Posts by Nick Matthews
Egg shaped gelatin ham and carrot things
these great for Easter btw
HAM AND BANANAS HOLLANDAISE From a 1970s recipe card colllection
you’re doing it all wrong
sorry, if you want social media to be less toxic, you are obligated to be all in favor of food posts, which are objectively way less toxic than the vast majority of other topics
Someone needs to create a news/internet feed that isn't infested with politics - Reddit, X, this place, Facebook, etc. I want to log on and see cat photos and facts and interesting things about humanity. The closest I can get to that right now is a reddit account which I also don't love.
Which costco gas station sells the mega smokies
YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS
Earth.
Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right & bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun. 🧪🔭 #Artemis
www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
Mic check, this thing on?
By the looks of my feed either the world is going to end in a few days or kittens are going to save us all.
The Amazon Leo presentation from reinvent is up! This is the most we've said in a long time after our recent rebrand and enterprise preview launch: youtu.be/45MFTpKfxII?...
Kuiper, now at 102 satellites. A lot more to go, but in the triple digit club!
If you're taking a cert or other type of exam, here's a cheat: the people that create the answers are always more pedantic about the right answer than the wrong answers. If you choose the longest answer to a multiple choice question, you'll be right about 75% of the time.
Video of the 27 Kuiper satellites dispensing over about 15 minutes. Space is neat. www.linkedin.com/posts/rajeev...
Try, Try Again: Kuiper KA-01 launch, hopefully today (4pm PST, 7PM EST): nextspaceflight.com/launches/det...
Stay tuned for the next Kuiper launch window, it won't be tomorrow after all.
Scrub. There's another launch window tomorrow, stay tuned.
Live stream just started, weather officer says clouds may clear by 8pm EST but winds look to be the larger risk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Xs...
Watching the Kuiper launch here: www.ulalaunch.com/missions/nex...
Looks like 20% chance of launch. There's another window tomorrow if the weather doesn't play nice.
Here's a new marketing video for Kuiper, it includes some details of the manufacturing and engineering. Space engineering is neat, and the folks in the video are the real people building it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBhs.... (It is a little dramatic, I suppose space is dramatic as well.)
Kuiper has a launch date for our first satellites - April 9th (no earlier than) www.ulalaunch.com/missions/nex...
Most days at Amazon: Please read this 6+ page dense document and comprehend it in 30m, 2-3x a day.
Other days at Amazon: Please watch this 2+ hour video, which should be a 2 page document, and click 50+ times.
There's _one_ training exception and it's awesome to read + test instead.
So as of this morning all of the vehicles Project Kuiper will use to launch our constellation have gone to orbit:
✅ Ariane 6 (last year)
✅ Vulcan/Centaur (last year)
✅ Atlas V
✅ Falcon 9
✅ New Glenn (this morning)
We were at 2/5 last year this time, it's enormous progress for heavy launch vehicles.
You know Sheryl Sandberg’s famous line: “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask which seat, just get on”?
Do you know who originally said that?
It was CHRISTA MCAULIFFE.
Who died in the Challenger explosion.
In case you’re wondering whether to trust rhetoric that comes out of Meta.
Ok, here is an updated version of my space policy starter pack.
Let's make #BlueSpace the best platform for space news, space econ and space law discussions.
@sharestuff.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/PRWt1qf
With the 6th Circuit's network neutrality decision today, the courts have now cycled through every combination of "The Telecommunications Act of 1996 [can|must] be read to treat broadband Internet as [an information service|a telecommunications service]."
3d.laboratorium.net/2025-01-02-a...