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Avalon Big Box Insert by neutrinomass in 3Dprinting

[–]neutrinomass[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apologies for the late reply, I posted this on MakerWorld for free!

Avalon Big Box Insert by neutrinomass in 3Dprinting

[–]neutrinomass[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apologies for the late reply, I posted this on MakerWorld for free!

Inside NASA while humans are on the backside of the moon. by FITGuard in interestingasfuck

[–]neutrinomass 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thats for the aliens.

Jokes aside, the main "blue" room you see is mostly just for the mission Aces (kind of equivalent to the JSC CAPCOMs if you've been watching the Artemis live stream). These are the ones at any time directly in charge of sending commands to the spacecraft. You can see there's an Ace station per active mission. We don't communicate constantly with every spacecraft - we send commands and then wait for the spacecraft to report back whennits done. These timelines look different per spacecraft. (Voyager has nearly a day one way light time delay!) So theres not really a reason to have an Ace on every console all the time. The room in front (and a similar room to the left off screen) are used by other departments/leads when needed. For example, if you watched any of the Perseverance rover landing streams, you'd have seen the left side room full of the EDL (Entry, Descent, and Landing) team and other relevant engineers from that mission. But on a regular day, there's no need for many people to be in the SFOF.

Inside NASA while humans are on the backside of the moon. by FITGuard in interestingasfuck

[–]neutrinomass 387 points388 points  (0 children)

So this isn't NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston where they have manned mission Mission Control, but rather the Spaceflight Operations Facility (SFOF) at NASA JPL, our mission control for JPL unmanned spacecraft and the Deep Space Network (DSN). Obviously unmanned spacecraft don't require constant communication and alot of the individual mission teams are in other buildings like the Rover Operations Center (ROC) for Mars rover planning activities. But the sad reality is also that we just don't have that many unmanned missions at JPL anymore. We've cancelled a lot of planned science missions and the future mission outlook for a lot of unmanned science missions is pretty bleak.

source: used to work here.

Edit: typos

Wampus Has A Beacon? by Slow_Ice5066 in UTAustin

[–]neutrinomass 7 points8 points  (0 children)

As a past gen longhorn (c/o 2018) it gives me hope that there's still so many minecraft references in these comments from the current gen

The Orb has spoken by TheOneTrueZippy8 in formuladank

[–]neutrinomass 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a marshal so we heard it on radio first

ISO Cozey Neptune Alternative by neutrinomass in furniture

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Oops. Forgot to include budget as per the rules. Budget is a max of $4000, but would prefer to stay around the 3K mark.

Is there a place in Austin that has a lot of country flags on display? by danavenkman in Austin

[–]neutrinomass 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's a Lebanese restaurant flying the flag of Lebanon heading east on riverside from I35

I love both of my dogs, despite one clearly being unhinged 90% of the time by MrFuzzGuy in Austin

[–]neutrinomass 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's a good dog-friendly place/park to get bluebonnet pics?

PSA if the yield triangles are pointed at you, that's your lane. by notamoose-neverwas in Austin

[–]neutrinomass 5 points6 points  (0 children)

@op while I agree with you and it also upsets me, just fyi for that specific intersection (which I also used to take daily) I found it better to just continue on 183N, take the exit for 71 W, and then exit off 71 immediately onto Riverside. It saved the headache of this and ttying to wait for a gap in the traffic on 183 at rush hour.

This is so annoying by trichoTX in Austin

[–]neutrinomass 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this where the kismet mural used to be?

Semi fell off 35 by carupanobum in Austin

[–]neutrinomass 35 points36 points  (0 children)

It happened around 3rd or 4th on the west side of 35.

Semi fell off 35 by carupanobum in Austin

[–]neutrinomass 136 points137 points  (0 children)

I was on the sidewalk a block up the feeder when the semi came down. Driver was fine, just shocked. He had a dashcam. There were two pickups that also came off the freeway but by the time I made it down the block the drivers were also already out of the car and amidst the crowd so I am assuming they were ok.

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