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[✮ راينر براون @dondawastaken]

What fascinates me about academic writing is that, no matter your major, Zhang et al. has probably already thought of it and written a paper on it.

[Touya! ★ @Touyarokii]

big fan of how they described the measurements here

[NASA @NASA]

Moon joy [noun]

the feeling of intense happiness and excitement that only comes from a mission to the Moon

The Artemis II crew bring us endless Moon joy.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Genuinely a better question than most people realize.

Apollo 11 left a 2-foot wide panel of mirrors on the lunar surface in 1969. No power source, no wiring, no maintenance. Scientists have been shooting lasers at it from New Mexico ever since. The beam travels 239,000 miles, bounces off the mirrors, and returns in 2.5 seconds. That round trip is how we know the moon is drifting away from Earth at 3.8 centimeters per year. So yes, in a literal sense, they were checking if it would still be there.

The seismometers are the part that gets wild. Apollo 12 deliberately crashed its lunar module into the surface at 6,048 km/h. Scientists expected a brief shudder. The moon vibrated for over 55 minutes. On Earth, seismic waves from an equivalent impact die in seconds. Nobody had predicted this. So NASA did it again. Apollo 13 dropped its S-IVB rocket stage from orbit. Hit with the force of 11.5 tons of TNT. The vibrations lasted nearly three and a half hours.

The reason is water, or the lack of it. Earth's interior is damp. Moisture in rock acts like a sponge, absorbing seismic energy. The moon is bone dry, cool, and rigid. Shockwaves have nothing to absorb them. They just bounce back and forth through solid stone until the rock itself stops vibrating. Scientists described it as the moon ringing like a bell.

The seismometers ran for almost 8 years and detected over 13,000 seismic events. Turns out the moon has four types of quakes: deep ones caused by Earth's gravitational pull, shallow ones from the crust shrinking as the interior cools, thermal ones when sunrise thaws the frozen surface, and impacts from meteorites. In 2023, Caltech reanalyzed old Apollo 17 data and found a fifth type: the lunar lander itself creaking and popping every morning as the sun heated it. Every five to six minutes, for five to seven hours straight.

They went up to prove the moon was once part of Earth, measure how fast it's leaving, and figure out what's happening inside a world with no atmosphere, no water, and no tectonic plates. "Checking if it was still there" is honestly closer to the truth than most people's actual answer.

[NASA @NASA]

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.

Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: https://t.co/rzM1P0QbOl

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Zach Cregger's ‘RESIDENT EVIL’ has reportedly been described as a “horror ‘Fury Road’” that is 90 minutes of “all gas, no brakes.”

(Source: https://t.co/xcRlsRaA0I)

[NASA @NASA]

1972 ➡️2026
Apollo 17 ➡️ Artemis II

[Neo @NeoWokio]

me trying to find the HDMI port on my TV

[clair comme leau de roche @clemrrr]

philippe qui pense gratter le vote de la gen tastycrousty avec la retraite a six seven

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First look at DreamWorks' new film ‘FORGOTTEN ISLAND’.

The film follows 2 best friends trapped in a mystical world but their only way of escape is to erase all their memories of each other.

Directed by Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado (‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’).

[Bridgerton @bridgerton]

Do not fret, dearest readers, for a certain countess shall find love again... Bridgerton Season 5 is now in production.

[Two Skateboards @TwoSk8boards]

One of the things I like about Dune is how loud and big things are. Big thing about movies is when shit is huge and loud.

[lex @_hiichans]

c’est ok de prendre une année satanique entre les années de master ou je dois me forcer à finir? pcq je sature là jen peux plus je veux une pause

[kyle @kyledxniel]

One of my favorite details about DUN3 is that the scale is *nearly* incomprehensible. I have such ridiculously high hopes that they’re gonna nail Paul’s throne room

[Jeff Zhang 张佶润 @strangeharbors]

New voice that sounds like nothing else on the planet incoming

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The first trailer for ‘DUNE: PART 3’ has been released.

In theaters on December 18.

[Tyler Glaiel @TylerGlaiel]

resident evil's an interesting series cause it feels like they have 2 entirely different kinds of games they wanna do and every new entry is just them trying to figure out a new way to do both at the same time

[Ron Iver @ronnui_]

I feel so amazing when I hear the Spring theme in Stardew after toiling through winter and that's when I realized I even get seasonal affective disorder in the game

[p✨ @profdekarios]

in bg3 terms this is like if they added alfira as a romance and then also wulbren bongle

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The first trailer for ‘THE BACKROOMS’ movie has been released.

In theaters on May 29.