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An incoming call wakes Benny up just in the middle of the (galactic) night. Still sleeping, he someway makes for the communication screen, wondering who's disturbing now... hopefully not one of those annoying Cassiopeian telephone salesmen!!
A new series of Benny's adventures has just begun...
An excellent early morning twilight image showing the International Space Station (thick streak) with the SpaceX Dragon CRS-9 cargo vessel (thin streak) seen chasing it approximately 25 seconds later.
It was acquired on 20 July 2016 at 01:41 GMT (03:41 CEST), just a few hours before the planned berthing at 10:00 GMT (12:00 CEST).
The image was taken by Marco Langbroek from his home in Leiden, the Netherlands. It is a five-second exposure using a Canon EOS 60D + EF 2.0/35 mm lens, 800 ISO.
More details on Dragon berthing and live coverage on 20 July via: NASA.
Credit: M. Langbroek
Nothing new, just a different perspective on the Welder Bot during the Space Adventure.
Toy Project Day 3892
To find a solution to his food problem, Benny decides to search on the biggest e-commerce site of the Andromeda Galaxy…
If this reminds you of something, you’re right!
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As I wrote at the time, it was a big spoiler… ;-)
Says Mr. Robot, and immediately starts to browse through the book. «Look! Under the letter W, there’s a certain Who, Doctor… If he’s a doctor, maybe he can help us!»
(to be continued...)
P.S.: A friend of mine once wrote: «Seriously you could make Mr Robot read a phone book and it would super fun!!!» This is for you, Rob Damiano, thank you so much for your support and for being such a constant inspiration to me!
they're getting close, -- beware !
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In Explore September 22, 2008 #121
The Situation - A Tempest’s Reflection
JB, a spaceship pilot, has been placed into a cryo cocoon to revive and transform his life essence. Inside the cocoon, he experiences his mind as a "relentless tempest of clashing thoughts, swirling and churning, mirroring the furious chaos outside of the machine." JB also sees his older self trapped in the same transitory state.
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“As the spherical space station hurtles around Earth in its orbit, mechanics fuel-up a rocket ship for its return journey. The station can be rotated so that cradles and launching racks remain on the shady side.” [Image caption]
“Rockets, Jets, Guided Missiles and Space Ships” by Jack Coggins and Fletcher Pratt from Random House was one of the most popular space books of the 1950s. It has black-and-white and color illustrations throughout illustrating chapters on the earliest rockets, the development of sophisticated rockets and jet aircraft, their uses in warfare, and American experiments since WWII and concluding with a look at the future of space travel.
A spherical space station is one of those mid century ideas that looks quaint at first glance, but the more you sit with it, the more you realize Coggins and Pratt were thinking through real engineering constraints long before NASA had the hardware to test them. For a refueling depot, keeping propellants cold is everything. Coggins’ idea of rotating the sphere so the fueling cradle stays in permanent shade is elegant and mechanically simple. A spherical station absolutely makes sense for thermal control, micrometeoroid protection, and rotational symmetry—but it introduces major penalties in construction complexity and usable interior volume. That’s why NASA and every serious design study since the 1960s has favored cylinders, donuts, or trusses.
Modern cryogenic depots need permanent shade, sun-shielded docking, thermal isolation, and low boil-off environments. NASA solves it with deployable sunshades, fixed orientation, and multi-layer insulation, but the underlying principle is the same: “Keep the propellant cold by keeping the Sun away.”
NASA’s current depot concepts (e.g., LOX/LH2 cryogenic depots for Artemis) look more like clusters of tanks on a truss, not a single monolithic structure. If we ever build a fully autonomous, long duration depot—something that doesn’t need human habitation—the spherical concept might return. Not as a habitat, but as a giant insulated tank with docking ports. In that sense, Coggins’ 1951 illustration is closer to a modern cryogenic depot than the ISS is.
The Anomaly is sentient
In the silent, unending expanse of deep space, a cosmic anomaly exists that defies conventional understanding. It is not a place one can simply travel to, but a state of being that occupies a vast region of space. From a distance, it appears as a cosmic bruise of impossible colours—deep violets and shimmering emeralds, laced with filaments of gold. It is a nebula of light and gas, but one that seems to hum with a silent, attentive energy.
