Latest Posts by cozy-airlessness - Page 6

me: *is bored for 0.5 seconds*

me: i wanna learn how to work wood. i need to build a boat

The first topographic map of Mercury (2016)[4096 x 2304]

Chell and GLaDOS, personal work, 2012

Rim mountains of the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the Moon

Planet Uranus, observed by Voyager 2 on January 25, 1986. 

Ah yes, an Apollo CSM can hold five people

View of Earth from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe

Path of the Hermes spacecraft in “The Martian”.

Red dot - Mars

Blue dot - Earth

Moving white dot - Hermes

Rainbow Rayleigh Moon. Rayleigh scattering is responsible for this phenomenon.

World map in fish perspective

Behold the magnificent desolation of the Moon on December 17, 1972, as seen from the Apollo 17 command module as it made the journey back to Earth.

(NASA/ASU)

I spotted something out the window

If humans aren’t meant to travel to other planets then why does my skeleton feel too heavy to exist comfortably in Earth gravity???? Explain that sweaty

Lesbian in space

What will she do?

I love listening to Apollo transcripts! I can’t wait!

Apollo 13: In Real Time!

Via Ben Feist on twitter: “Coming soon! Apollo 13 in Real Time! Includes 7,200 hours of mission control audio as they work to save the crew. Created by a small team including @steveslater1987 @dave_charney @ke6jjj Will launch in March. The 50th anniversary starts April 11. https://apolloinrealtime.org “ 

Space Shuttle Atlantis,STS-76, March 24, 1996

I always think that squids are like little spaceships

A Caribbean reef squid spotted during a night dive in the Bahamas. Their large eyes make them effective nocturnal predators, and their intelligence makes them highly inquisitive, as with other cephs!

Down the ladder, Apollo 12, 19 November 1969.

Social instincts are a biological extension to this underlying love that we experience and as a side effect it is useful for our survival. I can think of a few cases where asexually reproducing animals show love for each other. Remember also that love comes in many kinds and not just romantic/sexual.

Listen to me when I say that love isn’t something that we invented. It’s observable, powerful. It has to mean something.

INTERSTELLAR (2014) dir. Christopher Nolan

Earth, ~19,000 B.C.

The world needs more space nerds

Apollos 15 and 17.

https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/images15.html

https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/images17.html