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[SMX 🇺🇸 @iam_smx]

“Go to therapy or send a huge stainless steel to orbit for 20+ hours”

Monsieur Elon Musk:

[Deus Ex Machina @nishkidoonoo]

I wonder what the vibes are like on bluesky rn?

[JoshWest247 ⚡️ @JoshWest247]

America won HUGE today @elonmusk

[AleXandra Merz @TeslaBoomerMama]

Asking for a friend ...

[˙.✮⋆˚࿔ @pillowspiee]

forever in love with the night sky

[SkySciGuy @SkySciGuy]

Apple's first smart display is here. Unless you live in the EU.

HomeView went on sale Friday for $299. It's a 7-inch screen on a speaker base (or a wall-mounted version for the same price) running the new Siri AI.

What it does:
- Recognizes up to six people by face and shows each one their own messages and calendar
- FaceTime with a 12MP Center Stage camera
- Controls lights, locks and thermostats
- Answers questions about whatever is on the screen

The catch: Apple isn't selling it in the EU, because Siri AI isn't available in iOS there yet. Apple says it's working with the EU on a way forward.

On launch day, delivery from Apple was already backed up to early December, per 9to5Mac.

Would you put one in your kitchen?

[SkySciGuy @SkySciGuy]

A dead star 5,000 light-years away is sending out a radio flash every 7.9 minutes. Like clockwork.

It's a white dwarf, the leftover core of a star that died. Its partner is a star a lot like our Sun.

Astronomers have found about a dozen of these blinking "long-period transients" since 2021. The ones traced to star pairs so far had small, cool red dwarfs as partners. This is the first time radio pulses have been seen from a white dwarf orbiting a Sun-like star.

The pulses are so clean the team could watch the white dwarf move along its 32-hour orbit. They even used the flashes to spot flares and a giant loop of plasma on the Sun-like star.

Found with the MWA telescope in Australia, pinned down by MeerKAT in South Africa, confirmed by Keck in Hawaii. Published in Nature Astronomy.

If you picked up a radio ping every 8 minutes from deep space, what would you think it was?

[SkySciGuy @SkySciGuy]

SpaceX has now said more about why the booster was lost.

The company's Flight 15 page says Booster 22 relit 32 of the 33 engines planned for the boostback burn. That burn ended early because of low fuel mass. The root cause is still under investigation.

The booster's guidance system then triggered an automatic abort, because it was not in the right place for a catch, and sent it out over the Gulf. It did a landing burn and hovered, then the engines cut off and the flight termination system fired. SpaceX's Kate Tice said early indications point to a low fuel mass alarm, and that the booster followed safety protocols and protected the pad.

SpaceX is still digging into how it got there.

Does a fuel problem that stopped the booster, while the ship still made it home, change how you see this flight?

[SkySciGuy @SkySciGuy]

Now everything changes.

That is how SpaceX is describing Flight 15. Overnight the company posted that Starship lifted off from Starbase on Friday, came back on Saturday, and changed everything. On the webcast, SpaceX's Dan Huot called the catch "the missing link" and "the holy grail of spaceflight, plummeting through fire to be snatched out of the air by steel."

SpaceX has caught Super Heavy three times before. It had never caught the ship, and never brought one home from orbit. The company says catching it at the tower is how you inspect it, fix it, and fly it again quickly. There is still no date for Flight 16, and the booster was lost, so a double catch is still ahead.

Does the first ship catch make fully reusable Starship feel close, or still far off?

[SkySciGuy @SkySciGuy]

Ship 42 looks great.

Elon Musk posted that overnight, a few hours after the catch, with video of the ship hanging in the chopsticks. He went up the tower to inspect it himself. Later he wrote, "I hugged ship 42 upon its return."

This is the first close look at a Starship that has come back from orbit. Before the landing, SpaceX said cameras on the ground and on some of the Starlink satellites it had just deployed showed the heat shield in good shape for reentry. Musk's first look after the catch is that it looks great. That is not a full inspection report, and SpaceX has not said whether this ship will fly again.

What would you want them to check first on a ship that just came home from space?

[Astro Desires @AstroDesires]

These dates will go down in history.

[Sanket Savani @Marswalkerr]

We are going multiplanetary baby 🔥

[SkySciGuy @SkySciGuy]

They caught the ship.

Ship 42 is hanging in the chopsticks at Starbase. After more than 21 hours in orbit, Starship came back from space and the tower grabbed it. SpaceX just confirmed it: Mechazilla catches Starship.

This is the first time a Starship ship has ever been caught. The mission lasted about 22 and a half hours. Super Heavy was lost in the Gulf yesterday, so this was not the double catch SpaceX was aiming for. The new part still worked.

How does catching the ship on the first try change how you rate this flight?

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

We are officially one day closer to Mars today.

[SkySciGuy @SkySciGuy]

~26,409 KPH SHE’S COMING IN HOT

[SkySciGuy @SkySciGuy]

@SpxsiSuperHeavy The amount of posts I’ve seen about people thinking its a UFO is driving me insane

[Orbital Brief @SpxsiSuperHeavy]

No shot there’s people who believe Starship is a UFO lol. I forget there’s people who don’t even know starship exists.

[Ultra Hot Wings @UltraHotWings]

@BouncerForFeed Ooh, can you make an app that auto-blocks anti-AI retards as well?

[️𝜗ৎ @sthezya]

basicamente onde passo a maior parte do meu tempo livre