Alan Baker

Red Kang is best!

Spirit's twin rover, MER-B Opportunity, nicknamed Oppy, robotic rover that was active on Mars from 2004 until 2018. Opportunity was operational on Mars for 5111 sols (it was planned for 90 sols) and travelled over 45 km.

Digital painting, Photoshop, 2026.

Released on February 19th.

If you`ve ever listened to Mark`s Blake`s 7 stories, then we should be in for a real treat!

MKBS, a space station with two big modules, spinning modules on arms, and a metallic generator on a boom.

MKBS, a proposed Soviet space station cancelled in 1974. This was to be the centerpiece of a broader initiative called MOK, which envisioned a whole system of orbital complexes with the MKBS acting as the central hub for crew transfers and control.

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Blender screenshot of my Archer-class starship with a cel shaded look and rough line art that approximates a hand-painted style.

I'm always surprised when anyone asks me for advice on making cel shaded renders as I'm very much still learning #Blender3D myself and scraping by on tutorials. 😅

But of course, everyone needs to start somewhere, so here's a thread with what I've learned so far and some good tutorials I've used! 🧵

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

Varda’s W-5 capsule after landing Jan. 29 (U.S. time) at the Koonibba Test Range in South Australia. Credit: Southern Launch/William Godward, via https://spacenews.com/vardas-w-5-mission-lands-in-australia/

CGI/photomontage of a fictional ESA cargo capsule landed in the Australian desert.

This photo of the Varda W-5 re-entry capsule landed in the Australian desert reminded me of an old (2013) render I did for Eye's Turned Skyward of an ESA cargo capsule.

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I didn’t have a chance to try an actual CRT monitor so I tried to figure out out to make it as accurate as possible

N-1 with a space shuttle on top

Fictional Soviet space shuttle in orbit.

Fictional Soviet space shuttle landing (or rather the aero-analogue test vehicle).

Cutaway diagram of my fictional N-1 launched space shuttle.

A Soviet space shuttle, launched by N-1, from my alternate history timeline “A Sound of Thunder”.

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I don’t need to start knitting the season 16/17 Hero + Stunt scarf.

I don’t NEED to….

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I love the film 2010, but this aspect really annoyed me. We literally saw Floyd tell Bowman that HAL knew about the monolith in a recorded message in 2001.
“I didn’t know” my arse!

something worth remembering: graduates already pay a tax on the benefits of going to university. it's called "income tax". the government takes 20-45% of the increased earnings resulting from your university education.

Artwork of a rocky/icy landscape. In the sky is a half-illuminated dwarf planet called Quaoar, slightly ellipsoidal in shape.

Latest #spaceart done in #Blender. A depiction of the dwarf planet and trans-Neptunian object Quaoar, as seen from the surface of its moon Weywot. Quaoar is ellipsoidal in shape and has two narrow rings around it, although they may not be visible at this resolution.

#scicomm #sciart

Nicola Bryant as Doctor Who companion Peri in her debut story “Planet of Fire”, holding a device of some kind.

Finally got round to watching Fifth Doctor adventure “Planet of Fire”, and my god it’s pure filth!

The State of Olympus, a map done in collaboration with FT Cartography.

Olympus Mons or simply Mount Olympus to most modern Martians is about as true to its name as you can be. Vaulting 22km into the sky and with a base 624km wide, larger than the Terran state of Arizona...

Is this a state of a Martian federal republic, or is it a US state that happens to be on Mars?

Our image (and video) of the week showcases some of the first visuals from Meteosat Third Generation Sounder 1. 🌍

This stunning video cycles through various infrared channels, each revealing different aspects of the Earth’s surface and atmosphere.

Learn more at our website: bit.ly/3Z8Cchs

How to model that - Keyblade from Kingdom Hearts. Watch the entire process on YouTube. #B3D #Blender #Blender3D

Morrigan class MCRN destroyer from The Expanse.

Morrigan class MCRN destroyer from The Expanse, following the destruction of Deimos.

Morrigan class destroyer MCRN Shandian approaching the protomolecule-infested planet Venus, from The Expanse.

Morrigan class MCRN destroyer, a Corvette class (?!) MCRN frigate, and their Donnager-class mothership, from The Expanse.

Need a destroyer in a hurry? Morri-can do!
Morrigan class MCRN destroyer from The Expanse, modelled by me in Blender.

when it comes to 3d modeling the 90-10 rule usually applies. that is to say 10% of the time is spent working and 90% is spent going haha model go spinny in the viewport of your application of choice

The first episode of Babylon 5 that I saw. It was love at first starfury.

See Earth’s atmosphere like never before!

The first images from MTG-S1's Infrared Sounder (IRS) were unveiled today at the #EuropeanSpaceConf, revealing storms, moisture flows and temperature patterns in striking detail - a preview of the near real-time weather and #climate data to come. (cont. 🧵)

YouTube video by TheOncomingStorm Doctor Who - The Sound of Drums - Harold Saxon's first day

“You ugly bunch of fat faced sniveling traitors!”

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Actor John Simm as Harold Saxon, a.k.a. The Master, from Doctor Who, behind one of those filters that makes it look like a TV image from the cathode ray tube era. Saxon was a populist political leader who turned out to be an amoral, evil little shit. Nigel Farage. I'm saying Nigel Farage is like that too.

What defecting ex-Tory MP suella Braverman said: “Britain is indeed broken. She is suffering. She is not well."'

What I heard: "In fact what this country needs, right now, is a Doctor..."

A cat made of snow

I really must watch this story again, as (apart from it being a great watch) I’m sure I must have missed a bit where they explain why none of those assassinated Time Lords regenerated.

Of course. Although I did forget Debbie…

Trump's Davos speech was the act of a madman and that is the only sensible manner in which it should have been covered iandunt.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

Making sense of the madness. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Analysis of the international and domestic implications of the ‘Greenland crisis’, including how the ‘Carney doctrine’ could offer a way forward for post-Brexit Britain: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/01/maki...