#how to fly in space

[somethingcorenotsure]

I think it's so adorable that early humans took wild gourds - a tiny fruit that hollows out as it dries, making it float - and decided to make something out of it

they thought the tiny fruit was so good that they bred it for thousands of years, making it larger to form into bowls and cups, and different shapes to become bottles and spoons

and musical instruments

And then, people took the hollow gourds they farmed, and they turned them into houses for birds. We adapted them into the perfect houses for birds, and now there are specific breeds of birdhouse gourd just for making into birdhouses

And humans dedicated gardening space and time and thousands of years of breeding to make the gourds so absolutely perfect for birds, that there is a species of bird that lives almost exclusively in them

#yes I KNOW i posted about this the other day but *crying* i just love plant domestication and the history of agriculture #and humanity's positive affect on the ecosystems we live in #mine #image IDs in alt text #hmm. I'm gonna tag this #permaculture #just to pspsps @ that community to look at how cool gourds are please everyone grow birdhouse gourds and give cavity nesters places to live #i don't think mine will become fully ripe before i get my first frost :( next year i need to start gourds indoors #i didn't want to grow them before because i didn't have much garden space but now i do and i need to grow all of them #i might be. a little obsessed with gourds. but also i saw a pair of purple martins flying by the road last year #and i had never seen one before then! and i need to see more of them #i have a few hundred barn swallows but i need more birds flying around my house. more!! #and also i have a ton of invasive cavity nesting species around here. house sparrows and starlings. #gotta make up for those things competing with native birds for nest dites #*sites #the invasive birds very often win :/ #that's why they're invasive #i really do need to start trapping them....

[crab-san]

What if IA was a flying-type trainer

#IA vocaloid #vocaloid #pokemon #minior #my art #i thought minior was psychic rock LOL i didnt realize it was flying until the last minute #anyways i wanted to give IA a space motif bc aria on the planets but idk how successful that was

[tinderbox210]

Did you ask about Christine?

She beamed back to the Cayuga.

Gonna be honest. That is not great news.

No. It isn't.

#star trek #star trek: strange new worlds #star trek snw #erica ortegas #christine chapel #joseph m'benga #chapel x ortegas #chapel x ortegas x m'benga #snwedit #trekedit #my gif #these 3 are so wholesome together #I know how TOS goes #but I would love for Chapel and M'Benga to leave the Enterprise to become rogue doctors #with their own medical ship like the Crushers helping those in need at the edge of Federation space #of course they would need the best pilot to fly their ship and take Ortegas with them

[discordiansamba]

local half-Galra late bloomer at learning how to fly, fucking sucks at it.

#vld wing au #krolia can only teach him so much on the space whale #and there's no time to practice on the trip back to earth. or during the invasion #so he has to wait until she returns to really learn how to fly #while pretending oh yeah. he can totally fly now #(allura coran and romelle know he's lying but won't call him out on it)

[incandescent-creativity]

I can’t believe I never knew the original version of this meme was about NASA. Fuckin relatable.

#anyway there’s a clean room stream happening about this clipper and I just #yeah. SCREAMS. #50 close fly bys of Europa!!! sharp photos! measurements of how thick that ice is!!!! #2030 CANNOT COME FAST ENOUGH #Europa clipper #nasa #space #science

[bumblingbabooshka]

T'Pel gets a pet while Tuvok's in the delta quadrant to help deal with his loss and after he gets back there's a mutual big show of not liking one another but after like a month she's his little buddy.

#Tuvok #T'Pel #bea art tag #st voyager #Ek'zer Bezhun look like birds but they have no wings and cannot fly. They're incredibly fast clever and patient and usually lie in wait #before chasing down their prey in a sprint (not long distance runners). Common pets on Vulcan for households that can't devote space to #a sehlat. Ek'zer Bezhun are very playful and need plenty of attention/mental stimulation! #Pi'kahm-kam is a rescue from a shelter. Plucked her feathers out poor thing...follows T'Pel around all the time wanting to be held. #Skittish around new people. Will bite!! But never T'Pel. #She was very good for T'Pel bc it gave her something to focus on and a reason to like...do things everyday when she was depressed about #Tuvok's disappearance. Dotes on Pi'kahm <3 #When Tuvok grumbles about the attention she gives Pi'kahm T'Pel's like 'hmm...jealous?? Bc you aren't being doted on??' #And Tuvok ha tesitHEHEHE he's like I' m not JEALOUS...of a LIZARD. I'm not jealous at all I'm VULCAN!! #Then he makes an effort to actually bond with Pi'kahm...that'll show T'Pel v_v #and that's how Tuvok & Pi'kahm become buds~! But she still likes T'Pel the most <3 but that's ok...Tuvok does too. #Tuvok is playing the lute 'for Pi-kahm' but as soon they hear T'Pel's footsteps they both turn towards the door. #T'Pel's here??? T'Pel's here!!!! #st voyager fanart

[miraculousbumbble]

Training

Kolivan: Having the will of a Galra is not enough to defeat a Galra. Get back up and do it again.

