Favorites January 8th 2022


A good reminder if you're super worried about Omicron and you're Boosted, it's still no fun, but it doesn't appear to be nearly as dangerous.


From a century and a half away, all travel by boats looks slow, but putting engines on ships made things surprisingly fast.


I wondered offhand previously how many single points of failure there are on a less complicated mission, and now here's the answer, 49 single points of failure after reaching orbit is normal. Wow
At first this looked sorta small, like it's a crawlspace, but this is a full height hallway! So many computers!


Suddenly parents of 4 year olds are realizing their kids are actually 5 years old and don't have any identification.

Just in case you come across the "deltacron" thing. For better or worse, fear gets clicks.
I’m still trying to figure out how to take interesting macro photos of snow, I don’t think I’ve quite got it yet.