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Happy Valentine's Day, my loyal lackey! 💀@dangerous-wilds
Smeeking on my flower
I saw this on Facebook and had to look it up. It really happened, albeit the details are different. From Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story:
"On the evening of MD-46, I finally played the trick that had been in work for over two month," said Garriott. "It even had the flight controllers puzzled for twenty-five years! My objective was to pretend that my wife, Helen, had come up to Skylab to bring us a hot meal, even though this was an obvious impossibility. Here is how the scheme worked. I recorded her voice on my small hand-held tape recorder before flight, pretending to have a brief conversation with a Capcom, with time gaps for his replies. The Capcom would be my only accomplice, but his role would be carefully disguised.
It was also necessary to have some recent event mentioned to validate the currency of the dialogue, so it would seem it could not have been recorded before fight. The short dialogue is printed below in its entirety. I knew that both Bob Crippen and Karl Henize were going to be Capcoms for Skylab, so they were brought into the planning, given the script and rehearsed on their timing. They kept the short script on a piece of paper in their billfolds, awaiting the right moment.
"For our flight in August-September, there would be many occasions of natural disasters involving forest fires or hurricanes, which would be widely known throughout the United States. So a few comments about one or the other were made on the tape. This led to four different scripts being recorded, one for each of the two Capcoms and one each for the two natural events. I would play the tape on the normal air-to-ground voice link with my wife's recorded voice and the Capcom would respond as if totally surprised by the female interloper."
Near the end of one period of voice contact Garriott said to the ground, "I'll have something for you on the next pass, Bob." Crippen replied, "Roger that, Owen." Then quietly and surreptitiously, he reviewed the brief script that had been in his pocket for all these weeks. Soon after coming into voice range, the ground heard this voice on the standard air-to-ground link:
Skylab (a female voice): "Gad, I don't see how the boys manage to get rid of the feedback berween these speakers.... Hello Houston, how are you reading me down there? (s sec. pause) Hello Houston, are you reading Skylab?"
Capcom: "Skylab, this is Houston. We heard you alright, but had difficulty recognizing your voice. Who do we have on the line up there?"
Skylab: "Hello Houston. Roger. Well I haven't talked with you for a while. Isn't that you down there, Bob? This is Helen, here in Skylab. The boys hadn't had a good home cooked meal in so long, I thought I'd bring one up. Over"
Capcom: "Roger, Skylab. Someone's gotta be pulling my leg, Helen. Where are you?"
Skylab: "Right here in Skylab, Bob. Just a few orbits ago we were looking down on those forest fires in California. The smoke sure covers a lot of territory, and, oh boy, the sunrises are just beautiful! Oh oh..... See you later, Bob. I hear the boys coming up here and I'm not supposed to be on the radio."
"Then quiet returned to the voice link, but we were told later, Bob Crippen had lots of questions coming his way in the Control Center," Garriott said. "What was going on? Where was this voice coming from? Bob must have been a very good actor, because he claimed complete ignorance and innocence of how it happened. Everyone heard it coming down on the air-to-ground loop. The whole two-way conversation sounded like a perfectly normal dialogue. No breaks or gaps, and they all heard Bob respond in real time. Could I have recorded Helen's voice on a 'family conversation' from our home? Yes, but there was no recent one. How would she have known about the fires, or who was to be on Capcom duty and how could she respond to Bob's comments in real time, as everyone could hear?
"No one ever worked out how this was accomplished. Finally, at our twenty-fifth reunion celebration in Houston in 1998, and with many of the flight directors and controllers present and still with no clue as to how it was done, I described it all as above. My prejudiced opinion is that this was the best 'gotcha' ever perpetrated on our friendly flight controllers!"
Crippen recalled: "That was kind of a fun trick. There was head rubbing.
Everybody in the MOCR, or the control room, was looking like, What the hell is going on?' We did a good job. It was fun. Working those missions got to be tough. We did all kinds of things to try to come up with levity. That was a nice one that the crew got that the ground control didn't know about."
This is the face of a evil genius,
This morning I was just minding my business on a hike only to look over and see a ton of flaccid stinkhorns (Mutinus ravenelii) adorning a sandstone cliff face.
(July 2025)
Elf-Rib [Dutch/Frisian folklore]
In the northern part of the Netherlands, King Redbad (in Frisian, though he’s called Radbod or Radboud in Dutch) was the ruler of Frisia (which is now part of the Netherlands) from 680 to 719. He waged a war against the Franks and was planning to conquer them, but died of illness before he could mobilize his army. If I understand it correctly, he did not particularly hate Christianity but Frankish propaganda often portrayed him as an enemy of the Church, in an attempt to demonize the ‘pagan king’. It is said he refused to be baptized, claiming that none of his ancestors were baptized or Christian so he would not get to meet them if he went to heaven.
The second image shows king Redbad before his death. According to legend, he was unable to rest in peace and returned to haunt the world of the living. He became Elf-Rib, a skeletal spirit that lived in wells and ditches, hiding underneath the water’s surface. When children got too close to the water, Elf-Rib would jump out to grab his victims and drag them to a watery death.
