Musk is a parasite on the future; he preys upon the imagination of others, taking any vision of a better world and depreciating it by hawking options on a transparently fake facsimile. He is capitalism's full-throated assault on the utopian imaginary.

HCAT-B "Eodelphinus", an advanced turbofan-ramjet-rocket combined cycle SSTO designed for mass passenger spacelift at Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Another worked design commissioned off of the excellent @attritionmaxxer.bsky.social.

Who remembers when Oganesson used to be called Ununoctium

i have so many things i want to draw and make! but i am trapped in the executive dysfunction dimension! i am going to scream!!!

shoutout to people with planets as their profile picture, most of the time they're very chill and cool people

I highly doubt this, PBS Space Time

also tapping this sign again because we all need to remember this more

Fell down another metaphorical hole

technically over long enough timescales, all yuri is doomed yuri

I hate the term "renewable energy" and it seems like most people have forgotten it was coined as an alternative to "green energy" specifically to exclude nuclear energy but include biogas, lol

to be honest i kinda don't really care all that much about space colonisation as like an actual irl concept. if any of it happens within my lifetime then yeah that'd be neat but if not that's fine as well. i have bigger things weighing on my mind at the moment anyway... it's still fun to write-

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

#toughtober - Sail Interstellar Plasma Magsail pushed by relativistic particle beams. Very much based on the design by @triplchii.bsky.social #lego #space #spaceship #spacecraft #starship #magsail

A study on drawing a hot Jupiter's nightside. The dayside is overexposed. The nightside is pinkish from the combination of blackbody radiation and absorption from Na/K/H2O, similar to brown dwarfs. #art #astronomy #space #planet #exoplanet #HotJupiter

deep in the blender mines at the moment. i'm in the blender lithosphere. blender moho discontinuity, even

what if we collected all the strong sweaty tank top engineer/mechanic anime girls and put them in a room and got them to construct or design something

27 days of anticonvulsants left This month marks an EMERGENCY, to acquire a PCP down here. Or return to Maine. There is no more time. It’s more important than food, as my survival is dependent on medical intervention I’m on a waitlist for affirmative care clinic and hope to hear back by months end

I need to write that unhinged essay about how "dwarf good elf bad" is the same debate as "railgun good laser bad" which itself is a derivative of "man good woman bad"

Thinking about how little sci fi uses non-rocket launch and interplanetary transit systems even when it fits perfectly Laser launch systems and interplanetary beam highways are cool as fuck

As my Day 7 (Diagram) entry, here is an infographic version describing the components and steps.

The Q-drive (and related "plasmadyne propulsion") is one of the coolest concepts I have come across. It can be used interplanetary and interstellar. It‘s a hard sci-fi *sailship*, except it can harvest energy from a different direction than it thrusts. So in IP travel it powers from solar wind.

For #toughtober Day 8 (Plasma) I made an animation illustrating how a Q-drive works. Annotated diagram to come later. Once again entirely nondestructive #scifi #space #art thanks to #blender3d #geometrynodes

guy from Mars

big set of electric RCS engines

Seconding this post. Please keep calling and mailing. ESPECIALLY if you're in Germany. If Germany flips to opposed, with how the current shakeup is looking, chatcontrol is dead in the water once again.

i made a cardboard cutout of one of my characters to use as a size reference in blender scenes

i couldn't live on a venus balloon habitat i'd be stressing out all the time over the idea of something going wrong and the whole thing and all of its occupants plummeting into the clouds below

Sharing this again because despite all of the horrors, you are not alone. MILLIONS of people around the country are standing up and saying NO, and you can join them.

i like the idea of a "tachyon drive" not as an FTL drive but instead as a handwaved regular engine just with an exhaust velocity greater than c

spinning around slowly

wormhole

Actively talk about how insane this is let people who are not online know how much this will impact them and how fucking creepy is. Stuff like this pass easily due to apathy and distractions like what’s going on in global politics. Once shit like this is in no government will chose to remove it

Early concept art for some of the girls from my WIP sci fi story. Cam is an interceptor/destroyer specialized in fast attacks and Lisse is a long range sniper and surveillance platform.

Science is dominated by male native-English-speakers with elevated affluence. It's a demographic that makes up less than 3% of the total global population. If someone wants to keep politics out of science, they are comfortable enforcing the status quo that benefits them (a small privileged group).

Here's your reminder that Meta platforms are responsible for around 85% of CSAM distributed on the internet - not porn sites, not sites that allow NSFW content, the stringently-SFW Meta platforms. www.proxyimpact.com/facebook

ftr this isn't the first time bluesky has done stupid as fuck shit. I was here in the trenches in 2023 watching them pull dumb moves and get yelled down by everyone to back down, successfully. the people running this place are not on your side but they are hilariously easy to bully. go hard.

Seeing some nuclear fusion hype on YouTube again so here's your occasional reminder that nuclear fusion will never be more practical for generating electricity than nuclear fission and is really only of interest for space propulsion systems

resting on a neutron star... the gravity pulls down like a weighted blanket, the surface is warm and the little millimetre-scale deviations are fun to run your fingers across, the view above is a hypnotising cascade of blueshifted starlight rushing overhead

*wakes up on the surface of a neutron star* Aw dammit, not again!

i wonder what the folks working on Orion's Arm think of all the youtube DnB mixes that use their art as background images without giving any kind of credit

I'm completely broke, I've been unable to meet my needs since the month began. I'd like a little food, but medications come first $60 will get me my medication, and leave me with some grocery money, my anti-consultant medication is $40 after tax w/ current GoodRX coupon any assistance helps 💙

Halo fans get madder than any other fandom when you say something in their media is unrealistic and it's crazy because Halo isn't even remotely realistic

imagine living in the universe where all of the hundreds of other types of baryons and mesons are stable and they make their own atoms and elements and people have like >200 different periodic tables to keep track of

Efil is a rly pretty starting planet

Narrow gauge "Foresight" class S20-332 Advanced Steam Tank Engine no.11513₆ of the South Lymer Railway (the SLYM) on the planet Gymnome, circa 2335 AD. #worldbuilding #train #steamtrain #trains #TrainPuzzle #TrainMisconductor #IndieDev #DigitalArt #art #slimegirl

what do you think the KSP Mystery Goo™ actually is

jeff is correct but there is an even darker, underlying evil on the board. the actual goal here is to classify *our existence* as mental illness. "should trannies be allowed to have guns" is a door they want to open because it requires "trans == ill". this is a signpost on the road to genocide.