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Updated TV review on my website!
Star Trek: Picard – Season One
★★★☆☆
I have mixed feelings about the first season of Picard. But later seasons have given me a new appreciation for it.
https://hyperborea.org/reviews/tv/picard-s1/
#tv #starTrek #scienceFiction #sapience #artificialIntelligence #space #review
“rapid unscheduled disassembly” is one way to put it.
Reminds me of the “too much vertical velocity” comment you sometimes got when you crashed in the Chuck Yeager flight simulator games.
Nice comparison of turbulence in a Baltic Sea algae bloom and storm clouds on Jupiter showing the same structures
Planetary.org: Algae and Storms
#space #ocean #turbulence #physics #nasa
Nice small collection of unusual photos of Martian landscapes from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter at Daily Overview. I don’t know what the blue triangle thing is.
The description doesn’t say, but I’m guessing most of them are false-color or exaggerated.
(Images originally from NASA)
https://www.getrevue.co/profile/dailyoverview/issues/mars-reconnaissance-orbiter-433906
Incredible image of Orion seen between sequoia trees
An amazing composite photo of the Milky Way and Jupiter over the snow-covered Himalayas, via @apod. Photographer Tomas Havel took 8 exposures from the same spot over 3 hours and combined them to make this image.
“You know of what I speak, Gandalf: a great Eye, lidless, wreathed in flame.”
#lotr #astronomy #blackholes #EyeOfSauron
Article by Phil Plait explaining the science behind the Event Horizon Telescope’s ground-breaking image of the supermassive black hole in M87 – the world’s first-ever actual image of the event horizon (or, more precisely, silhouette) of a black hole.
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/the-first-image-of-the-event-horizon-of-a-black-hole
Birdsite thread by @AstroKatie on how the image was produced and why the ring looks the way it does, plus simulations of different viewing angles.
First ever direct image of a black hole! The supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87 — 6.5 billion times as massive as the Sun! #EHT #BlackHole The image is better than I expected! pic.twitter.com/Tv7I36v4xQ
— Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) April 10, 2019
#science #space #astronomy #blackholes
Very cool! A view of the far side of the moon and Earth beyond it, from the Chinese Longjiang-2 satellite in lunar orbit.
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/the-earth-peeks-out-from-behind-the-lunar-far-side
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The math behind moonmoons. Excuse me, *sub*moons. This is a dignified blog, after all! 😉
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/can-moons-have-moons-yes-well-sometimes
#space via @BadAstronomer@twitter.com
Cool collection of then-and-now space images. https://www.planetary.org/articles/nasa-60-years
So I noticed Mastodon’s been trending again & figured I’d take another look. I don’t need another time sink, but I figured it might be worth jumping in this time. Now to replicate just the good parts of that other network…
I should probably figure out what I want to talk about here before I try to figure out who to follow, huh? I mean, I’ll probably end up cross-posting photos & blogging (yes, I still blog), but other than that, do I want to talk about…tech? politics? comics? sci-fi/fantasy? I don’t think anyone I know IRL is here, so it’s a matter of topics for now.
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Actually, what *is* the etiquette for cross-posting here?
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So, the 5-7 interests meme (this feels like early 2000s LJ): #comics #scifi #space #computers #science #art #photography
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Hmm, looks like I may want to check out wandering.shop for scifi/fantasy and photog.social for photography…
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OK, so I’ve set up @kelsonv@photog.social for photography posting. I’ll probably keep this one for other stuff.
At first I wasn’t sure to make of this poster. “Believe” that we went to the moon? Well, yeah. Then the Powerball motif was pointed out, making it an ad for the state lottery. Shoot for the moon, I guess. But the lottery is all about blind luck, while the moon landings were planned out meticulously, calculated and tested stage by stage over years, *leaving as little to chance as possible*.
I saw Endeavour on one of its flybys today, and watched it land at LAX.
There were a few snags (like the fact that the space shuttle flew past the OTHER side of the building twice when I wasn’t expecting it), but that’s what makes it a story and not just a statement, right? Read on (plus more photos)!
