Space Koala
@culpable_mink
Space memes, fusion schemes, and x-fundie dreams Recurrent laryngeal nerve's #1 defender
I will tolerate recurrent laryngeal nerve slander no longer! It's actually the result of several elegant solutions to difficult problems in embryology, and the length is a non-issue. A 🧵 1/13
My meager education in biology and evolution gave me the mistaken impression that evolution optimized everything. But it didn't. One example is the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN). It goes from behind your ear, loops down below your aorta, and then back up to the voice-box 1/2
As someone that loves traveling and camping, I can honestly say 95% of the land in the American West is honestly not worth more than the next arroyo over. There's beautiful places, but the West is stupid big with plenty of practically identical arroyos to get flash flooded in.
The bugman does not understand what’s environmentally wrong with wind/solar because he wasnt planning on climbing that peak anyway; wasnt planning on camping in that desert arroyo anyway; wasnt planning on sailing in that bay anyway. For the bugman the world outside his bughive…
Flight attendant approaches "Would you like another complementary meal?" "Got anything other than breakfast?" I ask in a half-joking tone. "Nope" she replies. I cry a tear from business class.
At Mach 1.7, Overture outflies Earth’s rotation. So you can have breakfast in London… and fly to New York… for breakfast. And then to San Francisco just in time for breakfast. In fact if you just keep flying west you can keep having breakfast indefinitely.
I still can't believe the Boeing Crew Flight Test had such bad renders for the livestream.
Man I don't know why this one capsule build took me so long to finally fly with crew in Kerbal.
Please
The fact that this is the most famous silhouette in the world.
The bats seem more relaxed this evening
The bats seem more relaxed this evening
Kind of amazing watching private fusion investment leaving government spending on fusion in the dust.
Today, we launch the 2025 Global Fusion Industry report - our fifth annual snapshot of where industry stands. With numbers reported directly from the companies - it gives an update on investment, commercial timelines, milestones, & company profiles. fusionindustryassociation.org/over-2-5-billi…
China has the proof it wasn't the gain of function research that gave rise to Covid, but idiots in the West tearing the medical science establishment apart in anger are far more useful to them. What's the alternative, admitting that their own cultural practices were to blame?
What's a conspiracy theory you believe with your whole heart?
I mean, if it's a single player game just have it unlock godmode. It's not like you could use to farm achievements or screw with other players. Basically just throw the keys to the players to do as they please with the game.
I mean, what can you really expect? It would be kind of silly to lock a useful ability behind 100% completion. Especially when at that point you’d most likely have nothing left to use it for?
A non-Starlink Falcon 9 launch? You don't see that much anymore.
Propellant load is underway for today’s launch of the @SES_Satellites O3b mPOWER mission from SLC-40 in Florida. Liftoff is targeted for 5:27 p.m. ET → spacex.com/launches
Huh, it's not everyday I ratio a major aerospace company
What if your company launched often enough to have launches to post about?
They out here judging your artists' OC like
This chart being a jumpscare for far too many artists on this site
You call it a tower of darkness. I say you should be Dublin the height. We are not the same.
Dublin’s new tallest building: This tower of darkness should never have been allowed irishtimes.com/culture/art/20… via @IrishTimesCultr
The Chinook sets the tree down "The other trees will never believe you"
Boeing CH-47 Chinook transporting a tree.