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4.6.0-nightly.2026-03-16
Space. Travel. Not yet space travel.
Well dang. It was something to look forward to.
https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Planetary_Defence/Asteroid_2024_YR4_will_not_impact_the_Moon
Really nice bit of linkability from the UK government. They have a "check if you need a visa to enter" choose your own adventure at https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa
and it just encodes the answers into the URL like directories, so you can easily share the results of it with someone as a static page.
https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa/y/india/transit/somewhere_else/no for example.
How do you sink a frigate in international waters with a fucking submarine-launched torpedo while claiming you aren't at war?
"chemical formulas written on a whiteboard heightened concerns and prompted the FBI to bring in experts from Quantico, Virginia"
So dumb. Incredible waste of resources to raid the house and seize a bunch of stuff for a chemistry youtuber.
Spain being some kind of crazy outlier by suggesting that the UN charter is worth following.
It’s Andalusia Day, I probably missed a parade. Spaniards love parades! It’s also new fountain day in Almería; this fountain as the peak of a new pedestrian street is flowing for the first time.
https://glashrvatske.hrt.hr/en/domestic/croatia-declared-free-of-landmines-after-31-years-12593533
Absolutely badass. The deminers who gave their lives to that project are heroes of humanity.
If I was a billionaire, I'd fund mine removal in Bosnia.
I listened to the Nasa press conference on Artemis with one ear and the most specific and new thing I heard was
"Artemis 3 will be a rendezvous with one or both landers in low Earth orbit in 2027. So we're basically pulling in Artemis three and recognizing just the reality that going right from a free return around the moon to landing on it is too big of a gap, and we cannot accept the flight rate of a vehicle this important and complicated every three years." cont...
RE: @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu
This would be nice. I spent a good chunk of last year in Kosovo and Bosnia. In Kosovo I had to go to the telecom company and stand in line to get a piece of paper to scan with my phone to get a reasonably priced local esim.
Early DAQ and remote control of rocket testing:
"[Robert] Goddard at his launch command post, Eden Valley, late 1930s. The telescope focused on gauges connected to pressure lines on the rocket in the launch tower. When readings were right, he could operate fire, release, or stop keys on the panel in front of him."