@geektoybox Thank you so much! I will report back to this poll if I can
@geektoybox I still need a Blue Sky invite, but so far Threads isn't what I was looking for, Mastodon isn't quite it, either.
Starship Flight Test IFT-2 Patch pre-order
On November 18, 2023, Spacex once again tested the full-stack of their super-heavy booster and starship. This time the test was much more successful despite the destruction of both flight components. The 33 Raptors successfully lifted the stack to the point of hot-staging where the Starship stage successfullly staged and boosted into a sub-orbital trajectory before breaking up over the Caribbean. This patch depicts the dramatic stage separation as the vacuum Raptors ignite. The booster stage depicts the unique and dramatic engine cut-off order of engine shutdown just prior to hot-staging. The order is depicted in colors from warm to hot. The patch will be 5 inches tall and expected shipment will be late December or early January due to the holidays. This is the planned release, some details may differ in the embroidered patch due to limitations of embroidery:
@Verxion We don't get storms like that around here!
We just returned home from 30 days of RV touring in Utah. The last 5 days we had an extra passenger. This is Chinle, the scrawny cat who adopted us at a Provo RV park. She's about the best darn cat you could imagine. We named her after our favorite geological formation found in Utah. The Universal Cat Distribution system is real.
#CatsOfMastodon #vanlife #catdistributionsystemI'm not an astrophotographer, but when I'm at a dark sky site and there's a comet, I take a stab at it! This was taken from a sand dune in the Coral Pink Sand Dunes state park in Utah.
#CometNishimura #astronomyThis is the original. I had a similar blue filament for the trusswork, but it kept clogging so it's in the garbage.
This build took a lot longer than I expected with endless printer failures. This is based on the ESA/NASA Spacelab 1:50 model built by MBB/ERNO in the early 80s or late 70s. It features removable experiment racks and a detailed experiment pallet.
#3dprint #nasa #3dprintedI printed a Starship HLS to mount on the 1/100 booster. It's pretty neat because the base can be swapped from launch mode to landing mode depending on how I want to display it. I printed it in PLA so the small legs will probably sag, so I might have to print them in a more durable material. Hard to believe Artemis III is a year and a half away.
@CGHildebrandt "orc" ... "pork".. seems natural
