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Thermodynamic Flux retweeted
The full set as it looks like now with the latest additions. More to come as soon as I find some time again! Any probe you think that's definitely missing? Please let me know!
Thermodynamic Flux retweeted
"Praise the sea maid, daughter of Aphrodite,
Bride of Helios, this isle of Rhodes."
— Pindar
Thermodynamic Flux retweeted
In 2023, #NASAWebb peered at a portion of the Horsehead Nebula. With Webb’s near-infrared view, scientists gathered details about the “mane’s” gas and dust at the molecular level. Hydrogen, methane, and water ice compose the mane: go.nasa.gov/47juzZG 🔭
ALT A clumpy dome of blue and gray clouds topped with streaky, translucent red wisps. A large, prominent star with Webb’s signature eight-point diffraction spike pattern is at the top. These features lie against the black background of space, which shows many distant galaxies.
Thermodynamic Flux retweeted
In 2024 I created this composite showing the launch, separation, return, and catch of the 5th integrated flight test of Starship. This was all captured from over 5 miles away.
On Friday, I’ll be capturing the ship catch even closer, with cameras as close as 300 feet away.
Thermodynamic Flux retweeted
Some diamond turning goodness for you...
Precitech makes piezo & voice-coil actuated Fast Tool Servos for their diamond tuning lathes, which allows them to create complex-shaped mirror surfaces at high speeds.
The single point diamond tip is key to achieving such nice finishes, along with air bearings for the main spindle and hydrostatic ways. All temperature and/or servo controlled, of course.
Definitely not your everyday CNC lathe...
(Video clips from @AmetekPrecitech on yt)
Thermodynamic Flux retweeted
“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.”
— Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers
Thermodynamic Flux retweeted
Interesting footage of a Heinkel He 111 being used as a testbed for early German rocket engines.👀
Thermodynamic Flux retweeted
the key to honor, love, and true happiness is not found in appearances or social validation
it’s found in the capacity to constantly embrace oneself and remain light-hearted despite any circumstance
the world is full of people who play pretend and have heavy hearts and want to weigh others down
that’s what anxiety and neuroticism actually is - it’s the symptoms of a heavy heart disturbing the nervous system
but if you embrace yourself in all your forms, in all your circumstances, even the lowest ones
then your heart will always remain light
those with heavy hearts always want to see others pulled down to the same level of neurotic gravity that their hearts feel
to remain light is not found in appeasement or agreeableness
it’s found in embracing yourself in every circumstance where others would be incapable and would have folded
when you can remain as light-hearted in pain, fatigue, confinement, stress, and all forms of adversity as you can when you are at rest
then you will always be free
that’s the key
and it’s also what they’ll never understand
the reality of oneself is not found in the appearance
the reality of oneself is found in the magnetic charge of the heart
Thermodynamic Flux retweeted
"As in the Pyramid Texts, the stars are regarded as the archetypal abodes of divinized souls, because man is rooted in heaven. Being a plant of heaven on earth, man has the divine element within himself, namely, the hidden Eye of Horus, the heart-intellect (nous). This intellect, when awakened through recollection, purification, philosophical exercises and knowledge, leads the soul back to its own archetypal star from which it has descended. This is the central aim of philosophy: the homecoming or return to one's native star."
