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Flying Circuits

@flyingcircuits.bsky.social

Will Work for Launch. Spacecraft troubleshooter at Flying Circuits. Building hardware for the ISS (and beyond!) with BioServe Space Technologies at CU Boulder. Former toymaking elf at Sparkfun Electronics. Friend of parrots and old computers. He/him/ally.

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Aiden Abett@cheatlines.co · 5h ago

Remembering when a Twitter demographics fretter guy posted "I can't even imagine how unmarried men over 35 live, what do you do all day" and like 100 pleasant guys responded with their various hobbies and "extra time to think about submarines/the roman empire" etc

James Tuttle Keane@jtuttlekeane.bsky.social · 11h ago

Ralph Lorenz—Huygens showed that Titan can be wet, even at low latitudes. As Dragonfly flies across Titan, the odds it’ll land in mud are low (<1%), and if so, the stickiness will be again to sticky wheat dough (and Dragonfly could still takeoff). #AOGS2026

A photograph of a sketch in my notebook summarizing Ralph Lorenz’s talk at AOGS2026. The pen and pencil sketch shows two spacecraft on the surface of Titan: Huygens and Dragonfly (loosely to scale). The two grey spacecraft sit on a rock littered orange surface with a yellow hazy sky behind them. Next to Hogan’s, I have a zoom in the regular showing how the acoustic sensor suggested that the soil was damp, with liquid sweating out of it. On the right, I show a little insect of some reel, analog dunes, which very rarely can have intradune lakes form in particular particularly rainy seasons. Situations such as this are predicted to be very rare for Titan, but the Dragonfly mission is planned to handle it.
Matt Zoller Seitz@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 20h ago

"The events of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” occur today: August 4, 2026. Like so many dates in science fiction, this one probably seemed far away when it was chosen, but once it was finally upon us, it passed like all days." www.rogerebert.com/mzs/silhouet...

Silhouettes and Warnings: On Reading Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" On the Exact Day When It's Set

The events of Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" occur today: August 4, 2026.

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Matt Zoller Seitz@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 14h ago

"The fire crackled up the stairs. It fed upon Picassos and Matisses in the upper halls, like delicacies, baking off the oily flesh, tenderly crisping the canvases into black shavings."

Matt Zoller Seitz@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 20h ago

"The events of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” occur today: August 4, 2026. Like so many dates in science fiction, this one probably seemed far away when it was chosen, but once it was finally upon us, it passed like all days." www.rogerebert.com/mzs/silhouet...

Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 23h ago

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn landscape from above. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool.
@mossworm.bsky.social · yesterday

Let us examine the set of circumstances that led to this Eulimnadia clam shrimp living out its entire live cycle in a styrofoam cup on the ground.

Styrofoam cup in a ditchView of the cup showing some water and algae insideA live adult clam shrimp living happily in the cup
Aiden Abett@cheatlines.co · yesterday

for large portions of my life I was addicted to those "how to survive (improbable event)" pocket guides and/or the Esquire Magazine How It Feels column, so i better write this down

Flying Circuits@flyingcircuits.bsky.social · 2d ago

One of my best friends from high school is a hotshot. And his advice from experience was if you're in the drop zone for one of these planes, get every part of your body as flat to the ground as you possibly can. Because it's going to hit you like a ton of bricks.

Dean Wingrin@deanwingrin.bsky.social · yesterday

The Avro Shackleton MR Mk3 was powered by four Rolls-Royce Griffon 57A V-12 piston engines, each producing 2,455 horsepower. The SAAF Museum at AFB Ysterplaat has a cutaway model that was recently restored, showing every piston, valve and cog working in perfect harmony. Powered by an electric drill!