efaardvark
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Watching Relativity’s first attempt at launching their 3D-printed rocket..
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The Hololive / Backrooms crossover is both more terrifying and more entertaining than either of the originals.
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None shall pass!
(Another example of appropriate use of technology - in this case 3D printing and rare-earth magnets.)
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Taking a break from anime this week. I miss Carl Sagan.
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I hereby nominate "necrobotics" as the word for the day..
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/inflating-spider-corpse-creates-robotic-claw-game-of-nightmares/ -
So chatgpt is scoring better than the average college student on college SATs. Why does this not surprise me?
Better up your game humans!
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First inflation wrecks my savings, then the stock market tanks my 401k, now this. 2022 has not been a good year for my retirement plans.
No association of Viagra and Cialis with reduced Alzheimer’s disease risk.
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Oh no! Another casualty of 2022!
Somehow I missed the announcement of Greg Bear’s passing. (Probably sick and/or sleep deprived.) Bear was one of my favorite authors. If you haven’t read “Blood Music” then do so. Even Better than Clarke’s “Childhood’s End”. Bear was right up there with Niven in my estimation.https://www.geekwire.com/2022/greg-bear-1951-2022-science-fiction-writer/
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SWOT in Earth orbit and KPLO in Lunar orbit. And home in time for lunch! "Nominal" is a good word.
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Was up all night at work supporting the Artemis sploosh and lunar flashlight launch/initial ack. Got home at about noon and crashed. I’m just opening my eyes from a ~4hr nap & my body’s in that totally confused jet lagged shift-worker state. Hungry, but is it breakfast time or dinner? Is the rainy dimness coming thru the window morning? Or night? Think I’ll start by rebooting my brain with coffee.
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Been sick since last Wednesday. Not covid according to tests but not fun either. Recovering now but still pretty tired and last night's / this morning's level 1 event at work - supported remotely - didn't help. Feel like I need to sleep for a week.
Ack thtbbft!
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So you thought photoshoping was messing with people's heads? Take a look at what NeRFs can do...
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Looks like of the two cubes that I liked, OMOTENASHI and NEAS, neither one is looking too good.
OMOT was a JAXA-sponsored lunar lander that was supposed to have landed on the moon this morning via (intentional) “lithobraking”.
It may or may not have done so. Unfortunately it hasn’t been heard from since it was deployed last week so nobody knows for sure. The other JAXA mission, EQUULEUS, seems to be functioning as expected however.
The other one I liked was the Near Earth Asteroid Scout. Or as I liked to call it the rainbow sail mission due to its propulsion & maneuvering system. It was supposed to use a new type of solar sail to visit a couple near-earth asteroids but it too has not been heard from since deployment.
So far 4 of the 8 cubesats have had problems post-deployment. (Artemis itself seems to be doing well.)
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@Animedragon The cubes' were always "stretch goals", and most of them were done on a shoestring budget and supported on a best-effort basis. A few of them were just in the right place at the right time when the Artemis folks said, "hey, we're headed for the moon.. anyone need a ride?" There were originally (I think) 13 that said "yes" to that offer but couldn't make various integration or test dates. The rest have been tucked away incommunicado in their interstage bays while Artemis went through the last year and a half of launch slips. I think at least two of them hadn't even had so much as their batteries recharged in all that time. Not surprising that a few aren't behaving as planned.
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Artemis's "Outbound flyby" happens tonight (pacific time)!
https://www.nasa.gov/specials/trackartemis/
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So far 3 of the 8 cubes are having trouble. Not only that but some of the recovery efforts have created problems in the ground data system for other projects. (Like James Webb.) At least Artemis itself seems ok for the moment. These next couple months until Orion comes back down are going to be a lot of work.
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All I can say is it'd better get off the pad this time!
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Found out a coworker tested + for C19 so I’m getting myself tested as well. No symptoms <knock knock> but I’ve got a big week ahead at work and an 82yo mother in memory care that I have to visit regularly & I need to know.
