Nauticastro - The Overview Effect

Apollo 11 Hasselblad image from film magazine 40/S - EVA (other images)  Project Apollo Archive

Strange and massive objects plow near the moon, captured on amateur film from Quebec, Canada. (26.03.2020).

hey i have a favor to ask from astronomers, can y'all put little krakens on the edges of maps of the observable universe to denote that we don't know what's past that

So you know those mutant strains of radiotrophic fungus they discovered in Chernobyl?  The ones that feed on gamma radiation?  Those fungi, the radiation-eating fungi?  From Chernobyl?  They brought some on board the International Space Station and took some measurements.  Here is the paper, titled:

A Self-Replicating Radiation-Shield for Human Deep-Space Exploration: Radiotrophic Fungi can Attenuate Ionizing Radiation aboard the International Space Station

Space is full of high-energy radiation, and radiation shielding is a big engineering challenge for Martian habitats and deep-space missions.  What they figured out is that an 8-inch thick layer of mutant Chernobyl radiation-eating fungus in the walls of the spacecraft or habitat would serve as a self-replicating, self-sustaining radiation shield for long-haul missions.

This sounds like such a good and normal idea!  Let’s do it!

Astronaut Space Traveller Lockscreens Edits made by me :)

Top: The moon seen through a telescope ca. 1920-ca. 1925

Bottom: Lunar view 1900-1930

Long Tail of Comet Pons-Brooks ©

Australia vs Pluto

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The Moon, la Lune • old academic newspaper aesthetic, II.

Buzz Aldrin carried this copy of the UN's "Outer Space Treaty" with him on Apollo 11's mission to the Moon.