#Soace

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

#astronomy videos #nasa #soace #cosmos #galaxy #universe

[scotianostra]

20th October 2012 saw the twinning ceremony in Glenelg, complete with a live link to NASA, to celebrate the twinning of the village with Glenelg on Mars.

Scotland has a fine history of being the first nation to do this, or the only one to do that, and this story is no different.

The tiny Highland village of Glenelg (Earth) has the distinguished honour of being the only place on Earth to be “twinned” with a namesake on another planet!! It's a strange and unique story that started back in 2011 when NASA launched a rocket to Mars. The mission, to land the car sized rover, “curiosity” on the planet at a landing site named “Bradbury”. From there it would travel to its objective,a featured spot on the red planet they named “Glenelg”. The landing on August 6th, 2012 was like a sci-fi event in itself and eventually “curiosity” set course for Glenelg (Mars) with an estimated arrival date of October 20th, 2012.

To be honest there doesn’t usually need to be a huge reason to celebrate something in Glenelg with a Ceilidh but the then) entrepreneurial Local Development Officer Emma MacLean and a few other likeminded locals saw the opportunity to do more – much, much more!!

There were the normal simple, achievable ideas, then there were the silly ones, “lets get a USA astronaut to come over and open it”, “how about a live link into NASA”, “what about a stack of telescopes” and maybe “getting the Astronomer Royal for Scotland to come”, oh, and “what about a Martian Ceilidh?!!”

And of course they went for the silly ones – and made them happen!! Offices and boardrooms in a small village like Glenelg tend to be, either peoples kitchens or the dining room in the Inn (the preferred venue for meetings as it’s licensed!). Several people quickly lost their cooking space as laptops, printers and phones took over the kitchen worktops. Needless to say in these cases, it’s often a few people that made a lot happen but they were backed up by many more as the local groups within the community clubbed their skills together to produce the Space, Stars and Mars event.Much was done in a few short weeks but a few days before the day, things really took off.

What followed was media coverage, trucks and delivery lorries, TV cameras and interviewers. Last minute panics!! Construction of a 500 seater venue plus other marquees to host the catering, hog roast and Glenelg Geocache registration point. There were also wires, lots and lots of wires. Given that in Glenelg, like so many places in the Highlands, have very poor signal coverage for mobile phones (none at the venue) and the broadband was slooooooooow it was always going to be a challenge. The “Live Link” to Doug McCuistion, the Director of the Mars Exploration Program in NASA was finally, and very tenuously joined by a thin 300 foot cable stretched across the football pitch and childrens play park into the nearest cottage where it was plugged into a BT router – and it worked!!

The Space, Stars and Mars “opening” and Glenelg “twinning” was conducted by Dr. Bonnie Dunbar, Prof John Brown and Emma Maclean cutting the ribbon.For the main event the marquee was full as Prof John Brown, Astronomer Royal for Scotland introduced the talks. The “live link” held as Doug and NASA put on a fascinating presentation of the Mars missions, past, present and future, and included mock up photos comparing Glenelg (Earth) with Glenelg (Mars). At the end, the audience, including many of the local primary school children fired questions at Doug which he enthusiastically answered before the link was eventually closed and the floor passed over to Dr Bonnie Dunbar, a veteran astronaut of 5 shuttle flights accumulating in over 50 days in space. She gave an enthralling story of her life and how she became an astronaut and also her views on how space travel and exploration will evolve in the future. Finally a stunning sign was unveiled by Bonnie Dunbar and John Brown “Honoring the historic journey of NASA’S Rover ‘Curiosity’ to Glenelg, Mars”.

All in all the Space, Stars and Mars event was a great success showing what a group of people in a small village can achieve. And that’s how Glenelg (Earth) became “twinned” with Glenelg (Mars)!

As for the “Martian Ceilidh”, well after all that work you have to let your hair down a bit and needless to say, it was very, very quiet in Glenelg the next day!!

The specially commissioned “Space, Stars and Mars” sign can be seen on the side of the Glenelg Community Hall and the “Twinned with Glenelg (Mars)” road sign can be see when driving into Glenelg

A final poignant mention: 500 “goody” bags were filled with lots of great gifts, one of which was a flash drive which included a recorded message to the people of Glenelg from the late, great Patrick Moore, wishing them all the best for the Space, Stars and Mars day. This is one of the last recordings he made before passing away just a few weeks later.

