.brian @brianpm@qoto.org

Interactive Map of the Universe https://singularityhub.com/2022/11/23/this-amazing-interactive-map-of-the-universe-takes-you-all-the-way-back-to-the-big-bang/ #Space #WebApp

Was feeling a little nostalgic for Google Wave. Turns out that came and went between 2009 and 2010. Apparently Apache messed with it for a while, and only officially stopped development in 2018 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave).

Then I remembered Google+. I had some hopes already back in the early 2010s that at least Google+ could give FB and Twitter some competition. On paper it existed 2011-2019 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B), but really it was officially killed on October 8, 2018.

While I was looking up Google+, that wikipedia page reminded me about Orkut. Remember Orkut!?! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut) Turns out that as of April of this year, the website is back up: http://www.orkut.com/index.html

See you there?

Getting (overly) excited about #Artemis and #Orion getting very close to the moon. At this moment, it's about 49000 miles from the moon.

Updates from NASA: https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/

Reminder this is the test run of the spacecraft that will take humans back to the moon for the first time in >50years. The plan is for people to be on the moon in 2025.
Overview from space.com: https://www.space.com/artemis-program.html

#Orion shockingly close to the #moon (as of right now). Follow the mission in real time:
https://www.nasa.gov/trackartemis

Are 8 billion people too many — or too few? - Vox

Interesting #demography article:
https://apple.news/Ap-hHydtOQpOAaP-5pPZw4w

Kind of glazes over the environmental catastrophe that has so far accompanied human population growth, but still interesting.