Keith: I'm trying

Kolivan: Trying never solved anything, doing is the only way to survive. Again.

#voltron headcanons #keith voltron #voltron #vld keith #keith kogane #kolivan #bom #idk #i just think Kolivan would be the hard ass teacher thats mean because he doesnt want to lose anyone #meanwhile Keith is trying really hard #but hes just so small compared to the others #keiths like: i cant just instinct my way outta this one?? #he still got skill #hes still the bastard that broke into a quarenteen base knocked out some garrison medics #stole his brother with a guy he claims not to remeber #(keith we all know thats a lie) #and proceeded to fly to space and foght a war like its a typical tuesday thing to do #imagine how long he was probably alone in that shack #do you think Adam trued to find him? I hope he didnt die thinking keith was dead along with Shiro #i think about that sometimes

[ceilingfrogs]

When space tourism becomes an affordable thing, destination weddings are going to become that much more unbearable.

Why set off to Hawaii (leave Hawaii alone; it’s been through enough), when you can visit the Martian colonies.

The red planet a bit too mainstream for you? Looking for something a bit more grandiose? How about you hope a few planets further away and enjoy Saturn’s stormy light shows?

Scared that gigantic diamond ring on your finger will be outshone by Saturn’s diamond rains? Why not enjoy some champagne while witnessing the birth of a star in the Eagle Nebula? Who cares how upset your guests will be about having to travel 7,000 light years to attend. They should be grateful they got invited at all.

#space #space travel #space tourism #destination weddings #astronomy #planets #saturn #mars #eagle nebula #wedding #how much worse can we make weddings #Look at me sipping my beverage as I gaze out of the window of the space ship flying around Venus #admiring the planet's opaque clouds of sulfuric acid #pretending to enjoy myself when the bride and groom come by to say hello #regretting that I failed to come up with a good excuse to avoid this wedding #realising too late that I'm really not close enough to the newly weds to justify this trip #can't even escape because I'm trapped on the space ship with the happy couple and all the other suckers who also RSVP'd

[delightfuldevin]

There’s something I wanted to make note of since I don’t think most people noticed this.

In one of the cutscenes in Galaxy 1 (the purple coins mission in the gate), Mario finds Rosalina on the starting planet and she says this:

Some people seem to think that she’s referring specifically to the starting planet itself; even the Mariowiki says that she is.

But we know from Rosalina’s storybook that the planet she visits every 100 years is her home planet. And we know because of how the game opens that that planet is the Mushroom Planet.

So what is she talking about then? Well, it isn’t actually visible except for in the very final cutscene obtained by beating Bowser again after collecting every single Power Star, but look!

The Mushroom Planet is actually right next to the starting planet!! When Rosie is talking about visiting “this planet” every 100 years, she’s talking about the one that she and Mario can see from the starting planet: the Mushroom Planet!! It’s really easy to miss this since this final cutscene is the only time the Mushroom Planet is actually clearly visible. Every other time you’re on the starting planet, it’s there but it’s reeeeally dark so you can barely even recognize it.

So basically, the starting planet seems to linger just outside the atmosphere of the Mushroom Planet (perhaps it orbits it like a moon?). That also explains how Mario ends up on the starting planet after being attacked by Kamek in the beginning of the game. It is called the “gateway to the starry skies” because the gate on it connects to the gate on the Comet Observatory no matter where it is in space, “the starry skies”.

#devin speaks #super mario headcanons #super mario bros #rosalina #super mario galaxy #i wish it was made clearer in game that the starter planet is next to the mushroom planet #i mean i always said that it was but i just treated it as a hc cause i completely forgot about the final cutscene #this is very important to me cause its important to my self shipping #this is how i visit rosie when shes in space! i just fly up to the starter planet and go through the gate to the observatory!!

