[courtesycalling]

[hyphenndash]

This fuckass concept of JWST (then NGST) fries me every time, like when I first watched it all I could think was "what the hell is going on" because the video kept flabbergasting me. Why the fuck is the "neck" so long and bent like that. Why the fuck is the sunshield deployed like that. Why the fuck is the mirror like that. Why the fuck is the secondary mirror like tha- Bro even has his propellant tanks out... Holy shit put them away???

Video snatched from the good ol reliable Wayback Machine. Bonus random ass file I got from the old NGST website too:

Seriously I have no idea how I managed to dig this up. Buttons were clicked and I found it. HUBBLE WATCH OUTTT

[liminalspacetelescope]

Hi, my name is James Webbony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Space Telescope and I am a telescope in space (that's how I got my name) and I have a five-layer aluminum-coated Kapton sunshield protecting my instruments and gold-coated hexagonal primary mirror segments like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Lady Gaga (AN: if you don't know who she is, get the hell out of here!). I'm not related to the Hubble Space Telescope, but I wish I was because he's a major fucking hottie. I'm an infrared telescope but I am much larger than Spitzer. I have 18 primary mirror segments. I also study exoplanets, and I go to a telescope school in L2 where I'm in orbit (I was launched in 2021). I can see distant galaxies (in case you couldn't tell) and I wear mostly gold. I love space, and I take all my photos there. For example, today I was taking a photo of the Cartwheel Galaxy, which is about 500 million light years away. I was using my NIRcam, NIRspec, MIRI, and FGS-NIRISS. I was walking outside L2. It was around 1 million miles away from Earth and there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of preps stared at me. I unfolded my primary mirrors at them.

[liminalspacetelescope]

Unfortunately this gave me an idea

(She looks like a Jay Jay the Jet Plane character help)

[zechery-deactivated20220114]

Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

No guys you don’t understand.

The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.

So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.

This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.

That’s not sad, that’s awesome.

*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing

[pentosesugar]

a lady with honey-sweet voice and a passion for baking

[thelastsongimwastingonyou]

no way

[thelastsongimwastingonyou]

[felinefiestas]

rip bozo

[imnumberonexoxo]

I love potatoes and lemons…..

[raptorliver]

Since its Chandra's birthday today, have these:

lets float carefree with mamas and papas...

[astart-dorime]

Mentor and child

[dragonfiguresdaily]

Dragon figure of the day: Activision Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure Series 1 Sunburn

[ahiuman]

Poretstalts

[felinefiestas]

bird

[kaliune]

hello there 🌠

[tandytoaster]

GIRL???

[felinefiestas]

we are the voyagerlings, please feed us

[skylanders-where-landers-are-not]

put astroblast on the international space station

he is an astronaut

[thedoodlecrpyt]

If it wasn't obvious enough already, poses are not my forte 😅 I'm more of just portrait focused but I am happy how Fantina turned out and the background might be one of my favorites too! There's always room for improvement 😌

💜👻🦇 Drawn by yours truly 💜👻🦇