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
Swapping EUS for a New Glenn Second stage is a bandaid on a sucking chest wound. (Long rant warning.) Even if you improve reliability and keep costs for blocking 1B from ballooning due to EUS, you still don't solve the fundamental cost issues arising from flying maybe once a…
SLS is a good cislunar crew transporter. Let’s have it keep doing that. Find a way to replace ICPS but don’t bother with EUS Again, SLS is a good taxi, it should keep doing that. But it doesn’t need a giant upper stage like EUS. Doesn’t need comanifested payloads really at all
Looking at this admin's approach to space policy like
Cannot be a real pic, but somehow is
Gonna sneak into Starbase and slap that bad boy on the first HLS moon lander before they launch it.
Had the pleasure (and responsibility) of hand carrying this thing from Berkeley, CA to Boulder, CO for integration testing. Real deal, we actually use this sticker! Its aura alone reigns over the TSA, no questions asked.
The hard vacuum of space (quantum foam isn't a chemical)
Name one thing that is chemical free.
"What is the charge? Consuming a planet? A succulent rocky planet?"
A Chuck E. Cheese mascot has been arrested while on the job The Tallahassee Police Department arrested the employee for credit card fraud
Yeah! Stupid spelt! Get hybridized like a proper wheat ya ancient bum!
I just wanna express how much i fucking hate how some words are spelt in the english language. LIKE WHY ARE YOU SPELT LIKE THAT YOU STUPID GROUP OF LETTERS???
Nobody talks about the cutest space danger: kittssler syndrome
my aesthetic is kittens and kessler syndrome
Having evidence makes all the difference in the world
Love how this guy has managed to become a big meme twice in two completely different eras of the internet
The reason putting a date on the end of the Roman Empire is so hard is because it's like if the Ship of Theseus was slowly converted into a gift shop.
Kinda funny to watch Starship haters stuck in the same pessimism trap as "Artemis I is perpetually delayed and won't actually ever launch" people back in the day.
There is no better symbol of NASA's waning (and private companies' rising) power then the HLS landers that will set new records for size being mostly paid for by the companies themselves.
A reminder that if/when they successfully land Blue Moon Mk1- it will immediately take the record as the largest craft to ever land on the moon. Beating out the Apollo lunar module, and Mk1 is just the prototype for what’s to come. It is an absolute unit.
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
We've finally achieved personal flight while looking like you're sitting backward on the toilet
Excited to share this raw flight footage including take-off and landing, all with real sound. No special effects, no CGI, no AI, pure engineering. Enjoy the future! Volonaut Airbike is a fully functional real-world "speeder bike" that so far only existed in sci-fi movies.
In Trump's America the only legal source of income is being on drugs
Trump: We will have reduced drugs prices by a 1000%, 1100, 1200, 1300, 1400… Not 30 or 50%,