[bepisdrink]

Anybody who ever gets romantically involved with the Doctor is in a throuple with them and the TARDIS btw

#rose? tardis adored her. they practically melded. would not stop writing the name she gave her across time and space #like a schoolgirl doodling in her journal #yaz? tardis finds the fact that she figured out how to fly her (a lot of it on her own) sooo sexy #and will cooperate with her copiloting without a hint of resistance #and these are just my personal favourite examples #there are MANY MORE #doctor who #tenrose #thasmin #narn.txt

[selkiecoded]

ten telling rose that jack was "busy rebuilding the earth" is sick and twisted ill give him a slight pass because he told her that while in the throes of a bad regeneration but you knowwww she asked to go find him immediately after the christmas invasion and ten just shot her this look of indescribable, unfamiliar empty darkness, then looked away and told her they cant. jacks too busy. hey, what do you think about new earth? new new earth! get a little past the great and bountiful human empire, see how it all turns out, safe and sound after they fixed it! and normally rose would try and get a real answer out of him, but she doesnt recognize that awful look on his face. she doesnt recognize the easy way he moves on. and it terrifies her. she just spent a whole adventure doubting him, and he terrifies her, and she needs to get over it. so she does. and so she doesnt ask about jack again.

#doesnt mean she ever stops thinking about him though. all alone on that space ship a million years a way. #during the sarah jane ep mickeys like i forgot to ask last time‚ wheres fly boy? #and rose just has to quietly admit in an aside that she doesnt know. she doesnt know. so please dont ask again‚ because she doesnt know. #but sarah jane and jack and do you just pick us up and let us come and leave us when you get bored? is that it? is that it? #ill travel with you forever if you let me. please let me. please dont leave me. please dont leave me like jack. #do you ever think of him doctor? do you ever think of how jack harkness kissed you‚ then me‚ and then you left him? you left me? you left? #JACKROSE............... jackrose im so sick clutches my head jackrose...... #dw

[compacflt]

I know you said that you aren't the pinnacle of military knowledge that people think you are but know a damsite more than I do about the US military than I do, so I have a question. Do you have any idea how long the Darkstar project would've been going on for in canon? It can't have been a few months but I also don't know if it would be years and years? I know Mav has an award for being a test pilot that I think is dated 2007 (I may have imagined that) but that doesn't mean the Darkstar project was going on for over ten years? I think the F-18A took 8 years from testing to being approved, so it can't be far off. Just wanted your opinion. Thanks :-)

awright here’s my opinion (not an expert)

the darkstar is canonically a Lockheed Martin “skunk works” (super duper secret) surveillance and reconnaissance (SR) spyplane, as evidenced by the skunk works logo on the vertical stabilizer (left is darkstar, right is me with the SW logo on the SR-71 blackbird at the udvar-hazy museum this summer).

we can look to see how long other SW projects have taken to develop in the past. the SR-71, for instance, was first suggested as an “undetectable spyplane” idea in 1957. the lockheed A-12 oxcart, which would provide the framework for the SR-71, had its first flight in 1962, five years later. the finished SR-71 was introduced into USAF and CIA service in 1966. so a 9-year development for the fastest-ever air-breathing jet, with 4-ish of those years being flight testing (ish because the A-12 had to be heavily adapted into the SR-71 which had its first flight in 1964).

Lockheed’s been teasing its blackbird successor, the unmanned aerial vehicle the SR-72 “son of blackbird,” on its socials recently. i saw someone say: “soft-launching its new death machine like an instagram influencer with a new boyfriend”

leading many to believe this is what happened

note however that the SR-72 son of blackbird is an UNMANNED aerial vehicle (UAV) which is why in my fic I specifically said this

note also that most of aircraft development is just that—development. Flight testing (i.e. where mav would get hands-on involved) doesn’t come until very very late in the development process. For the plot of my fic’s sake I had mav go out to NAWS china lake in 2003, but in TGM during the Hard Deck scene Penny says something to the effect of “you got sent out to the desert three years ago for pissing off that other admiral” and mav goes “that was three years ago? 😀” (cute!) so that’s the longest mav could’ve canonically been involved with the darkstar project. (For my own purposes i made it like a year, for those two sections of the story to neatly flow into each other—from 2015ish to 2016. I know TGM takes place in 2020 [i know but idfc] Maybe LockMart has had this tech [probably not high hypersonic like in the movie] for that long anyway and it’s just been so heavily classified that we didn’t know about it till very recently. Definitely possible.)

