I’m making some muffins. Can anyone tell me where to find the nuts on a banana?

Duffy: Effort to recruit gamers as air traffic controllers ‘wildly successful’ The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is targeting video gamers to serve in air traffic controller roles, an effort Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy described as “wildly successful.”  “This …

If this is about communities like VATSIM, glad to hear. Although it’s technically a game, a lot of folks treat it like sim training.
A couple of years ago I asked FAA for access to a class to ask about VATSIM use and they didn’t even respond.

Oklahoma diver talks Artemis II splashdown: ‘Humbling to be a part of something so momentous’ “Honestly, it’s very humbling.” Oklahoma’s Laddy Aldridge reflects on risky ocean recovery and helping bring Artemis II astronauts home safe.

"It's a big world out here. By all means, go see it."

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Get Him to the Greek (Port of Souda)

I want to share some videos that I think will interesting to those who read my post regularly.

First, I want to remind you that these are opinions that are actually being voiced. What they suggest may not actually come to fruition but it’s interesting that they’re being said.

Monarch caterpillar on a milkweed

He sure is smol

First monarch caterpillar of the year!!!

still don’t understand it

I saw System of Kill open for Meshuggah back in '02

Young adult happiness is falling. Percent of young people who are pretty or very happy has dropped from 88% to 76% over the last 15 years after having held fairly steady between 1980 and 2010

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

Naming my sports team the “Oklahoma City Bombers” and being shocked as the crowd pelts me with fruit

And he lives in Oklahoma

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A photograph by Artemis II of the moon eclipsing the sun. “The moon is hanging in front of us. This black orb out in front of us. Not the blackness, but the gray that blends and drifts into the blackness…Earthshine is very distinct and it creates quite an impressive visual illusion. Wow. It’s amazing.” ~ Artemis II pilot Victor Glover

“The moon is just hanging in front of us. This black orb out in front of us. Not the blackness, but the gray that blends and drifts into the blackness…Earthshine is very distinct and it creates quite an impressive visual illusion. Wow. It’s amazing.”
~ Artemis II pilot Victor Glover

A photograph by Artemis II of the moon eclipsing the sun. “The moon is hanging in front of us. This black orb out in front of us. Not the blackness, but the gray that blends and drifts into the blackness…Earthshine is very distinct and it creates quite an impressive visual illusion. Wow. It’s amazing.” ~ Artemis II pilot Victor Glover

“The moon is just hanging in front of us. This black orb out in front of us. Not the blackness, but the gray that blends and drifts into the blackness…Earthshine is very distinct and it creates quite an impressive visual illusion. Wow. It’s amazing.”
~ Artemis II pilot Victor Glover

How To Fly Orion YouTube video by NASA Johnson

Just watched this video which shows some of these up close

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(was the most interesting thing I found that’s about 4K miles from Oklahoma City)

TIME NOW: The Artemis II’s Orion capsule + astronauts is about the same distance from the moon as OKC is from Caracas Venezuela

It strikes me now that this is a selfie, and the loss of signal happens when our Earth dips below the moon horizon

Four people are now farther from Earth than anyone has ever been, with no ability to talk to anyone back home, for around 40 minutes.

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A photo of the moon taken by an astronaut aboard Artemis II.

“I never thought Elon would muffle *my* legitimate news sources” says guy who uses the “Elon muffles legitimate news sources” app.

Words of support from Gen. Randy George from his former military academy classmate Maynard James Keenan

The decision, announced in an email to customers on Saturday, was a significant step in narrowing the public’s visibility into what is happening in the war in the Middle East.-NYT

Tonight was the first time I looked at the radar and thought “that’s about to be a tornado warning” and then heard sirens

Controllers have polled GO for launch of Artemis 2.

As you watch Artemis II astronauts climb into their capsule and start their pre-flight procedures, you can see control systems manufactured in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Frontier Electronic Systems designs, manufactures and tests several components from tip to tail that are headed to space today.

We get amazing eclipses. Call it luck or just cosmic coincidence, but the moon's apparent size lines up nearly perfectly with the sun for humans living in the current epoch.