Michael G Albrecht

Smart Infrastructure research, writing and media services. Freelance smart cities, smart grid, renewable energy, big data writer-researcher.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Philip Bono's impressive single-stage-to-orbit concept design from the 1960s, the "Hyperion," captivated the aerospace industry with a horizontal takeoff and vertical landing (HTVL) sled that provided a 300 m/s boost.

[🎞️ hazegrayart]
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[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

- Richard Feynman

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

Our beautiful Earth as seen on September 1st by the DSCOVR satellite 🌏

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

The moons Io and Europa passing by Jupiter, caught by Cassini
NASA

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

If you ever get lost in the Milky Way galaxy, this is your map to get back to EARTH.

📸 Pablo Carlos Budassi

[Ethan Siegel @StartsWithABang]

Like everyone, I'm in awe of what @NASAWebb has been discovering.

And I'm honored to announce that @NatGeo has chosen me to author the first official National Geographic/JWST book: Infinite Cosmos!

It releases on October 8, 2024, and I've just received the cover art!

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Images showing the dust and cosmic rays on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko with stars moving in the background.

These images were filmed back in 2016 by European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft Rosetta using OSIRIS (Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System).

If history has taught me anything, it's that humans are capable of doing horrible things, but when we want to, we're also capable of incredible feats like this one. It's part of the reason why I remain hopeful of our future despite the state of the world these days. Every time I read the news, I get a deep sinking feeling in my chest and everything seems overwhelming.

Strangely enough, when I look at these images of a comet flying around millions of miles away, I feel tranquility. I stop worrying about what I can't control. In the grand scheme of things we're just a tiny spec in the history of the grand cosmos. We'll come and go like everything else. Just a few thousand years ago, we were telling stories around a fire in caves. And now, here we are, capable of engineering a probe to land on a 4 km space rock going at 130,000 km/h, taking photos, and beaming it back to earth so that we can view them from the palm of our hands. Nothing cooler than that.

[NASA @NASA]

LIVE: Tune in for a prelaunch briefing with updates on @BoeingSpace's #Starliner Crew Flight Test, scheduled to lift off for the @Space_Station at 12:25pm (1625 UTC) on Saturday, June 1. https://t.co/3kqLHYtaJN

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

On June 4th, a rare event known as the Parade of Planets will occur.

6 planets + the crescent Moon will align in a straight line.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Admiral McRaven explains at a University of Texas, Austin commencement speech why making your bed everyday may be the best way to start off your day.

[Edgar ONeal @EdgarONealWX]

Tornado deleting windmills close to Williamson, Iowa @ReedTimmerUSA #wxtwitter

[fatma karume aka Shangazi @fatma_karume]

How to fight for democracy in the shadow of autocracy (Fatma Karume | TED Democracy) https://t.co/z6vNcBuBbT via @TEDTalks

[Reed Timmer, PhD @ReedTimmerUSA]

LIVE update on a TEXTBOOK setup for gorilla hail from Texas to Alabama, but especially Texas including DFW and the I-20 corridor south to the Hill Country. Stay tuned and keep those vehicles parked in the garage! I suggest wearing a bike helmet all day today in the purple circled area!

[NASA @NASA]

Where will you be when @BoeingSpace #Starliner launches?

Check out the @ULAlaunch visibility map to see if you will be in the historic launch's line of sight! If not, make sure to tune into our broadcast on May 6 at 6:30pm ET (2230 UTC): https://t.co/LDc8N1YYPO

[Reed Timmer, PhD @ReedTimmerUSA]

Powerful destructive #tornado intercepted in Westmoreland, Kansas search and rescue with extreme damage

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

This iconic photograph is still considered one of the most-terrifying space photographs to date. Astronaut Bruce McCandless II became the first human being to do a spacewalk without a safety tether linked to a spacecraft. In 1984, he floated completely untethered in space with nothing but his Manned Maneuvering Unit keeping him alive.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

metamorphosis of a tadpole into a frog.

📹Harry Warne

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

A family makes way for a gibbon swinging across the rope bridge as it roams free at Monkeyland Primate Sanctuary in South Africa.

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Einstein explains his formula E=mc².