cubinator

I played a harpsichord for the first time today. It was kind of great but also kind of weird. I also played this organ. That was great.

Having breasts, producing milk to feed young is a property solely held by mammals - hence the name. Birds are dinosaurs, not mammals.

To avoid spamming. Cue @Snark with a page-long essay elaborating on my three word explanation. (just kidding, you don't have to.)

Maybe because birds don't produce milk?

I think it is possible for individual users to decide whether they want to be followable in profile settings.

Astronauts generally get a limited supply of 'special' food for special occasions, for Mars this would have to either have the shelf life to last the mission or grow on some plant in situ (fresh food will be very valuable) so I am sure a Mars bar will make it up there eventually. Here's some food for thought: Many people who will go to Mars are currently young people who look at memes. They will be experts at meme-making, and will be able to construct a treasure trove of Mars memes -- Martian memes -- even on their own.

Purple sunsets are a win. Here's one showing layering in the upper clouds:

I got to talk with retired Shuttle astronaut Curt Brown today! He is very excited for our generation which will get to go to Mars and go to space more frequently, and offered some gold advice for aspiring astronauts. It doesn't matter what you study as long as you do what you love. They won't seek you out to become an astronaut, if you want to do it you have to apply - and you might as well. If something is worth doing, give it your all.

I didn't know those existed until just now and now my day is infinitely better.

I see. Yes, you're right about that in some ways, but seeing as how the nickname "Creepio" has made it into the canon everything is forgiven. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_Van_Winkle It seems there was a Washington Irving who wrote about a man who fell asleep for twenty years and missed the American Revolution, but the technological and societal changes would be much more drastic today. I think it's worth revisiting.

That looks exactly how it was explained in Disney's Han Solo movie though.

Very interesting. They knew coal was not going to last, but perhaps didn't know of a way to harness solar energy yet? That seems like the more likely path than making everything water-based. Many of these assumptions, while mostly on the right track, were made to extremes, which is unrealistic. (Particularly those about food.) I find it curious that they didn't consider airplane-like travel, or even rocket travel to be a potential for popular mobilization. Scientists at the time surely knew that a vehicle that glides like a bird would be possible to construct, and the possibility of rocket travel to the Moon had already been outlined in scientific papers before 1900. I would very much enjoy bringing an interested person here from the past to show them all around, what we can do today, , what is coming next, and what has happened in between. Would make a great book...

You don't need an account on Imgur to host pictures there. There should be a "New Post" button somewhere on the page, that should just work.

No, he's just finally turning into Iron Man.

OOF! The __________ is bent.

This really happened, didn't it?

I think so. Wait, three? I thought there were four. TUBM is allergic to shellfish.

Hmmmmm,....

Hahahahahahaha! I would be scared too... ________________ I got to play a big pipe organ for a few minutes today. I will try to get in with the music school to keep playing, maybe I'll even write the modern solar system suite for organ? (I've been planning that for a long time, just felt ready to start Mercury yesterday...)

*warps to https://www.rocketlabusa.com/careers/positions/*

I imagine when the engines cut out it's like being on an elevator when it starts to go down. When acceleration is constant your brain isn't panicking, but when you feel jerk (the derivative of acceleration) upwards you feel like you're falling. The astronauts on the Moon were fine because you get used to any constant acceleration. Once you're floating for a moment, you'd probably only be dizzy. Congrats! I have a vague feeling that while logically I just want to do it once, there is a part of me that will get up off the ground afterwards and say "again, again!"

Plastic ferns count.

Yes, maybe, maybe.

Remember, falling and weightlessness are one and the same. Think of the astronauts bouncing and spinning and enjoying themselves in their respective reference frames. And of course it's going to seem like a terrible idea when you've got one foot out of a damn airplane. That's just part of the experience.

Very cool! I might like to try skydiving someday. Probably just once, though...