#l2

[orcacharm]

L2 Grace: ~1960-2012

Probable sister of L6 Podner

Mother of L39 Orcan, L67 Splash, L78 Gaia, and L88 Wavewalker

Grandmother of L98 Luna and L101 Aurora

(Prince of Whale Whale Watching)

[soldiermom1973]

Have some pics of Kaidan jumping.

[suzushiro]

[spacetelescopescience]

The James Webb Space Telescope orbits the Sun near Sun-Earth Lagrange point 2 (L2), approximately 1.5 million kilometers (1 million miles) from Earth. L2 is one of five Sun-Earth Lagrange points, positions in space where the gravitational pull of the Sun and Earth balance the orbital motion of small objects (like spacecraft or asteroids). At these points in space, the gravity of the two large objects balances the orbital motion of the third object. Lagrange points can be used by spacecraft to reduce propellant consumption needed to remain in position. Objects in that region have the same orbital period (length of year) as Earth. As the Earth moves around the Sun the L2 point moves as well, so the Sun, Earth, and L2 always form a straight line. This makes it possible for Webb to remain in constant communication with Earth, since it is always in the same direction and at roughly the same distance from our planet. Webb is not located exactly at L2, but instead orbits L2, completing one circuit every 168 days. This "halo orbit" around L2 is highly elliptical and is roughly perpendicular to its orbital path around the Sun. The distance between Webb and L2 varies between about 250,000 and 830,000 kilometers (150,000 to 500,000 miles). Because of this complex orbit, Webb's precise distance from Earth varies over time. Sizes and distances in this illustration are not to scale. Credit: NASA, STScI.

[touhou-memories]

Shoot the Bullet - Level 2, Scene 5.

[neroexecutioner]

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[nixthetrickster]

ok rant ahead about gamification

i have been so so SO done with xp or fantasy currency and cosmetics being slapped on something and someone trying to sell you a product that will "teach you through playing a game!!!" when it barely qualifies as that. and it's just.. what? study cards? delightful. im sure they work for some people to keep them motivated to learn, but they are not learning through play, they are learning still in traditional methods and just returning to the app out of habit.

and having xp or cosmetics by itself is not play.

soooo guess what i'm making a game that helps with second language learning through actual play :)

yes the rant was an excuse to talk about this project to motivate myself to get back on my obsidian board and continue writing for it.

but anyways, it's a minecraft server with a questline that students and a teacher go through in topics and grammar increasing in difficulty, always staying slightly ahead of where the students are. they can only speak the second language, except to translate, but then having to say or ask the final sentences in the second language. i learned french this way and it was really fast, even through i felt like i was horrible at it constantly and that I wasn't improving (i was, the material just kept getting harder at a good pace).

but anyways, im using german for the first run of this server to test on my little lab rats (friends) since they wanted to learn german. but i wanna work on making it accessible to any teacher, with a control room in game set up to run commands that set up each quest, and since it's a server i use plugins to make the questlines accessible ingame - all in the target language ofc.

the project has a teacher since it does not replace traditional classroom learning, but the game is a familiar space that already has interaction baked in due to its multiplayer sandbox nature, and so many people played minecraft they tend to know what each item is - and it's now all set to the second language, so they are passively learning from reading. The quests force them to communicate about the task they have to do, and it's not just fetch quests but they get to have fun building things together :3

[sintorisky]

Lineage II: Cruma Tower