The story originated as something parents would tell their kids to prevent them from playing near water. It is said Elf-Rib was a shapeshifter and could assume both the shape of a dog and the form of a skeletal spirit. I’m unsure where the name ‘Elf-Rib’ comes from, and why the spirit of a dead king would spend his time drowning kids.
Sources: https://dutch-folklore.fandom.com/wiki/Elf-rib https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radboud_(koning) https://www.abedeverteller.nl/van-aardmannetje-tot-zwarte-juffer-een-lijst-van-nederlandse-en-vlaamse-elfen-en-geesten/
(image source 1: Isaac Vincentsz van der Vinne, 1730, currently in the Rijksmuseum) (image source 2: Pierius Winsemius, 16th century)
i've always been dogshit at pottery on a wheel because i have weak noodle arms and can't hold my hands firmly in place to center the clay but i finally realized the root issue was that my legs are SHORT since i have the limb/torso proportions of a dachshund and i couldn't brace my elbows on my legs, so i put bricks under my feet and now i can sort of do it!! i've tried to learn twice in the past from TALL people but had a revelation when i watched a medium size guy throwing.
The moral of the story is: don't give up, maybe you just need bricks
At some point this post became about guitars, and it will surprise no one to learn that I have a 3/4 size guitar. Trying to play a full sized one makes me feel like that Rosso Fiorentino painting I have a canvas print of.
I also have trouble with chairs. I usually sit cross legged or Japanese style with my feet tucked underneath. That’s why I love tiny Ikea furniture. The world wasn’t made for me. God forbid dachshunds do anything. My coworker [big, tall, very nice guy] , who knows I draw as a hobby, asked me what the hardest thing was for me to draw, and I said “people sitting in chairs or holding wine glasses” because I can’t use myself as a reference. But I’ve given up; everyone I draw now lives on Planet Big Cup.
I would be sorry for contributing to the guitar direction - but I can’t be, because I am TERRIBLY grateful to live in the timeline of this illustration!
Text taken from this post by @idontmindifuforgetme :)
i've always been dogshit at pottery on a wheel because i have weak noodle arms and can't hold my hands firmly in place to center the clay but i finally realized the root issue was that my legs are SHORT since i have the limb/torso proportions of a dachshund and i couldn't brace my elbows on my legs, so i put bricks under my feet and now i can sort of do it!! i've tried to learn twice in the past from TALL people but had a revelation when i watched a medium size guy throwing.
The moral of the story is: don't give up, maybe you just need bricks
I lowkey hate when programs talk to me in a friendly way. "don't worry, nearly there!" Shut up. It should say "loading 64.3% completed. Do not turn off device" and absolutely nothing else. You arent my friend you are computer. Act like it
Strandpromenade Borkum by cheine0876 https://flic.kr/p/2oatVyk
To Bodly Go….
Yet each man kills the thing he loves
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String identified: c t A t t G!!!!!!!!!!!! ACGTACGACGACGGTGACGACGTTACGACTGACGACtGCGACGACGT
Closest match: Drepanosiphum platanoidis genome assembly, chromosome: 13 Common name: Common Sycamore Aphid
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Calcium in Steel
Aside from its usage as a flux in steelmaking, calcium is used for its ability to control the quantities of other elements present in the final product - through deoxidation, desulfurization, and inclusion control. Though it is not very soluble in steel it is a reactive element that can help control the size, shape, and distribution of inclusions.
Calcium itself does not technically lend steel any favorable properties, but its ability to control these oxide and sulfide inclusions gives molten steel greater fluidity and hot workability and increases the machinability, ductility, and toughness of the final product, as well as improves the cleanliness. It is often added in the forms of materials such as calcium silicon, calcium manganese silicon, calcium silicon barium, calcium silicon barium aluminum alloys, or calcium carbide, to reduce the reactivity of pure calcium, which is difficult to use and dangerous to add to molten steel.
Calcium tends to react with oxygen over sulfur, so if the oxygen content is high other deoxidizers such as aluminum or magnesium are usually added first, freeing up the calcium to help control the sulfur content. Calcium oxide and calcium sulfide both tend to rise to the surface of the steel as slag, and can be removed.
Along with oxygen and sulfur, calcium also reacts with alumina and silica inclusions in steel, forming calcium aluminates and silicate. While alumina’s melting temperature is higher than that of steel, the transformation into calcium aluminates lowers the melting point, allowing these inclusions to be shaped. Those inclusions that remain in steel after the addition of calcium will be shaped differently (typically globular) than they would have otherwise been.
Steels which contain calcium include AISI 52100 and 321 and 430 stainless steels. Because calcium is not an alloying agent and is intended to be removed as slag (and, if not, is considered to be an inclusion) there are no specified limits for calcium content in steels and the quantity actually present is typically very small. As stated above, calcium is not very soluble in steel, and so is only present in the form of inclusions.
Sources/Further Reading: ( 1 ) ( 2 ) ( 3 - image 1 )
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Pros of re-reading your own fic
a good time;
Has exactly the tropes you like and the characterization you want to read;
Gratification: yes you did finish a thing and yes you did do good;
just a very fun time all around.
Cons of re-reading your own fic:
Is that another TYpO
oh fuck too real
I finished the thing?!