Lance Lones

Professional Adventurer & Scientist for hire.

[DAW Books @dawbooks]

On The Skiffy and Fanty Show, check out this wonderful guest post by author Julie E. Czerneda, author of the Night's Edge series. Julie shares with us why she started writing cozy fantasy!

Article: https://t.co/FjkeIaNKTU
A Shift of Time: https://t.co/xdhGkJ2nAX

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!

[Lance Lones @LanceLones]

Let's get this one in a single take, okay?

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

James Burke timed up one of the greatest shots in TV history

[Lance Lones @LanceLones]

Well that was neat. ;-)

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Liftoff of Starship!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Advanced Physics Department's Christmas tree

[VisualEffectsSociety @VFXSociety]

The VES staff is happy to celebrate our almost 5,000 extraordinary members in 45+ countries! You are the #VFX visionaries & storytellers & boundary-breakers at the heart of the global entertainment industry & we salute you and our worldwide community. Happy #WorldVFXDay!

[ARCHIVED - NASA Europa Clipper @EuropaClipper]

1,000,000 🥳

Meet Hannah – poet, artist, aspiring astronaut, and the MILLIONTH Earthling to join our #SendYourName campaign and have their name sent to Jupiter's mysterious moon Europa next year!

Are you on board yet? You have until Dec. 31: https://t.co/iykqaf28kf

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

My eldest asked if Santa was real, so I taught her about Occam’s razor.

“Which is likelier: that Santa is real, or that millions of adults are in a global conspiracy to fool children into thinking he is? I remind you that you and your sister can’t keep secrets.”

[Lance Lones @LanceLones]

Well that’s not bad is it?

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship preparing to launch as early as November 17, pending final regulatory approval → https://t.co/bJFjLCiTbK

[NASA Solar System @NASASolarSystem]

Lucy, you’ve surprised us again

New images from the #LucyMission’s first asteroid flyby show that a satellite, already unexpected, is made of two objects – a contact binary. This is the first time we’ve seen a contact binary orbiting another asteroid. https://t.co/NwQfI6k7qz

[Lance Lones @LanceLones]

#random #flower #newzealand

[Lance Lones @LanceLones]

Todays fence check companion #newzealand rocks

[ESO @ESO]

Do you remember the Great Dimming Event of #Betelgeuse? Between 2019 & 2020, the red supergiant star visibly faded, and many thought that it was going supernova! 💥 

In our image, however, Betelgeuse appears brighter during that time. Why is that? 👇 1/3

[Lance Lones @LanceLones]

Earthquakes with exaggerated depth https://t.co/4XPKVxL19D

[Lance Lones @LanceLones]

People around the world are invited to sign their names to a poem written by the U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. The poem will be on board the Europa Clipper spacecraft as it travels 1.8 billion miles to explore Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. Words and space! Who doesn’t love that!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Someone thought the spectrum of a movie could be a good idea. And it is: this is the average colour of each frame of several films

[see more: https://t.co/B2isTEWFpP]

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Left: how humans see starlings.
Right: how starlings may see each other - with bolder markings and more colour.

The amazing world of UV vision, seen through the eyes of…. birds.

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

A group of rays is called a fever.

📽: alexkyddphoto/ig

[Interesting Engineering @IntEngineering]

On the second day of @MakerFaireRome 2023, our team interviews a member of the Polito Sailing Team about racing boats that can fly.