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!https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/

<div class="embed-card embed-card-external"> <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/" class="embed-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <div class="embed-card-image"> <img class="glightbox" src="https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e015231/art002e015231~large.jpg" alt="Artemis II Lunar Flyby - NASA — The first flyby images of the Moon captured by NASA’s Artemis II astronauts during their historic test flight reveal regions of the Moon&#39;s far side, as well as an in-space solar eclipse. Released April 7, 2026, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen captured the images during the mission’s seven-hour flyby on April 6, 2026, showing humanity’s return to the Moon’s vicinity." loading="lazy"/ data-glightbox="description: Artemis II Lunar Flyby - NASA — The first flyby images of the Moon captured by NASA’s Artemis II astronauts during their historic test flight reveal regions of the Moon&#39;s far side, as well as an in-space solar eclipse. Released April 7, 2026, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen captured the images during the mission’s seven-hour flyby on April 6, 2026, showing humanity’s return to the Moon’s vicinity."> </div> <div class="embed-card-content"> <div class="embed-card-title">Artemis II Lunar Flyby - NASA</div> <div class="embed-card-description">The first flyby images of the Moon captured by NASA’s Artemis II astronauts during their historic test flight reveal regions of the Moon&#39;s far side, as well as an in-space solar eclipse. Released...</div> <div class="embed-card-meta">NASA · nasa.gov</div> </div> </a> </div> <p>One of the biggest scientific achievement of our lifetime happened this week. I will forever remember sitting in a Culvers in between theater builds looking through these photos as they came live, looking at them in awe.</p> <figure> <a href="http://dropper.wayl.one/file/9987010a-a448-472d-9c60-2831b61a1d3a.webp" class="glightbox-link"><img class="glightbox" src="http://dropper.wayl.one/file/9987010a-a448-472d-9c60-2831b61a1d3a.webp" alt="9987010a-a448-472d-9c60-2831b61a1d3a.webp"/ data-glightbox="description: 9987010a-a448-472d-9c60-2831b61a1d3a.webp"></a> <figcaption><p>One of the most famous images from the shoot “Setting Earth”</p></figcaption> </figure> <div class="admonition note"> <p class="admonition-title">Note</p> <p>This post is a <a href="/thoughts/" class="wikilink" data-title="Thoughts" data-description="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my..." data-date="2024-04-01" data-preview="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my...">thought</a>. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online <a href="/tags/thoughts/" class="hashtag-tag" data-tag="thoughts" data-count="2" data-reading-time="3" data-reading-time-text="3 minutes">#thoughts</a></p> </div> Waylon Walker hello@waylonwalker.com https://waylonwalker.com https://waylonwalker.com/thought-970/ 2026-04-09T21:44:47Z 2026-04-09T21:44:47Z

!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaXRREHVkHo

<div class="embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube"> <div class="embed-card-rich"> <lite-youtube videoid="oaXRREHVkHo" title="Explaining the Most Important Artemis II Photos" playlabel="Play: Explaining the Most Important Artemis II Photos"></lite-youtube> </div> </div> <p>What an amazing set of photos created by the Artemis II crew accompanying a fantastic breakdown by Hank Green.</p> <figure> <a href="http://dropper.wayl.one/file/0b53a4ed-924e-42b5-84f4-51c189f60801.webp" class="glightbox-link"><img class="glightbox" src="http://dropper.wayl.one/file/0b53a4ed-924e-42b5-84f4-51c189f60801.webp" alt="0b53a4ed-924e-42b5-84f4-51c189f60801.webp"/ data-glightbox="description: 0b53a4ed-924e-42b5-84f4-51c189f60801.webp"></a> <figcaption><p>I like this one, as its probably one of the ones not shred a ton</p></figcaption> </figure> <p>Whole gallery is worth looking at <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/" style="--favicon-url: url(&#39;/assets/markata/link-avatars/www.nasa.gov.png&#39;);" data-favicon="/assets/markata/link-avatars/www.nasa.gov.png" class="has-avatar has-avatar-before">https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/</a></p> <div class="admonition note"> <p class="admonition-title">Note</p> <p>This post is a <a href="/thoughts/" class="wikilink" data-title="Thoughts" data-description="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my..." data-date="2024-04-01" data-preview="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my...">thought</a>. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online <a href="/tags/thoughts/" class="hashtag-tag" data-tag="thoughts" data-count="2" data-reading-time="3" data-reading-time-text="3 minutes">#thoughts</a></p> </div> Waylon Walker hello@waylonwalker.com https://waylonwalker.com https://waylonwalker.com/thought-859/ 2025-10-29T12:45:07Z 2025-10-29T12:45:07Z

!https://maurycyz.com/misc/sunlight_a_service/

<div class="embed-card embed-card-external"> <a href="https://maurycyz.com/misc/sunlight_as_a_service/" class="embed-card-link has-avatar has-avatar-before" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="--favicon-url: url(&#39;/assets/markata/link-avatars/maurycyz.com.ico&#39;);" data-favicon="/assets/markata/link-avatars/maurycyz.com.ico"> <div class="embed-card-content"> <div class="embed-card-title">Please don&#39;t give Reflect Orbital money: (Maurycy&#39;s blog)</div> <div class="embed-card-meta">maurycyz.com</div> </div> </a> </div> <p>Well done write up about reflecting solar energy back to earth from low orbit space. I did not know this was a thing, apparently it is/isn’t. Solar is a great technology, its largest limitations are that its not consistent. This tech does not fix this problem, what does is efficient long term storage. I’ve seen some crazy ideas going back to my days in school, maybe elementry school. Theres a lot of innovative ways to store potential energy by moving heavy objects uphill whether fluid or solid. The issue is that energy storage at grid scale is HUGE and not efficient enough. Even assuming this idea had any legs at all, it still doesn’t solve the problem of inconsistent power because it still cant go through clouds!</p> <div class="admonition note"> <p class="admonition-title">Note</p> <p>This post is a <a href="/thoughts/" class="wikilink" data-title="Thoughts" data-description="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my..." data-date="2024-04-01" data-preview="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my...">thought</a>. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online <a href="/tags/thoughts/" class="hashtag-tag" data-tag="thoughts" data-count="2" data-reading-time="3" data-reading-time-text="3 minutes">#thoughts</a></p> </div> Waylon Walker hello@waylonwalker.com https://waylonwalker.com