https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/2001_Okama_Gamesphere

fun fact:

"Okama" is Japanese for "gay person" or "male transvestite".

!oldstrags

Photos from Firefly "Blue Ghost" lunar lander that just touched down recently.

At the very end of the video if you want to skip the F-18 going into the drink.

Snapped cables are extremely dangerous, they can kill you or sever your limbs. LeBron over here jump roped that shit.

!engineering !ifrickinglovescience will you guys consider buying a domestic robot?

Kathleen Kennedy will be stepping down from her role as President of Lucasfilm

(via @PuckNews) pic.twitter.com/Z8qhyiCLJk

— Geeks + Gamers (@GeeksGamersCom) February 25, 2025

Why is everyone getting so excited about this? “Woman retires from burned-out rubble of IP-farm she destroyed.” Star Wars isn’t saved. There’s nothing left to save.

— Sean Rowland (@rowlands_laws) February 25, 2025

https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1892584783064052114#m

Context, the astronauts weren't abandoned, they tested the Boeing Starliner capsule and for safety reasons the capsule returned without the crew as it presented issues like helium leaks. As result of this the mission was extended and the SpaceX crew 9 mission was launched in September last year with only 2 astronauts so the other two from Starliner could return on it once their mission ended. Events like this have happened before with Roscosmos Soyuz launch delays and re-scheduling.

Anyway, this whole thing is incredibly stupid !spacechads !ifrickinglovescience !engineering

https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceXMasterrace/comments/1iu2svo/elon_musk_calling_iss_commander_mogensen_a_slur/

Dane here (as is Mogensen).

You know, SpaceX was the main reason why I started liking Elon. I followed SpaceX from the beginning, and thought it was exciting and refreshing. Watching Falcon Heavy's first launch literally made me tear up in joy, it was so amazing. After that, my fascination with SpaceX and space travel almost became an obsession, it gave me hope for the future, something to unite humanity.

I became what most people would define as an Elon Stan.

I staunchly supported everything Elon touched, and whenever a friend or family member told me he wasn't as fantastic as I made him out to be, I got angry.

As time passed, I started reaching the point where the signs were too big to ignore, too many, to obvious, that Elon was indeed what people had tried to tell me for so long - a power hungry butthole who don't give two shits about anything besides his own wealth and power.

I guess it happened around when he bought twitter.

Now, I don't find any nerdy joy in watching Starship fly, because it will only make him richer and more powerful.

I'm sorry to say this - Frick Elon.

I genuinely hopes he has a fallout with Trump and Trump takes everything away from him.

When you came, you said to me as follows : "I will give Gimil-Sin (when he comes) fine quality copper ingots." You left then but you did not do what you promised me. You put ingots which were not good before my messenger (Sit-Sin) and said: "If you want to take them, take them; if you do not want to take them, go away!"

What do you take me for, that you treat somebody like me with such contempt? I have sent as messengers gentlemen like ourselves to collect the bag with my money (deposited with you) but you have treated me with contempt by sending them back to me empty-handed several times, and that through enemy territory. Is there anyone among the merchants who trade with Telmun who has treated me in this way? You alone treat my messenger with contempt! On account of that one (trifling) mina of silver which I owe(?) you, you feel free to speak in such a way, while I have given to the palace on your behalf 1,080 pounds of copper, and umi-abum has likewise given 1,080 pounds of copper, apart from what we both have had written on a sealed tablet to be kept in the temple of Samas.

How have you treated me for that copper? You have withheld my money bag from me in enemy territory; it is now up to you to restore (my money) to me in full.

the U-2 is so frickin' cool

Most of crypto for the last while has been based on the asymmetric difficulty of two items of the same maths operation

p = prime1

q = prime2

result = p * q

asymmetry 1 : it is very easy to check that a number multiplied by result involved p and q, assuming you know them already.

asymmetry 2: it is very hard to work out what p and q are if you only see the result term, mostly because they're [a] prime and [b] big.

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

!codecels

!physics !ifrickinglovescience

cheeky U2 pilot lol