Nick Wall

I love long walks on the beach and political debates.

[Nick Wall @thenickwall]

@realDonaldTrump Politics aside, jut make a poll. You can do that now. Then you’d see what people actually think instead of making up your own poll numbers. Just be warned, if you actually figure out how to make a poll, you may not always get the outcome you want.

[Nick Wall @thenickwall]

@Erdayastronaut @thecyberfam @Erdayastronaut Don’t listen to this guy. I have multiple streams up at every launch. I really appreciate your down-to-earth perspective and ability to explain things in detail in a simple way. I’ve been around since the beginning and your stream is always front and center.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Three years since the first flight of Starship, the next generation is here. New ship. New booster. New engines. New pad and new test site. SpaceX engineers are working to solve one of the most difficult engineering challenges in history: developing a fully, rapidly reusable rocket

[Nick Wall @thenickwall]

@TheFastFoodProf @bruce_barrett RIP Felix.

[Erik Kuna 🚀 @erikkuna]

This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet.

The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation
with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy.

There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one.

That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure.

📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center

[Nick Wall @thenickwall]

@MDT_Diabetes I finally got a call back sonething like 10 hours later for the first call. And of course I ran into the gas station when they called. I got a call back a few hours after that got the last queue position and finally talked to someone.

[Nick Wall @thenickwall]

@MDT_Diabetes I’ve been on hold with support for almost 4 hours total in the last two days and put my number in queue three times with no phone call back.

[Nick Wall @thenickwall]

@MDT_Diabetes Why have I been on hold for so long? This is crazy.

[Nick Wall @thenickwall]

@RepDustyJohnson What does timber production have to do with your constituents?

[Gene @SpaceBasedFox]

Gonna drop a bunch of media that he's posted as sort of an archive. A lot of this stuff probably wasn't allowed to be posted in the first place, but it's already out there so I don't see the harm in it

[Nick Wall @thenickwall]

@Sec_Noem You and your add campaigns…

[Nick Wall @thenickwall]

@RepDustyJohnson @KristiNoem I thought she wasn’t going to ever leave SD for a federal role…

[Nick Wall @thenickwall]

@cowboylikeoli @kevin626 @kathyf @JeremiahDJohns @NunChucksky @JJ_McCullough But private entity or not, platforms can still be destructive. A bomb is destructive whether it’s made by you or the government. There needs to be more regulation around social media, no matter who makes it.

[Nick Wall @thenickwall]

@kevin626 @kathyf @cowboylikeoli @JeremiahDJohns @NunChucksky @JJ_McCullough This is what I was trying to get at before this thread blew up. I think all social media is dabgerous, if not used responsibly, and they all collect obscene amounts of data that are then sold to the highest bidder. How is it a problem for only one app?

[Nick Wall @thenickwall]

@nominalthoughts @JeremiahDJohns I’m not saying it’s the only solution. But I’m not entirely sold on the US government controlling how citizens take in media and information either. Playing the devils advocate, shutting down any app dissolves thousands of valid communities where people seek belonging and help.

[Nick Wall @thenickwall]

@bendreyfuss @Freezedruu @urLocal_Popeyes @JeremiahDJohns Know how to do it**

[Nick Wall @thenickwall]

@bendreyfuss @Freezedruu @urLocal_Popeyes @JeremiahDJohns Let the adults talk, man. I know joe to do it. I just didn’t have the want or need to do it at work while trying to make an honest wage.

[Nick Wall @thenickwall]

@SarahDoesKC @JeremiahDJohns @NunChucksky @JJ_McCullough That makes sense. And it’d be impossible to tell whether something is organically curated vs inserted by someone else.

[Nick Wall @thenickwall]

@PeterHamby I don’t know what you’re smoking. I’ve seen posts about this on every media/social media platform. I thought you were a good reporter, but lately you just keep fearmongering like the rest of them.

[Nick Wall @thenickwall]

@urLocal_Popeyes @JeremiahDJohns That is super interesting. I will read it tonight when I get home.