Autistic, ADHD, bisexual, nonbinary, ex-Christian, they/them, GenXer
Yay! Time for some NASA worm love.
The worm is still, and will forever be, “my” NASA logo.
I’d never heard of this. A lovely piece of hidden history:
Fallen Astronaut is an 8.5 cm (slightly over 3”) aluminum sculpture of an astronaut in a spacesuit which commemorates astronauts who died in the advancement of space exploration. It is currently at Hadley Rille on the Moon, having been placed there by the crew of Apollo 15 on August 1, 1971.
Via rispostesenzadomanda:itfeelsgoodtobefree:electricwikiland
Space shuttle Endeavour: After 25 missions from 1992-2011, the last space shuttle built by NASA is making its way to the California Science Center by piggybacking on a special 747 Boeing carrier.
Oh wow…
Another space shuttle photo. It’s worth it…
The relativity of simultaneity, more than anything else, forces the view that time is not really passing. […] The idea is that if simultaneity is a relative concept, then it is impossible to think of space-time as being a stack of unique ‘nows’ that successively appear and vanish from existence. The past and future really exist.
A NASA logo makes everything look Space Age, and here’s proof.
A note, a signpost on our road to either Our Downfall or Our Intellectual Rebirth. Our choice.
I’d missed this: only 4 out of 25 members of the Senate Science Committee turned up to hear Neil DeGrasse Tyson testify on science funding. Pretty shabby.
Started #reading The Universal History of Numbers I: The World’s First Number Systems, by Georges Ifrah.
Mind-blowing factoid of the day: Salvador Dali designed the Chupa Chups logo.
Via m0:
In 1969 Dali was approached by Spanish confectioners Chupa Chups to design a new logo, and the result became as instantly recognisable as his melting clocks. Dali incorporated the Chupa Chups name into a brightly coloured daisy shape. Always keenly aware of branding, Dali suggested that the logo be placed on top of the lolly instead of the side so that it could always be seen intact.
Eye-catching, bold and deceptively simple, the logo has barely changed since Dali created it.
Started #reading History of the Moravian Church, by Joseph E. Hutton.
Hutton was minister of the Moravian congregation in Heckmondwike. I mention that solely to use the name Heckmondwike: classic West Riding place name. Close to Batley and Cleckheaton. :-)
Evansville Press, Indiana, February 5, 1912
it’s a leap yeap
My nightmare: making a typo that people are still talking about over a century later
Happy leap yeap!
The typo heard round the world
