⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

HELL YEAH! Torifune is another Itokawa; a contact binary where two asteroids collided gently enough to merge. In the case of Itokawa, the two parts were likely fragments of the same parent asteroid that fragmented during a catastrophic collision, and then gentle bounced back together.

Newly minted FIA dictator-for-life plan to hijack driver parade falls apart as he beaches his Lego car in the gravel lol

#f1 #fia

As 1986 rolls into 1987, things are not looking good for Odin Computer Graphics.

Chapter 10 of my serialized memoir is up!

https://stevewetherill.substack.com/p/chapter-10-the-future-that-never-was

This snapshot was taken in 1987 on the "photoshoot" we did for the Sidewize review in Sinclair User. When I say photoshoot, I mean Stoo Fotheringham (photographer) with a disposable camera, Colin Grunes, and me standing next to things in Liverpool city center. Sidewize scored a max possible 10/10 in Sinclair User and a lousy 50% in Crash Magazine. Make of that what you will.

#RetroGaming #GameDevelopment #Memoir #80sHairDontCare

Q: How do you decompress a firearm's 3D model?

A: gunzip.

Amazing photo by Cheney Orr of Reuters from today. Black woman sitting alone on the DC Metro with a crowd of masked white supremacists on their way to the capital to march with confederate flags.

There is also a deeper analogy for what I keep hearing over and over from Black people: finding themselves surrounded by white people who either do not know, or do not care, about how America looks from the Black person's perspective.

#Photography #PoliticalPhotography #July4th

#Independenceday

On July 4, the Chinese asteroid sample return and comet exploration mission Tianwen-2 will rendezvous with 469219 Kamoʻoalewa, a quasi-satellite of Earth, 40–100 m in diameter.

Over the next few months, the probe will study and map the asteroid, collect rock samples, deliver them to Earth in Nov 2027, and then continue on to rendezvous with the main-belt comet 311P/PanSTARRS in Jan 2035.

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/97RjX0XCVsYmUvB3-l7cgA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianwen-2
#Science #Space
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I have recently learned of this great page, which is a good summary of “things we wish we’d done differently in CSS”…

https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes/

…but it only covers low-level stuff.

I wonder whether anyone wrote (or gave a talk) about more high level CSS criticism? Things that come to mind: complexity, bloat, many ways to do one thing, verbose syntax in places, problems with cascading, stuff like that?

I’d love recommendations if something like this exists.

Unless you were largely cognisant during the late 90s, it's very hard to get across to you just _how_ bristling with positive energy computing was back then, just **look** at this opening screen, it screams "ARE YOU READY TO LEARN MOTHERF*CKER?!".

It has dolphins, in the clouds. How many smartphone apps welcome you with dolphins in clouds?

#encarta #90s #retrocomputing

@randahl

It's bullet proof glass, not fool proof glass.

Thanks for the comments all! A couple of people mentioned it but yeah it does have strong Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy vibes!

#CyberDeck #RaspberryPi #Maker

Space Force has cataloged LINK (the Swift reboost spacecraft) in a 362 x 392 km x 20.6 deg orbit, confirming successful launch. TLEs consistent with the launch NOTAM areas

So what we have, after 40 years, is a pile of source code. Which is amazing -- for 99% of programs we don't even have that. But if a program is a living thing in the minds of the people who make it, then we don't have that.

Could we recreate it?

Dawes: "Good men do bad things, like Fred Johnson. And bad men do things believing it's for the good of all mankind"

#TheExpanse #SciFi