fun fact: there is a US law that prevents NASA from working with the Chinese National Space Agency (CNSA) in any capacity whatsoever

NASA and CNSA are literally prohibited from working together by law

China has a space station, Mars rovers, has landed several things on the Moon, and has a successful human spaceflight program

Now, where have I heard of 2 extremely capable spacefaring nations working against each other before?

No the real most useless mob is the player, unless they're carrying something they don't even drop anything when killed, and they keep respawning when you kill them, and they chop down the trees as well (BTW they STILL have not fixed the bug where they leave the top half of the tree unmined), and if they find diamonds they become CRAZY strong and kill all the other mobs, idk what Mojang was thinking, the AI is really well coded I mean I gotta respect the effort there, the advanced combat these mobs are capable of is way beyond that of the other mobs but it seems unbalanced and a bit out of place.

GOOD NEWS! im now available... the downside i cant change my name for the next 2 months :P

Finally i was able to put an old thing i wrote to good use.
https://youtu.be/cswno9v0LIE?si=CO4g47pQ4hYVmXRl

fun fact: there is an area on the Moon called the Sea of Moscow that was discovered by (who would’ve guessed) Russia in the 1960s

however, the rules for naming places on the Moon said that you couldn’t name them after anything political, and the city of Moscow fell under that category

but the soviet union was determined
so they argued that the city of Moscow was “a state of mind” and so not political

and it WORKED

your daily reminder that the United States Space Force has a classified “fleet” of space planes very similar to the Space Shuttle but with no crew and they only do military stuff

they’re called X-37s and every once and a while one will launch, stay in orbit for a few months, and come back down
what they do up there is classified
we have no idea what is on board


(it’s probably just spy satellites and stuff but i like to tell people this because as much as people like to joke about the Space Force, it’s a serious organization that actually does stuff)

so i’m sure you guys know boeing at this point
the airplane company that keeps having doors fall off their planes and other wacky events

well a lot of people don’t know that Boeing is also a space company and has launched things into space

and now they’re working on the first crewed flight test of Boeing Starliner, which is a new vehicle meant to take people to the International Space Station

let’s go over a brief history of Boeing Starliner because it is the worst crewed spacecraft since Apollo 13

the first flight test of Starliner occurred in 2019, it didn’t have people on it and was just trying to get to the ISS
It was almost ready to approach the ISS and then MISSED

the second test, also with nobody on it, went fine a few years later
keep in mind that Boeing wanted people on Starliner in 2018. It’s now 2024 and a crewed flight test is just now about to happen

istg if Boeing kills a bunch of astronauts I think that’ll just be the end of the company
the first company to kill someone in space
let’s hope that doesn’t happen