Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
Alan Baker
@aebdigital.bsky.social
European, Systems Engineer and sometime space artist. INCOSE and IAAA member. Economic migrant. Spricht wie ein Österreicher.
The Boeing Integrated Manned Interplanetary Spacecraft (IMIS) was a 1968 design for a Mars mission. Boeing estimated that this design could launch its first mission in 1985. It would use five NERVA rocket stages, each fired and discarded throughout the 460 day flight.
The proof is NOT in the pudding. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. And while we’re at it, it is not darkest just before the dawn.
The Apollo Applications Program put together projects that reused the Apollo lunar mission hardware. One flown mission was the Skylab space station. An interesting un-flown concept was a Skylab variant using flexible roll-out solar panels.
ME: b-but Reverend Mother, we mustn’t, what if Shai Hulud hears the rhythm of our prayer and comes here and devours me?? MY DOMINATRIX: …I’m sorry can you explain all this again please
“In 1980, the Cushing Heresy provoked a further schism in Whodom. The acceptance of Cushing as one of the True Faces of the Doctor was embraced by the Morbius Faces faction, but rejected by mainstream. The re-emergence of the Cult of Unseen Doctors in 2013 and 2020 has given new life to the Heresy.”
The Amazing Worlds of Doctor Who@worldsofdrwho.bsky.social · 3w agoThe five Doctors c/o "MARVEL PREMIERE FEATURING DOCTOR WHO" (1980). #DoctorWho
Hi! Im hoping to set up commissions through Vgen, and I need help to get a code, I can apply for a code if enough people like and share this post (it needs at least 100 likes and 20 shares) my Vgen is vgen.co/technician #VGenCode #blender #blender3d #animation #robot #scifi #art
“Journos moved from 'it's either Miliband or Mahmood' [as Chancellor] to treating her as a confirmed appointment. Turns out, as I said last week, they were throwing darts at a dartboard. The BBC did whole segments on the premise that she was such a shoo-in, we needed to guess her economic strategy.”
Quiet Riot@quietriotpod.bsky.social · 2w ago🌃 Midnight Mass: Andy's Pitch-in Cabinet 🗄️ @pimlicat.bsky.social & @sturdyalex.bsky.social convene for a gossip after a busy day of politics, to share some early thoughts on Burnham's top picks. What direction do they signal? 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/1ySb... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
My submission for the IAAA's summer art challenge on the theme "Grey".
Spain plays. Europe cheers. 🙌 Good luck tonight, from every corner of the EU. Vamoooos 💪 🇪🇸
I did an update of the model shots in Blender for the opening sequence of the Star Cops episode "Conversations with the Dead". Just for fun.
For those discussing crewed Soviet missions to Mars/Venus, here's the solid info. 1987 mission details, Mars landing & Venus flyby in one mission. Part 1 graphicsnickstevens.substack.com/p/1987-nucle... Part 2 graphicsnickstevens.substack.com/p/1987-nucle... Much more on my Soviet Space Substack.
1987 Nuclear Mars Mission, using Energia
A crewed Mars mission requiring 5 Energia launches.
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Well, I gave it a shot, but I found the latest Avatar movie just unwatchable. At least the last one had cool starships and new animals to keep me interested.
Lunar View, after Lucien Rudaux. The original lighting made the central peak pitch black, as it was completely backlit, so I moved the Sun to one side. The Earth is unrealistically large. Terrain in #Gaea, everything else in #Lightwave3d
An extended LOK, designed to support a 2 launch lunar mission. Includes a mini space station to keep the cosmonaut in orbit busy while the other 2 crew spend a fortnight on the surface. Based on details from @nick-stevens.com’s substack: graphicsnickstevens.substack.com/p/the-final-...
“The Doctor and Susan are still in that sink, Barbara. And he’s turned the tap on!” I love this show!
If I were Nigel Farage, I’d dip into that £5 million crypto gift just to fund a video that can compete with this! 🤣 HILARIOUS ⬇️
Really enjoyed Star City. Hope they don’t make us wait too long for season two. That said, I do now have a new hobby of pointing out on the fan wiki all the places where they took liberties with the historical hardware…
Erica Sinclair: Nerd Blerd Reaction
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And a free wallpaper pack with "Delta-V" and "Critical Mass" artworks is live, you can get it for free on my Gumroad, link in the thread below ☄️ 🚀
Some old renders of scenes from Larry Niven's Known Space. Context in the Alt Text.
On this occasion I do in fact have to support this kind of silliness
I have several Blender projects ongoing that I need to finish. I do NOT need to start modelling Star City missions. <<Repeat incessantly>>
