homospacien

🏳️‍🌈 Humanist. Cat and dog lady 😺 🐶 🐦

[homospacien @RootBerryJelly]

@dufitalexis1 Wisteria can behave the same way. My neighbor planted some many years ago and has since moved. That stuff has spread across/under our yard and into everyone's trees. Impossible to stop the root systems. I curse him every day in my mind. You suck, BOB

[homospacien @RootBerryJelly]

@ianhanomansing How does Christina feel about being an overnight straight lesbian icon?

[molzy @molzysketch]

she thinks she’s helping the Artemis II land…

[homospacien @RootBerryJelly]

@HappyHumanX @NASA 😹😻

[homospacien @RootBerryJelly]

@901Lulu @FLHeatherGator @lauraingle Wow, really? That's huge.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

NASA has 32 cameras on the Artemis II spacecraft. The top science priority during the Moon flyby was the four astronauts looking out the window and talking about what they saw.

NASA's lunar science lead confirmed it. What the crew says out loud about the Moon's surface matters more to the science team than anything the cameras capture. NASA trained this crew in Iceland's volcanic highlands and at an impact crater in Labrador, Canada, teaching them to read rock textures and spot geological details at 25,000 mph.

There's a reason NASA trusts human eyes over cameras. In 1972, Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt was walking near a small crater called Shorty when he scuffed the dirt with his boot. The soil underneath was orange. Schmitt was the only trained geologist to ever walk on the Moon, and he got so excited he blurred most of his own photos. That orange soil turned out to be tiny glass beads from a volcanic eruption 3.64 billion years ago, one of the biggest finds of the entire Apollo program. A boot and a pair of trained eyes caught what no camera did.

For this flyby, NASA sent the crew a final list of 30 surface targets. They killed all the cabin lights to cut window reflections. They worked in pairs, rotating every 55 to 85 minutes, calling out craters and lava flows while scientists at Johnson Space Center analyzed everything in real time. Pilot Victor Glover reported that the Moon's south pole, where NASA wants to land astronauts by 2028, looked "more jagged" than the north with much steeper terrain. One observation from a human eye at 4,070 miles could shape where the next crew touches down.

At 6:44 PM Eastern, Orion slipped behind the far side and went radio silent for 40 minutes. Four people, completely cut off from every other human alive, the Moon blocking every signal back to Earth. The last time humans experienced that was December 1972.

They broke the all-time distance record on the way. Apollo 13 held it for 56 years at 248,655 miles from Earth. Artemis II passed that mark and kept going to 252,760. Jim Lovell, who commanded Apollo 13 and held that record his whole life, died last August at 97, eight months before these four beat it. Before he died, Lovell recorded a message for the crew. "Welcome to my old neighborhood," he told them. "Don't forget to enjoy the view."

The crew named two craters during the flyby. One for their spacecraft, Integrity. The other, Carroll, for Commander Reid Wiseman's late wife, a nurse who cared for newborns and died of cancer in 2020 at 46. Wiseman has raised their two daughters alone since. When Jeremy Hansen read the name to Mission Control, his voice broke. The crew hugged. Wiseman and Koch wiped tears. Then they got back to work, because they still had hours of Moon left to map with their eyes.

[homospacien @RootBerryJelly]

@abuzaidpk @Astropartigirl The interior panel of the spacecraft.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Tura Satana on Russ Meyer's love for b00bs & his feminist worldview:

"He loved the big b00bs, and anybody he found that had b00bs bigger or better was there. But Russ always had this special respect for women. When we were on location, there were certain rules. I think I'm the only one who broke his rule about no sex on the set.

I would say he was a feminist. He loved to make women look good. I have never seen any of the gals in his films look bad. And the men in his movies were always incapacitated in some way. They were either in a wheelchair or on crutches or short of a full deck. He liked to make women strong, make them feel that they were empowered.

[He wanted to glorify women] And he always made sure there was a moral. The good always won out over evil. You will find that in any of his films."

("The Man Who Really, Really Loved Women", Chris Gore, 2004)

Remembering Russ Meyer, on his 104th birthday!

Clip from:

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
Director: Russ Meyer

[homospacien @RootBerryJelly]

@Slam_duncc @BrianEntin Going the way of Ashleigh Banfield. Disappointing.

[homospacien @RootBerryJelly]

@TheDailyShow Stop copyright striking every creator for showing court footage, man

[homospacien @RootBerryJelly]

@AddiRue @katieesquire How the hell did she get a seat? Nate Eaton didn't even get one until the verdict reading when one opened up.

[homospacien @RootBerryJelly]

@NateNewsNow How did you not get a seat but Lauren Matthias did?

[homospacien @RootBerryJelly]

@mabeytomorrow @jaybronious 🤣🤣

[homospacien @RootBerryJelly]

@Rozbud12 @jaybronious How the fuck did she get a seat? Wasn't seating for family and media only?

[homospacien @RootBerryJelly]

@DrAllyLouks Crocus? Beautiful, Maple!

[homospacien @RootBerryJelly]

@Fashi0nReCap @PopCrave I literally lol'd for a solid minute

[homospacien @RootBerryJelly]

@901Lulu God damn that's awful

[homospacien @RootBerryJelly]

@Mindabeez82Bee Kouri Poorins. Omg. Thank you.

[homospacien @RootBerryJelly]

@BrianEntin Brian please get some sunscreen!

[homospacien @RootBerryJelly]

@david_protein Please make one without maltitol. Makes some (a lot of) people shit their pants.