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Update : Poll Embeds on Wall Posts!
You can now share forum polls directly to your wall! Head to any forum poll thread or create your own and click Share Poll to Wall. Your post will be pre-filled with a live poll embed showing the current results, voting status, and a link back to the full thread.

A clean way to surface interesting forum discussions without leaving the conversation behind.

psst... pro-tip: you can also paste the poll bbcode into other useful locations like your content descriptions or profile custom widgets.

🍂 Our Fall Festival is almost here!

Join the community in celebrating the season with contests, games, and fun activities hosted by fellow members. Whether you’re building, crafting, or just enjoying the vibes, there’s something for everyone.

🍂 Design an NPC for the Fall Festival! 🎃

Help bring our upcoming October in-game event to life by creating a festive NPC skin! Think scarecrow farmers, pie vendors, wandering storytellers, anyone you'd meet at a cozy Fall celebration. Give them a name, a location in the festival, and maybe even a few fun lines of dialog. Your creation could become part of the festival world!


Learn more and join the Skin Jam Here!

We're gearing up for an exciting Fall Festival on Planet Minecraft, and we need your creativity to make it spectacular!
Join the Planting Season Jam by contributing builds, blogs, or art inspired by autumn themes like harvest, cozy vibes, and festive celebrations.

How to Participate:

• Builds & Assets: Create structures or decorative items that capture the essence of fall.
  
• Blogs & Art: Share stories, ideas, or artwork envisioning the perfect fall festival.

Submission Guidelines:

• Theme: Focus on autumn-related concepts—think pumpkins, falling leaves, and harvest festivals.
  
• Format: Provide your creations as Minecraft maps, schematics, or blog posts.
  
• Compatibility: Ensure builds are compatible with Minecraft Java version 1.21.5.

For full details and inspiration prompts, check out the Planting Season Jam FAQ.

Let's collaborate to craft an unforgettable fall festival experience! 🍂

🎆 Come join PMC's New Year's Flash Jam and welcome 2025 in style! 🎉

Get involved in a community-led PMC tradition—SSPBL's palette contests are back, and Season 9 is in full swing! Week 1 just wrapped up, and now you can step in and help decide who advances to Week 2!

PBL is an exciting, bracket-style competition where participants face off in weekly rounds, each with a fresh and challenging palette that pushes their skinning skills to the limit. The best part? YOU get to vote on who moves forward, so your voice shapes the competition! Oh and watch for a twist...

Head over to CAST YOUR VOTES and help crown the Season 9 champion!

Mark your calendars for tomorrow, October 13th, 7 AM central time for the launch of Starship IFT-5

If there's any rocket launch you absolutely NEED to watch its this one

If they manage to pull this off it will geniunely be one of the greatest engineering achievements in human history

Happy Friday, PMC!

We've revamped our Site Rules with new sections focused on Social Interactions and Moderation— to help make the platform more welcoming and transparent for everyone.


✅ What’s new?

• Our content rules remain the same, but the Social section is all about outlining what’s already been happening naturally but wasn't documented! This is to help newcomers understand how to engage positively and give everyone a clearer reference point. Ideally, if it helps prevent even small misunderstandings or frustrations, it's a win.
  
• The Moderation section provides some insight into our responsibilities and actions. It's one small step towards offering transparency so you know how we keep the community fun, safe, and respectful. We're working on a larger update to this end.
  

We’re also compiling FAQs to make your PMC experience even smoother for both new members and exploring features of our platform! You can help us out by posting in this forum. Just prepend your thread title with “FAQ:” and—bonus points!—if you can provide the answers in your thread. Every contribution helps the community grow stronger and helps us understand what needs to be answered!

Let’s keep building an awesome community together.

so i’m sure you guys have heard of the astronauts “stranded” in space by boeing right now

if you haven’t, boeing sent a crew of 2 astronauts to the international space station in june on a 6 day mission. Almost 3 months later they’re still up there because there was an engine problem and boeing can’t figure out what happened

Well, we now know what’s going to happen to the crew

they’re going to be rescued by spacex lmao

So in 2025 SpaceX is going to send the Crew-9 mission to the ISS. This was already going to happen, but now they’re going to rescue the Boeing Starliner crew as well

NASA just made one of the stupidest decisions they’ve ever made and we need to get congress to reverse it
I never ask this on my posts but before I get into this I very humbly ask you to share this wherever you can. To put this simply if we don’t get this mission to happen, space exploration gets set back decades

The VIPER rover was supposed to be a lunar rover launching this year to search for ice on the lunar south pole for 100 days. Finding ice is critical to making a moon base where people can live.

However, it was being launched on the Griffin-1 mission, made by the company Astrobotic, which recently failed to land on the moon with the peregrine 1 mission

So, because of cost overruns and the lack of confidence in Griffin-1, NASA has chosen to end the development of the VIPER rover.

Despite the fact that the rover is ALREADY FULLY BUILT

NASA is literally going to throw away VIPER and sell its parts to other companies for different missions

and not only that, but because of how the contract works, NASA STILL HAS TO PAY FOR THE LAUNCH OF GRIFFIN-1

So they are literally paying Astrobotic to launch NOTHING to the moon (of course griffin-1 will have other payloads but none are nearly as important)

and if that wasn’t enough, instead of putting VIPER on Griffin-1, they’re going to put a mass simulator, meaning they are literally attaching dead weight to the spacecraft where VIPER is supposed to be

Even if you don’t like space exploration, this decision is completely indefensible. Spending 450 million dollars on a rover just to cancel it at the goal line is inexcusable and a complete and utter waste of money.


please sign this letter to Congress here to reverse this absurd decision: https://nasawatch.com/artemis/an-open-letter-to-congress-opposing-viper-cancellation-that-you-can-sign/

today i learned that Artemis 2 and Artemis 3 (the next 2 missions to the moon with people on them, launching in 2025 and somewhere before 2028 respectively) will be outfitted with cameras capable of making a 4K 60fps livestream of the entire mission
they’ll be on the Artemis 3 spacesuits as well, the next moon landings will be in 4K let’s gooooo

forgot to post this yesterday
Starship (the biggest rocket ever made) has successfully survived a full reentry back to Earth.

youtu.be/vF_RNoTUuDA?si=dyG-wHHwcpJtY5tn

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrkYmUoOMOQ

This is huge
This isn’t just a SpaceX achievement. This isn’t just “oh wow the most powerful rocket ever survived”
This is history in the making
Starship was burning up in the atmosphere, no other rocket has ever survived that
And Starship, despite literally disintegrating, managed to make a successful landing
This is not only the most powerful rocket ever, it is the strongest
it quite literally became a meteor and survived
no other rocket has ever done that
this was the problem that killed the space shuttle Columbia, and Starship lived
While this happened, multiple engines were failing and it STILL SURVIVED
remember where you were on June 6th, because this is more than just a rocket
this type of history you tell your children that you lived through
this is the rocket that will build a moon base and send people to mars
and it’s now operational

what do you guys think has been the most historical events of the 2020s that aren’t the obvious ones like covid and the wars

IF YOU HAVE ECLIPSE GLASSES, GO OUTSIDE AND LOOK AT THE SUN RIGHT NOW

There is currently a dark spot on the surface of the Sun visible as a black dot, it’s called AR3664
These sunspots happen very often but ones this big are very rare, and this one is visible without a telescope

this sunspot is also releasing massive solar flares that will cause auroras to be visible in northern US states and all of canada

this is extremely rare, STARE DIRECTLY AT THE SUN RIGHT NOW (if you still have eclipse glasses)

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