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Progression on the Endurance paintwork over the past month or so. A lot of work in pastel powders and pencil, along with fine brushwork for the thermal blanket weathering to get the real NASA uneven wear look. There's still a lot to do but we're moving forward nonetheless
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Kathleen Edwards at the Interstellar Rodeo in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ©Eric Kozakiewicz/Interstellar Rodeo
Whitehorse at the Interstellar Rodeo in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ©Eric Kozakiewicz/Interstellar Rodeo
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After watching the movie – Interstellar, let’s you keep on thinking for a while. About time, gravity, space, galaxy, horizon and 5 dimensions. Actually abstract five-dimensional space occurs frequently in mathematics, and is a legitimate construct. Whether or not the real universe in which...
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due dei tanti tedeschi dell'Est uccisi nel tentativo di oltrepassare il muro di Berlino. Memoriale del muro.
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la colonna sonora di questa raccolta - Interstellar overdrive dei Pink Flyd - la trovate qui
David Oyelowo (Interstellar, Jack Reacher) filming American Express, 3/7/2016, on the south east corner of Milwaukee Ave. and Fullerton Ave.
Christopher Nolan 's Interstellar Phone Booth Billboard movie film poster astronauts science fiction sci-fi flooding out the windows of a building above the corner of 46th Street and 9th Avenue in New York City 10/23/2014 NYC traffic taxi cab cabs space 2001 A Space Odyssey like Stanley Kubrick spaceship astronaut
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In the Interstellar Explorer game, visitors take on the role of alien surveyors scouring the far reaches of the greater cosmos in search of life beyond. The game is deployed on three identical Ideum Presenter 65” touch displays with an attached sound bar that provides thematically-inviting background music. Visitors drag their finger across a hex grid to discover clues, find power-ups, and avoid hazards all before their energy is depleted. Upon completion, they will see a detailed “findings” screen that includes NASA-based information about the possibilities of life beyond Earth.
I can't believe how long it's been since I updated the thread on this build- I've been working on it incrementally but totally neglected to keep things posted.
Regardless, here's where I'm at;
five of the modules had severe air cavities under the main layer of resin where it ought to have been solid, so rather than ignore the issue (as it wasn't visible, but was structurally questionable) I cut out those areas before levelling them out with resin and filler.
Then this evening I rewatched Interstellar itself whilst panelling the repaired modules.
Tomorrow I'm going to build the master for the spherical joints... my intention is to vacuum form them in halves to preserve the ability for disassembly.
Edited Hubble Space Telescope image of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov.
Original caption: Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov is providing the first glimpse of another star system's planetary building blocks.
The comet's unusual abundance of carbon monoxide is largely unlike comets belonging to our solar system. Borisov is the first known comet to originate from a different star system than our own. Researchers say its unusual composition points to a likely birthplace of a circumstellar disk around a cool red dwarf class of star. These observations are the first opportunity ever to sample the chemistry of the material in such a primordial disk around another star.
Comets are condensed samples of gas, ice, and dust that form swirling in the disk around a star during the birth of its planets. Studying comets is important because astronomers are still trying to understand the role they play in the buildup of planets. They can also redistribute organic material among young planets, and may have brought water to the early Earth. These activities are likely happening in other planetary systems, as demonstrated by Borisov's makeup.
"With an interstellar comet passing through our own solar system, it's like we get a sample of a planet orbiting another star showing up in our own back yard," said John Noonan of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona, Tucson, who is a member of the Hubble research team led by Dennis Bodewits of Auburn University in Alabama.
The team used Hubble's unique ultraviolet sensitivity to spectroscopically detect carbon monoxide gas escaping from comet Borisov's solid comet nucleus. Hubble’s Cosmic Origins Spectrograph observed the comet on four separate occasions, from Dec. 11, 2019 to Jan. 13, 2020, which allowed the researchers to see the object's chemical composition change quickly, as different ice mixtures, including carbon monoxide, oxygen, and water, sublimated under the warmth of the Sun.
The Hubble astronomers were surprised to find that the interstellar comet's coma, the gas cloud surrounding the nucleus, contains a high amount of carbon monoxide gas, at least 150% more abundant than water vapor. This amount is more than three times higher than the previously measured quantity for any comet entering the inner solar system. The water measurement was made by NASA's Neil Gehrels-Swift satellite, whose observations were conducted in tandem with the Hubble study.
