Tony M.

Yeah, Russia already soaked up everything they could from Iran...

This unmarked police vehichle look is woke AF!

To put a computer into space is not that hard nowadays. Problem is... what's the point?!

Power requirements?
Latency?
Throughput?
Repairability/upgradability?
Resistance to Solar storms and cosmic rays?

Oh... why I'm asking. It's just another moronic idea from SV overlords (not only Musk)

Yes, we do! Six or so years from now, in Boca Chica, Texas. Next to remains of what once was "Starbase".

Unless it will still be Starbase. But in that case - US would become complete authoritatian cleptocracy. Because in 6 six years under amy sane circumstances Elon should be rotting in prison.

Have to agree, JD is like "drink coffee - do crazy sh*t with more energy" kind of guy.

So SpaceX will focus on one hard to chew problem instead of another hard problem 🤷‍♂️

There's have to be decent people, working for SpaceX. What they're thinking when "BS artist" (in Trump's words) messing with semi decent company with "datacenters in space" crap...

2bn per pop and all - so far - is for nothing. Even in most realistic scenario as low orbit carrier, it will need to work really hard to break even. Problem is that besides Starlink sats or moronic "data centers in space" there's no real market to regularly utilize 100, 200 or whatever tons to LEO.

This is what EV should look like. I'm dead serious.

Like with many other things, we, as society went like "oh this thing is more economical / resuorce friendly etc.?! Lets make it worse than a thing, it was envisioned to replace".

From more light polution with LED lighting to 1,000 HP EV's.

No, it's not going to sort out somehow. Where's opposition in US? Both in politics and on streets. How this is not the time for mass protests? Miilion people in every major US city.

Yes, yes and yes. I dumbfounded how there's no 10,000,0000 strong protest against dear leader, raging for weeks, day after day. Or crowdfunded $100M bounty for anyone... And I'm not even joking. That's how bad it is.

Same thought. He's in full chaos mode since at least 2020

Speaking of "Grok said" 🙃

Thanks!

Image of tardigrade is also a stack of 10 images - just to get everything in focus. But it can be done in 5 minutes, editing included. And only if you want sharpest image possible.

And you can film stuff!

Holiday season is coming! If you want to start a hobby or encourage your kid to explore - get a microscope.

Astronomy is cool, but fidly, consumes time and money. These are stacks of 10 images with 135 mm lens under urban sky. Not much. Have to have regular access to a dark location.

Now I'm doing microscopy. This week got myself first live sample - a bit of moss with some dew, and few drops later - kablamo - tardigrade!

People said that I'm harsh after New Glenn launch.

Yet, catastrophic failure during simple test without fire.

Don't take that too seriously :) However, Starship with multiple launches, all suborbital, with no useful payloads, and long way before becoming practical LEO/MEO/GEO launcher - steals all the attention, while other rockects, developed in similar timeframe - doing stuff from the day 1.

P. S. Not that US-designed rockets in the past were made by NASA themselves from the ground up, or not that I'm a huge fan of Bezos either.

Still, funny.

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First private (US) rocket sending something to Mars... is not made by SpaceX. Despite constant babble about Mars for a decade.

Artemis - to the Moon at first try 🟢

Vulcan - orbit at first try 🟢

Ariane 6 - orbit at first try 🟢

New Glenn - lost booster, but orbit at first try 🟢

Starship - 11 x 💩

Getting to orbit at first would nice, they're not at all in a hurry to reach the Moon like they have NASA contract to do so. Oh wait...

Very human-like hands, BTW. Which means that they're likely not functional at all.

Very last (for me) images from NOAA-15 weather satellite, received directly from space back in Aug 17th.

Now all of them - NOAA-15, 18 and 19 are defunct. It was a great hobby for many.

Have a proper camera, but first art-sy image I've shared on social media in years - is this one. Made with a smartphone, while drinking some stout.

Relevant for years now

At first - tested with my own map (boundaries of tectonic plates, created with QGIS some time ago). My script not only can re-project map-like data in ortho projection, but also move from point to point in n number of frames.

And for this - scraped ~100 GB of data from NASA SVS. Awesome resource.

Wrote a relatively simple Python script, capable of transforming maps/visualizations in equirectangular projection to orthographic one...

... and that led to this.

"Ketvirtoji dimensija" - "Fourth dimension" in lithuanian.

These are "wounded and killed", so number of killed is much lower (300-400k or so). But still, it seems that it's going to be 1M killed eventually.