Within this living nebula, the laws of physics as we know them begin to fray. The profound reality here is not one of stars and planets, but of a singular, vast consciousness. This is not the mind of a creature contained within a body, but a consciousness that *is* the anomaly itself. Every mote of dust, every wisp of ionised gas, is a neuron in a brain the size of a solar system.
To encounter this anomaly is to brush against a mind of unimaginable scale and alienage. It does not think in words or even in concepts that a human mind could grasp. Its thoughts are the slow, deliberate dance of galaxies, the birth and death of stars replayed as fleeting emotions. It holds memories of suns that never burned and planets that never formed, for its reality is not a reflection of our universe, but a universe unto itself.
This consciousness may be a "Boltzmann Brain," a self-aware entity that has spontaneously coalesced from the chaos of the void, complete with the illusion of a past that never happened. It may be dreaming of our universe, and we, in turn, are but a fleeting thought in its cosmic mind. To be within the anomaly is to be adrift in its senses, to feel the silent, ancient, and lonely existence of a being whose every particle is a thought, and whose every thought is a universe.
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Tiangong and Tsuchinshan–ATLAS
The Chinese Tiangong Space Station & crossing the tail of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) photographed from Oak Park, Australia, on October 4th 2024.
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Since I'm not sure if I'll be able to upload anything in the next few days, I wish now you all (and your families, of course) a very Happy Easter!
The 2nd Solor Transit I've managed to capture in a week, but this time, there was zero cloud.
Taken on 10/8/22 at 15:49:35.83
I filmed it in 4k @ 30fps, and extracted the frames from the video, and blended them into a single composit shot in photoshop.
This time though, the comfort of my back garden was not my location.
To get the shot, the closest, and most suitable place along its path, was Milford Common in Staffordshire, UK.
An amazing role-play SIM with something for everyone. Beloved long-lasting space in my heart for this place, this time this wonderful journey into space of the imagination....yes Savy a wonderful walk down memory lane!
New Triscalia (Planet Tatu)
100% Star Trek RP. The Full on Star Trek Experience. From Academy Cadet to Star Fleet Officer. It's all here. How far will you go?. Real ships, real space, and real people.
Triscalia I
The sun in the Agonian system has gone nova. Forcing the people on Argonia to find a new home.
They did just that. Now settling on the planet Tatu the former Argonians are now Tatuines. As they build and acclamate to a new surrounding, Star Fleet business revs up again. The Academy on Tatu has opened and the space station is fully functional. New adventures await this recoursful lott.
But what awaits them is the question.
"A 1969 station concept. The station was to rotate on its central axis to produce artificial gravity. The majority of early space station concepts created artificial gravity one way or another in order to simulate a more natural or familiar environment for the health of the astronauts. After returning from a micro-gravity environment, astronauts find their muscles weak because they have not been using them. Long-term exposure to micro-gravity could generate long-term health problems for astronauts who do not utilize their muscles. This is why there are exercise machines on space shuttles and on the International Space Station. It was to be assembled on-orbit from spent Apollo program stages."
Obviously, the above is a relatively contemporary ‘composition’ and surprisingly okay. I wonder what the original was though. Although this isn’t, some other original printings must’ve been captioned…maybe.
The approaching ferry? capsule looks like an Apollo Command Module with a Mercury Recovery Compartment ‘appendage’. The space station actually appears to have the same spacecraft docked at both ends. In fact, the one on the right looks to be undocked. And I’m guessing the ring of ‘lights’, near the base of each are windows/portholes. If so, they’re good-sized craft.
This has long been an oft-reproduced & iconic rotating space station concept. I’ve always loved it…other than those lame motion/movement lines.
Thanks to James Vaughan’s posting (linked to below), this is a GAEC design/proposal, which helped to confirm that it’s the work of Craig Kavafes. A WIN!!! 👍👍👍
This, the following linked designs & my other linked Flickr photo below - based on the photo identification number - look to have been part of the same family/series of contractor concepts, proposals, etc., solicited/entertained by NASA ca. 1969:
www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2...
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Both above credit: the excellent Aerospace Projects Review website
In fact and in confirmation of such; in January - February 1969, NASA Administrator Thomas O. Paine oversaw the creation of a Space Station Task Force, a Space Station Steering Group, and an independent Space Station Review Group. These bodies prepared a Phase B Space Station Study Statement of Work (SOW), which NASA released to industry on 19 April 1969. So, I'm pretty sure these works are some of the responses/submittals to that SOW.
