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Posts by Chris Becke (aka BeckePhysics)

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I took video of the HASTE launch from Wallops last night. I split the video into individual frames and stacked those for the first image.

Then I cheated by combining that stack with an image taken a bit earlier and trying some exposure and saturation edits for the next three images.

No AI.

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A long exposure streak of a rocket launch

A long exposure streak of a rocket launch

One more (not so sleepy) edit of last night’s HASTE Bubbles launch from NASA Wallops last night with @chrisbecke.bsky.social

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Short video of launch

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Very few dedicated fans for a Tuesday night HASTE launch

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A long exposure of a rocket launch

A long exposure of a rocket launch

HASTE electron rocket launch from NASA Wallops tonight with @chrisbecke.bsky.social

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Launch of @rocketlabcorp.com electron rocket from Wallops

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Launch from Wallops. Electron. RocketLab @rocketlabcorp.com

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Yes. Another delay 8, then 9:15, now???

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Trying this again. Waiting for an electron launch from Wallops

@rocketlabcorp.com

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Current view.

Hoping the @rocketlabcorp.com electron launches tonight on schedule!

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image of high assembly bay at NASA Goddard with various components of the Nancy Grace Roman telescope situated seemingly randomly (but of course not really) around the room.

image of high assembly bay at NASA Goddard with various components of the Nancy Grace Roman telescope situated seemingly randomly (but of course not really) around the room.

She's come a long way since I saw her in December 2023

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How about “I want to stop you right there. Trump did not come to power in the MIDDLE of the Biden administration, when energy prices were significantly lower than they are now”

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p 😉

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I’ve been thinking that others should follow his lead every time I hear him.

So … I guess I was thinking he should be leader.

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Yeah. I recognized that rotunda from my Darden days.

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Very exciting 2026 technology!

(I suspect you could trace it back to 1996 technology for the NHL: youtu.be/grOttsHuuzE?...)

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Ooh! My "Spanish name" (according to my 8th grade teacher) makes the list.

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Glow Puck Footage YouTube video by engineeringhistory

remember when the NHL did something like this with the puck (in 1996)?

youtu.be/grOttsHuuzE?...

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Doesn't look like a statue of a doctor to me...

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Thanks.

Took me a few clicks to find the link to www.ips-dc.org/2026-tax-day... (in case anyone else asks)

But it looks like NASA is 1.1 days. and all of science was 1.9 days.

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It'd be interesting to see similar for all of NASA

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screenshot of Vera Rubin animation showing blue cloud of asteroids mostly between Mars and Jupiter. Lighter areas represent new discoveries. a small patch crossing Earth orbit is highlighted in red. Earth is 1/3 further along its orbit than the circled objects.

screenshot of Vera Rubin animation showing blue cloud of asteroids mostly between Mars and Jupiter. Lighter areas represent new discoveries. a small patch crossing Earth orbit is highlighted in red. Earth is 1/3 further along its orbit than the circled objects.

screenshot earlier in Vera Rubin animation showing blue cloud of asteroids mostly between Mars and Jupiter. Lighter areas represent new discoveries. a small patch of objects in the Earth-side of the cloud is highlighted in red. Earth is located in the spot where the circled objects will have moved in the first image

screenshot earlier in Vera Rubin animation showing blue cloud of asteroids mostly between Mars and Jupiter. Lighter areas represent new discoveries. a small patch of objects in the Earth-side of the cloud is highlighted in red. Earth is located in the spot where the circled objects will have moved in the first image

screenshot still earlier in Vera Rubin animation showing blue cloud of asteroids mostly between Mars and Jupiter. Lighter areas represent new discoveries. a patch of objects on one side of a light blue area is highlighted in red. Earth is located in line with the light blue swath of observations.

screenshot still earlier in Vera Rubin animation showing blue cloud of asteroids mostly between Mars and Jupiter. Lighter areas represent new discoveries. a patch of objects on one side of a light blue area is highlighted in red. Earth is located in line with the light blue swath of observations.

The animation shows a few crossing Earth's orbit (maybe these are the 33 you mentioned?).

Rubin seems to be looking ahead, and by the time these objects cross Earth's orbit, Earth has long passed by.

So it'll be interesting to see what a more complete survey shows.

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@hildur.bsky.social got The Shape of Stones yesterday afternoon on my Kindle. Very surprised to finish it so quickly! Loved it, but hadn’t looked at details (for page count, for example).

Loved it anyway, having visited Snæfellsnes last October.

Now on to The Night Guest!

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Moon and Venus beautiful tonight

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Far more likely

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Is the idiot only looking at the last data point?

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It’s an interesting story. Proposed spin off of ER with Noah Wiley proposed and rejected, so they came up with The Pitt instead.

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two men are talking to each other and one of them is saying you keep using that word . ALT: two men are talking to each other and one of them is saying you keep using that word .
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Ahh. Much better

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