Dennis Just 🌵

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Astronomy and physics professor, co-host at The Orbital Mechanics, and officially a Superhuman - cats, spaceflight, 日本語, gardening, and video games.

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I made the mistake to follow this account (and corresponding feed) cause I love my succulents, but oh boy should this be added to the pantheon of ridiculous AI horseshit spam.

Here is an incredible 360-degree view of the cables, and how the dollies holding them are lined up with their corresponding interfaces on the MLP 👷 nasatech.net/ntSubPad39A/... #space

‼️This captures just how many cables needed to be connected from the 9099 Building to the Mobile Launch Platform / MLP. (This is in addition to that of the quoted tweet, and elsewhere...) Again, these umbilicals go from the pad --> platform. Forget everything going into Shuttle itself! 😵

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Happy Tanabata! 🎋

野毛の七夕🎋 #七夕 #七夕飾り #野毛 #柳通り #横浜 #photography flic.kr/p/2q1Vuqw flic.kr/p/2q1XHJf

They chopped the LUT off, plopped it on the ground (it was previously on the Mobile Launcher), and named it the Fixed Service Structure (FSS). So the stuff that went through the UIP and needed to go to the FSS was basically preserved but now redirected *sideways* with new pipes 🪠 #space

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Dust Storm on the Olympus Mons! Full size image: flic.kr/p/2q2shzf 🔭 Video: flic.kr/p/2q2uyFJ Credits: Image Processing: AndreaLuck CC BY Raw Data: ESA/DLR/G.Neukum-FUBerlin ESA Mars Express HRSC 2023-08-01 Created processing data from: psa.esa.int

The Utilities Interface Platform (UIP) used to bring potable water, air, etc. from various systems from the pad deck (or apron) *up* to the Apollo Mobile Launcher and Launch Umbilical Tower (LUT). But in the shuttle era, the LUT was moved... (From 16streets.com)

You might think the crawler-transporter is the whole thing carrying the shuttle, but it isn't. There's the Mobile Launch Platform (MLP) that the CT picks up, and then the shuttle stack lies on top of the MLP. The 2nd image shows just the CT, w ppl for scale. 📸 - Kennedy Space Archive and Wikipedia

I’m all set! Beef seasoned 🍔 Fixins fixed 🥬 🍅 🧅 Hot dogs doggin 🌭 Meatballs crockpottin ☄️ Stuffed mushrooms prepped 🍄 Happy 4th!

A second observatory on Mauna Kea has just been removed. You can see the before and after of the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO) 📡

Good thing I spent all that money on a fancy water fountain, since water in a people glass evidently tastes sooooo much better

Just heard a line from the always wonderful History of Japan podcast talking about 1930s Japan - he tells his students fascism isn’t really an ideology since fascists reject scholarly analysis. It’s more of an emotional state. That sounds like a helpful way to think of it to me.

These are fun 🚗

I love doing these things Link: tenpages.github.io/us-level/us....

Just a neat pic where you can see indentations in the dirt from the crawler-transporter's treads. Those vehicles (there are two of them) are hefty, weighing 2,721 metric tons each. #space

A serious storm’s coming in, but I’m back from the gym and got a cat in my lap, a cup of coffee, and plenty of time to read Death’s End while it thunders outside ⛈📕

Just a neat pic where you can see indentations in the dirt from the crawler-transporter's treads. Those vehicles (there are two of them) are hefty, weighing 2,721 metric tons each. #space

Feeling like a Demon's Souls and gin and tonic for the rest of this Thursday night 🧟🎮🍸

@andrasgaspar.bsky.social, The Unit™️ is still going strong, and their cuttings are doing great, too 🌵 The first image has at least four mini chollas w/ seven new branches growing among them and a snow prickly pear with one new paddle (~4x the size of the cutting).

Happy Adoption Anniversary to Bender Bean 🐱

This prickly pear (opuntia) bounced back in a big way. And the paddles I've propagated are just immediately forming their own paddles within a few days 🌵

Fun fact - the Orlan space suit (Орлан, "sea eagle") has a little window on top so the cosmonauts (or astronauts) can see above them 👨‍🚀🇷🇺 On that note, not only Russian cosmonauts have used the suits. On the ISS, American, European, and other astronauts have donned those suits. too.

I swear these cats and their peanut-sized brains. Bok Choy has decided lately he needs to meow at me and harass me every morning so that I get up and follow him to his food bowl, which is full because of course it is it always is it’s attached to a hopper and I never let it get empty 🐱

Video game fluff 🐱🎮

Walking home from the gym, I watched two cars at two different intersections blatantly run red lights, while I also walked by and overheard a cop chewing out a kid pulled-over for speeding ridiculously fast on a street filled with pedestrians. The drivers in this town SUCK in a special way.

Beautiful view of the Russian Orbital Segment (ROS) of the Int'l Space Station (ISS). This is older, as Poisk (поиск) has been replaced by Nauka for yrs. You can see the Strela crane (Стрела) stowed up-down towards the right. The second image shows two cosmonauts using it 👨‍🚀👩‍🚀 [📸's from Wikipedia]

I love my cats so much. Bok Choy wasted exactly zero seconds before heading over to the screen door to check on things outside. They’re so cute and predictable.

Holy smokes is it pouring. I think this counts as the first monsoon of the season? ⛈ 🌵

Me when I see an astronomy acronym that begins with the second or third letter of the first word 🤦

90 minutes on invisible walls in Dark Souls 1? Yes please ⚔️🧟 www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IUX...

The Invisible Walls of Dark Soulswww.youtube.com Welcome back to another episode of Dark Souls Dissected! Today's video is all about the hidden and invisible walls of Dark Souls 1. I explain the different k...

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Juneteenth is for antiracism pass it on betches.com/juneteenth-n...

This isn’t getting a lot of attention but apparently Ron DeSantis is trying to call his little fascist campaign “Freedom Summer” at the same time he’s preventing any mention of actual Freedom Summer in Florida classrooms, if white people wanted to find something to do on Juneteenth

How About We Don't Make Juneteenth Another Generic Holidaybetches.com It has been three years since Juneteenth became a national holiday, and we still haven't quite nailed the vibe.