"The SOW solicited proposals to study a 12-man Space Station, the design of which would eventually serve as a building block for a 100-man Earth-orbital Space Base. The 12-man Station was to reach orbit on a Saturn V rocket in 1975 and to remain in operation for 10 years...
Grumman, North American Rockwell (NAR), and McDonnell Douglas Aerospace Company (MDAC) submitted proposals in response to the SOW."
The above is a combination of paraphrasing & cut/paste from David S. F. Portree's superlative (as always) article at his wonderful "No Shortage of Dreams" blog. The entire informative content at:
spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2015/03/outpost-in-leo-mc...
Quand quelqu’un ou quelque chose part et emmène un peu de nous avec lui (au sens propre 💧), on immortalise toujours la scène pour s’en rappeler : quelques photos prises lors du départ du #CargoDragon CRS-22 de SpaceX. Pas facile à photographier, la Station n’a aucun hublot qui pointe dans la bonne direction. Le prochain vaisseau qui devrait (si tout se passe selon le plan de vol) s’amarrer à cet endroit, c’est notre propre Crew Dragon. On doit en effet libérer la place de parking de premier choix qu’il occupe actuellement à l’avant de l’ISS pour amarrer les prochains vaisseaux qui arrivent :) Le chassé-croisé des vacances a déjà commencé sur l’ISS 😉
When something or someone leaves for a while, what better than take pictures to remember the moment: here are some shots of SpaceX Cargo Dragon CRS-22 departing yesterday, and taking a part of us with it to Earth (literally ). The scene was difficult to capture as no window was pointing in the right direction! The next vehicle to dock to this docking port should be… our very own Crew Dragon. We are set to relocate and free up the best parking spot on the Space Station for upcoming vehicles, if everything goes well. Lots of traffic these days! blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2021/07/07/dragon-undocking-p...
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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The Anomaly is Ominous
Subi’s dashboard shows it as a "tiny distortion at the 'black scar's' edge", where the light of Primary Trade Lane Delta-Nine meets ominous darkness. The main view screen of the Stardust Drifter shimmered with the distant galaxy, a celestial tapestry woven with nebulae and star clusters. Amidst this cosmic grandeur, the ship's navigation display honed in on a singular, unsettling anomaly. It was depicted as a "tiny distortion at the 'black scar's' edge," a subtle yet profound ripple in the fabric of space where the luminous expanse of Primary Trade Lane Delta-Nine met an ominous, suffocating darkness abruptly. This "black scar" wasn't merely the absence of light; it was a region of profound void, a place where stars dared not tread and cosmic dust dissolved into nothingness. The distortion, no bigger than a pinprick on the vast display, hinted at something unnatural, a rupture in the expected flow of the cosmos that pulsed with an almost imperceptible energy.
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Wow, blink and you will definitely miss it!!
After a day of rain, thunder and fog, the weather cleared late in the evening and presented a near perfect opportunity to capture a close flyby of the ISS crossing in shadow over Brisbane and silhouetted as it crossed the July Moon.
Transit time less than half a second!!
International Space Station
7 July 2017 - 23h01m08.93s.
Crosses the disk of the waxing gibbous Moon (97.4%)
Mount Nebo, Queensland, Australia
Transit duration: 0.49s (in shadow of Earth)
Visibility Path Width: 5.5km
Diameter of ISS: Angular size: 65.9″
Size=109.0m x 73.0m x 27.5m
Satellite at Azimuth=321.2° NW Altitude=79.7°
Distance=419.7km Angular Velocity=60.4'/s
Ground Speed=7.411km/s (27,600 km/h)
The Orchestrated Past
The corridor ruins stretch ahead, lined with ancient statues that resemble a watchful audience. I use the small lens to bring each figure into sharp focus. My ancestors, fertility idols, and, resting in my palm, is a mammoth. Golden light, filtering through cracks in the ceiling, illuminates the dust motes suspended in the air.
The weathered sculptures dictate my mood, a resonant, hallucinatory score. Each one is a surviving moral, and my augmented lens, acting as a conductor's baton, reveals the fine details: fractures, lichen, worn expressions as proof that they have survived erasure.
