Head of The Onion says they are the fifth largest newspaper in the U.S. with 70K subscribers. Having spent the early part of my working years in newspapers, that blows me away. #TikTok https://t.co/T2jjpY2NlJ
Happ Sweet 16 to my serial story, Red Stone One. Its sixteenth weekly episode went live on Patreon this morning. To celebrate 4 months, anyone can read the first three episodes until Sunday. Hopefully, you'll want to join us for the rest of the adventure.
https://t.co/arL3tEqtpF
Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
Are you following my buddy Sam's story over on Patreon yet? You should be if you're not. It's the beginning of a full-on #scifi experiment. Soon, you're going to want to be able say you were there early.
I get that baseball is a business. That the stadium and suites and everything around that are all part of that. But imagine having this stadium and thinking you need a new one.
Was 2011 the best year in recent history for science fiction book releases? Maybe.
Most of Tthese books published that year that are still part of the conversations on bookish social media.
11/22/63
Leviathan Wakes
Ready Player One
Wool
The Martian
Divergent
Robopocalypse
My buddy Sam doing his impression of a clock and posting another episode of Red Stone One this week. Get on board and join the crew over at Patreon.
https://t.co/mqrElLgUS1
Red Stone One is relaunching over on Patreon, and we're still early. Episode 3 jsut went live today, Join us now and get in early on the galaxy-hopping adventure of Anchor McClain and his rag tag crew.
https://t.co/arL3tEpVA7
The math on this image is insane.
New Horizons transmitted at 2,000 bits per second from 3 billion miles away. Slower than a 1990s dial-up modem. It took 16 months to download all the flyby data.
The spacecraft had to hit a target box 100km wide, arriving within 150 seconds of schedule, after 9 years of flight. Miss it and the preloaded observation commands point at empty space.
Ten days before arrival, the spacecraft crashed and went into safe mode. Engineers had 72 hours to restore everything.
The probe is now 5 billion miles out, still whispering data back to Earth. We got 50 gigabits of Pluto photos using technology slower than your phone’s bluetooth.