Gordan Ugarković

YouTube video by RobWords The genius logic of the NATO phonetic alphabet

Interesting video on how the "NATO phonetic alphabet" (you know, those Alfa, Bravo, November, Lima, Foxtrot, Yankee etc.) words you hear in aviation and in the military eventually got selected.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAT-...

YouTube video by Fraser Cain 3I/ATLAS Is Super Weird. But Not In The Ways You Think

Here is a fantastic summary by @fcain.universetoday.com of all the important and interesting findings that have been published about #3I/Atlas.
And surprise surprise, none of them indicate that its an alien spaceship! 🔭
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZWK...

YouTube video by Apollo 11 - Apollo Flight Journal Apollo 11: The Complete Descent

I come back to this video time and time again

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc1S...

He wasn't wrong.

Don't know what an Oiiai cat is, but imma guess it's a fermion in the spin up state.

File this one into the "Today I learned" cabinet.

Spatial resolution is irrelevant, none of the orbital assets have what it takes to resolve the nucleus. C/2013 A1 nucleus imaged by HiRISE was 2-3 pixels across, and that was at 138 thousand km. This one passed Mars at 30 *million* km. You want the best S/N ratio of the coma you can get, instead.

I can't sleep even when not sore 😔

YouTube video by Mark Knopfler Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes – Going Home (Theme From Local Hero) (Official Video)

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*BRRRRT*
jet engine roar

Poetry.

I live in a *very* Catholic country and yet, we don't really ever fret about tHe RaPtUrE. Is that an American thing? If so, I also wonder if sociologically it might have had its roots in the days of the Cold War where nuclear annihilation was a real possibility? I dunno, just spitballing here.

Freedom of speech.

How it started: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFrk...

How it's going: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdGL...

#FCC

YouTube video by Letterman The FCC Calls Dave | David Letterman

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFrk...

Good.

A distant shot of Saturn's system while Cassini was still was on its way. This was taken after they had resolved the condensation residue issue on the ISSNA optics by heating it, and still almost 2 years before Saturn arrival. Magnified 2x from original pixel scale.

Taken on 2002-10-21 14:43 UTC

I guess it really is time for the cockroaches to take over. Intelligence and self-awareness, nice try, Mother Nature.

Pretty much, yup.

The morning sun shines it's first rays over the Nili Planum region on Mars revealing small hills with sand ripples in between. The wall of Jezero crater behind the camera casts a long shadow that stretches over the foreground and the rover itself.

The sun was just 10 degrees above the horizon when NASA's Perseverance rover captured this morning view of Nili Planum yesterday. The rim of Jezero crater is casting a long shadow over the rover and foreground landscape. 🔭

Full res: flic.kr/p/2rt54pJ

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß

> Do you enjoy seeing Russian oil refineries burn?

I do, indeed. Small donation made for the cause.

Titan, seen at a high phase angle so its atmosphere outlines the entire diameter of the moon. Notice the south polar vortex at around 5:30 o'clock. The single star visible just above Titan is 54 Persei.

Natural color image of Titan taken by the Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on 2013-06-10 15:17 UTC.

Uncompressed quality image available at flic.kr/p/vQxGot

I highly recommend getting the f out of U.S.A while you have the chance.

Crescent view of the left ring edge with Enceladus (smaller one in the distance) aligned with Tethys closer in. Distance to Enceladus: 277 000 km Distance to Tethys: 213 000 km Phase angle: 135 deg

Cassini wide-angle RGB view taken 2011-09-13 11:31 UTC.

Distance to Enceladus: 277 000 km
Distance to Tethys: 213 000 km

Phase angle: 135 deg

Westerners: our AA defense system costs 2x more and on paper is worse than in reality.

Russkies: our AA is cheaper than Amerikansky and on paper is 2x better than from the Imperialists. Don't mind the videos where it doesn't actually hit targets, that's AI-generated imperialist propaganda, comrade.

HOW το WATCH THE COLLAPSE OF CIVILIZATION [guy slumping in chair - red lines along his curved back while he looks at his phone and a red x ] [ a guy sitting straight against his chair while he looks at his phone - a green line along his straight back and a green checkmark] Artist: HAGE

Artist: Hage

Were we a random rainstorm away from never seeing what Uranus and Neptune and its moons looked like up-close? Food for thought. (2/2)

Voyager 1 launched OTD in 1977. Had its radio occultation of Titan failed, Voyager 2 would have followed the same trajectory and we'd get no Uranus or Neptune as a result. Nature cooperated (no rain above ground stations to mess with Titan radio occultation data). Let that sink in. (1/2)

😩 Hope the asparagus... asparagii (what's the plural on that, anyway?) were worth it.

I first read it as .4 cm *long*. If it's that *deep*, oof.

And to the left of where it used to set. Glad the summer heat is going away, not so glad that winter is coming (TM).

That guy just needs to get laid. That's it.