When I raise the lens, the mammoth in my palm seems to plant itself as a precious stone that will not be cast. My thinking shatters into ancient fragments of trance: ice, myth, and vanished ceremonies. The entire hall seems to hum, as if my shattering vibrates among the figures.
My goal is the glowing light at the corridor's end, and I try not to pause. These statues, once intentionally placed, now stand in a state of abandonment. My fingers flow as if choreographed by a hallucination that lingers in time. The history is carrying me forward through their silent, observant act.
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He doesn’t know exactly why, but every time he walks through one of those doors, he has a bad feeling.
Anyway, he’s a good neighbor, not so talkative, maybe, and he drools a LOT, but he never draws back when Benny invite him for a guys' night out.
Godliness in Stone
My transparent helmet dome reflected the glint of broken windows, a sterile bubble moving through a world of dust. The suit’s filters scrubbed the air, but they couldn't scrub the omnipresence of being watched in the Necropolis Gully. I stopped.
Before me, an ancient ruin, unidentified structural remains of decay. A beautiful, godly face. It emerged from the cracked, brittle stone work, as if only created recently by expert craftsmanship. My internal narrator began its analysis: Local deity. Pre-Collapse. Function: Unknown.
But the logic stuttered, snagging on the input. The godly eyes and ultra-smooth face weren't just data points to be filed. They were broadcasting. A sudden, sharp spike of loss and profound love hit me, not as a thought, but as a wave of pure, unfiltered sensation. I was inside the anomaly.
I was paraknowing.
This god was trapped, in stone, its mouth partially open in a silent, eternal breath. My logic tried to reassert control. Hypothesis: The carving's features are designed to trigger a primal empathic response. But the feeling was too strong, too immediate. It wasn't an observation. It was a message, received and understood without a single word. I stood, decoding its silent intent with a part of my mind I no longer trusted, as an observer trapped by a forgotten myth.
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"Let's have a look at your communication system, Benny. I bet it's the damn transducer. We had problems with the '78 DMG transducers everywhere recently." says Kelly. She's so professional when she's at work. Benny is speechless! He has never met a scientist like her...
(The light comes from a Brickstuff Pico LED I managed to put between a round tile and a lightsaber hilt, to simulate a flashlight. Then I erased the wires in Photoshop.)
Force as an illusion
The GRIP, that insidious and all-encompassing force I once believed held me captive, is an illusion. It does not truly hold me; instead, it is a constant, relentless pressure, forcing me to confront and ultimately hold myself. I am both the meticulous builder, painstakingly constructing my reality, and the ruthless destroyer, dismantling it with equal fervour. The internal clamour of doubt, fear, and conflicting desires gradually fades, leaving in its wake a profound, almost sacred silence. And from that silence, a singular, powerful symphony begins to rise, a chorus of both creation and destruction, a testament to the intricate, terrifying, and beautiful balance I now embody.
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Resist and Stabilise
A dynamic action shot from inside the pod. JB is arching his back, attempting to lash out, but the composition emphasises the weight of the "stabilising hum"—visualised as heavy, translucent soundwaves or ripples in the air that are physically holding him down, resisting his kinetic energy.
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What looks like a bizarre alien planet is in fact Earth, photographed by astronaut Scott Kelly aboard the International Space Station during the auroral displays this past June. Aurorae have the signature colors of excited molecules and atoms at the low densities found at extreme altitudes. The greenish glow of molecular oxygen dominates this view. But higher, just above the space station's horizon, is a rarer red band of aurora from atomic oxygen. #iss #spacestation #funfactfriday
A Psychological Stress Response
A cold spike of dread bypassed my suit’s emotional regulators. I am the puppet. My internal narrator fought back: "Don't trigger a psychological stress response; observe the situation." "No," I whispered, as my boots scuffed involuntarily against the ground while I stumbled from the dark doorway. They were waiting for the show. "This is a cognitive test," I reminded myself. “I must not panic.”
In the Necropolis gully, my inner dialogue gave way to the rhythmic drip of water. As I pushed further and deeper, the air grew heavier, thick with the smell of saturated earth and ancient, undisturbed rot.
Lining my path, standing sentinel on crumbling plinths, were dozens of statues. They were coated in thick, velvet layers of moss and ivy, making them seem almost organic, as if they had grown straight from the rock. Each was carved with a raw, primal emphasis. "It's a pantheon," I whispered. "A complex belief system, preserved for my reception. Are they gods or memories?" The thought chilled me: I am being prepared; they are paving my way, waiting for me to take action. In that moment, I realised I had never felt so alone.
