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"go for blizzard" is affirmative for wastewater dump, just now.

Family conferences going on now, so private.
Houston has requested as much camera time as is convenient for the crew afterwards.

I'd like to have a "live" feed of this stream that contained nothing but the audio, with the long silences elided, with a short video note between audio sections that indicated the absolute timestamp and mission time.

I'm listening live: my love for radio serials is unnatural.

Wonder if I could vibe-code it in a weekend. Wonder if anyone else has already done it.

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seachanged 16h ago

Lots of talking going on!

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Houston is discussion camera time today, and some technical issues.

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Just now:

Houston, Integrity, stowage question...
Good Morning, Integrity, we're ready to take your question...
Good Afternoon to you Chris, think it's afternoon there. We were wondering if we could get some help finding the electric shaver...
(asking for a friend)

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seachanged 1d ago

That live feed has the toilet debugging session in it, at about 8 hours 15 minutes. Of course the obvious first way to deal with a toilet problem is to reboot it.

It was just over 12 hours ago, so it has fallen out of the live feed now, apparently.

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With the abundance of viewpoints from low earth orbit these days, the appearance of earth from the high earth orbit of Artemis II is quite novel, and can be seen at various points in this live feed: https://www.youtube.com/live/6RwfNBtepa4

The overlit, washed-out appearance of the spacecraft from the exterior camera is strangely familiar, from another century. The Quindar tones that I hear from time to time are no longer strictly functional in CAPCOM interactions but are instead injected into media bumpers.

NASA's Artemis II Live Views from Orion

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B-52s are now flying missions over Iran, I hear today.

Perhaps it's a fuel-efficiency thing, using less jet fuel to haul bomb tonnage over Iran.

Or maybe Trumpo expects the Iranians to surrender after a nuke or two, like the Japanese in World War II. The nuclear capability for a B-52H is the AGM-86B, a cruise missile that can deliver a variable yield W80 nuclear warhead of 5 to 150 kilotons (1/3 to 10 Hiroshimas).

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Ben 6d ago

Saw an article about this that linked to a video on another platform. I don't love posting content from elsewhere, but I will make exceptions....

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A list from the excellent Merlin app, from Cornell University, that identified birds from their songs today:

Oak Titmouse
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Golden-crowned Sparrow
House Finch
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Acorn Woodpecker
American Robin

There eas a Eurasian Ring-necked dove in there, too, but the phone could not hear it.