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Amid #Odyssey chatter, we forget the 'epic' isn't exclusively the province of fiction. Both robotic and human space exploration are jam packed with mythic potential-the tools needed to talk about the soul of space exploration. @NASA @NASAArtemis
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Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon is 160 years old, misreading it, one way or another, for most of that time.
My review of MIT Press’s new annotated edition, in @ISSUESinST:
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When I was in the Self-Defense Forces, one of my seniors had a strange habit.
Before making any serious decision, he'd go eat curry.
Not fancy curry. Just the kind you get in a cafeteria on a metal tray.
One night, I asked him why.
He took a bite, chewed for a second, then said:
"If this still tastes really good, I'm probably fine."
Then he looked down at the plate.
"If it doesn't, I'm too tired, too angry, or too messed up to trust my own judgment."
Then he kept eating like he'd just explained the weather.
I laughed.
Years later, I think about that rule more often than I'd like to admit.
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50 legendary internet rabbit holes you can spend hours exploring👇
1. zoom.earth — Watch the world via live satellite imagery
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5. lightningmaps.org — Watch lightning strikes hitting Earth in real time
6. earthquake.usgs.gov — Live list of recent earthquakes
7. submarinecablemap.com — Ocean cables carrying the internet
8. globalforestwatch.org — Watch forests disappear from space
9. worldometers.info — The world's statistics, second by second
10. internetlivestats.com — Current number of tweets and searches being posted
11. thetruesize.com — Compare the true sizes of countries
12. oldmapsonline.org — Maps from centuries ago
13. davidrumsey.com — Archive of 150,000 historical maps
14. openstreetmap.org — World map drawn by volunteers
15. window-swap.com — Look out the window of a random person around the world
16. virtualvacation.us — Virtual walks through cities
17. mapcrunch.com — Teleport to a random spot on Earth
18. atlasobscura.com — Catalog of the world's strangest places
19. neal.fun — Interactive knowledge experiences
20. htwins.net/scale2 — Scale journey from atom to universe (Updated HTML5 link)
21. eyes.nasa.gov — Explore the solar system in 3D
22. stellarium-web.org — Real sky map in your browser
23. apod.nasa.gov — NASA's astronomy picture of the day
24. images.nasa.gov — NASA's entire visual archive, free
25. pudding.cool — Visual articles told through data
26. ourworldindata.org — The state of the world with real data
27. gapminder.org — What we mistakenly think we know about the world
28. informationisbeautiful.net — Visualizing complex data
29. data.worldbank.org — World Bank's open data
30. data.tuik.gov.tr — Turkey's official statistics database
31. archive.org — Archive of millions of books, films, and software
32. gutenberg.org — 70,000 free books whose copyrights have expired
33. openlibrary.org — Record of every book in the world
34. loc.gov — U.S. Library of Congress digital archive
35. europeana.eu — Europe's cultural heritage archive
36. dp.la — America's digital library collection
37. artsandculture.google.com — Tour museums from home
38. rijksmuseum.nl — Download artworks in high resolution
39. wikiart.org — Archive of 250,000 artworks
40. publicdomainreview.org — Forgotten visual treasures of history
41. openculture.com — Free archive of culture and education
42. metmuseum.org — Met Museum's open collection
43. musicmap.info — Family tree of music genres
44. radiooooo.com — Pick a country and decade to listen to that era
45. listen.hatnote.com — Turn Wikipedia edits into audio
46. wikipedia.org — Random knowledge well
47. timeanddate.com — Time, sunrises, and sky events
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Save this. You’ll definitely need some of these later. 🔖
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I’m hosting the Defending Baltics conference in Vilnius Lithuania on October 26-27. Go to defendingbaltics.com to sign up and get all the details. Hope to see you there! @CivicResilience
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Remembering the late, great Dolly, who brought joy, comfort and inspiration to so many - including the millions of children given free books through her Imagination Library. We will always ❤️ you.
The point isn't about communications strategy per se. It's that space programs don't understand the registers in which they're most visible and present. This is a fundamental quandry for public institutions like @NASA.
Are we the sort of people who see something too big for easy words and immediately try to cut it down to size, belittling ourselves in the process? Space philosopher @Operation_Ryan considers Artemis and awe.zps.la/4xGRlWA
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"The literary heavyweights of the Space Age—Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Oriana Fallaci—all realized that metaphor and myth were necessary to capture something vital," writes @Operation_Ryan, about space exploration.
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Are we the sort of people who see something too big for easy words and immediately try to cut it down to size, belittling ourselves in the process? Space philosopher @Operation_Ryan considers Artemis and awe.
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Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?
Because we gave them that L in 1776.
"Yet another advantage of the Virginia submarines is their diesel-electric engines, a propulsion technology that “powers” the ship and adds on-board power generation capability." nationalsecurityjournal.org/…
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【発明】空飛ぶ浮き輪が誕生した。溺れた人をGPSで追跡し時速50kmで水面すれすれを飛んで駆けつけ手の届く位置に着水する。救助隊が到着するまでの数分間を命綱に変える装置として水難救助の現場で実用化が始まっている。