Master Ninja Theme Song @MasterNinjaTS@qoto.org

On the one hand, these communities used a loophole to skirt the state's requirements for having a dependable water supply.
On the other, signs and portents ya'll.
https://gizmodo.com/rio-verde-foothills-arizona-running-out-of-water-1849809657

Stages
Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (foreground)
Core Stage (background)
Video by NASA Johnson

Orion and Euro Service Module looking sharp while cruising.
(Photo by NASA Johnson)

TIL about 'sun gazing', a form of meditation that involves staring at the sun to supposedly absorb its energy directly. How did we reach this point???

The response to a dire report saying no new petroleum production was $1.5 trillion in new production by 2030. Goddammit.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/11/18/greenland-is-worse-than-ever-much-worse/

Sending people and stuff to the Moon and beyond doesn't do any good if you can't talk to them. That's where NASA's Deep Space Network comes in, with ground stations in California, Madrid, and Canberra.
(photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Robo-orbiter back on the ground, Saturday.
(photo by USAF / SSG Adam Shank)

ESA's Swarm Charlie had to hastily avoid a small spacecraft yesterday - the 6th time for the year. It's getting real in LEO and it's only going to get worse.

I've been contributing to GLOBE Observer for several weeks now, part of which involves timing an observation to coincide with a monitoring satellite being overhead. Missing a pass because I'm at work feels like being too busy to hang out with a friend. Saying a whole lot about my job.

An interesting fact that disappointingly I never get to use in normal conversation, is that if you put your phone in airplane mode and then placed it on Jupiter, it would be the brightest radio source in the Green Bank Telescope's field of view.
(photo by NRAO/AUI/NSF)