Someone has documented the entire source code for Elite and explained how every line works, plus included deep dives into various functionality. Covers all main versions like BBC Micro, Commodore 64 and NES. You can also play online in browser. elite.bbcelite.com
A bit of a different take on the amazing Artemis II launch footage.
Here I stitched clips from the four Solar Array Wing Cameras to make this panoramic video.
This is during the later part of the Core Stage burn until MECO and stage separation, sped up to 10x. ππ§ͺ #Artemis
View of Northern Mexico and Sonoran Desert as seen from the Gemini 3 spacecraft while in orbit.
#OTD
March 23, 1965
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A spinosaur, with river water dripping off its face, and a small turtle balanced precariously upon its nose
What seemed at first to be a piece of driftwood surfaced and turned out to be a frightening surprise for this cretaceous turtle - though it has little to fear, as this spinosaur is interested in larger game.
Timed just wrong to have been the new Spinosaurus mirabilis. #sciart #drawing #paleoart
π¨New dinosaur! The latest salvo in the Spinosaurus saga.
A Spinosaurus looking like Elvis, with an outrageous bony head crest. Discovered in the Sahara by my undergrad mentor Paul Sereno & his team.
Super cool! But I'm sure nobody on the internet will care about it... π
A Sinosauropteryx, a small feathered dinosaur, runs past a fallen tree branch and focuses intently on something offscreen above him.
Sinosauropteryx, a small feathered theropod from the Early Cretaceous in what is now northeastern China. This animal is covered in primitive fiber-like feathers, and was the first dinosaur outside the Avialae to be found with evidence of feathering. #paleoart #sciart #pencil #graphite
Maybe a bit late for web timing, but ehy, NEW PAPER ON #fossilfriday!!!
I am proud to present you Haolong dongi gen. nov. sp. nov., a new hadrosauroid from the Early Cretaceous of China!
The specimen, almost complete, is a juvenile iguanodontian from the Yixian Formation of the Barremian (125 Mya).
Drawing of an Allosaurus, in brown and tan/white patterns, orange horns and a dark green background with two branches of yellow ginkgo leaves.
Allosaurus and some ginkgo branchesπβ¨
#TIME cover story: #ArtemisII is poised for the first lunar mission since 1972
#Space
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Nice Artemis II rollout view with ML-2 in the background
Source: Reid Wiseman
#ArtemisII
A close up of the SLS Core Stage showing one of the new "Strakes" mounted to it. The booster can be seen to the right of the frame with the attachment point partially obscured by the fin.
A good look from Boeing today of the new strakes adorning the SLS Core Stage. These fins were added after Artemis I experienced unexpected airflow induced vibrations at the forward attachment point for the SRBs.
These smooth out the airflow around the point and reduce vibrations during launch.
'Tis the season for some festive science songs.
If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance
Flyby
16 x 12 in, oil on panel
This painting also debuted, and sold, at the IX Art Show last month. Prints Available: robrey.storenvy.com
The first step to landing on a new world is getting a closer look.
The Orion Capsule on its transport outside of the Launch Abort System Facility in Florida.
A close up view showing the Orion capsule atop its transporter with a "LET'S GO" banner signed by the Artemis Program's workforce
Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy shared some photos this morning of Orion capsule ππ―π΅π¦π¨π³πͺπ΅πΊ rolling to the Vehicle Assembly Building for stacking atop the Artemis II SLS rocket.
This will be the first spacecraft since Apollo 17 to carry humans to the Moon.
Illustration of the Artemis II Orion Spacecraft, Integrity, in blue at the center of a patch-style illustration. Surrounding Orion is a circle with the word βIntegrityβ filling the space both above and below the spacecraft within the circle.
#SpacetoberChallenge Day 14: Spacecraft
Featuring, Orion. More specifically the Artemis II Orion Spacecraft, which the crew has named, Integrity.
