so here’s two fun facts i learned about saturn today that just prove that this planet is the physical embodiment of chaos

1. saturn’s biggest moon, titan, is currently moving away from saturn. As it does, saturn’s obliquity (it’s axial tilt, which is just how tilted the planet is toward the sun) will increase. This increase then destabilizes titan’s orbit, which causes it to move away further, which causes the obliquity to increase more, in a feedback loop that will eventually
-eject titan from the system entirely, flinging it off into space
-cause saturn to flip on its side, like uranus is today
we don’t know when this will happen but we know it will (it will probably be between 1-100 billion years from now)

and
2. Saturn’s moon Hyperion has a chaotic rotation. Earth takes 24 hours to complete one rotation, and it’s very stable.
Hyperion is not

Hyperion’s day length and axial tilt constantly changes chaotically and unpredictably due to interactions with saturn and the other moons. This is so chaotic that it becomes physically impossible to predict where hyperion will be more than a month in advance
Even with things like supercomputers, we genuinely have no idea how long a day on hyperion will be or how tilted it will be more than 1 month from today

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?

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

hey look outside your car is on fire! ha ha april foul

I was 10 days sick; i don't know if it was corona or influenza...I don't left my bed and don't had see a doctor. I feel better and i think Tea was the best i did to cure myself...Okay, i'm back for a while...

time to perform ritualistic sacrifices to Artemis, Selene, Chang’e, Chandra, and whatever other moon gods i can think of for the successful landing of the VIPER rover sometime this year
dear god this thing needs to succeed
we aren’t sending humans back to the moon without it

no time to explain

the tin can (starship, the most powerful rocket ever built that will eventually send humans back to the Moon and to Mars) hopped (launched successfully, reached orbit for the first time, we are so back, humans will be back on the moon before the end of the deacde)

idk

here's something interesting I found
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtdcdxvNI1o
an interview with Neil Armstrong about what being on the Moon was actually like (what the sky was like, could they see stars, what did the surface look like, etc)
interesting stuff

hi !!!!

so yes i am quiting pmc, i may come back i may not
occasionally i will pop on in to announce some stuff or promote stuff

published a new video about space colonization
Colonizing Space to Save Earth
youtu.be/P_nP6W9lsJM

I updated one of my old beepbox tunes...Enjoy: Bites crusher...

The Artemis Program

These are the rockets that will be sending humans back to the Moon for the first time since Apollo 17: Space Launch System and Starship.

lots of news about china’s plans to put people on the moon today

1. their Chang’e 8 mission (launching 2028) plans to use lunar material to build bricks in preparation to build a larger base on the moon

2. China’s spacecrafts they’re planning to use to send people to the Moon now have names, Mengzhou (the thing they will use to go to the moon) and Lanyue (the lander)

things are happening
dont be surprised if china sends people to the moon before 2030
my guess is 2029 or 2030 for chinese crewed moon landings
things are about to get fun

GUYS WE DID IT

IM-1 IS ON THE MOON
THE FIRST AMERICAN MOON LANDING IN 52 YEARS
THE FIRST LANDING OF THE ARTEMIS PROGRAM (which will eventually put humans back on the moon AND create a permanent base there)

WE ARE SO BACK

So many great memories on here... This was the first online community I had ever been a part of. I love you all! <3

(You get bonus points if you remember me!)

popping in the quickly say:
hi I have art commissions for the sweet sweet price of gifting me discord nitro:

PRICING:

EYE-HEAD + BACKGROUND + LINEART + COLORING= 1 MONTH NITRO

BUST AND HIGHER + FULLY DRAWN BACKGROUND (not just solid colors) + LINEART + COLORING= 1 YEAR NITRO

EYE-HEAD SKETCH = 1 month nitro

BUST AND HIGHER SKETCH = 1 MONTH

Hopefully this is reasonable
RULES:

ABSOLUTELY NO NSFW

NO REALISIM (i suck ass at it)

GORE IS OK, I DO NOT ALLOW HEAVY GORE THOUGH

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