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interactive model of the cluster spacecraft (1 of 4 (Salsa, Samba, Tango & Rumba/Phoenix) which move in tetrahedral formations in highly elliptical orbit around the earth, giving us the first chance to collect 3D info about solar wind & its interaction with the magnetosphere)

https://sci.esa.int/web/cluster/-/31381-3d-model

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OSIRIS-REx

spacecraft, taking pictures of 101955 Bennu and also sample taking. Gonna return with the goods by 2023? Information sent to Madrid antenna via DSN. Also the giving first chance to view thermal fracturing in absence of atmosphere. Image of bennu from OSIRIS-REx at closest to asteroid so far (250m, 26th May 2020)

Bennu is a close ass asteroid

viewed in the constellation cancer^. asteroid, part of Apollo group (green)

estimated to impact earth early as 2135. second highest rating on palermo hazard scale

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i haven't seen posts about yemen so im making one

here's how we can help them. sign these petitions and donate money

Kalsuma's Yemen crisis appeal - Emergency food aid - donate money

Stop the war and end the famine in Yemen - petition

Yemen emergency appeal - donate money

Yemen Crisis: Save Lives Before its Too Late! - donate money

Iftiak's Emergency Yemen Appeal - donate money

DONATE TO PROTECT CHILDREN IN YEMEN

Stop selling weapons to Saudi Arabia. They help fuel the Yemeni civil war - petition

SUPPORT OUR YEMEN HUMANITARIAN APPEAL - donate money

Yemen Food Appeal - donate money

Yemen is starving - donate money

can we signal boost

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Gungriffon

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ok so part of the deep space network is online free to view n mostly functional? who wanna see the date from various current spacecrafts?  https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html

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Macross 7 (1994)

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“is this moment radicalizing you?”

while i’m here, and still somehow have followers on this website, i thought it would be useful to repost an activism resource masterpost i saw on twitter a few days ago. it looks like the OP (@thebryreed) set her account to private, but i saved the links and figured they would be useful reading & listening, given everything that’s going on right now.

Malcolm X (1964) The Ballot or the Bullet

Martin and Malcolm by James Baldwin (1972)

Assata Shakur’s Autobiography (1987)

The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House by Audre Lorde (1979)

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis (2003)

The Invention of Women by Oyěwùmí (1997) (this requires institutional access or creativity)

Sylvia Rivera’s Y’all Better Quiet Down speech (1973)

Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize Speech (1993)

Fidel Castro’s History Will Absolve Me (1953)

Toni Morrison (2015) No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear 

W. E. B. DuBois Why I Won’t Vote (1956)

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Is and continues to be my favorite dance video. Dude's so unexpectedly fluid.

> High score! What happened? Did i break it?

> You don't see too many YouTube videos from 2005..

Weird to think that was almost a 10 years ago.

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morning light in my bedroom!

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Robotic Jellyfish

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here is another video that generates donations through adsense for BLM. they are also accepting direct donations for BLM if you wish to contribute both ways

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pastel is so ugly. pastel pink and blue and whatever. hurts my head

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Ford GT40 sketches and clay model, 1963. Ford have revealed from early renders and their first GT40 model

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my cold knuckles are very good substitutes for ice if your eye is swollen, ma’am?

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who wants to store their kittens in my new gigantic pockets (pocket warmer)

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Tasmania is so isolated that Alaska, Liberia, Peru and Somalia are all some of the closest places in a straight line.