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Astronomy Undergrad (UFRJ) ⬢ Producer & Science Advisor for The Sojourn Audiodrama ⬢ Retired Minerva Rockets/Sats ⬢ Occasional writer-of-things He/Him ('They' in a pinch) Blog: https://orangehexahedra.blogspot.com/

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a close up of a man 's face with long hair and a beard . ALT: a close up of a man 's face with long hair and a beard .

Glory to you and your house*!

*(Quiz Team)

06.08.2025 09:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's a genuinely good read, very enjoyable!

05.08.2025 13:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
original Star Trek Lower Decks Moopsy design that looks like a load of bread with a face and feet. Purple dry erase marker on whiteboard.

original Star Trek Lower Decks Moopsy design that looks like a load of bread with a face and feet. Purple dry erase marker on whiteboard.

Lower Decks pals just reminded me I designed the original Moopsy, which I had totally forgotten. The artists love to laugh at me for my crappy drawings. Enjoy.

04.08.2025 23:22 — 👍 960    🔁 170    💬 53    📌 32

Romulin Battleborb! :O

04.08.2025 13:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That's the high-detail model of the ship; if I'm not mistaken, there was also a differently proportioned, chunkier low detail version used for some sequences.

The two "prongs" under the aft section on that one are connected, creating something like an excavator shape.

04.08.2025 13:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There's too many cool things to fit on a Bleet there; RCS thrusters properly working? Great merchantmen redesign? Awesome technique to find and attack cloaked ships? All in there and more!

02.08.2025 14:23 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I think I might've learnt more about exoplanet interiors in the last 10 hours than I did in the last ten years combined.

Shout-out to C. T. Unterborn et al. (2023).

30.07.2025 03:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

For all my misgivings with '09, I've always loved the Kelvin.
Do wish it was closer to Ryan Church's original concept art, but I still love what we got, and she looks better than ever here!

30.07.2025 03:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Traveller: Far Trader Graphic Novel Vol. 1 coming soon! Here’s a cover preview!

29.07.2025 15:33 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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A short and sweet tale of stalwart scientific integrity.

28.07.2025 18:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Basically malware.

28.07.2025 15:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a man with red eyes says this is getting out of hand .. ALT: a man with red eyes says this is getting out of hand ..
28.07.2025 15:23 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thou hast invoked the attention of thine Brazilian audience, Austin...

The TL;DR is that he doesn't feel it is worth the U$80, and that he wasn't excepting a mention of you in that famous Brazilian youtuber's video.

(Turns out Any Austin goes beyond mere borders)

27.07.2025 04:28 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The first three episodes of the thing I've worked on for the last... [counts on fingers] SEVEN years is now available for my most favourite price...

... FREE! :D

26.07.2025 21:10 — 👍 18    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Onde eu moro é assim também, mas eu me consolo pegando uma mantinha tal qual uma vovó e agradecendo a deus que aqui em casa é assim, porque no verão é a unica coisa que me salva 🫠

25.07.2025 17:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Differential Equations, and most of Calculus really, is like memorising cake recipes.

As in, you never know which cake they'll ask for and the baker's reality of 'if you screw up even one step, you fail miserably' very much still applies...

25.07.2025 02:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I genuinely don't know. Space exploration used to spark the most furious joy in me, but now when I look at it it's just this... muted acknowledgement of 'hm. Good.'?

23.07.2025 18:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

22.07.2025 14:30 — 👍 11369    🔁 2546    💬 122    📌 90
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Gemini North Discovers Long-Predicted Stellar Companion of Betelgeuse - Gemini North telescope in Hawai‘i reveals never-before-seen companion to Betelgeuse, solving millennia-old mystery Astronomers have discovered a companion star in an incredibly tight orbit around Betelgeuse using the NASA and U.S. National Science Foundation-funded ‘Alopeke instrument on Gemini North, one half of ...

Betelgeuse has a companion - a pre main-sequence B/A star with a semimajor axis of only 8 au. Required speckle observations to dig it out. noirlab.edu/public/news/...

21.07.2025 18:22 — 👍 83    🔁 21    💬 3    📌 11
NASA blueprint for Lunar Module top and side views

NASA blueprint for Lunar Module top and side views

NASA blueprint for Lunar Module landing struts

NASA blueprint for Lunar Module landing struts

NASA blueprint for Lunar Module side views

NASA blueprint for Lunar Module side views

NASA blueprint for Lunar Module cockpit controls

NASA blueprint for Lunar Module cockpit controls

(🧵1/3) NASA blueprints for the Lunar Module

20.07.2025 10:30 — 👍 29    🔁 8    💬 4    📌 0
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a cartoon of superman flying over a city with the word superman on the bottom Alt: An animated gif of the intro sequence to 'My Adventures With Superman'; Superman flying against the sky over the city of Metropolis, among puffy and yellow-lighted clouds. He does a barrel roll towards the camera, at the end of which he is facing the viewer and, with a smile, gives us a little wink before flying up, up and away.

David Corenswet killed it as Superman, but I've got to admit my favourite Supes is still Jack Quaid.

20.07.2025 05:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@jfzeigler.bsky.social I think this development is one you'll probably want to keep an eye on...

17.07.2025 17:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Bit more on the Subsidised Merchant...

17.07.2025 15:00 — 👍 31    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

The existence of 'doubloons' implies the existence of an inferior monetary unit 'monoons' and a superior monetary unit 'triploons'.

17.07.2025 00:13 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The ship that keeps of shipping!

16.07.2025 15:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What they probably meant was Philosophy, where you get to debate people sans selling your soul to the devil.

14.07.2025 04:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A hundred tasty snacks within easy reach...

11.07.2025 16:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A human walks side-by-side with an Ormine; the Ormine are roughly one and a half meters tall pseudo-reptiles with a squat, humanoid shape. They posses a face vaguely reminiscent of a crocodile's, four webbed fingers in their hands, and a short, flat tail.
A handwritten text to the left of the image reads: "Long-lived pseudo-reptiles. Extremely long lived, they usually keep a human advisor."
The two individuals in the drawing seem to be having an enjoyable conversation while on a walk. An arrow pointing at the human has the caption 'Just turned 25.' A similar arrow pointing to the Ormine is captioned 'in their 250's.'

The drawing is dated Tenth of July, 2025.

A human walks side-by-side with an Ormine; the Ormine are roughly one and a half meters tall pseudo-reptiles with a squat, humanoid shape. They posses a face vaguely reminiscent of a crocodile's, four webbed fingers in their hands, and a short, flat tail. A handwritten text to the left of the image reads: "Long-lived pseudo-reptiles. Extremely long lived, they usually keep a human advisor." The two individuals in the drawing seem to be having an enjoyable conversation while on a walk. An arrow pointing at the human has the caption 'Just turned 25.' A similar arrow pointing to the Ormine is captioned 'in their 250's.' The drawing is dated Tenth of July, 2025.

#Traveller Sophont of the day: the Ormine of Akhlare (Dark Nebula 1313).

Despite often being annoyed by the short-sighted, rushed and sloppy nature of humaniti, humans are value members of the Gerontocracy of Ormine.

10.07.2025 22:49 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Que nem tentar tocar piano no frio, o dedo simplesmente se recusa a abrir, é um inferno (gelado)

10.07.2025 19:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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