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I'm a leftist trans gay fox girl. More than one thing can be true at a time. I believe in agency, subjectivity, and beauty.
In my day job, I'm an apprentice electrician.
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Joined Apr 2017
Rented a bike and rode up the Seattle waterfront with my partner :)
It's been years since I've been on a bike. I'd forgotten how nice it is :)
Philosophy of physics question:
You're watching the incoming signal from an event that's happening 60 light-minutes away.
Is the event happening:
A) Right now
B) An hour ago
?
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orc pooptootin', pathfinder
everyone's favorite pathfinder rule:
"Weapon Familiarity: Half-orcs are proficient with greataxes and falchions and treat any weapon with the word “orc” in its name as a martial weapon."
I pick up the sORCerer and smash the bad guy.
I wield an ORChestra like it's the downtown club.
My thrown weapon? An ORCa.
I'm human and for me one of the deepest expressions of that humanity is also being a fox and I see no contradiction there :)
Different than how a lot of people roll but it seems to work really well for me.
Looks like I was wrong about it being the very last image. It's in the final set, though.
This is the last image Cassini will ever transmit.
I'm a little choked up.
https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/raw_images/426359/ https://awoo.space/media/51h0OFqSE2zv_YUdFhU
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@starkatt I'd think more because it has like a 10bps link and wouldn't survive long enough to transmit anyway
Heh, just put it together that Cassini isn't gonna take photos on the way down because high velocity + nontrivial exposure time means they'd be hella blurry.
Long exposure is necessary because light is pretty dim out at Saturn.
If you want to learn the mechanics of orbits and spaceflight in depth, go play Kerbal Space Program :)
"Cassini’s total propellant at launch was enough to alter the spacecraft’s velocity by only about 5,400 miles per hour (2,400 meters per second), half of which was gone by the time the spacecraft reached Saturn. However, a single flyby of Titan at an altitude of 620 miles (about 1,000 kilometers) gives Cassini a change in velocity of about 1,800 miles per hour (800 meters per second) — this is equivalent to one-third of Cassini’s total propellant at launch."
Oh, hey, there it is: total delta-v of 2.4km/s. That's not much at all!
I'm finding it surprisingly difficult to find how big Cassini's delta-v budget was, either total or reserved for maneuvering around Saturn.
I'm an actual fox on the actual internet :)
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@starkatt fuck, half an hour since finishing and I'm still crying a bit. Gosh.
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@chr@cybre.space fuck yeah! There's five more!
Reading order past that is Two Serpents Rise, Full Fathom Five, Last First Snow, Four Roads Cross, Ruin of Angels.
Three Parts Dead, the first book, is about a duo of sorcerer-lawyers trying to resurrect a murdered god before His obligations of spiritual debt and capital tear a city apart.
If that sounds cool to you, go check it out :)
I finished reading Ruin of Angels and I'm crying now.
It's a good book.
Y'all should read the Craft Sequence if you aren't already doing so.
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- Seattle
Moving to @starkatt
I'm a leftist trans gay fox girl. More than one thing can be true at a time. I believe in agency, subjectivity, and beauty.
In my day job, I'm an apprentice electrician.
Please introduce yourself when sending a follow request if we haven't recently chatted. Interacting with me is encouraged even if I don't follow back. I'm here to get to know people, not be a fountain of Content.
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Joined Apr 2017
