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Orbiter curiosities. Deep Cuts Vol. 4 In this issue, exclusive Buran orbiter photos and a Polyus cameo.

Orbiter curiosities

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Love me a good old pony car-

The Adobe Animate situation is an example of why (where possible) you should never ONLY save work as a proprietary format, especially in this "own nothing and be happy" age.
Completed an image? Save two high res versions; the proprietary AND a universal for backup.

Winter weather is forecast to impact a large part of the country in the coming days. Will there be snow, ice, rain?

NWS Meteorologist Haley Thiem explains how the temperature of the air between the clouds and the ground determine the type of precipitation you get.

There is a certain grief of mourning a future you thought you'd have. For mourning a world you thought would exist. Especially when you weren't expecting much in the first place, just simply hoping for the opportunity.

Comic. [Banner: Mathematical Society: 2025 Meeting.] PERSON 1 with bun: Any other new developments from the year to cover before we wrap? PERSON 2: Oh, the teens picked a new funny number. PERSON 3 with short hair: Aww, I’m glad to hear they’re still doing that. PERSON 4 with ponytail: I’ll add it to the list. [List: 23 (skidoo!; 42; 69; 420; 1,337; 58,008; [circled]: 67]

Funny Numbers

xkcd.com/3184/

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

an iomega external zip drive, and a disk for it. the drive is housed in transparent blue plastic and it looks sexy as fuck. the disk is bright orange and also looks sexy as fuck.

look at this beautiful specimen I found in one of my old storage containers 🥰

Crimea is Ukraine.

This is a spectacular view of the fiery descent and failed landing attempt of the Zhuque-3 first stage. m.weibo.cn/detail/52397...

A sign posted to a tree that says: WARNING COYOTE ACTIVITY CALL ANIMAL CONTROL IF YOU SEE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING Coyote carrying a box marked "ACME" Coyote detonating explosives/TNT Coyote in possession of giant magnet Coyote holding sign marked "free bird seed" Coyote in possession of catapult Coyote dropping anvil from hot air balloon

Know the risks. Be safe.

Bedroom setup is updated and running!

Waaaay too big of a pump for this, but it's being borrowed from one of the outdoor setups. Not sure what I'm going to plant in the middle, but radishes are going in the outside.

Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.

Fifteen Years

xkcd.com/3172/

let it rain on us forever

So she bought more plants …

A yellow aji pepper on the bush held in hand

Exciting, my first F5 Aji Sunrise (Brazilian starfish x Aji Pineapple) has ripened, the color is the same yellow as expected, but the shape is different from the F4, which was football shaped.
🌶️ 🌱
#pepperhybrids
#hotpeppers
#sunrisepepperlab

Please stop prompting Grok so you can post its ludicrous responses. You're destroying the planet for lolz.

With no pepper at all :P

While I do not actively will tragedy on anyone at Microsoft, I do hope their ultimate end, whatever it may be, is slow, painful and involves violation by some form of vast, barbed and diseased animal (land or sea) whose dimensions they are ill equipped to handle.

I present to you a master class of laziness. I never left my car for any of these shots. Thank you to my window mount and sunroof 🙂

A space capsule utilizing a circular drag brake.

The Avco 7969 was an unusual, unflown late 50s USAF crewed spaceflight concept. Instead of retrorockets, it would use a steel mesh drag brake to slow the spaceraft for reentry. This had an advantage of saving weight and being simpler than a traditional retrorocket system.

Man arrested after Ontario transit bus stolen with passengers on board, police say | Globalnews.ca Hamilton police say a suspect is facing charges after a transit bus was stolen with passengers on board when the driver had exited for a short break.

Crime: Man steals bus with passengers on board.

Canadian Crime: He still makes the scheduled stops to let passengers on and off.

Canadian Crime Bonus: He denies boarding to one passenger because his bus pass had expired.

globalnews.ca/news/1152251...

Trying hard to walk the line between advocating for myself and my safety and not feeling like shit for turning down work that I technically could do (and have done in the past), but is potentially dangerous.

Congrats you guys!

Comic. [two connected spacecraft hovering in space above the Earth] Houston, the view is superb. We can see the continents spread out below us, right where they’ve been since the Earth formed. [caption] I still can’t believe we developed spaceflight before we figured out that the continents moved.

Continents

xkcd.com/3159/

Dexter and Deedee.
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A witch making s'mores in pumpkin patch surrounded by ghost cats phasing through the pumpkins. The setting is night time and there's fire lighting the scene.

S'mores 🤍