All of Alan's art is fantastic, and the Easter eggs in the converted LOX tank / habitat are a joy.

While the percentages are off, it is closer to reality than I would often care to admit. Spinning it around can let you get insights into the geometry that fixed views don't.

Movie you have watched more than six times with a GIF, Hard Mode

With the DC-10/MD-11 grounding I had joked about this was how TriStar could still win, but I may have been hit with the dodgeball of prophecy.

🌏 If you see this, quote your blue artwork! 🔵

Yeah, this is on my wall at work.

A movie you've seen more than seven times with a gif

Sometimes people share with you some of the most awe inspiring concepts imaginable. HT to @eofpi.bsky.social for biblically accurate reusable rocket tankage. ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19...

Actually y'know, fuck my doomerism.

I have never seen this actually simulated before, thanks to Giulio Dondi for taking my suggestion! www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8aH... His abort videos are a lot of fun to watch, and this is the most extreme.

I was there, twenty years ago in the last great Verses War between the Trekkies and the Warsies....

Everyone forgets that Picard was a rabble-rouser in his youth, nearly being killed in a fight over a bar game. A fight he almost won despite being outnumbered and without his saber....

"Don't you think she looks tired?"

My interpretation of one of the "Big Mir-2" designs from the late '80s, using large modules launched by Energia. Kit-bashed from various Blender models I already had.

One frustrating element of space history is how even well documented programs can have gaps in the record that result in erroneous entries that have been widely circulated. As an example of this, I would like to explore from the shuttle program "STA-096". 1/

There are times when I imagine a vacation doing nothing but digging into archives hunting down answers to specific questions about the shuttle program, because I know the common answers are wrong & the right answers are elusive. This is funny if you know my day job.

1E38

Sometimes, you find slide decks that tell you internal studies were being made, and you want so much to be able to read those studies, but you know it is unlikely you ever will: commons.erau.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Spent quite a while going through this thread and all the replies and I am once again not surprised that not a single person pointed out that if the Internet right-wingers really cared about winning wars, they'd look to the greatest general of the 21st century: Võ Nguyên Giáp

HT to a friend who wishes to remain anonymous

More relevant than ever

I keep reading that ICE "deported" a two year old Citizen. I don't think that is the correct word. I think the proper word is EXILED. They EXILED A CITIZEN.

NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country. Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

The United States of America is child trafficking.

Only true '80s kids can name this band.

Stars are now battlefields....

Museum and Planetarium Friends, Many of you use NASA SVS material. Right now it is critical that we are able to document SVS's impact. Please let us know how you are using our content (use my email address at the bottom of this page: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov). Thank you!

There was an interesting CRS pdf released in late 2002, which discusses some of the ISS funding issues+inparticular had a really interesting portion. It reduced core Shuttle to four flights/yr but ID'd $70M marginal cost for Shuttle for other NASA program offices, which is a interesting price point.

How much did a shuttle flight cost? The marginal cost in FY02 to non-Shuttle NASA programs was just $70 Million. www.everycrsreport.com/files/200204...

I APOLOGIZE FOR NOTHING

A thousand miles from the kaleidoscopic crises engulfing the republic, the 10th Circuit issues a public land use decision with an irresistible graphic. www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/f...

This will more difficult than shooting your pet dog or goat. You are a public official and the reporters are reporting on YOUR credit card charges. #KristiNoem #FirstAmendment #RealGovernmentWaste

Alan is a fantastic artist that I truly enjoyed working with!

Trans rites are human rites

Gov. Pritzker calls out Trump's totalitarianism for what it is. Now, let us see if he stands up. If he does, then he's got a good shot at the presidency (pending free and fair elections in '28).

Well, the planned thanksgiving lamb chops smelled funny after being forgotten in the bottom of the freezer for two years (totally my fault & no one else's), so time for plan B, which is leftovers from earlier in the week.

"Mom, can we have Soyuz?" "We have Soyuz at home." Soyuz at home: (JSC 74-FM-80)

My pet fan theory on this is that Starfleet had this design for what would become the California class missions, & after building a small number realized the hulls were too small, which gets us the late Galaxy era styling of the actual Californias. I've got an affinity for this era of designs.

Thank you to Chek News for coming and catching our record-breaking full week (!!!) get!

Maybe not ever, but very funny nonetheless.

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to save you. Who is coming to save you? How saved I am is dependent on if the old man thinks of me as family...

If you're new on Bluesky - The lack of an algorithm makes it more important to follow people than it is elsewhere. I'm not suggesting that you should follow back everyone who follows you, but it's probably good to be more aggressive in following people than you would elsewhere.

For those of you new to bsky, welcome, and welcome to the world of picking up stakes and making camp somewhere new. Glad to have you along for the ride.

You should always enjoy what you enjoy the way you want to enjoy it. The corollary is that you should accept that others will do the same and your way may not be their way, and that's ok.

the problem with the Fediverse is primarily that it's like Twitter but for people who like FOSS or Linux too much

@chrisweuve.bsky.social Glad to see you make it over here!

Taking a short break to go cross-post on Threads Remember, there's no default algorithm on Bluesky – so we *really* need y'all reposting this to help spread the word! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ bsky.app/profile/greg...