It looked to be at about 100 miles and *falling* while just below orbital velocity when the telecast shut off. I'm assuming it didn't make it around even once.

I loved those little cloth bags.

When Iranian religious leaders say "The US and Israel want to destroy Iran!" now, the average Iranian civilian will believe them.

Like a miniature, somehow even stupider Russia/Ukraine.

CPUID's website was hijacked to serve trojanized versions of CPU-Z and HWMonitor with a remote access trojan. Supply chain attack hit popular hardware tools used by millions.

thehackernews.com/2026/04/cpuid-breach-dis...

#cybersecurity #infosec

America has become less appealing because of Elon Musk.

Call that Boer Taint.

Yes, that's bad, BUT:

The smell of the exhaust of a well-tuned car running on leaded gas is... amazing.

At least I never ate any lead paint. I think? Memory is a little fuzzy.

Firewire in 2026?!

The Starfield "defunct safe" puzzle at the new Anchorpoint station was fun to stumble into and figure out organically, like a good geocaching puzzle. Alas, now it is done.

There's a thread going around where people are reminded of the Billy Ocean song when seeing "Ketamine Queen" in the news and I was CERTAIN you had one. So I finally tried searching for something on here and I was so wrong and it's about a game I haven't played.

Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. home.nps.gov/apco/planyou...

A bit of a different take on the amazing Artemis II launch footage.

Here I stitched clips from the four Solar Array Wing Cameras to make this panoramic video.

This is during the later part of the Core Stage burn until MECO and stage separation, sped up to 10x. 🔭🧪 #Artemis

Ugh. This place is the anti-Omelas.

I made a list of all the rich assholes bleating about meritocracy who also asked that their kid not benefit from legacy admission at their Ivy League Alma mater:

Sure that sounds bad, but some insiders made a fortune on Polymarket.

I thought I was sick of the thought of space travel.

Turned out I was really sick of billionnaire vanity projects.

What NASA's doing is incredible and has got me excited about space exploration again.

The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office.

The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.

Maybe today's a better day to show leadership about getting rid of Trump instead of fluffing your own feathers about something else?

Alz killed my mom so I'm super happy to see work on it continue BUT THERE IS SOMETHING A LITTLE MORE PRESSING TO DO.

Jesus.

Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

The motions of the second muppet are *permanently* etched in my brain. Whoever was doing the puppeteering for that one especially understood the assignment.

Tricorders are inching closer every day.

Crysound acoustic imaging camera YouTube video by mikeselectricstuff

Acoustic imaging is getting cheaper! Mike's Electric Stuff taking a look at a kickstarter by Crysound ~US$900. Fluke makes one that Adam Savage got to play with, but it was bonkers expensive.

I have no immediate need for such a thing, but crimony it would be a ton of fun to play with.

So many questions...

What did they use to seal the case to the ceramic wafer? Is there a getter? How did they evacuate the air?

I can imagine the last one is "they assembled them inside a vacuum chamber somehow".

Christopher Penn wrote: Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.

A different perspective.
Always helpful.

Big fan of "National Treasure", I bet.

Sir, a second bird is at the feeder

Same! Fortunately for all of you there are plenty of pictures of the moon.

I get all verklempt every time I saw Shuttle (and now Artemis) count down to main engine start. Once I see the flash of booster ignition, I basically turn into jelly for the next ~10 minutes.

Kinda glad there's no "go at throttle up" call on Artemis, tbh.

Artemis is a hopeful reminder that government can be a good thing if we staff it with passionate, skilled, and honorable people.

image: an illustration of alice talking to the cheshire cat (not the disney version). at the top it reads: alice in socal anxiety land the cheshire cat says: we are all mad here alice: at me?

Yes. In this video, two quebecoise musicians are dressed as polka dot aliens in a triangle cult and playing microtonal, jazz-inflected progressive hard rock with surf elements. youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...