naturally occuring FTL drive

The gooncave of babel

millipede guy or girl (couldn't decide) #art

person in the future logging into whatever YouTube equivalent they have in their future to watch their favourite video, uploaded 105 years ago. the website as a whole is celebrating its 150th birthday this year

sometimes i feel like a phenomenon that operates over very long timescales. even if it takes awhile i'll still eventually reach my goals...

millipede guy or girl (couldn't decide) #art

The Blue Marble #ACelestialJournal #art #gijinka #astronomy #space #SolarSystem #planet #Terra #Earth

2023-11-12: Ancient Mars 4540 Ma #ACelestialJournal #art #gijinka #astronomy #space #SolarSystem #planet #Mars

haumea (made this in november, so i do have something separate planned for christmas)

fun fact there's currently a bug in Space Engine where the mass for Wolf-Rayet stars has no upper limit, in some cases leading to ridiculous (unrealistic) stars massing thousands of times that of the Sun. this particular example is an impressive 10,849 solar masses

The GMH has a lot more territory to control than most inner system polities and relies on solar-thermal and solar-electric carriers and boost stages to extend the range of their warships. These spacecraft often use O2 as propellant; volatiles are scarce down here and best used sparingly.

The future can often feel dark and dystopian. But what are YOU excited about for the future in the next few decades?

Good time to ask all those supposedly unpolitical people who posted weepy eulogies for Charlie Kirk if they’re going to post one for Renee Good or not.

nobody ever talks about the moons of Uranus

bsky mirror - robo girls!!!!!

This time a bit of personal worldbuilding stuff in a similar faux-paint style to some of my other work. This is a 'monopod' orion (though the interior of the monopod conceals an array of multi-stage pistons).

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

i remember awhile ago i used to struggle a lot to go to bed at reasonable times, and this led to this semi-frequent reoccuring dream i'd have where i stayed up forever and would plunge deeper and deeper into a night that didn't end. i distintly remember seeing all the clocks go-

Minecrafters deserve a Minecraft space mod where the other planets are actually implemented well, being feature-rich and feels unique, rather than yet another tech mod where the destinations are added as an afterthought.

covered in strange neon green slime today

Capitalism depends on the belief of scarcity to survive. It depends on making you believe there's only so much to give. It is not just liberal economics that preaches this. The right-wing of today and fascism of yesterday solves this "scarcity" by demonising the "other".

going for a swim in the coulomb-liquid oceans of a neutron star #art

ICE funding expires January 30. Call Congress to say whether you think it should be continued. US Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.

going for a swim in the coulomb-liquid oceans of a neutron star #art

Sources: - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024ApJ.... - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014PhyU... Special thanks to @triplchii.bsky.social whose fascination for neutron stars sent me into this rabbit hole in the first place

Today I learned neutron stars have a metre-decametre scale "ocean" layer in between their millimetre-centimetre scale atmosphere and the solid crust with the millimetre-scale mountains. This "ocean" is fuzzy though and transitions seamlessly into the atmosphere. #astronomy #neutronstar

New paper alert! tl;dr: the seafloor of Europa is probably tectonically inert, meaning little to no active fracturing that could expose fresh rock to seawater. Without such water–rock reactions the prospect for there being life within Europa just took a big hit. A thread:

More illuminated stuff -- this time the classic ship I'm always working on, the Type 9.

Trustworthy and reliable millipede lady

Every time one of my mutuals with a larger follower count reposts my stuff I get work, sales, followers. Even smaller accounts sharing my stuff directly translates to making my life more financially secure. If you're ever wondering if your reposts count, they absolutely do.

I'm so fucking tired, if anyone wants to help out a trans guy today just share my stuff- I make jewelry and paint and stuff, take a look at my shop or commission a pet portrait or smth Placecalledbliss.bigcartel.com

Slush for the slush pile, worldbuilding for the weird nerds who care about that. I promise I'll post more finished art too, but these are some of the tests, incomplete ideas, and doodles I've tried out in the past month. They are a glimpse into my twisted mind for what that's worth.

4D worm invasion

10 MW Nuclear-Electric Propulsion for Mars missions: pubs.aip.org/aip/acp/arti... 5000s Isp hydrogen MPD thrusters are powered by Brayton turbine-generators heated by 1600K reactors. Heavy shielding, cold radiators and meek PMADs bring propulsion power density down to 123-140 W/kg.

synthetic lab-grown woman #art

synthetic lab-grown woman #art

This would absolutely do it for some of you

people in the year 100,000,000 changing all their textbooks and websites and whatnot to update the age of the universe from 13.8 billion years to 13.9 billion years

Seeing a lot of people on Twitter spreading misinfo about Bluesky as cope for feeling compelled to stay on there lmao

Thinking of how the nuclear test scene in Oppenheimer is clearly just a gasoline explosion really close up and how it kind of ruins the moment if you've ever actually watched nuclear test footage and know how a nuclear fireball actually looks

electric spacecraft propulsion is so wonderful. i hope i live to see at least one bizarre NEP probe launched to visit the outer solar system

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Materials that escaped one planet can eventually find itself on another. For Terra, no world is a bigger recipient of these letters than their own moon, Luna. More information in ALT TEXT! #ACelestialJournal #art #gijinka #astronomy #space #SolarSystem #planet #Earth #Terra #Moon #Luna

The best I can do for a holiday gift for you all today is this to-scale representation I've made of Robert H. Frisbee's infamous antimatter starship idea (www.projectrho.com/public_html/...) (it's so cursed omg i can't even with how stupidly l o n g this thing is):

fusion rocket gijinkas #art

every drawing i do always takes like 4-5x longer than i hope it does 😔

they should invent a machine