Winchell Chung @nyrath@qoto.org
Star map and Atomic Rocket geek. The hard-science SF writer's tech support. The website is at
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/
Refugee from the decline and fall of Google Plus.
In my long and misspent youth I did the artwork for various TTWG such as Ogre, WarpWar, GEV and such.
Joined Apr 2022
I found this article to be personally relevant.
My parents had to slip over the border for their wedding. At the time, "mix-race" marriage was illegal in the state of Virginia.
https://www.tor.com/2022/05/03/star-trek-wah-chang-and-the-ongoing-legacy-of-balance-of-terror/
Winchell Chung
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We were given a pretty e6b mechanical computer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B
@cbehopkins
That could come in handy
@JVWest
I love your artwork, and your RPGs
Winchell Chung
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Looks like this server is blocked by a number of other servers for being federated with fascist or unmoderated servers. ugh.
Setting up a new account at:
@oskay@mastodon.technology
Winchell Chung
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So, if one were crazy enough to build a mobile forward operating base, what might one call it?
Flying citadel? Floating fortress? Hoverdreadnought? Why-the-fuck-don’t-we-just-land-this-on-the-enemy?
Weird starship names generated by neural net software.
Yes, they sound like something out of an Iain Banks "The Culture" novel
Hawaiian Airlines to use SpaceX's Starlink internet on trans-Pacific flights
https://www.space.com/hawaiian-airlines-spacex-starlink-internet-service
SpaceX Crew-4 Launches to Join Station Crew Tonight
https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2022/04/27/spacex-crew-4-launches-to-join-station-crew-tonight/
SpaceX is among companies that might replace services of NASA's aging space telecoms constellation that has kept the International Space Station connected to Earth for decades.
https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-may-replace-nasa-communications-satellites
Winchell Chung
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A new large dust map was released today (https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.11715). These images compare figure 3d in the new paper (left) with the equivalent Figure 11 of an image of the latest Lallement dust map released in March (https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01627).
Winchell Chung
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TBH I have no idea what I'm doing here yet; or even if I'm going to stick around. But I am not enthused by the prospects for twitter in view of yesterday's news ...
@StefanEJones
Tappety tap.
Testing, one, two, three...
@StefanEJones We shall see...
Star map and Atomic Rocket geek. The hard-science SF writer's tech support. The website is at
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/
Refugee from the decline and fall of Google Plus.
In my long and misspent youth I did the artwork for various TTWG such as Ogre, WarpWar, GEV and such.
Joined Apr 2022
