NASA
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- Not About How it Looks … There’s an entire section of the manifesto that pines for the days of the NASA design manual. When NASA had that worm instead of the meatball. Fine …
- What We Predict; Rods for Looking at God; Tactical Auditorium … Enemy Territory - YouTube ( archive.is ), People Make Games, 29 August, 2019 ↩︎ Pointing Control - NASA Science ( archive.is ) ↩︎ Top Gun Maverick — GMUNK ( archive.is ) ↩︎ Revamped Nostalgia in Joseph Kosinski …
- Sunny and crisp outside … This is a very long way of saying that it was quite funny when watching NASA's Artemis I launch livestream [4] that one of the delays was …
- Blistering 5G Internet Speed on America's Best Mobile Network and also No Potable Water … 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention The NASA Wallpaper Telescope So the JWST just released its processed images of Jupiter and of course they are amazing …
- Oh this 1.8m diameter mirror? I just happened to have it lying around … National Reconnaissance Office mentioning to NASA that it had a couple of, er, spare telescopes that happened to look just quite a bit like Hubble. The NRO offered …
- Eight Short Pieces In Fifteen Minutes Or Less … There's a good point in the Tufte commentary as well that, well, the NASA officials who were the audience for the presentation from Boeing's engineers also …
- Only A Few Esoteric Things … Or, if you want to keep going with the space metaphor, a bunch of meticulously planned three-ring-binders at NASA beats a still non-existent HAL. Foot …
- Cats; Writing on the Internet; the Moon; OpenDoc and Componentized Software … Can you hear me now? Last year, NASA chose Nokia to “build the first ever cellular network on the Moon” [4] as part of the NASA’s Artemis …
- The Sky Above The Port; Snow Crashing, chapter 14, part 3 … feeling singularities My instagram feed popped up a NASA Goddard / System Sounds collaboration producing sonifications of black holes [ Nasa press release ]. There's a SoundCloud , too. Caught my …
- Irritated About Content Moderation; A Few Small Things … 40th anniversary of one of the most well-known charismatic megaprojects [citation needed], NASA’s Space Shuttle. Spaceflight Insider’s Wings of Exploration: Reflecting on the 40th Anniversary …
- How can I help you? … And if NASA can land a 1,025 kilogram nuclear-powered rover on Mars using Webex during a pandemic , then, you know, maybe try harder? If you’ve …
- The One About Risk … Bobak Ferdowsi , who was Twitter’s main character in 2012 when NASA’s Curiosity landed on Mars in 2012 and he was in visible in the livestream, having …
- Titles, am I right? … coming out this September that I’m looking forward to: How To Future . NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program announced a bunch of funding. The boring one that …
- Snow Crashing … can afford Knight Visions, so what does this franchulate need? Turns out that Hong Kong franchulates are famous for their antennas - "they all look like NASA research facilities …
- Safer Routes Home? … At the very least, NASA’s fleet of earth sensing satellites are providing us with a bunch of data that we’d probably rather not know about and …
- The One With The Uneven Mid-Season Two-Parter … their Palm Pilot or some other dorky thing, like being able to access NASA’s website for the Shuttle launch schedule. (This last point is funny to you …
- Change your organization, or change your organization … But, you know, NASA’s education budget runs out on September 30th so it’s a toss-up as to whether NASA will get to help the rest …
- Division by Infinity … The NASA illustrations of orbital habitats that some of us dreamed of escaping to? Gated communities - in spaaaaace! Global networks promising open and democratic exchange of ideas presupposed …
- First Rule In Government Spending … Also I have a cold brew and there is a NASA sticker on my laptop (not the worm, the swoosh one) because it turns out that when you …
- Not A Tightrope … PDF) https://oig.nasa.gov/audits/reports/FY16/IG-16-015.pdf [2] NASA launch system software upgrade now 77% over budget | Ars Technica [3] A Book Apart …
- Robots; Other things … when, say, Watney turns something off and leaves), is actually code from NASA's PVSlib[1], which is their formal verification library (which is a *very* NASA thing …
- 2015 (1); A Manifesto Walks Into A Website; Stuff About The Web And Post Capitalism Again … Re/code [7] The Verge's web sucks - blog.lmorchard.com [8] News | NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth [9] Is This a Selfie …
- Space; Other Dyson Products; Not Yet, But Soon … There is an exhibition here celebrating 10 years of Spirit and Opportunity - more properly, Mars Exploration Rovers A and B, that NASA launched from Earth in 2003. Ten …
- Disbanded; The Responsive OS … and if you guessed that I'd be including a link to NASA's Shuttle software team, you get to take a drink[2]. You know what, though …
- Internet of Poor People; Re-introductions; Odds … If you know how to (and want to) explore Europa for less than a billion dollars, NASA wants to hear from you. http://1.usa.gov/1j6jJr2 Alternatively …
- Everything's Made Of Blocks; How The World Works; Advances In Quantification … There was that story about how we might, just, could've saved Columbia by NASA mounting the most daring rescue mission ever. If we found a similar flaw …
- Shorts; Code as Law; The Real Revolution; The Flip … http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/nasa-kepler-telescope-doubles-number-of-known-planets-outside-solar-system/2014/02/26/e83af186-9ee0-11e3-9ba6-800d1192d08b_story.html …
- The Difficulty … And finally, we see a NASA prototype virtual reality display from AMES called Cyberiad, and one of the reasons why I thought it would be fun to take …
- Dreaming Invisible Dreams … Initial satellite imagery from NASA, ESA, CNSA, JAXA and ISRO indicates that the data centers where those OS1 consciousnesses were concentrated underwent a localized vacuum metastability event. Those …
- Any Sufficiently Advanced Economy … Perhaps one of the biggest PR wins that NASA has had in the past few years has been its ability to find both an audience and, if I …