stratosphere. A bespoke IMAX display was sent into space to showcase footage from the film, played against the curvature of the planet itself at 110,000 ft altitude.

@DJSnM Starship will ferry. Now we just need to get Vulcan human rated, then SLS won't have a purpose. It's a pretty rocket, it really is, but it's been more of a drain than anything.

With Orion being set for a Centaur V upper stage NASA could start launching it into LEO on Vulcan. Then there would be no need for Starliner, for LEO crew redundancy. And if a ferry stage were implemented to take it to the moon then SLS isn’t needed for Artemis. Boeing would not be happy.

@sciencegirl Fucking AI.

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@NextScience @AstroPnoy Aren't half of the people in studies given a placebo?

🚨 Breaking Cancer News Imagine this: doctors inject one tumor, and suddenly the body’s immune system starts attacking cancer everywhere. Not just the tumor that got the shot, all tumors in the body. Sounds like science fiction… but early trials suggest it’s real. A redesigned CD40 immunotherapy is being tested. Instead of giving the drug through the bloodstream (which caused severe side effects before), scientists inject it directly into a single tumor. That tumor acts as a training ground for the immune system. Immune cells learn to recognize the cancer and then hunt down other tumors throughout the body. In a small trial of 12 patients with metastatic cancers, six saw their tumors shrink, and two experienced complete disappearance of all detectable cancer. Minimal side effects were reported. One injection, whole-body response — a possible game-changer for cancer treatment. Source: ScienceDaily. (2026, March 15). Inject one tumor, immune system attacks all: Early trial shows promise for redesigned cancer therapy.

@Rainmaker1973 @AstroPnoy Not exactly breaking news, but I'm glad you didn't over embellish it.

Voyager hit a 90,000°F wall at the solar system’s edge. NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft crossed one of the most dramatic frontiers in the cosmos: the heliopause, the tenuous boundary where the Sun’s influence finally gives way to interstellar space. What the probe discovered there was astonishing—a turbulent zone of superheated plasma with temperatures soaring between 30,000 and 90,000 °F (roughly 17,000–50,000 °C). This wasn’t a physical wall or barrier, but a dynamic transition region where the outward-flowing solar wind abruptly slows, compresses, and piles up against the incoming pressure of interstellar material. That compression converts kinetic energy into thermal energy, driving the plasma to extreme heat levels far beyond anything found inside the heliosphere. Remarkably, despite the blistering temperatures, this “wall of fire” would pose no danger to a hypothetical astronaut. The plasma is extraordinarily diffuse—far less dense than the best vacuums achievable in Earth laboratories—so there are simply too few particles to transfer meaningful heat. The region is hot in temperature but cold in practical effect. Voyager’s instruments captured clear signatures of the crossing: a sudden plunge in solar wind particles, a sharp rise in galactic cosmic rays, and faint plasma oscillations that revealed the density and temperature of this exotic boundary layer for the first time. These vibrations—analogous to ripples on an unseen sea—provided direct measurements of conditions in a realm previously known only through theory. The heliopause itself serves as a vital shield. The entire heliosphere—the vast bubble carved by the Sun—deflects most of the galaxy’s high-energy cosmic radiation, helping protect life on Earth from constant bombardment. Beyond this protective envelope lies the harsher, unfiltered radiation environment of the interstellar medium. Today, more than 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from home, Voyager 1 remains the farthest human-made object ever sent into space. Still operational and transmitting precious data, it continues to reveal the secrets of this distant frontier. At the outer limit of our solar system, space is neither empty nor serene. It is a violent, glowing threshold—and humanity has only begun to map its mysteries.

@OnDisasters @vitoriacsrr I don't think I've ever had a "favorite plane" my whole life. Now I do.

"You just have to look at it to see it's doing Mach 1!" A USAF SAC bomber pilot was quoted as saying this when seeing the prototype Handley Page Victor at the 1953 Farnborough air display in 1953. Can´t blame the Gentleman - it still looks futuristic to this day: check those engine intakes and that tail

Artemis II will send humans on a journey around the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. It’s part of NASA’s detailed launch program to return humans to the lunar surface. Here’s your (unofficial) step-by-step infographic guide to the mission, with a launch date of no earlier than April 1, 2026. I have also included a variant with a white background.

@LoopsSr Never seen that before!

(1/2) A stick was lofted by a tornado on April 27th 2011, and was coated by ice.

@sircalebhammer It is, but that picture isn't.

Bro, this state can’t be real