#sciart #spaceart #Artemis #space
Various Outer Wilds Illustrations made for a friends Birthday π
Absolutely great game. Really advice checking it out!
#outerwilds #outerwildsart
Pair of fossilized dinosaur teeth of a Tyrannosaurus and Albertosaurus showing both showing the tip missing.
Today is the 120th anniversary of the description of #Tyrannosaurus rex and #Albertosaurus sarcophagus in 1905 by Henry Fairfield Osborn, the two species that would define the clade, Tyrannosauridae. A pair of dinosaur teeth, albeit very worn, belonging to these two famous species. π§ͺ
59 years ago today...
For the first time, the USS Enterprise appeared on the screen. It was the beginning of a long, long journey: Star Trek. π
A huge starship, with a pair of ring-shaped habitation structures supported by a central spire. A set of engines and propellant tanks is fitted to one end. Text printed on the rings identifies the vessel as the ISGV Valeria, and each ring has a number of landmasses and oceans on its inner surface. The vehicle is in orbit of a desert planet with enough blue in its atmosphere to indicate oxygen.
Decided to try some digital art! Some experiments with light and shadow layers eventually turned into the ISGV Valeria, a generation ship with a subset of some terran ecosystems transplanted aboard.
A low quality Tyrannosaurus rex skull after preparation in a giant sandstone and plaster field jacket
I swear, every museum has one of these nowadays.
Backstage at DMNS is always a treat
Embraer E175LR (N258NN) vs 3rd quarter Moon, seen Saturday morning over the Space Coast of Florida.
Bathed in morning sunlight, American Eagle flight 4251 was traveling from Charleston (CHS) to Miami (MIA) at 30k ft & 461 kts.
(π·: me, flight data by @flightradar24.com)
#avgeek #aviation
Post your lock screen!
Sure, I'll hop on this trend. This might be my favorite pic from the whole Apollo program - Apollo 9 EVA
Presenting the BRAND-NEW season - @dimension20.bsky.social On a Bus! π
DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!
Happy #FossilFriday! This is Maiasaura peeblesorum, the state fossil of Montana. Studies of this duck-billed dinosaur provided the first evidence that some dinosaurs cared for their babies. Come see Maiasaura bones, eggs, babies and more in Cretaceous Crossroads!
Mural by artist Julius Csotonyi
The Rhenopyrgus family of Edrioasteroids are really strange.
This is Rhenopyrgus viviani from the Silurian Jupiter Fm. of Quebec. It was named after my friend and I donated a specimen for the 2020 paper. There are also some ostracods and tentaculites on the plate.
#FossilFriday
A pencil drawing of the head and neck of a tyrannosaur. Its mouth is slightly open, and some light feathering is present at the top of its head and along its throat.
A young tyrannosaur, accidentally timed well for the discovery of Khankhuuluu. Haven't done much in the way of paleoart before, and I really enjoyed this little project! Graphite on paper. #sciart #paleoart
Allosaurus anterior caudal with a partially healed wound congruent with what a Stegosaurus tail-spike puncture would be expected to cause. Centimeter ruler for scale.
Behold! The punctured vertebrae #Dinosaur #Fossil of an #Allosaurus caused by the #Thagomizer of a #Stegosaurus. The spikes (seen to illustrate fit) were used for defense. The thagomized allosaurus survived as evidenced by healed bone. #Science #PaleoSky π§ͺ π¦ See: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
phantom class fighter, inspired by N1 star fighter, commissioned by Stu1701
White Dwarf class reconnaissance vessel, inspired by U-wing
Class Y courier, inspired by Y-wing starfighter, commissioned by Stu1701
sw inspired trek ships so far!
A fossil of a fragment of Baragwanathia longifolia, an early lycopod
Baragwanathia longifolia, a confusing early clubmoss from around 425 million years ago.
Described as Late Silurian (the dating is still controversial), its features are surprising for such an early plant.
This specimen is from Limestone Road, nr Yea, Victoria, Australia
#FossilFriday
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