I just keep forgetting about the moon mission (too much awful US-related news, and also too much life stuff happening).
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@sundogplanets Yes. Friend had a vehicle pass because they spent many years of their life working on the SLS, making it safe to fly. Yknow. No explosions, because everyone did the work to make it GOOD which makes it so much safer. And yknow. More rocket-y and less super-expensive-fireworks-y
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Pretty pictures here (thanks for the link, @merrdiff.bsky.social !)
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I have SUCH mixed feelings about the whole mission... and rockets... and I want to be excited but also fuck Starlink....
Does it help to remember that rockets generally do not burn fossil fuels? (I looked this up because it came up earlier -- the SRBs (first stage) are mainly aluminum powder, and the capsule engine is hydrogen + oxygen.)
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Pretty pictures here (thanks for the link, @merrdiff.bsky.social !)
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I have SUCH mixed feelings about the whole mission... and rockets... and I want to be excited but also fuck Starlink....
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I'm so glad that it's NASA doing this & not That Company. -
@sundogplanets this picture has been making the rounds, taken by Artemis II Commander, astronaut Reid Wiseman
@jadp @sundogplanets I meant to send this to you, doc. Isn't it gorgeous and delicate and humbling?
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Pretty pictures here (thanks for the link, @merrdiff.bsky.social !)
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I have SUCH mixed feelings about the whole mission... and rockets... and I want to be excited but also fuck Starlink....
@sundogplanets
I feel I'm not nearly as excited about Artemis II as I imagine people would have been about Apollo 8 back in 1968. -
Does it help to remember that rockets generally do not burn fossil fuels? (I looked this up because it came up earlier -- the SRBs (first stage) are mainly aluminum powder, and the capsule engine is hydrogen + oxygen.)
@woozle Doesn't really help because I just started talking a lot to atmospheric chemists and learning about how bad aluminum oxide is for the atmosphere... sorry.
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@woozle Doesn't really help because I just started talking a lot to atmospheric chemists and learning about how bad aluminum oxide is for the atmosphere... sorry.
@sundogplanets Important to know! Thanks for the info, even if it's not pleasant. :-S
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I just keep forgetting about the moon mission (too much awful US-related news, and also too much life stuff happening). Looks like they're actually doing it!
The part that I'm actually excited about is the perspective of looking back at Earth from the Moon. That is COOL. I spent some time my last night in NZ looking up at the Moon, thinking about astronauts, and also tilting my head to try to understand why the moon looked upside-down to me from NZ!
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I kinda feel its been so heavily covered as a purposeful distraction from not only the Iran attack, but also the Epstein files. -
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Everything is messed up in the North, even the sun goes the wrong way across the sky, but it didn't occur to me that the crescent moon was different until I looked it up for a tattoo.@hypostase @sundogplanets That's a mad observation and something I'd never thought about before. It makes sense if you consider people at the poles both looking at the equator, then something that comes from the east will be coming from one person's left and the other person's right.
I wonder how people puzzle through this. Is it common to visualise things in 3d? I assume it is but since it's never something that's come up in conversation I have no way of knowing how other people think about it. Most interesting! -
I just keep forgetting about the moon mission (too much awful US-related news, and also too much life stuff happening). Looks like they're actually doing it!
The part that I'm actually excited about is the perspective of looking back at Earth from the Moon. That is COOL. I spent some time my last night in NZ looking up at the Moon, thinking about astronauts, and also tilting my head to try to understand why the moon looked upside-down to me from NZ!
I really love that upside down moon thing in the Southern Hemisphere night sky.
As someone who grew up in a relatively dark sky area at 52°N , the night sky south of the equator is incredibly weird. Makes me feel that I’m on a completely different planet.
