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I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

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I have previously opined that the Apollo program is so thoroughly documented, it would've been harder to fake all of it than to just go to the Moon. New example: Menswear expert Derek Guy's blog post reviewing styles from Apollo field geology training trip dieworkwear.com/2024/05/03/a...

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Besson ‘H.5’ was a prototype flying boat built in 1922. It was to be capable of carrying 20 passengers on long-haul flights. Its greatest orginality came from its wings, a quadruplane with staggered planes. Its first flights revealed major problems with its centre of gravity.

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The degree to which people romanticize farming is inversely proportional to their degree of actual proximity to farming and farmers This is basically a mathematical law

submitted 33 days ago • 318 comments

Good morning. If you have an April fool’s joke planned, stop it.

submitted 36 days ago • 140 comments

It appears the Internet Movie Plane Database has gone out of business, for lack of funds. It was a noble effort, and a fascinating site to browse.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

SciFi authors: If you are looking for a convenient but also semi-realistic reason for why humans play a pivotal role in your galactic federation of dozens of alien species; this can be it: Because Earth's heavy gravity forced humans to develop an overpowered spaceflight capability as a baseline.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

The National World War Two Museum and the Gary Sinise Foundation celebrate the trailblazing women who worked in the American defense industry in the 1940s, and preserve their stories for future generations.

submitted 38 days ago • 68 comments

In 1963, Sidney Schwartz at Grumman had an unusual solution to an unusual problem. What if Apollo astronauts got stuck in space and ran out of food? His answer was to make spacecraft structure that hungry astronauts could eat.

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A spaceship landed in the park. A door dilated and a robot rolled out, holding a golden disc in a transparent sleeve. "Greetings! We found your sound recording. We enjoyed it, and have made one for you in return." It placed the disc on the ground and returned to the spaceship, which took off.

submitted 40 days ago • 6 comments

Humanity has surprising few close photos of Deimos, the outer moon of Mars. These photos may not look like a big deal, but they will add to our knowledge of this little moonlet.

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🚨BREAKING SPACE NEWS🚀 Hera, ESA's planetary defense spacecraft heading to the asteroid Dimorphos (the one DART smashed into), flew by Mars yesterday for a gravity assist and to test its cameras. It took images of Mars and the moon Deimos up close. AND THEY ARE AMAZING 🤩

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

The US military has removed photos of the B-29 bomber “Enola Gay” — which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan — apparently because it contains the word “gay,” which violates their new anti-DEI rules.

submitted 62 days ago • 1738 comments

Listen to your children read. Read to your children. Read alongside your children. Take them to libraries. Talk about what reading means to you & what it can unlock. Tell them it doesn’t matter if it’s comics, magazines or books as long as they’re engaged with the written word. #WorldBookDay

submitted 62 days ago • 8 comments

Nice! Forbidden Planet, one of the greatest sci-fi classics in film history, premiered 69 years ago today.

submitted 65 days ago • 17 comments

Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.

submitted 65 days ago • 540 comments

Ukrainian drones conducted the largest long-range strike in this war. The Bashneft refinery in Ufa, Russia, which is more than 1,300 km from the Ukrainian border, has been struck.

submitted 66 days ago • 30 comments

We now know that asteroid 2025 YR4 will not hit Earth in 2032 (phew!), but it will come quite close to the Moon - best estimate about 15,000 km away, give or take a lot. If you wanted to make it hit the Moon, I have just the right tool for you: the Enhanced Gravity Tractor.

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

There was a long queue to the repair shop. There always seemed to be, these days. The areas for fabrics and fibre, wood, metal, mechanics and electronics were all busy, but none more so than the dreams section. "Oh, this has taken some beating, poor thing." "Can you fix it?" "We'll do our best."

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

Top: Sunset on Mars (Curiosity rover, April 2015) Bottom: Sunset on LV-426 (Alien, 1979)

submitted 73 days ago • 3 comments

From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

submitted 74 days ago • 195 comments

The websites run by the Lunar and Planetary Insititute for the science community Advisory Groups to NASA are down "in response to guidance given by NASA leadership." Outer Planets: www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/ Mars: www.lpi.usra.edu/mepag/ Moon: www.lpi.usra.edu/leag Asteroids: www.lpi.usra.edu/sbag/

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Tomorrow Sunday morning, the Philippine MARs will take to the skies one last time, aiming to depart from the bouy in Sproat Lake around 9:00 AM PDT heading to San Francisco. Against all odds, the team behind her has worked tirelessly to prepare her for this final journey to Arizona.

submitted 88 days ago • 5 comments

I learned a new word for font and typesetting geeks: “Keming” is really bad kerning. Like when you can’t tell rn apart from m. It came up in conversation about a recent MS Excel update.

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“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have someone write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.” - Milan Kundera

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One of the most useful things NASA does is host the NASA Technical Report Server, NTRS, a vast technical archive on how to be a space faring species. In olden days these reports existed in hardcopy at dozens of corporate and academic libraries, but now it's centralized. Has anyone made a copy?

submitted 96 days ago • 2 comments

“As NASA continues to review and ensure compliance with presidential actions, we are requesting that you please pause all meetings and activities of Planetary Science Analysis/Assessment Groups.“ #PlanetaryScience

submitted 96 days ago • 4 comments

Guys. If Elon Musk controls communications with the entire civil service, & he controls the payment systems of the US Treasury, he’s quite a long ways in to running a coup.

submitted 96 days ago • 25 comments

One of the best pieces of evidence that UFOs are not from outer space is that we've gotten really good at detecting even quite small things anywhere in Earth's sphere of influence. (Well, technically only in the anti-sunward side, but still...)

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