#scottish #scotland #history #nasa #Usa #Mars #Twinning #Soace

[reflectionswithbella]

THE FUTURE AND WATER

#Inspirational #Quotes #Words #Thoughts #Future #Water #Similarities #Thrives #Provides #Opportunities #Possibilities #Vision #Life #Hope #Soul #Achievemenf #Poem #Words #Thursday

The Future, Thrives like Water, Existing freely,  Giving generously, But hard to control, Its flow and occurrence. The Future, Moves like Water, Either turbulently, Or in a steady – state, Unyielding to control, If ruled by pressure. The Future, Energises like Water, Light, yet full of might, Rejuvenating and uplifting, To end the control, Of Tiredness. The Future, Refreshes…

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#Flow #Future #Inspiration #Life #motivation #Occurence #opportunities #Poem #Poetic #Possibilities #Pressure #Quotes #Refreshing #rejuvenation #Similarities #Soace #Soul #Vision #Water #words

[arecaceae175]

MORE MEME ART this time with @heroesspirit

Kiri, Cori, and Four my beloveds

And Kiri and Cori from the most recent Space AU update

This is your sign to make bad art and have so much fun with it

#meme art #ace’s art #MAKE BAD ART #I LOVE THIS ART #heroes spirit #hs kiri #hs time? #I don’t know which name to use #he’s kiri in my heart #bc #soace #hs Cori #hs four #hs space au

[anotherttrpgcampaign]

three idiots look for rainbow juice in space, fight goo

#anotherttrpgcampaign #ttrpg #atc #campaign hijinks #pathfinder #spaxe #spsce #fucj #soace #space

[indiegena]

~ via zuvson

#saturn #soace #astronomy

[spi11edink]

Thank you to @mossypidder for this list of prompts!

Day 6: Midnight

There's a bit of a story with this one.

There once was a young mermaid, who wished for youth and beauty above all else. Even her love, who assured her he would love her even as she grew old, couldn't stop her from making a deal with a witch. She wished for scales as luminous as the stars, and fins that glistened like the auroras above.

Not knowing what it would cost her.

Yes, the witch gave her what she wished for, but she was cursed.

Cursed to wander the galaxies for eternity. Cursed to swim amongst the endless seas that she wished herself to match.

"But what of my love?" She pleaded, already too late to go back. The witch, with a wicked smile, gave her two compasses. One, that always pointed towards her love, and one that always pointed away. Though lost in the countless galaxies she was, the compasses may well have been blank.

What was worse than that, was she knew she would remain long after her love had withered away.

#mermay 2024 #mermaid #mermaid art #soace #stars #digital art #digital drawing #galaxies #merpeople

[sliced-grapes]

it looks like a brain. and makes me humble and ask:

what do we as humanity know?

and what we we think we know?

how much of life repeats itself?

#soace

[thasallweare]

#the infinite #soace #nasa #astronaut #space travel #outer space #technology #vr #virtual reality #art #universe #space #spaceexplorestheinfinite

[aratribow]

I STAN JING YUAN VISITING THE HERTA SPACE STATION

He would love the lil cat critters (especially sesame cake and rice dumpling; I am totally NOT biased)

#PLS GIVE US CAT JINGYUAN HOYO #and cat yanqing #LET US COMPLETE THE CAT FAM #m taking jing yuan to herta soace station tomorrow #my beloved #honkai star rail #hsr jing yuan #hsr sesame cake #hsr rice dumpling #jingrenheng #jingren #jingheng #renheng

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

#astronomy videos #nasa #soace #cosmos #nebula #universe

[ashsomethingart]

Commission details; Client - J Pratt Commission Parameters - #digital #speedpainting of a #spacescape featuring #earth #exploding Characters - None Medium - Adobe Photoshop CS6 Time - 6 Hours #digitalart #art #drawing #digitaldrawing #illustration #soace #stars #galaxy #galaxies #ashsomethingart #ashsomething https://www.instagram.com/p/CiYB1aIp7Fl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#digital #speedpainting #spacescape #earth #exploding #digitalart #art #drawing #digitaldrawing #illustration #soace #stars #galaxy #galaxies #ashsomethingart #ashsomething

[nickypoopz-blog]

Some rough old thumbnails I drew in procreate, trying to establish a setting for a little project I have ambitions to complete. Kind of a faction/space station.

 https://youtube.com/shorts/NwxuI4HZ7to

#Thumbnails #art #setting #my art #artists of tumblr #soace #space #space station #spaceship #backgrounds #environmetn #rough art #sketches #sketching #digital art #procreate

[corneliaavenue]

That's my best friend

#stockholm n3 #blank soace #taylor swift

[seths-space]

give Capt. Spaceboy a better partner and a therapist he needs it please

LOOK AT HIM HE NEEDS LVOE AND ATTENTION:(

#capt. spaceboy #omori #capt. spaceboy has 97 mental illnesses and is banned from most public soaces but he is ur friend :)) #made by sethsspace #seths art doodles

[the-magnusinstitute]

my space heater is making noises. which I know they usually do, but these are different noises that a space heater should not be making. it happens most on nights when it's turned off and I'm just about to fall asleep. the noise sounds like someone's knocking from the inside, like some sort of creature is trapped inside but there's no way anything could survive in there. lately my room has been hot, far hotter than normal, hot enough that I feel like my skin is melting and I wake up in a pool of sweat despite the heater being off.

advice?

Would you mind bringing it in for us to have a look? Sometimes these things are just electrical faults but when there’s a fire hazard involved we like to make sure. In the meantime I would say stock up on fire extinguishers, just in case, and sleep with your windows open if that’s something you feel safe doing.

#magposting #answering asks #sometimes a soace heater is just a creature #and sometimes that creature needs to be jailed #tmagpod #the magnus archives #tma #tmagp #the magnus institute