Carbon monoxide ice is very volatile. It doesn't take much sunlight to heat the ice and convert it to gas that escapes from a comet's nucleus. For carbon monoxide, this activity occurs very far from the Sun, about 11 billion miles away, more than twice the distance of Pluto at its farthest point from the Sun. In contrast, water remains in its icy form until about 200 million miles from the Sun, the approximate distance of the inner edge of the solar system.
However, for comet Borisov, the Hubble measurements suggest that some carbon monoxide ice was locked inside the comet's nucleus, revealed only when the Sun's heat stripped away layers of water ice. "The amount of carbon monoxide did not drop as expected as the comet receded from the Sun. This means that we are seeing the primitive layers of the comet, which really reflect what this object is made of," Bodewits explained. "Because of the abundance of carbon monoxide ice that survived so close to the Sun, we think that comet Borisov comes from a much colder place and from a very different debris disk around a star than our own."
Within 200 million miles of the Sun, the rates of water outgassing from a comet's surface are almost always much higher than those of carbon monoxide, the researchers said. Only about one or two known solar system comets have defied that rule. "What Hubble measured in comet Borisov is not a property of most solar system comets," Bodewits said. "That's why comet Borisov stood out for us because we reasoned that Borisov is likely a representative of the star system it comes from."
The researchers suggest that the comet may have been ejected from a disk of icy debris around a red dwarf star, the most common type of star in our Milky Way galaxy. Red dwarfs are fainter and less massive than the Sun. Their circumstellar disks, therefore, may be much colder than our solar system. "These stars have exactly the low temperatures and luminosities where a comet could form with the type of composition found in comet Borisov," Noonan said.
A large Jupiter-sized planet may have kicked the comet out of the alien system. The researchers said that many red dwarfs have large planets orbiting in a region far enough from their host star where carbon monoxide exists in its icy form. "If a Jupiter-sized planet migrates inward, it could kick out a lot of these comets," Bodewits said.
Comet Borisov was spotted on Aug. 30, 2019, by comet hunter Gennady Borisov in Crimea. The vagabond comet resembles other solar system comets, but astronomers determined its interstellar origins based on its orbital path. Since its discovery, a slew of telescopes, including Hubble, have observed the comet as it traveled through the solar system and swung past the Sun. It will eventually leave the solar system and continue its journey through space.
Comet Borisov is the first bonafide interstellar comet to visit the solar system. The first known vagabond visitor was an object called 1I/`Oumuamua, which was discovered in 2017 as it was traveling away from the Sun. Unlike a normal comet, `Oumuamua did not have a visible coma of escaping gas and dust around it, so astronomers could not use spectroscopy to sample its chemical content to characterize it.
Astronomers expect to find more of these wandering comets from outside the solar system with current and future telescopes that scan the entire sky.
The team's results will appear ??? in the journal Nature Astronomy.
They sleep and dream in the interstellar space. Connecting galaxies through cosmic energy. Midjourney v5.
This was one of the most exciting pieces I think I've ever done for myself. I've always been a big fan of space, as well as created space art before, but this one kinda came alive.
About a week ago I sketched out a rough idea of what I was thinking with my probe satellite image. I used that as a starting point and created from there.
Also I think this is the first time I've used the blur effect in SketchBook Pro - makes those spaceships look mean and fast!
Hope you like it - there are some links to other images I used while creating this one in my photostream.
iPad finger painting
SketchBook Pro
About 4 hours
The Endurance continues to progress, Rangers are both complete and the Landers are at about 70%.
Most of the modules need their windows putting in before I start to detail all the panelling, add weathering and decals....there's still a way to go but we're getting there.
Still very rough, but the Lander is getting somewhere. I may have to split it across the middle and insert a 3 or 4mm piece to correct the proportions between the pod bulks...
Strumbellas at the Interstellar Rodeo in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ©Eric Kozakiewicz/ Interstellar Rodeo
Christopher Nolan 's Interstellar Phone Booth Billboard movie film poster astronauts science fiction sci-fi flooding out the windows of a building above the corner of 46th Street and 9th Avenue in New York City 10/23/2014 NYC traffic taxi cab cabs space 2001 A Space Odyssey like Stanley Kubrick spaceship astronaut
de facto on tour with Shadow, Norbert L., jrej and Riffuchs.
Featuring "A Cannibal Star" by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
I finally accepted that the Lander was too stubby and bit the bullet by performing some plastic surgery on the belly (badum-tsshhh)
I'll admit this ship is wreaking through every skill I know, it's a deep technical challenge. Definitely a harder task than I had pegged it to be, however...not an insurmountable one !
In other news I began machining the brass armature.
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