the best dinosaur is clearly Iguanodon, because of all the dinosaurs it most resembled a middle-aged Sicilian-American dock-worker with a switchblade

"These are the artists, illustrators, character designers, environment designers and other technical specialists responsible for the look of Marvel’s film and television productions. Many had been with Marvel for a decade or more."

Short term vision, as usual. 🤷

Picture of the century. 😍

📷 credit: Science Tube

How Zero Gravity Spacewalks Are Filmed in Movies YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested

"Adam puts on the stunt spacesuit from Project Hail Mary to experience how spacewalks were filmed on the massive practical set of the Hail Mary itself! The film's stunt coordinator and stunt team guide Adam through traversing the exterior hull of the ship."

[Thread] Beltalowda! The Expanse will soon be celebrating its 10th anniversary on TV, and I'm starting to accumulate quite a few long-form resources on the creation of this show. For the Cant!

Here is the list below. 1/8

Luckily it turns out that they were wrong and constantly quoting The Simpsons is a personality.

More concept art from Season 5 of the Expanse, detailing a Belter torpedo, a rescue drone with vacuum tent, a transprter and a UNN Watchtower satellite.
#space #art by Lee Fitzgerald.
www.artstation.com/artwork/Qn9vVd

Make your own stuff.
Invest in yourself and your friends. No one's coming to save us

Two people and a small glass box surrounded by gold and metal and glass

Man with a beard long hair plaid shirt and a sweater stands in a forest there are light halos all around the tree trunks

Bearded man with long hair sits in a field facing a woman who is reflected in a gold bar

A woman stands facing the right a TV screen with static behind her

📺 DEVS was a beautiful show. More people should go watch DEVS.

it's unfortunate that we've ceded everything that uses machine learning to the "AI" category. A pen with a mic that connects to your phone and can do automatic translation, record and transcribe meetings is NOT the same thing as a chatbot tech bros think they can turn into God.

If you need someone to tell you: you are safe tonight. It’s OK to put down your phone and sleep. The world will still be consuming itself tomorrow. Right now you need rest. Close your eyes and imagine you’re a bird, that you can see the electromagnetic current of the earth.

The curved, icy surface of Enceladus, with several jets extending into space.

This is one amazing photo.

Jets of water vapour and ice crystals blasting out through four deep fractures in the icy shell of Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus.

This is the only alien ocean we know of that we can directly access.

(1/2)

At this moment, 17:15 UTC (12:15 Eastern US time) Earth is at perihelion: the closest point to the sun on its elliptical orbit, about 147.5 million kilometers (center to center, which is how astronomers measure things).

aa.usno.navy.mil/calculated/s...

Galaxy Quest, like Iron Giant , Fury Road and Tremors, is one of those rare movies without flaws. It's not just good, but miraculous.

An orbital photo captured by ESA Mars Express. The lower part of the frame show the curved horizon of Mars, featuring a dusty, butterscotch-colored surface. The terrain is marked by the Kasei Valles outflow channels at the bottom, appearing as vast valleys and ripples, with scattered impact craters throughout. A thin, pale haze of the Martian atmosphere clings to the limb of the planet against the stark blackness of space. Floating just below the curvature of the planet is Phobos, one of Mars' satellites. Phobos appears as a small, dark, potato-shaped rock, heavily textured and cratered, suspended above the planet's surface.

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This second image is quite unusual. The Mars Express viewing angle makes it look like Phobos is passing over Kasei Valles, but that region is actually farther north than Phobos’s orbit.

Full size image 6K (much bigger than this): flic.kr/p/2rMVSWh
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 🧪🔭

Comic: Telescope Types. Prime focus, Herschelian, Newtonian, Galilean, Keplerian, Gregorian, Cassegrain, Cardboard tube, Kaleido, Liquid Mirror, Narcissism, Gravitational, Geological [arrow points to piece with label “TV playing THE CORE (2003).”

Telescope Types

xkcd.com/3182/

A cool result of everything having AI in it now is there are a bunch of buttons on every application that I have to be careful to never push, and everything takes five more seconds to load during which there's an animation of bonzi buddy thinking really hard

Beltalowda!

There are no anniversaries without gifts, and since tomorrow marks THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE EXPANSE ON TV, the first of my articles (out of seven, already) devoted to the art and ships of this great show is open to everyone! 🖖

Happy anniversary to The Expanse, one of the (if not THE) greatest scifi TV shows ever! The first episode aired OTD in 2015.

@abraham.bsky.social, congrats. 😀

ok look at this one more time, its really good

Astronomers observe a coronal mass ejection from a distant star – Physics World Burst from M-dwarf star could be powerful enough to strip the atmosphere of any planets that orbit it, with implications for the search for extraterrestrial life

For the first time, astronomers have detected a coronal mass ejection from a star other than our Sun, and it was a big one – powerful enough to strip the atmosphere from nearby planets. That's bad news for the search for extraterrestrial life. Here's why: physicsworld.com/a/astronomer... 🧪⚛️🔭

Vic Michaelis framed as the messiah with very important characters from the new season flying around them

I'm Fixed. I'm Back. Season 3 Premiere Tonight. #NewProfilePicture

Wow. Damn, I miss Cassini.

But doctor, I AM Doctor Pagliacci and I can’t operate on this clown, because he is my son!

Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating)

The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.

it's not a taking ownership kind of pride, me sending like $60 a year certainly doesn't entitle me to that. it's just been so wonderful to watch some nice Midwestern boys work hard and have it pay off spectacularly. I just think what they've accomplished is so cool!

anyone else feel a weird sense of like, pride in the work of online creators you've been following / supporting via Patreon for a crazy long time

I've loved Red Letter Media's videos for more than a decade and yeah, I actually do feel proud when I think of what they've built and accomplished.

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

I will never know what Salesforce is or does, and that’s a promise