having a really really really hard night tonight but will try this (made easier by having a jumbo plush cheetah to actually cuddle) and will report back whether it helps

No they aren't. No they didn't. Who are these even for? Who's watching? The first is some generic script giving info about the mission (read like the narrator was seeing it for the first time as they were saying it), and the second is literally just the NASA post launch conference, re-uploaded.

"Victor are we go/no-go for lunar orbit?" "Sorry Reid, I just got a mail saying I haven't done my ransomware awareness training. It was due end of March? So I'm doing that now. Then timesheets. Just got the reminder."

I understand everyone talking about Challenger trauma watching the A2 launch, I do. But on Artemis we have a robust LAS that can pull the astronauts on top the rocket away to safety should anything bad start happening behind them. One of the benefits of a capsule design.

"Humanity's next great voyage begins" #Artemis

If you watched the live NASA channel and all the NASA programming you’ve gotta give it up to some of the best science commentators in the business. NASA is absolutely masterful at this and it’s important to note this is a priority for them. Not many other govt orgs do this level of public education.

sitting here fuming at my work laptop because the task manager crashed when i opened it to try to close other programs that had crashed and the thought occurs to me that at least i'm not hurtling away from planet earth at twenty five thousand miles an hour right now

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

In space no one can hear you Teams.

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

Today was surreal. I've been working on Orion for 6 years. I know people who've been working on it much longer. It felt like today would never come. Even standing at Kennedy Space Center, listening to terminal count, it didn't seem real.

I'm sobbing, literally sobbing. Such a profound, hopeful moment. We can STILL do this stuff. We can STILL come together for big things. We aren't completely broken. Thank you, NASA, for this moment.

Artemis II lifts off

NASA is honestly one of the greatest things humans have ever created, the stuff of math and dreams

If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.

the level of pent-up horniness for a rocket launch that doesn't benefit or involve elon musk exceeds even my high expectations

I went back to capture what the astronauts said in full when the clock was stopped at T-10 minutes and they were asked if they were go for launch: This is Victor. We are going for our families. This is Christina. We are going for our teammates. This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.

Artemis 2 countdown clock is now counting down.

libs just won IT phishing test emails in the culture war

I think a furry rave underneath Space Shuttle Atlantis at the KSC VC (à la Yuri's Night) would be sick as hell and well within the realm of the possible, but that's unfortunately far too adjacent to my actual real life job for me to have any significant role in organizing.

damn, i just knew i was forgetting something!

it happens

imagine being a RETVRN guy but for 'cursive in schools' instead of cool ass translucent electronics

I think "Midwestern spring" is my new favorite smell.

The No. 1 reason aviation is so safe is that there are at least two of absolutely everything, redundancies on the redundancies. No single human should have ever been expected to perform this perfectly, it isn’t possible and shouldn’t even be legal. We need hearings now.

the only thing i did successfully today was exist

this would be a great place to die

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

texting with my upstairs neighbor

<I'm sorry you have to do all this. I'm sorry... we can't play together.> <No one ever plays with you.> #CherubArt

Open the strait. Stop letting it be closed.

geopolitical equivalent of racking the slide on a shotgun to get everyone to chill the fuck out unfortunately they're dealing with the two countries where "I thought he had a gun" will let you get away with murder

When Americans were asked to temporarily sacrifice going to their barbers so we could keep the morgues from overflowing, people with guns stormed the Michigan capitol.

flight reflex

restless

One of the funny things that keeps happening in spaceflight is that the RL10 just will not die out. Every time that someone has tried to replace that engine with something better, Aerojet just makes a better RL10. Anyways you'll never believe what Aerojet did again lol.

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Riding Through the Thick of It. Minneapolis, Minnesota

a nice thing about when the internet was a bunch of little sites and servers was that it was a lot harder for governments to pressure "the chat provider everyone uses" to implement age verification. you wanna pressure 300 separate IRC servers? good luck with that. but one company? easy

Found some old DINOSAUR photos tonight. Turns out the closure did not, in fact, provide closure.

I would kill for a re-render / remaster of the POP/STARS music video at native resolution (no letterboxing) in proper HDR10. My minimal 3D HDR experience tells me this would be a huge pain if the project wasn't designed for that from the beginning, but wow would that be a great HDR test video.

Holy shit I finally got to see it in person!

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

Sometimes you just have to go. Letting the birdsong call your broken heart home to the starlight that birthed you.✨ Feeling this piece rather strongly today.

Did you attend TASKMAST:3R at MFF on Thursday night? Do you have ANY videos from the show?! Send them to me! We'd love to include them in the final episode! DM me here or on Telegram (@astroftl) and we'll coordinate!

MFF finally broke my streak of like 6 cons in a row where I didn't bring my camera. I admittedly took VERY FEW photos this past weekend, but the few that I did I'll try to get online this week!

Genuine question for people who want to disable bookmarks: is it just knowing that someone has saved it that bothers you? Because anything posted publicly can be bookmarked (in browser) or saved / downloaded regardless, without you knowing. At least with the bookmarks feature, you know about it.

Thank u, good night

Reminder: this TASKMAST:3R poster (signed by the whole cast and crew!) will be available in the LIVE auction, 11 AM Sunday in... well would you look at that, room 33!