#i took a picture of the A-12 oxcart at the intrepid museum in NYC but it’s not a selfie so not posting it #i saw it and i was like ‘uh you’re not supposed to just be able to see these’ #they have the enterprise space shuttle too it was just fucking insane #military aviation #sr-72 #pete maverick mitchell #top gun maverick #edts notes #thank you for the ask! really not an expert but talking about planes is fun for me #the hypersonic race is very interesting… Russia famously has its hypersonic kinzhal missiles and i think CN has them too #but the U.S. has never openly done hypersonics which is why IMO it would be crazy to start off with a manned jet like in TGM #and it’s not clear how useful or effective hypersonic missiles actually are in warfare #* i think I mean specifically air breathing jet hypersonics #obviously icbms and rockets (which fly at hypersonic speeds) are different

[ohmaerieme]

once again thinking abt the indescribable friendship between olimar and louie .and how their tragedy

#even 'friendship' sounds so less. than their bond #thjeyree osoooo queerplatonic coded #they survived together with the pikmin for like a month ig. #on a dangerous bloodthirsty planet #when they were just meant to be fucking space fed ex #this is NOT IN THEIR JOB DESCRIPTION!! #thinks about olimar mentioningn post debt pikmin 2 how he misses louies quietness #olimar flying over to pnf-404 with his coworker: #surely i wont develop a life-altering friendship with this guy! (clueless) #SORRY. IMINSANE ok. #mae rambles #ohmaerieme

[bloobluebloo]

Me: *Trying to watch a 1 hour 37 minute long video on the failure of the boeing 737 max* Anons: "So what if everyone in Hyrule is either elderly or a bomb"

#BOEING I SUPPORTED YOU AND YOUR FLYING PHILOSOPHY FOR YEARS #YOUR DREAMLINERS WERE BEAUTIFUL #HOW DARE YOU BETRAY ME #hi yes i lover of the demon king like planes a lot I even worked in aerospace for a good bit #its a toxic space so ya know I moved on to greener pastures #admiral's log

[artemisiatridentata]

showing my dad good omens 2 and during the scene where maggie bursts into tears and tells aziraphale that shes in love with nina but thinks nina hates her, my dad went “oh no :(” and I was like “what?” and he said “well, doesn’t aziraphale have a thing for maggie?” and I. you guys I couldn’t help myself. I guffawed

#good omens #good omens 2 #good omens 2 spoilers #(I guess?) #I love my dad but my Fucking god he’s the most obtusely heterosexual person I know lmfaooooo #like I know it’s been awhile since he watched season 1 but HOW did az and crowley’s chemistry #completely fly over his head???? #and like I’m sorry but how did he watch any of their preceding s2 scenes without picking up on the mega gay vibes??? #like. crowley knowing all of az’s moods well enough to discern his tone from a phone call #the coffee shop convo about the naked man etc #all their little looks and smiles #THE NEBULA SCENE WHERE AZ THINKS CROWLEY CALLED HIM GORGEOUS????? #(or was it beautiful? can’t remember but u get it.) #their lack of personal space #I could go on #like if one of them was a woman my dad would’ve picked up on it so fast! he loves rom coms! #anyways it was so funny I almost spoiled the whole season out of indignation #like how can you watch aziraphale and think that man is straight I’m sorry but that’s so fucking funny

[axolozzy]

i NEED to draw louie more like i used to draw louie ALLL THE FUCKING TIME and the last time i actually drew them fully colored was in fucking JULY. WHAT????? impossible :( i’m so fucking sorry louie holy shit AAUUUGHHHHHHHH LOUIIEEEEEEEE :((( louie save me louieieieeeee

#louie is literally my life guys #i can’t fucking put into words how much i love louie and how much they mean to me #louie’s my entire universe #my world revolves around louie #LOUIE #LOUIEEEE #louie my best friend who is REAL to me but doesn’t exist in This universe #louie louie louie #louie who goes by many names #louie cloud ghost #the silliest ever #silly #soo silly #louie who likes cookies and rubix’s cubes and grass and snow #louie is a SCIENTIST little wolf guy who can control TIME and shapeshift and loves their friends and wants to save the universe #louie who created the fucked up space anomaly JASPER and who KILLS and who went to TIME PRISON with that BITCH #LOUIEEEEEE #louie who is a little dog just a little white toby fox dog #louie who shapeshifts into a fly and annoys Bea at school for fun and also whispers in her ear all the test answers #louie who created their robot ZEEP because they were the smartest kid on earth but so incredibly lonely #louie who makes all the creators of the universe kill themselves because it’s the only way to stop magnus far into the future #louie who dies in the end but isn’t sad because it’s their Time #louie who puts their orb in a time loop #louie who is a time loop #louie louie louie louieeee #i got my green rug because it reminded me of louie #i’m agender because i made louie agender and then years later im like. huh. yeah actually #louie is so happy and silly but also serious and sad #louie is invisible. louie is a paradox #louie is louie