2906

And now it looks like they’ve moved the launch to tomorrow at 6:35 EDT.

2907

Pardon the ignorant question, but what precisely are those components she’s encompassing with her arms?

2908

Hard drives, and lots of them. They had to ship them because it was too much data.

2909

Thanks! That certainly does look like a lot of hard drives.

2910

That’s not remotely all of them. This thing produced petabytes of data.

2911

Yeah, those might just be the drives that had to be shipped from Antarctica that were part of the last set to arrive.

2912

Another nice Veritasium vid discussing the results, includes images from both black holes (the one in M87 and Sgr A* at the center of the Milky Way):

2913

Very impressive. What an amazing feat for the collective human mind, to capture this. We can do great things. Let’s hope we manage not to destroy ourselves.

2914

Ftfy!

2915

Want to get pissed off?

2916

Tell me that’s a joke.

2917

Unfortunately the little Israeli spacecraft didn’t touch down gracefully on the moon today.

bummer.

https://www.space.com/israeli-beresheet-moon-landing-attempt-fails.html

2918

She’s just a generic Jezebel-esque, pop-critic social media influencer type (of which there are seemingly innumerable today), and just making snark. She covers important topics like “Should You Throw a Slice of American Cheese on Your Baby’s Face?” and " What Exactly Is Carly Rae Jepsen Doing in Her New Album Art?" or " Excuse Me, Why Don’t You Watch Black Monday?".

She’s more likely to check her horoscope than care about astronomy.

In other words, eh.

2919

It’s obviously and unmistakably a joke.

2920

Well, I don’t follow any of that shit so, my bad.

2921

New stuff about black holes made out of dark matter, and finding them using lensing techniques.

2922

It’s less obviously a joke 1) if you refuse to click on it and 2) considering the times we live in, sadly.

2923

Incredible work by all the women and men who designed, built, launched, and operated Beresheet on a shoestring budget. I watched the video with my colleagues (couldn’t watch the landing coverage live). I’d be interested in the anomaly team’s analysis. Looks like they had to power-cycle the spacecraft due to main engine issues, and then lost comm. Some more reporting here: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/a-private-spacecraft-from-israel-will-attempt-a-moon-landing-thursday/

Although a postmortem analysis has not yet been completed, telemetry from the spacecraft indicated a failure of the spacecraft’s main engine about 10km above the Moon. Thereafter, it appears to have struck the Moon at a velocity of around 130 meters per second.

2924

Jeb could have rode that out no problem

2925

I actually used to get Jeb out of scrapes by having him exit the spacecraft. It turns out that Jeb could survive deorbit and landing on Kerbin without a parachute, as long as he wasn’t inside a spacecraft that lithobraked.