North Atlantic Hominid
@mscninjutsu
Hazard and risk wrangler, author of unread reports.
One of the slightly disappointing aspects of modern life is that by now we were supposed to be running space missions from commercial airports instead of bulldozing wetlands for launch facilities.
Dealing with the heat of summer year after year has me wanting to live underground.
FYI: There's a better book that already used the title "Communion".
It's unfortunate that Owens Valley doesn't have the same pop culture cachet as the VLA. Ellie Arroway traveled to another planet, but let's not forget that Zane Zaminsky built an array out of TV dishes, and an interferometer from a Pentium I PC and a pressure cooker filled with liquid nitrogen.
Here's hoping the Deep Synoptic Array becomes a movie star like its older OVRO siblings.
Sorry everyone but this is pretty much just an iceberg appreciation account now.
The Roman Baths in, uh, Bath is a very cool piece of history. I recommend drinking some of the hot springs water from the tap near the exit. Is it good? Absolutely not, but it's a tangible link to an ancient time.
It's really the little things. 👏👏👏to the interior decorator who put a night light outside the bathroom.
One of these shows up as a plot device in the 1953 movie, 'The Magnetic Monster'.
Shout out to the 'ugly' pollinators that are doing essential work but don't make it onto memes, murals and tote bags. Photo by Merlin D. Tuttle, Bat Conservation International
A cool part of Green Bank Observatory's history is that instead of demolishing homes that were on the land purchased for the facility, they were moved to other nearby locations and sold to new owners. Done today they'd just be debris in a landfill. Photos by NRAO/AUI/NSF
The closer Artemis II gets to the Moon, the more the crew should be on guard against lunar civilizations that want to steal their spacecraft.
1/2 From an alternate Earth, four astronauts are headed to the Moon using an Orion capsule and other equipment put into space by Ares I and Ares V rockets.
An unusual observatory - not for its design, but its owner: The Vatican. The VATT is located on Mt. Graham, Arizona and is operated by Jesuit priests with astrophysics degrees. Why does the Vatican have an observatory? Because of Pope Leo XIII: "Show to the world that clergy can do science."