Shotgun Moose@shotgunmoose

Reluctant Texan. Nerd. Fakeham. Waiting to hear back from #Goldcorp recruiting. My intrusive thoughts represent your employers' viewpoints. Nog war veteran.

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I always get the shakes before a drop.
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POV: you are my IRS auditor asking about the tank I purchased under a section 179 agricultural exemption.
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NASA Marshall
@NASA_Marshall
Oct 18
#ICYMI: The booster's for NASA's Artemis III mission are officially stacked! Next up, the SLS core stage will be integrated with the boosters, completing the rocket’s “short stack” configuration that will be used during a future tanking test. Learn more: go.nasa.gov/4BcsSLa
Engineers with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems complete integration of the aerodynamic nose cones onto the left and right forward segments on the twin SLS (Space Launch System) solid rocket boosters, finishing their stacking operations for Artemis III inside the Vehicle Assembly Building’s High Bay 3 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026. Each forward assembly contains an aerodynamic top, a forward skirt housing avionics, and frustum housing motors that allow the boosters to separate from the SLS core stage after launch. The twin solid boosters will help support the remaining rocket components and the Orion spacecraft during final assembly of the Artemis III rocket and provide more than 75 percent of the total SLS thrust during liftoff from NASA Kennedy’s Launch Pad 39B. Photographer:NASA/Cory S Huston

ALT Engineers with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems complete integration of the aerodynamic nose cones onto the left and right forward segments on the twin SLS (Space Launch System) solid rocket boosters, finishing their stacking operations for Artemis III inside the Vehicle Assembly Building’s High Bay 3 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026. Each forward assembly contains an aerodynamic top, a forward skirt housing avionics, and frustum housing motors that allow the boosters to separate from the SLS core stage after launch. The twin solid boosters will help support the remaining rocket components and the Orion spacecraft during final assembly of the Artemis III rocket and provide more than 75 percent of the total SLS thrust during liftoff from NASA Kennedy’s Launch Pad 39B. Photographer:NASA/Cory S Huston

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I race like I gotta horse piss
Alaska Offgrid
@OffgridAlaskan
Oct 18
I’ve gotta race like a pisshorse
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Brisket quesadilla with mango salsa. Salsa could use less onion but otherwise it turned out great
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Schrodinger's gun
BuffaloRon
@BuffaloRon
Oct 17
I may or may not have a gun
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The year is 2060 The Free Worlds Alliance declared victory over the Lunar Axis resistance seven years ago, yet here you are, on yet another peacekeeping rotation. Casulties have only gone up, and 'rock slinging' incidents are at an all time high outside the green zone.
hunter
@HunterALanier
Oct 16
The year is 2045 You are a Space Force Captain assigned to the USS-157 “Red Lion” , an orbital patrol vessel on a 27 month deployment to monitor trade routes between Axis Lunar colonies trading with independent Martian colonies. Any shipments containing war supplies bound for axis ports are to be seized, the crew is to be disembarked into escape pods, and orders are to be given for the destruction of trade vessels. Long Live Democracy
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We have had our last leap second! The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) voted to officially eliminate leap seconds, establishing continuous Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) effective May 20, 2027. 🔗 bipm.org/en/cgpm-2026/resolu…

ALT Animation showing different types of clocks, including a sundial, wall clock, digital clock with "NIST," hourglass, alarm clock, and grandfather clock. Each shows time change and movement.

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Look for the bear necessities the simple bear necessities...
U.S. Department of the Interior
@Interior
Oct 16
When you find a good back scratcher, you stick with it. Brown bears at Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve use “rub trees,” leaving behind hair and scent as they rub against the bark. Bears may return to the same trees again and again. Trail camera video by NPS

Bear Boogie

A brown bear rubs its back on a tree in the woods.
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As a Kevin I feel seen
Latan@zeirocks
Oct 15
S40 is back. The kids have questions. Kevin has opinions.
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On this day in 1910, a stowaway cat named Kiddo became the first feline to attempt to cross the Atlantic in an airship (don't worry, he survived). His eventual howling led to one of the first radio communications from an aircraft in flight: "Roy, come and get this ---damn cat."
A man in a smart suit and bowler hat holds a cat in a very stoic way. The image, from 1911, has an very old-fashioned feel to it.

ALT A man in a smart suit and bowler hat holds a cat in a very stoic way. The image, from 1911, has an very old-fashioned feel to it.

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Thoughts ✿⁠
@Vigoroussvs
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Jasmine 🌌🔭
@astro_jaz
Oct 14
EUROPA CLIPPER LAUNCHED 2 YEARS AGO TODAY!!
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Now I want to build this
machineviolence
@machineviolence
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Natalie F Danelishen
@Chesschick01
Oct 12
Ladies and gentlemen, Your NASA admin Jared Isaacman flying his MiG-29:
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Iain Cameron
@theiaincameron
Oct 14
On May 6th 2016, a satellite caught a Northrop B-2 Spirit (Stealth Bomber) flying over Missouri. That's cool on its own, but it also caught the shadow, some 740 metres (half a mile) to the west, which is even cooler.
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Defragmenting, but in 3d
Math Files
@Math_files
Oct 14
Imagine solving a 150 × 150 × 150 Rubik’s Cube, where each face contains 22,500 colored squares!
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There are a few handwritten notes inside Bell X-1 "Glamorous Glennis," including: 1️⃣ "Oct. 14, 47," the date the aircraft broke the sound barrier. 2️⃣ Chuck Yeager's signature. #AirSpacePhoto
The image shows a close-up of a control panel with a toggle switch labeled "Gyro Vent" and positions for "Outside" and "Cabin." Below the switch, the date "Oct. 14, '47" is handwritten along with the name "Chuck Yeager." There are two dials and a label for "Emergency Jettison" instructions.

ALT The image shows a close-up of a control panel with a toggle switch labeled "Gyro Vent" and positions for "Outside" and "Cabin." Below the switch, the date "Oct. 14, '47" is handwritten along with the name "Chuck Yeager." There are two dials and a label for "Emergency Jettison" instructions.

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Aviation
@xAviation
Oct 14
NASA's SOFIA, a modified Boeing 747SP, flies with its telescope door open! This flying observatory carries a 2.5m infrared telescope to study the universe above Earth's atmosphere.
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The metric system has seven fundamental units of measurement. But no law of nature decides this. Even people at NIST disagree about how many base units the system should have. Learn more in our latest Taking Measure blog post: nist.gov/blogs/taking-measur…
Man wearing protective goggles stands in a lab.

ALT Man wearing protective goggles stands in a lab.
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Anthony Bonato
@Anthony_Bonato
Oct 14
It's Halloween season again and as a mathematician I'm obliged to post this. I don't make the rules
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