Author Archives: Gary

About Gary

I write and maintain code for various websites as both a professional and a hobbyist developer, and have used computer technology for most of my life.

20-Rock

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Takeoff

This Way to the Rocket Launch Live
Spinning the Engines up to Speed

Thousands of operations are performed before the rocket can leave the launch pad, and dozens of engineering cameras track these operations.

This is also a good preview of NASA’s super heavy-lift launch vehicle, the Space Launch System (SLS), mankind’s new vehicle for the next trip to the Moon.

The first flight of Artemis and the full Orion spacecraft is scheduled to launch on SEP 05.

Update: The launch date was actually Wednesday, November 16, 2022 at 6:47 AM (UTC).

19-Bisq

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Oneironaut

Dreams reveal the world.

We wake while often the narrative is difficult to recall.

Events of the waking world, on the other hand, are forced. It falls to us to weigh & sort & order these events.

We assemble them into the story which is us.

Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy