I'm somewhat confident Artemis will land people on the moon. But it's becoming more and more likely China will be the first to return since 1972. Which honestly isn't a problem, more humans on the moon is a good thing.
For some reason this was in my notifications. I checked their page and they make the same 3 replies over and over again, often in reply to AI posts even if it makes no sense, so I suspect it's a bot.
The alternative is to just not care about being in the loudest room on the internet. I go weeks without even thinking about my politicians. If I hear some interesting news from others around me I look it up and catch up.
I like my Prime minister, but I don't care what he has to say every day.
Internet communities were at their best when they were scattered forums with populations below 500 people. I will never understand people who think it's bad because a website doesn't have the population of a small nation.
I like my small curated communities, I'm not chronically online.
Nothing here indicates "physically impossible". Flaws in strategy and mission architecture absolutely but not physically impossible. That being said I agree the architecture is bad and one of the reasons I'm more interested in China's lunar program.
You are going to need to be more specific on whats "impossible", as going to the moon is very possible.
In the process of making all the art myself and learning how to optimize textures, ive also learned a lot of useful skill I'm going to implement in Cosmic Ocean when I return to working on it. I feel kind of bad that CO has been in development purgatory for like 2 years but it's next on my list.
The little infinite dungeon crawler roguelike game ive been working on since last year is starting to really come together. Originally just an artistic distraction because ive not done a fantasy game yet, I've grown to feel pride in it.
#gamedev #videogame #indidev #fantasy
As time goes on I become more tired of Alberta and wish to move to a different province.
And i'm someone with agoraphobia who hasn't left my city in years and I still want to leave. That tells you something.
I find it interesting that people spent so much time worrying about the world turning into 1984, that they didn't notice it quietly turning into Fahrenheit 451.
Yeah it's always annoying having to explain to people that GPT is just as close to AGI as their phones auto correct. A static simulacrum of a mind doesn't have the emergent properties of a real plastic mind.
In a space fairing setting, I could see wood being a far more precious luxury item than gold. You either import it from Earth, or dedicate agricultural space to grow trees in a limited capacity.
Having hardwood floors in a space habitat orbiting Proxima b would be extravagant.
Every time I put ketchup and oregano on a bagel, an Italian wakes up in a cold sweat.
Elon Musk says he wants "Star Trek to be real". But we all know that's a lie. He doesn't want Star Trek, he wants the technology of Star Trek with the economics of Dune.
I delete my twitter a long time ago, the interactions there are largely fake and it's a nazi bar that actively works against artists. I still see artists here who are afraid to say Patreon because Twitter stomps out posts that mention or link to it so hard they self censor out of reflex.
People often make jokes about how For All Mankind is like a prequel to The Expanse. But it occurs to me it really can't be.
Climate change was stopped using fusion energy on FAM, in the Expanse timeline climate change got worse.
Astronauts finding a skeleton in a spacesuit. Illustration by Darrell K. Sweet
"I hope this email finds you well"
How the email found me:
#sci-fi #joke #space
The Fantastic Voyage remake has been in purgatory for so long I'm actually happy people still bring it up on occasion. It's one of the few films I would like to see a remake of. Inner Space was a fun take on the concept.
Maybe even an adaptation of Asimov's version "Destination Brain".
In the small fantasy game ive been working on it has a style to it, as if it was drawn on paper. To make item and character sprites look the way I want I make line art then trace bitmap in inkscape with maximum smoothing. Unfortunately I worry people will think it's AI. It has that look about it.
I've reached a point I just don't watch new movies or TV shows anymore. It all feels like soulless corporate slop. I probably won't even watch any new Star Trek stuff after I finish Strange New Worlds.
When an artistic medium stops being art, there is no point in consuming it.
My Ender 3 Pro is still fantastic for projects, but as a model kit printer it is starting to show it's age. Especially with my A1 mini making higher quality prints. I think it's almost time I upgrade my workhorse printer to an A1 and reassign the Ender 3 to utility work.
Honestly? Contact in my opinion. Interstellar is great but Contact hits different.
Or they might've been answered by a crewed Mars flyby mission, but the minimum-energy crewed Mars mission was presented as an alternative to crewed Mars flybys. (Drawings below are from a 1965 North American study - spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2019/01/apol... - performed for NASA MSC.)
The Boeing space plane model I made for the same client that ordered the Dyna-Soar came out great. I always love seeing my models fully painted and ready for display.
#space #3dmodeling #3dprinting #history
Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
I really enjoyed 2010. The effects, the story, the ships, the music. All really good.
Another problem with AI is I'm making sprites for a game project, and I need to keep examples of every step to prove it's not AI if anyone asks.
Enceladus station is busy cracking local ices into H2/O2 rocket fuel to refill visiting spacecraft. With low gravity and no atmosphere to deal with, launchers can be reduced to mass-efficient spheres in exposed structures.
#space #art by William Black.
www.renderosity.com/gallery/item...
Introduce yourself with four spaceships.
They want the fast dopamine of the slot machine, and don't want to put in the work and effort for the long lasting dopamine from making something themselves using their mind skills and creativity.
