"The Photopic Sky Survey is a 5,000 megapixel photograph of the entire night sky stitched together from 37,440 exposures." amazing, beautiful, entrancing.

"before actually sending out a generation starship, a necessary first step is to assemble the habitat section, populate and provision it, and boost it out to the Earth-Sun L2 point (a stable solar orbit in Earth's shadow, about 1.5 million Km further out from the sun)"

from Hackers. noticed that she was born the same year as my dad. "Before her developmental contributions, the on board flight software needed to land on the moon did not exist."

"the political roots of the space colonization movement in the United States rise from taproots of nostalgia for the open frontier that give rise to a false consciousness of the problem of space colonization"

btw, MOST LUDICROUS TERMS EVAR.

in this area, 5/15 at about 9:30.

Trippy! "NASA says that P/2010-A2 may be a comet, product of the collision between two asteroids. Or a Klingon Bird of Prey."

mmmm, physics. the trick for a writer, of course, is not having to get into all that and just have the shapes etc fade into the background.

"Nineteen women enrolled in WISP, undergoing the same grueling tests administered to the male Mercury astronauts. Thirteen of them — later dubbed the Mercury 13 — passed “with no medical reservations,” a higher graduation rate than the first male class. The top four women scored as highly as any of the men." In particular, they handled the sensory deprivation tests significantly better than the male astronauts.

beautiful pics. makes me feel surprisingly melancholy. (humans have not been on the moon in my lifetime.)

scifi writers + scientists. I want to read this, but it isn't clicking in my brain right now.

like a fantasy landscape. I can't believe that's a photo!

trippy astronomy photo of the day!

It always makes me sad to say that humans have not been on the moon in my lifetime. Also, Moses Lake as a substitute for the moon! heh.

"at JPL in 2002, he discovered 400 computer tapes of Pioneer data gathering dust under a stairwell" -- good grief. I think I've been down one of those sorts of stairwells, years & years ago at a JPL open house.

"Earth has issues, and it's time humanity got started on a Plan B." nice. (this year's Google April Fool's joke.)

(with 2 bonus maps!) moonwalks transposed onto sports fields.

"It sounded like a simply impossible, crazy idea," Suzuki said. "I gave it some more thought, and came to think it may not be ridiculous after all" damn I hope they do it.

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