This rather creepy photo is Artemis II’s heat shield underwater, as taken by the U.S. Navy. This is the first photo we have of the heat shield, and upon initial examination it doesn’t seem to have the char loss that Artemis I’s had.
#Artemis2 is done. The crew is home. And I've been waiting for this for years.
Over at the #MoonDiaries, I wrote about why this mission felt different. The emotion, the Nutella jar, the five million names on an SD card, and why I think it marks the end of old space: steady.page/de/the-moon-...
Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.
4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commi
8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.
12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.l. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese
Ein Softwareunternehmen ruft öffentlich zur Errichtung einer neuen Weltordnung auf, garniert mit Positionen, die man nur rechtsextrem nennen kann.
Diese Software hat in deutschen Behörden NICHTS verloren.
Some of the most tracked flights on Flightradar24 just before the splashdown of Artemis II, including NASA’s WB-57 and the secretive NT-43A.
A huge showing for science and exploration yesterday — 18 flights involved in the recovery of the Artemis II crew each received more than 100,000 follows on Flightradar24. Those 18 flights combined for a total 5,878,161 follows. The WB-57 was followed 1.2M times!
Photoshop of the Moon made of cheese in the background. Flat Earth in the foreground. A mouse in a spacesuit is flying toward the cheese moon.
Latest Artemis II Photo Proving Problematic For Science
Apropos of nothing: This is the house that Buzz #Aldrin grew up in. And, yeah, we are about to be back at the #Moon. Go, #Artemis2!
It's only now that I see them. So cool!
Full image of Earth taken by the crew of Artemis II. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
How anybody can look at this image and think there are better options out there is entirely beyond me.
The only planet with whales, and butterflies, and giant sequoias. Home.
Nichts für ungut
Sie meinen, so wie die Brötchen beim Bäcker hinter eine Paywall geschoben wurden...
Huge Signals from Artemis II, ORION at the Bochum Observatory!
A satellite view that tracks the rocket a bit longer - the water vapor imagery.
Pew pew! All imagery found via CIRA/NOAA: slider.cira.colostate.edu.
The full moon
A picture I took last night while live-blogging the #Artemis2 launch for @spiegel.de. THIS is where they are going.
Liftoff. #Artemis2
"All systems are go" #Artemis2
Another satellite photo of Artemis on the pad, this very morning!
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Das freut mich beides! 😊
Das korrigieren wir. Bezieht sich auf das LAS. Habe gerade nochmal nachgeschaut. Diese Zahl hatte ich im Kopf: "Acceleration: From Zero to 405 mph in Two Seconds" www.northropgrumman.com/what-we-do/s...
Wo steht das genau? 600 km/h in 2 Sekunden hatte ich im Kopf für das LAS.
Some early easter eggs were eaten here just now.
Wissen, was gerade bei #Artemis2 so geht? Hier geht's zu unserem transatlantischen Liveblog bei @spiegel.de: www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
Es ist anzunehmen.
Wie nett, danke, Peter! Ja, hier wird fleißig und transatlantisch gelivebloggt. (Livegebloggt?)
Alles, was von unserem Man on the Moon, @chs42.bsky.social, zu lesen ist, macht mich schlauer. Und einen Liveticker zur Mondmission gab es 1969 noch nicht. www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
So far so good...
#ArtemisII
I assume the result will be presented exactly one year from today, right?
I get your point. Let's keep our fingers crossed that the heat-shield will indeed protect the four on board "Orion" exactly as it is supposed to.
Thank you for reading the piece! Well, "so much room" - I don't know. If I counted correnctly, we are talking about five sentences in the article. So, yeah...
Tonight, the #cubesat #Tacheles launches with NASA's #Artemis2 #moon mission. I met with Irene Selvanathan, founder of #NEUROSPACE, for @spiegel.de, a former refugee who built a spacecraft. Her response to "you won't make it": the "mental middle finger." I like.
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Irgendwie muss man die Zeit ja rumkriegen.
