Joe Brooks

Software Quality Assurance engineer interested in space missions, science & technology, music, playing drums, fast cars, sci-fi, and chess.

[SPACE.com @SPACEdotcom]

The European-Japanese BepiColombo mission will begin its drawn-out Mercury arrival phase on Sept. 3, and you can watch the action live. https://t.co/XKOmqVMuWi

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Conservation of energy is not a rule, it is a consequence ✍️

Everyone learns in school that energy cannot be created or destroyed. In 1918 Emmy Noether proved something deeper: that this is true only because the laws of physics work the same way today as they did yesterday. Every conservation law turns out to be a symmetry in disguise.

Energy is conserved because the laws do not care what time it is; momentum is conserved because they do not care where you are; angular momentum is conserved because they do not care which way you are facing. Break the symmetry and the conservation law goes with it, which is why in an expanding universe, where there is no fixed sense of the same moment everywhere, there is no meaningful way to add up the total energy at all. Noether did this work while unpaid, having been denied a university position on the grounds of her sex, and lecturing at Göttingen under Hilbert's name.

[The Beatles Bible 🍏 @beatlesbible]

1 September 1965:

Paul McCartney and George Harrison visit a Byrds recording session.

The session ends when the Beatles' former press officer Derek Taylor narrowly averts an FBI drugs bust!

Read the full story here:

https://t.co/g956GIGpeE

[DIÁRIO DOS BEATLES @Diario_Beatles]

The happiness written on face of John Lennon as he holds Sean Lennon in 1975.
*Photo Bob Gruen*

[Beatles Archive @BeatlesArchive2]

The #Beatles TV's Late Scene Extra television show, November 25, 1963.

[Joe Brooks @JoeBrooks42]

@SierraSpaceCo Great news. Dream Chaser should provide some unique capabilities that the US civilian space program has been lacking since the retirement of the Space Shuttle.

[Sierra Space @SierraSpaceCo]

Today, we're excited to share that on a single mission, Dream Chaser® will serve national security, commercial, and civil customers, proving out an operational model where one platform supports the full range of America's space priorities.

"As the space domain has become increasingly contested, Dream Chaser has evolved into exactly what America needs: a strategic national capability built on commercial innovation and investment," said our CEO, Daniel Jablonsky. "We're not just talking about the multi-use space economy, we're operating it."

We built Dream Chaser—America's Spaceplane®—to be a commercial, reusable, runway-capable spaceplane, engineered for deployable wings, hypersonic flight control, autonomous reentry, and sub-1.5g runway landings.

Press Release: https://t.co/usX39gPzjb

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Quantum mechanics, that mysterious, confusing discipline, which none of us really understands but which we know how to use. It works perfectly, as far as we can tell, in describing physical reality, but it is a ‘counter-intuitive discipline’, as social scientists would say. Quantum mechanics is not a theory, but rather a framework, within which we believe any correct theory must fit.

-- Murray Gell-Mann
📷 Gell-Mann and Feynman at Caltech, 1959. Courtesy of Caltech Archives

[Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astro_jaz]

if y’all wanna read about it so you know i don’t spread misinformation
https://t.co/rkrrZ1ORKc

[The Beatles Earth @BeatlesEarth]

Today in 1967, all four Beatles met at Paul's home to discuss the future of the band after their manager Brian Epstein's untimely death.

They devised a plan to move forward with a project called "Magical Mystery Tour" and decided to postpone a trip to India until later on…

[Beatlesfab4ever @Beatlesfab40]

The Beatles - 'Things We Said Today' live from their first US tour 1964.
#Beatles #TheBeatles

[The Beatles Story @beatlesstory]

From all of us at The Beatles Story, we're wishing a huge congratulations to Sean Ono Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl on the birth of their son, John Lennon's grandson, Aurelius

Image credit: Sean Ono Lennon

@seanonolennon

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“If you lived two or three millennia ago, there was no shame in holding that the Universe was made for us. It was an appealing thesis consistent with everything we knew; it was what the most learned among us taught without qualification. But we have found out much since then.

Defending such a position today amounts to willful disregard of the evidence, and a flight from self-knowledge.”

— Carl Sagan

[Julian Lennon @JulianLennon]

🙏

[Joe Brooks @JoeBrooks42]

@JulianLennon Agreed

[Robert Picardo @RobertPicardo]

On Sept. 8th, I'll celebrate #StarTrek 's 60th Birthday as well as its long friendship with #ThePlanetarySociety , which #GeneRoddenberry himself initiated in 1980 ! I am proud of my long association with both!

[The Beatles Earth @BeatlesEarth]

“Gimmie Some Truth” - John Lennon (1971)

[Albums You Must Hear @Albums2Hear]

#albumsyoumusthear The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - 1967

[Beatles Archive @BeatlesArchive2]

The #Beatles May 1, 1966, Empire Pool, Wembley London

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals.”

— Albert Einstein