Archive for space

all over the moon [or not]

Posted in pictures, Travel with tags , , , , , , , , , , , on January 26, 2024 by xi'an

High diddle diddle,
The Cat and the Fiddle,
The Cow jump’d over the Moon,
The little dog laugh’d to see such Craft,
And the Dish ran away with the Spoon.

Read about the cumulated non-sense of a commercial company sending human remains (incl. some DNA of Arthur C. Clarke) to the Moon by a commercial mission, along with NASA scientific experiments, and of the Navajo Nation objecting to it for religious reasons. Wasting energy, time, room (albeit less than 70g) for vanity purposes (at $12,000 per gram) is evidently absurd, almost to the scale of launching a Tesla into space. But such is calling upon religious beliefs to control what can fly to the Moon and what cannot is equally absurd, especially when considering that the whole Moon lander is contaminated with all sorts of material, including DNA. But there may be a dog (on the Moon) since the mission failed.

the long way off a small, angry planet

Posted in Books, pictures, Travel, University life with tags , , , , , , , , , on November 13, 2023 by xi'an

compression artifacts

Posted in Books, Kids, Travel with tags , , , , , , , on January 22, 2021 by xi'an