General Electric developed a lifeboat for spacecraft in the early 1960s called MOOSE, which was basically:

-A plastic bag
-A can of foam
-A tiny rocket motor
-A parachute
-A rubber shield

You had to leave your spacecraft in your spacesuit, climb inside the plastic bag, fill it with foam, point yourself at the Earth and fire the motor 😬

The rubber and foam were supposed to stop you burning to death. We will never know if it would have worked.

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

#Space #SpaceFlight

Massachusetts is the best state because it's the only state with a sneeze in its name.

Oh, it also has great LGBTQIA+ protections, a lesbian governor, both urban and rural queers (and rural liberals/lefties), great job opportunities, and great health care and education.

It's why I want Massachusetts to be affordable for everyone: people deserve access to good places where they can thrive.

Weird that bolsonaro supporters tried the same thing trump supporters did, literally the same week as the 2 year anniversary of said trumpist attempt, which also just so happens to be a week a half after bolsonaro refused to perform his duties of presidential succession & instead went to visit trump.

Yeah. So "weird."

131 billionaires more than doubled their net worth during the pandemic and at the same time, close to 97 million people — more than the population of any European nation — were pushed into extreme poverty .

This is all about choices made by the (mostly) men who legislate and direct the institutions that control the money.

I'm thinking very carefully about this. A choice was made to allow little children to continue shivering in the dark and go hungry.