Joseph Shoer

@jpshoer
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Interplanetary spacecraft engineer, amateur fantastical cartographer, board gamer, physics Eph, and Doctor of Spaceships. Opinions my own. Fight the Empire. www.josephshoer.com
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Well done, Hungary, and thanks for humiliating JD Vance again!
Put another way... it's a great story because of the funny moment with Ride and Sullivan checking the kit. But I think NASA essentially acted right here. They had to create a new kit. They involved Dr. Seddon. They, as in every bodily function, considered maximum need, then added extra. And then they asked the women for feedback. The funny part is the kind of comedy of errors that leads up to the infamous 100 tampons, but the procedure was appropriate.

RE: https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum/116374175445745977

Fun thing I learned from @ZachWeinersmith's A City on Mars: this event was more about NASA's propensity to stack worst cases on top of worst cases. "Well, we'd *better* make sure you have enough, so what's the most number of tampons you've ever used per day? Times...what's the longest your period has ever lasted? And we'd better double that just to be sure."

Sounds ridiculous in this context, but it's typical space engineering process in most other areas.

Not a bad day to read up on Stanislav Petrov, for no particular reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia

Today is a good day to remember that Carl Sagan was as outspoken about the dangers of war and nuclear weapons as he was an advocate of space exploration.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116363631809140849

Yesterday, some humans looked out a window and saw this.

Trump’s frenzied bloodlust must be stopped. Contact your elected officials and demand that they use every tool available to Congress to end the regime’s illegal war with Iran: https://act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran-war/?source=mastodon
We pack a handful of folks into a tin can loaded with explosives. Their computers are running Windows and the ship's toilet is malfunctioning. We hurl them at a distant rock. Everything about where they are is trying to kill them. And it is sublimely beautiful, one of the greatest things we’ve done as a species. #Artemis