Yazmin Montana

La custodia silenciosa de un Juárez, que tomó el primer aliento en el Oaxaca donde nació, y al expirar, toma otra gran inhalación en donde se coronó. En el Paso del Norte, Ciudad Juárez. open.substack.com/pub/yazminmont…

That ugly nerd (Ryan) in Project Hail Mary almost obliterated my interest in space

Napoleon’s letter to Josephine, 1796

@normal_ballerz They are because they got possessed for a reason to begin with

how it feels (????)

Kudos to the finance degree, genuinely but this is a different domain entirely. In engineering, the loss of technology isn’t uncommon nor is it inherently catastrophic. The idea that “we lost the ability to go to the moon” sounds stupid to people but it follows a pattern we see all the time. FOGBANK is the example I love to use. FOGBANK was a classified material essential to the W76 nuclear warhead, a kind of aerogel if you will . Sometime by the 1990’s the warheads were being decommissioned and the facility that produced it (as well as many other ones critical to the warheads lifecycle) was shut down and the small group of specialists (only a few hundred people) retired. By the early 2000s, when the US government wanted to extend the warhead’s lifecycle, they discovered that the process for producing FOGBANK had effectively been lost. Recreating it was a fucking disaster . Around hundreds of millions were spent attempting to reverse engineer the material and in doing initially reproduced it too perfectly. The original formulation relied on impurities introduced by older and less refined production methods that were absent in the modern process. Here, modern methods improving the purity stripped the oxide layer making the material nonfunctional. Those “imperfections” were in fact essential. So in essence it took years and hundreds of millions of dollars to approximate what had once been produced routinely. Returning to the moon isn’t any different. It’s not that it’s impossible it’s that it requires rebuilding an entire ecosystem from the ground up which involves redefining engineering standards, requalifying or replacing vendors capable of extreme precision (many of whom no longer exist), retraining a specialized workforce, integrating modern technologies, and revalidating everything through rigorous testing and safety protocols. From the outside, it’s easy to assume you can simply “rebuild” and scale it like an assembly line. In reality, the system that made it possible the first time no longer exists. We can disagree and be skeptical but I don’t like contrarianism for the sake of it .

@KnowBoddee Most April fools jokes are low vibrational, always some mf that died (but never a hater) or some random fake change in politics or something unhinged It’s a mass luciferian manifestation ritual

“El que ríe al último, ríe mejor”

@SovereignIM lmao me psychoanalyzing a hater in public and thinking in short paragraphs so that I can write it down later

The wider the eyes, the higher the neuroticism. They are prone to leave their mouths ajar - as if awaiting penetration. Full toothed smiles. Their pupils are prone to bulge and dilate. Cacophonous prey signals. They do not smirk. They are indeliberate. Skittish. Exit searching.

Orbital dynamics loml

Yo cuando sea mi turno siendo astronauta (factualmente):

If you fall for any cruel pranks today remember you’re in the company of St. Thomas Aquinas

"The greater the panic grows, the more uplifting is the image of a man who refuses to bow before terror." — Ernst Jünger

unprecedented space mission almost gives you a taste of giddy mid 20th century optimism doesn’t it

Please be aware that the Prayers to Be Used At Sea in the 1662 BCP may be modified judiciously for space exploration

Nice view of the core stage separation!

Just sayin’

We're going around the Moon. Come watch with us. Artemis II's four-astronaut crew is lifting off from @NASAKennedy on an approximately 10-day mission that will bring us closer to living on the Moon and Mars. The launch window opens at 6:24pm ET (2224 UTC). twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Liftoff. The Artemis II mission launched from @NASAKennedy at 6:35pm ET (2235 UTC), propelling four astronauts on a journey around the Moon. Artemis II will pave the way for future Moon landings, as well as the next giant leap — astronauts on Mars.

Two Native American women on an Arizona magazine from the 1970’s

“Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.” - Runaway Horses, Yukio Mishima