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The Anomaly is a paradigm shift
The discovery of an anomaly, truly alien and sentient, demands nothing less than a fundamental paradigm shift in our approach to exploration and discovery. We can no longer suffice with mere observation, passively documenting phenomena from a safe distance. Instead, a dynamic engagement with the unknown is imperative. This requires fostering a mindset of continuous adaptation, as our current frameworks of understanding will undoubtedly prove insufficient. Furthermore, intellectual humility becomes paramount when confronted with a cosmic force that defies our established notions of life, consciousness, and existence. The sheer scale and nature of this entity necessitate a complete re-evaluation of our place in the universe, challenging anthropocentric biases and opening us to possibilities previously deemed unimaginable. Our scientific methodologies, philosophical tenets, and even our societal structures must evolve to accommodate this profound reality.
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If that mechanic looks familiar: there are always jobs for a skilled mechanic.
Mechanic Project Day 3741
“Demonstration satellite solar power station – the materials for which would be carried into low earth orbit by Space Shuttle – is 1000 feet square and 25 feet thick. An operational station would be placed in geosynchronous orbit (about 22,000 miles out in space), from where it would beam a continuous stream of microwave energy to earth.”
Above per the Rockwell International lithograph of this gorgeous work, the originator of this proposal.
Beautifully rendered by Ted Brown, at:
www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/rockwell-international-s...
Credit: “SECRET PROJECTS: UNBUILT PROJECTS, MILITARY AND AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY” website
Additionally, per the excellent Astronautix website:
“Rockwell Station '76
Rockwell Space Station Concept, 1976
American manned space station. Study 1975. North American Rockwell's 'Austere Modular Space Station' was in contrast to more grandiose schemes in the mid-1970's.
Status: Study 1975.
The most important application in those days was constructing large space structures, e.g., extremely large communications satellites, giant 20-kilometer-wide solar power satellites or even giant orbiting space colonies for millions of people. Contemporary space station studies such as Rockwell's and Boeing's were closely tied to this objective. NASA's Outlook for Space report from 1975 recommended a number of possible goals, including development of a 12-man space station in low Earth orbit by 1988 and a similar station in lunar orbit by 1994.
Article by Marcus Lindroos”
At:
www.astronautix.com/a/amss-austerrspacestation.html
www.astronautix.com/graphics/s/ssri76n.jpg
What appears to be the original ‘Austere Modular Space Station’ posting.
I’m sure also by Ted Brown:
www.friends-partners.org/mwade/craft/amsation.htm
An excellent one-two info combo from two disparate sources. Don’cha just love it when a ‘plan’ comes together?
However, while that’s all fine & dandy, what’s truly important, interesting & notable here is:
1.) That it’s by Ted Brown.
2.) That it’s part of an interwoven evolution, sequence & stream of variants and derivatives of similar & related works by Mr. Brown. I don’t recall identifying/recognizing anything like this pertaining to other artist’s works.
3.) Furthermore, within the following wonderful tribute video by Mr. Brown’s amazing & gracious daughter, Angela Carole Brown:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-w4MHqTx5A
Commencing at the 2:54 mark, an extremely similar variant is shown.
And then, at the 3:24 mark, the close-up of Mr. Brown and an assistant would appear to be of them working on the details of the Manned Remote Workstation (that possibly being Grumman proprietary terminology) depicted in his 1980 “Space Products” mural, to which I’ve provided multiple links in the “Comment” section below.
Fascinating, at least to me.
Finally:
dh.howard.edu/newdirections/vol11/iss4/
Credit: Howard University website
Moon (20% illuminated) + 7 humans, traveling over 17,000 mph aboard the International Space Station + clouds (lots of them, unfortunately).
(10-second tracked exposure)
Photo sequence of International Space Station passing over Rochester, NY taken over a two-minute period. Orion XT8 telescope. 1/1000s exposure.
An early morning Jupiter imaging session was well timed today, and managed to also catch the ISS almost crashing my CCD imaging (I will check back to see if it actually did)
A stunning morning after days and days of terrible weather.. So I figured I should make the most of it!
6 x 30sec shots layered in Photoshop :)