Nov 5, 2020
on the nature of the universe - https://archiveofourown.org/works/27407803
A thousand years of Joe being a nerd about space.
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on the nature of the universe - https://archiveofourown.org/works/27407803
A thousand years of Joe being a nerd about space.
So y'all remember that gorgeous imagery that we got of Pluto back in 2015? The Applied Physics Lab at Johns Hopkins built and operates New Horizons - the spacecraft that took those photos - and I'm in the running for a technical editor job with them. I'm so freaking giddy to even have this opportunity.
Scientists have identified a real exoplanet around the star 40 Eridani A, which was made famous in 'Star Trek' as the Vulcans' sun.
I really should go to bed because 4am will be here before I know it... I’ll go back to sleep for a few hours afterward, but I want to be awake for Cassini’s end-of-mission coverage. It’ll be an odd sort of symmetry, considering that I stayed up late almost 20 years ago to wish it good luck at launch... yeah, I was weird like that even back then.
No, I did not stay up late on a school night waiting to see if Cassini’s initial ring-diving orbit was successful. You must be thinking of someone else. And I certainly didn’t do a victorious fist-pump, and I’m definitely not crying in the grip of happy space feelings over the good news. Nope. I’m sniffling because of allergies, so it must be time to go turn on the humidifier and go to sleep - even though my philosophy prof would understand if I were sleepy because I’m the kind to stay up late for this kind of thing.
Seriously, though, NASA’s done it again! I’m hoping against hope that I’ll get the chance to tell the stories of these achievements for a living one day. Congrats, Cassini team.
I might have just spent $33 on Amazon to pick up a book on the Soviet rocket program that one of my former Navy instructors recommended to me... he said that it’s “a bit dense for casual reading.” I think it’s been long enough that he’s forgotten that to me, there really is no such thing if I want to learn about a topic - and if it’s something I don’t grasp immediately, I’ll ask the questions to fill in the gaps in my knowledge. So if I want to learn about the Soviet rocket program, I’m gonna learn about the Soviet rocket program - alleged topical density be damned.