When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it.
Anyway: fund basic research.
In my head I know this is a Thing That Happens Sometimes and the phlebotomist was truly very kind and I’ve rescheduled my appt - but this has been a mind-fuck of an experience. I don’t like it! Now I’m gonna worry about FAINTING in the future!!?? Ugh!
I’m gonna complain on the internet for a sec - TW for medical/blood:
I fainted for the first time this morning! During an unsuccessful blood draw! It absolutely wrecked my day/me/my brain. I feel like a failure and an embarrassment??? I feel so fragile and like anything could trigger it again??
soooo glad someone else will speak this truth
Ugh. Terrible. From the video, it might have been the stop on the side of the road with the buildings, etc, and not the side against the guardrail. Terrible terrible infrastructure.
🎉 Congrats!!
Screenshot from Google Maps along Bedford Highway. There is a bus stop sign nearly eaten by leaves that assumes riders will get on/off and wait for the bus essentially in the road - road called a “highway”!!!!
bus stops along the Beford Highway boggle my brain. This one has no crosswalk, assumes riders will get on/off along the painted bike lane and then… ?
I’ve never had to use this stop or similar ones along this stretch but whenever I go by I can’t imagine how it even gets used
so true 🥲
this is what I get for asking someone if they needed help finding something
look, I am happy to engage in a conversation but ONLY IF a person is actually interested in listening and…… the attitude of the individual and setting of the conversation clearly expressed this was not the case, so I saved us both time
i just had a student at this university ask me if i believed that humans had been to space because according to this student there is no way it could have happened........... i..... i had to walk away from them
tax season
Oh this sounds like a great time - as a participant and as a viewer! Have fun!
astronauts are the most incredible humans, listening to them on this press conference has me tearing up: www.youtube.com/live/DYY4nnf... (go back and start watching from when Reid Wiseman starts)
there are so many incredible real photos images.nasa.gov
Artemis II Return NASA's Orion spacecraft carrying Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, along with Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency), splashes down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego, California, at 5:07 p.m. PDT, (8:07 p.m. EDT) on Friday, April 10, 2026. The Artemis II test flight launched on Wednesday, April 1, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin its 10-day journey around the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and to build on our foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars. NASA’s Landing and Recovery team and the U.S. military are coordinating efforts to extract the Artemis II crew from the Orion spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel
What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...
Absolutely, remind me
the webcam image is so wholesome but I will not share it here because it’s just regular members of the public who haven’t given me permission to put their faces on the internet! Imagine ~30 folks of all ages gathered in a small room lit only by the glow of a computer screen
there’s a public tour happening at the Burke-Gaffney Observatory tonight and I can see from the webcam that everyone gathered in our small office around the computer to watch splashdown 🥹 @smuscience.bsky.social
splashdown!!!!!
🛰️ Our European Service Module has successfully separated from Orion's crew module!
🚀 After propelling the spacecraft over 1 million km in deep space, it will now burn up in Earth's atmosphere, as the astronauts continue their journey home 🌍
Y’all if you are not tuned in to NASA’s live YouTube stream, now is the time to stop what your are doing and get over there. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...
The Artemis II crew will splashdown on Earth tonight - scheduled at 9:07pm ADT. I suggest watching the livestream ~60+ minutes ahead of splashdown. They'll be travelling >38,000km/h as they encounter the upper atmosphere and will slow down to ~30km/h as they land in the water off California!
❤️
worst time of the year
This is such a bummer! I’ve had this happen a couple of times for live TV and it sucks. Test call and pre-interview was totally fine but then for some reason during the interview the network or software or what-have-you couldn’t deal. Makes an otherwise fun interview a pain.
The Artemis II crew – Mission Specialist Christina Koch (top left), Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen (bottom left), Commander Reid Wiseman (bottom right), and Pilot Victor Glover (top right) – uses eclipse viewers, identical to what NASA produced for the 2023 annular eclipse and 2024 total solar eclipse, to protect their eyes at key moments during the solar eclipse they experienced during their lunar flyby. This was the first use of eclipse glasses at the Moon to safely view a solar eclipse.
aptured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth. The corona forms a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk, revealing details of the Sun’s outer atmosphere typically hidden by its brightness. Also visible are stars, typically too faint to see when imaging the Moon, but with the Moon in darkness stars are readily imaged. This unique vantage point provides both a striking visual and a valuable opportunity for astronauts to document and describe the corona during humanity’s return to deep space. The faint glow of the nearside of the Moon is visible in this image, having been illuminated by light reflected off the Earth.
Solar eclipse viewing - IN SPACE!!!! 🤩 #Artemis
📷: NASA
ℹ️: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...
Oh this is great: there’s now an #Artemis II Lunar Flyby Gallery on the NASA images site: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... (thx @dpmanchee.bsky.social for pointing it out)
they really said "they should have sent a poet"
And tiny dot VENUS! 🤯