QOTD, 07/20/2019

I always knew I'd see the first man walking on the moon. I never thought I'd see the last.

Dr. Jerry Pournelle, scientist, author, raconteur

(Yes, I'm late posting this, thought I'd scheduled it and screwed that up...)

Merry Christmas!

#ChristmasEve Prayer from #Apollo8 pic.twitter.com/Wjf9XZfy72

— Buzz Aldrin (@TheRealBuzz) December 25, 2018

{Note: Depending on your browser setting, you may have to click on the link - the part that starts with "pic.twitter" -- or the date in the post to see the Tweet. Sorry about that.}

WOO-HOO!

SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket, lands booster back on land

QOTD, One Giant leap Edition

I always knew I'd see the first man on the moon.  I never dreamed I'd see the last.
Jerry Pournelle

Heckuva view

Heckuva porch...

Time lapse video from the International Space Station.
That's Comet Lovejoy near the end.

I highly endorse embiggenating this to fill your biggest, best hi def screen.

Earworm of the day, 05/13/13

I hear all the intrepid explorers of the Hidden Frontier shop here...

Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co.

Gonna have to re-write the old filk song

I'm thinking maybe

I went to the Worldcon L4 in '24
And I was the firstest Trufan in the door!
At that point of LaGrange
The gravity's mighty strange
You can drink a quart of Tully¹ and have some more!²

(TTTO "The Liar".)

• BBC News - Trojan asteroid seen in Earth's orbit by Wise telescope
• Earth/'s Trojan asteroid : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

h/t the Heinlein Forum on Facespace.

(Don't nobody tell Bill about this, he gets downright irrational on the topic of filkers...)

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1.  Tullamore Dew whisky.  Very popular with filksingers.
2.  IIRC, the original went thusly:
I went to the Worldcon L5 in '05
And I was the firstest Trufan to arrive!
At that point of LaGrange
The gravity's mighty strange
You can drink a quart of Tully and survive!
I could be wrong, I haven't done any filking in 20 years, +/-.
Then again, we're talking filk music here, so who cares if I'm wrong?

RIP

Neil Armstrong.

Excuse of the day 08/06/12

Courtesy XKCD:

I have no excuse for the fact that the friggin' thing doesn't want to display. Fail.

I blame the small screen...

... cuz' there's no way any personal animus would have led me to mis-read this news item's title I read on my cell phone:

First lady taikonaut and pals plunge into the dirt after space mating • The Register

On the small screen, I mis-read "First lady taikonaut", the commie Chinese term for "astronaut", as "First Lady taLkonaut"...

I can see my house from here!

Well, not quite, and I haven't lived there for over 30 years, but...

The Great Lakes region, with Detroit near the center, shows a portion of Lake Michigan through the clouds on the left, Lake Erie of the right, and Lake Huron at the top of the photo.
(Credit: NASA/NPP)

A high-res Earth from 512 miles (photos) | Full Frame - CNET News

Signs and Portents

NASA video of a comet striking the sun, resulting in a Coronal Mass Ejection.

h/t Cap'n Bob & Damsel.

Speaking or preparedness & disasters...

National Geographic looks at the Carrington Event.

h/t Instapundit.

Woo-hoo!

Roberta X's "I Work On A Starship" now has it's own blog!

Girl now has three blogs going, a wonder she finds time to work... Of course, if she'd get IWOAS published, dead-tree style, maybe she could retire. Just sayin'...

Tempered Response

I never saw this video of Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, second man on the moon, answering a "The Moon Landings Were faked" conspiracy nut.

Thank you, Reason.com (Moon-Landing Myths) for pointing me to it.

BTW, don't mess with Hermione Granger, either:

Yuri's Night

Details here.