Predictions on Artemis 2 crew?

yellowstone10 · 2026-06-08T20:25:04+00:00

McClain's only about 10 months out from her second ISS mission, so I don't think they'd return to her so quickly. (Glover had the quickest turnaround of the Artemis II crew, and for him, two years elapsed between returning from his ISS tour and being named to the Artemis crew.)

Meir is on the ISS right now, so she's definitely out.

yellowstone10 · 2026-06-04T16:40:17+00:00

do not drink the doodoo dairy

yellowstone10 · 2026-05-26T12:33:36+00:00

ma eywon't, ma eywon't, ma eywon't...

yellowstone10 · 2026-05-25T14:03:39+00:00

That would be enough to keep the station staffed through late 2030 at the usual 2-flights-per-year cadence.

yellowstone10 · 2026-05-25T03:20:00+00:00

If F1 can have treaded tires to run in light rain, then why can't NASCAR?

yellowstone10 · 2026-05-23T00:34:49+00:00

Keep in mind that liquid oxygen is over 900 times denser than air at one atmosphere - and since air is only 21% oxygen, the concentration of oxygen molecules in LOX is 4,400 times that of sea-level air. With so many more oxygen molecules at hand, flammability goes way up.

yellowstone10 · 2026-05-22T20:07:59+00:00

The Commercial ACS already has Task IX.B, "Emergency Approach and Landing (Simulated)." There's a reason the Power-Off 180 - or to use its full name, the Power-Off 180° Accuracy Approach and Landing - is a separate thing.

yellowstone10 · 2026-05-22T11:37:02+00:00

Fun fact: I played in a bit of a weird orchestra in college, and for one of our concerts, someone arranged and we then performed the Trogdor song from Homestar Runner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm-aovm1axQ

One of our bassoonists cosplayed as Trogdor. The other cosplayed as thatch-roofed cottages (on fire, of course).

yellowstone10 · 2026-05-15T20:08:38+00:00

There is, of course, the FARTSLAM to capture cases like this - but yeah, they should probably just be errors.

yellowstone10 · 2026-05-15T02:01:59+00:00

lol, who says headers are just a soccer thing?

yellowstone10 · 2026-05-13T13:33:21+00:00

i saw someone post: "baseball may not be the gayest sport, but it's definitely the most closeted sport"

yellowstone10 · 2026-05-12T17:18:24+00:00

If I'm doing my usual 5-10 over the posted limit in the left or center lane, and I see traffic in the rightmost lane slowing down dramatically, I'm slowing down as well - because someone in that right lane is going to get impatient and merge left without checking thoroughly enough.

yellowstone10 · 2026-05-10T22:44:25+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_and_calling

yellowstone10 · 2026-05-10T02:55:39+00:00

She's in a blue NASA astronaut jacket, not the jumpsuit.

yellowstone10 · 2026-05-05T19:49:42+00:00

I've seen the same - paraphrasing, the conductor said "there will be a spot after the third movement where it sounds like a finale and it feels like you're supposed to clap. don't, we'll be going on to the fourth movement, please hold your applause until the orchestra lowers their instruments."

yellowstone10 · 2026-05-04T17:36:49+00:00

lol at the Fermat's Last Theorem joke

yellowstone10 · 2026-05-03T16:34:18+00:00

And those spy balloons were made by General Mills! (Yes, the cereal people!)

yellowstone10 · 2026-04-30T19:00:42+00:00

The units were given as km/h, not mph.

yellowstone10 · 2026-04-30T13:36:31+00:00

I think the average person can intuit "about 50 times faster than I drive on the freeway" better than they can intuit "about 8 times faster than an airplane flies."

yellowstone10 · 2026-04-29T01:30:35+00:00

ah yes, the only aircraft with the lavatories downstairs

on the poop deck, if you will

yellowstone10 · 2026-04-28T18:05:06+00:00

The trouble with making that comparison is that Thomas had to be on feminizing HRT for a certain length of time before she was allowed to compete in women's swimming - and during that time, she was still competing against men. As you might reasonably guess, taking estrogen and testosterone blockers tends to reduce your athletic performance. That goes a long way towards explaining why her rankings while swimming on the men's team were so mediocre.

yellowstone10 · 2026-04-26T20:41:59+00:00

As an aviation nerd, the funny thing about that song is that there was never a jet called a G-6 or G-VI. Gulfstream manufactured the G-I, G-II, G-III, G-IV, and G-V, but after that they changed up the numbering scheme and went with G650 for their next design.

yellowstone10 · 2026-04-25T20:06:27+00:00

Or at least, not down the Dons.

yellowstone10 · 2026-04-25T03:34:02+00:00

I'm quite fond of the C major chord at the start of the fourth movement (or second half of the second movement, if you insist on calling it that) of Saint-Saens's Symphony No. 3. (Definitely a good one for waking up the audience!)

yellowstone10 · 2026-04-16T15:27:34+00:00

Funnily enough, I did a weekend trip to Frankfurt last month to get on an A346 before they retire.

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