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Hello, I am Jess, formerly known as Talv or TaIverd.
I currently go by she/her pronouns. :)
This account is where I talk about a lot of space stuff, KSP and my life. I think sharing my experiences is fun!
I hope you enjoy my content and my account, have a good one!
I’m a digital artist and director, doing visual work for films, TV, web, games and stage.
I’m currently looking for new projects; on commission or freelance.
Previous clients include NASA/JPL, SpaceX, Silverback Films among others.
CP Grey goes straight to hell due to the damage he's done to the online perception of what a "good" flag is.
Under his definition, this is a terrible flag.
I would like to introduce to you my favorite gigastructure - the Alderson Disk.
The disk begins closer than the orbit of Mercury and ends at the orbit of Jupiter. It is constructed by mining the entire solar system, asteroids and kuiper belt objects included. (1/3)
Everyone knows about the Space Shuttle disasters of STS-51L and STS-107, but did you know there were many near misses throughout the program?
Let's talk about it in this thread. 🧵
And KSP 2 fades away, forgotten and hated.
I had so much hope. It's so sad. I remember when I first saw the trailer from a random YouTube ad and it had me so hyped.
The Alderson Disk is a massive waste of resources that is massively outdated by the time we'd even have the technology to construct it. It also would make space travel from its surface impossible without weird fuckery.
It's awful and I love it.
I will never understand how you can look at a booster with gassified cancer falling on a populated area and somehow come to the conclusion that this is fine and defensible.
"They evacuate the areas and blah blah blah"
People in the video are literally running away screaming.
The Long March 2C Y50 first-stage booster, for the SVOM mission, fell in Guiding County (贵定县) in the province of Guizhou (贵州) within the designated hazard areas. However, the local government failed to evacuate the surrounding areas properly before launch, the booster hit
The atmosphere of the disk is prone to being stolen by the Sun, so it is kept in by a massive retaining wall.
In order to keep a day night cycle, the Sun is bobbed up and down between the disk.
The structure would have about the equivalent of lunar gravity. (2/3)
Let's stop cherry picking so much and realize both countries in the space race progressed humanity forwards.
However, on the same note, let's stop pretending the Soviet Union won the race.
I couldn’t be more confident that Vice President
@KamalaHarris
is the right person to defeat Donald Trump and lead our country into the future. She has my support for the nomination, and Gabby and I will do everything we can to elect her President of the United States. 🇺🇸
@Irvi0032Paul
A whatever you make of it. Erik is an incredible VFX artist who makes some of the most beautiful renders of spacecrafts I've ever seen.
I just think its funny he went from making Crazy Frog to that.
OTD 55 years ago: Apollo 11 crash lands on the Moon, 2 weeks after the first manned landing on the body by the Soviet Union.
Contact with Cdr. Neil Armstrong and Plt. Edwin Aldrin were lost for several hours and were presumed to be dead. However, after troubleshooting (cont)
Oh no!
Anyway, here's what pasteurizing milk looks like.
Here's how ice cream is mass produced.
Here's how water is filtered.
Here's how soda is bottled.
Humanity has made it all the way to the moon, but we can't forget that Earth is facing serious land degradation challenges.
Each generation is different, but EVERYONE can be part of
#GenerationRestoration
for action on
#WorldEnvironmentDay
and every day:
With an estimated price tag of $4.2 billion per launch, is it sustainable for NASA to send humans to the moon and ultimately Mars? 60 Minutes asks Jim Free, who oversees the Artemis program.
imagine a post-apocalyptic survival game set deep in the bowels of an ecumenopolis. The goal is to reach the top while fending off desperate human tribes/rogue AI.
However, there is no top. It just keeps going and going forever - the city is still being built by AI hasn't
I'll give the Houthis one thing, their claims are really funny.
"Yeah, we hit the Eisenhower. Ignore that the commanding officer is tweeting about a dog and 0 images of videos of the supposed attack exist."
OTD in 2007:
Space Shuttle Discovery's landing gear fails to deploy properly and the orbiter lands on its stomach, crippling the air frame and severely injuring the crew.
This failure would lead to the cancellation of the shuttle program a few months later.
Ancient ass Starship that's used as a cargo/crew ferry in the Saturn system in like the 2100's
Still has its flaps from when it used to go to Titan, American flag and "United States" on the side have been painted over, replaced by the name of some corporation.
Sea level (cont)
STS-2: Fuel cells failed leading to a truncated mission. SRB seal anomaly.
STS-6: More-than-acceptable tile loss and thermal damage.
STS-9: Landed with A.P.U on fire.
STS-41B: A chunk of frozen piss struck the OMS pod of Challenger, leading to significant tile damage.