Abankita

Wandering in the vastness of the cosmos

[ppp. @electro_pppp]

Being a woman is getting good offers and still having to rethink cuz the location isn't safe. It is about convincing your family that you'll be safe all the while convincing your own mind that you will somehow make it.

[Abankita @abankita05]

Got selected as one of the few International delegates to attend this event in South Korea but only if there was enough time to get visa approved 🥲 This is one of the wildest dreams of mine that got true though. Truly grateful!

[Abankita @abankita05]

Got selected as one of the few International delegates to attend this event in South Korea but only if there was enough time to get visa approved 🥲 This is one of the wildest dreams of mine that got true though. Truly grateful!

[Abankita @abankita05]

@AbhinavXJ Hola

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@Arnesh_24 Wow so cool

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Got rewarded for a little side quest <33

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@Arnesh_24 @KnoxCodex Okay will check that. Thank you!

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@Arnesh_24 @KnoxCodex I have used runpod's secure cloud before. Their community cloud is cheaper. Is there any trade off?

[Abankita @abankita05]

@Arnesh_24 Hey! Nice to see your progress there. Even I applied for the fellowship but couldn't make it. Keep updating about your learnings, they are helpful!

[Abankita @abankita05]

@malliktwts It's an offline internship at their visual computing and robotics lab. And there is no stipend. Professor seems fine. His research interests aligns with my interests. And thanks for taking time out to help!

[Abankita @abankita05]

Is interning at NIT Delhi worth it?

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@malliktwts Yes there is

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@skitzocat It actually did for me today 😭

[Abankita @abankita05]

@_khusheyyy Omgg yes this is one of my favourite images from the crew!

[Daniel @danielholkss]

I don’t really understand the maths it takes to send humans behind the Moon and bring them back safely. And the more I sit with that, the more it genuinely messes with my head even tho my love for physics and my knowledge of physics is astounding to a point

Somebody had to work out a path where the Moon’s gravity is pulling you in, the Earth is pulling you back, and you’re moving just fast enough and not slow enough not to get trapped by either. They had to figure out the exact angle to come back into Earth’s atmosphere too. Too steep, you burn up. Too shallow, you bounce off and drift into space. And they had to get all of that right at the same time, for real people sitting in a small metal capsule about 400k kilometres away from home.

Nothing in that system is standing still.
The Moon is moving.
The Earth is moving.
Even the Sun is pulling on everything. And still, some people looked at all of that motion, all of that chaos, and turned it into numbers you can follow. Go here.
Adjust here.
Come back here.
And unlike nepa light, it infact works.

There’s also that moment in the journey where the crew passes behind the Moon. No contact with Earth. No signal. Just silence, with a massive rock blocking everything they’ve ever known. The only reason they can stay calm in that moment is because someone, somewhere, did the maths and proved they’ll come out the other side.

I don’t know what it feels like to trust something that much. To put your life in an equation when you’re that far away from everything.

But I do know this for sure, whatever that level of thinking is, whatever it takes to reach it, it might be one of the most extraordinary things human beings have ever done...

[Abankita @abankita05]

Dropping bangers after bangers 😭🥹

[NASA Artemis @NASAArtemis]

The eclipse from Orion.

On April 6, external cameras attached to the Orion spacecraft's solar array wings captured the Moon backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse.

[Abankita @abankita05]

@astro_jaz Yes 🥹

[Abankita @abankita05]

This. Omggggg