Fictional Spaceplane Project

Fictional spaceplane project

Next Generation Space Transportation orbiter Pacifica, delivering three brand new Proteus printer-assembler drones to SBSP station building site.

fuck it I'm gonna reblog a bunch of my old writing to give it some fresh eyes. incoming!

What is the most underrated object in the solar system in you opinion? Similarly; what’s overrated?

Hoo, that's a really tough question for me to answer!

My default answer would probably be Deimos, just bc of its potential usefulness (thanks Atomic Rockets for teaching me about that!) but tbqh... I think Triton is really underrated! The Neptunian satellite system is fascinating to me, and Triton in particular (although I maintain that it should have been named Salacia). It's literally a captured dwarf planet, and one of the densest KBO-adjacents out there. It has rainbow ice sheets and nitrogen geysers and it orbits retrograde, how can you not be fascinated by it? Its geological/cosmic history is so interesting, particularly its effects on the rest of Neptune's satellites. Proteus is visible proof that the capture of Triton destroyed the original moons of Neptune, and it's quite possible there were several objects similar in size to the Uranian or Saturnian moons beforehand that we'll never get to know. Idk, the ice giants and their satellites in general deserve more love, and Triton in particular definitely merits further study via probe.

Honestly, I think Mars is kinda overrated? Don't get me wrong: I love Mars, it's very interesting and will undoubtedly be our next great leap (not to mention it has plenty of potential as SF fodder). But I think there's a bit TOO much public focus on Mars, and not enough on the other interesting bodies of the system (like the ice giants!)

HELLO DOZENS HUNDREDS OF NEW FOLLOWERS, WELCOME I SUPPOSE

I honestly did not expect that post to breach containment but HERE WE ARE??? Pinned post will be your guide, and there are snacks in the pantry. Have fun :)

I respect his commitment to the spirit of scientific investigation but god damn

it's 4 AM and I'm doing GREAT, guys

forgive the greentext styling but it is, in my opinion, the best way to convey the near miss with abject catastrophe I just experienced:

> making ramen

> boil way more water than needed

> decide to make cocoa too while waiting for ramen to cook

> get mug

> get cocoa packet

> Spy.exe has experienced an error

> start tearing cocoa packet open over ramen cup

> recordscratch.wav

had a fucking hilarious dream that tumblr replaced the "block" function with the far funnier "glock" function, which did the exact same thing except whenever anyone blocked you a random bullet hole, like a png of a bullet hole, would appear on your blog. discourse blogs were unreadable bc you'd go to the page and the sheer amount of bullet hole pngs stacked over the blogs obscured everything. I woke myself up laughing