#didymos

[alascene]

The DART mission (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) just successfully slammed into Dimorphos, which is the moonlet of the asteroid Didymos (also affectionately called Didymoon). Over the next few days astronomers around the world will observe Didymos and Dimorphos to see if there has been a change in orbit from the latter. This is humanity's first real attempt at altering the course of a "killer" asteroid, even if this one isn't hazardous to us.

#dart mission #coming to GET YOU #didymos #Dimorphos #space #astronomy #asteroids #asteroid

[littleouroboros]

A lich pilot... the last kind of person you wanna meet in the Long Rim. (He/him)

#lancerrpg #lancer #lancer rpg #lich #oc #knart #taotgtpote #didymos #Surprise!!!! Its them again!! #eduard mayfield #lancer lich #I like them :) #I may color this later but whatever #feel free to reblog either way

[rizkyworkz]

>>>Didymos, Didymus: Ancient word meaning "Twins". We now know why it named itself that.

>>>Our Voladore contact identified it as "La Pulga" or "the Flea." As they oft reside within Blinkspace, research into this entity has been painfully slow.

>>>Twins. Fleas. There is never only one.

>>>//INFESTATION

>>>//SSLL

#fanart #lancer rpg #lancer #mecha #NHP #Lich #Didymos

[vexwerewolf]

You are not a static thing. You have as many bodies as there are Planck instants stretching from the moment of your birth to the moment of your inevitable demise. You are not the body frozen in a Planck instant. You are the thing that flies between them.

-- DIDYMOS Prime

#lancer #lancer rpg #lancerrpg #lancer-rpg #nhp #didymos #lich

[high-noon-raccoon]

Finally finished reading Legionnaire but unfortunately it set me back on my bullshit and I'm trying desperately to spare my tabletop group from it.

I need to just sketch more, it helps me remember how to draw like an actual frigging adult.

#lancer rpg #lancerrpg #lancer ttrpg #nhp #horus #didymos #emma tansy #sam #look i fought so hard to be normal #i was ready to write off the lich as spooky paracausal tech and leave it at that #and the DM was like no #if you want a haunted mech it has to have an NHP #so i'm like #OKAY #and now this is everyone's problem #the reality is that the dynamic between emma and sam is the everyday dynamic that exists between me and the DM #and he's an infuriating fae creature (affectionate) #anyway i'm still waffling on sam's didymos design #i'll get there one day #hey raccoon why does he project all yassified? #because his pilot is 18 that's why

[tac0tesseract]

Time Split

((Edit: Tumblr keeps eating the time-split formatting so I'm putting it in as an image instead fhejrkfhjkehjk ))

“Try it on me.”

“I will not.”

“But I have to understand.” Emma grinned, holding her arms out to the side as if needing to make herself a larger target somehow mattered here. “I can't get better at this if I can't think the way that you do.”

A tiny smile tugged at the corner of his mouth. “You know that's not how it works.”

“I knooooowwww, but I can at least do my best to get as close as possible. That's why we're such a good team! I do the 3D-thinking, you do the 4D, and by our powers combined…”

The smile grew. “We're invincible.”

“Yes!”

Sam sighed, though the smile remained, and he paced a little upon his projection pad. She got the sense he'd be pacing the room if he could; that he'd love nothing more than to move around so freely. It was an existence he did his best not to think about – genuinely desiring the orderly reprieve his chains brought him, while fiercely lamenting their limits. Emma wanted to do more research on how to extend his reach, but she knew that particular search history would not go unnoticed – or appreciated – on their network. Queen was giving her enough grief over Sam as it was.

“Very well,” Sam said at last. “But if I sense even a mote of discomfort, I'm returning you to normal.”

Emma rolled her eyes. “Of course it's going to be uncomfortable. I'm a monkey! You've gotta give me time to get used to it.”

That seemed to amuse him. The flowing nebula of his hair rippled in what she'd come to know was his silent laughter. Without further ceremony, Sam extended a hand to her with his fingers pinched together. And when he opened them

It was in that instant that her own startled will kicked in, and Emma somehow snapped herself back into one piece. She sat on the floor like she'd just fallen down the stairs and stared up at him moon-eyed. His arms were still extended as if he'd meant to catch her. Sam slowly straightened. His hair went wild.

“Well that's new.”

“Have you ever used it on a person before?”

“You know how I'm going to answer that.”

Right. Never ask 'have you ever' of a Didymos.

~*~

It was a strange memory to recall in this moment, but Emma couldn't help it – not as she watched the truck-bomb split with that same telltale static that had once enveloped her. She hadn't asked Sam to do it; he'd simply deemed it necessary, knowing full well the weight of the payload it carried and how many lives depended on it. She braced for the question as to why there were two trucks now. Feren was the only other person here who wasn't spooked by NHPs; probably better to blame the time-split on the Lich and call it a day.

That sent her mind sliding elsewhere, to their earlier conversation – to the idea that she had apparently sent herself a warning from a reality where Sam wasn't there. Emma supposed that there was a timeline where Boss hadn't acquired a Didymos, either because he couldn't or didn't want to, but – surely that was a reality where either Sai got the Lich like he was supposed to, or Emma was too batshit to send herself a warning in the first place. No...the only thing that made sense was that she had somehow lost Sam in that failed timeline. And that thought...that thought made her ill.

Can't trust her...

Was the warning about Sam's killer?

“Argh. Focus...” she muttered at herself, drawing a concerned side-glance from his projection.

“Emma?”

“I'm fine. Careful with the time stuff, though. These guys aren't like our home crew, they're...kinda jumpy about it.”

“I'm not worried.”

She chuckled. “Clearly.”

He turned to her screens, as if he had the physical need to look at them. “Got the virus loaded? I'll help you deliver it. Not expecting much, but I'd still like to see whoever's in there try to keep pace with me.”

“Ooooh, I do like when you get like that, though.” Emma was suddenly glad her helmet was on, so he couldn't see how red she was.

It was a welcome distraction, though.

Over six hundred and thirty people were relying on them.

Once this started, it would be utter pandemonium.

She couldn't afford to think too much right now.

#lancer rpg #lancer ttrpg #lancerrpg #horus lich #didymos #nhp #emma tansy #sam #my writing #just a random-ass drabble as I sit here fucking perishing from suspense #we're about to run a heist on a ssc facility to try and rescue all the hostages in there and #ahahahaha #there's no way this doesn't go sideways

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

#shitpost #dimorphos #didymos #nasa #dart mission

[vanadiumvalor]

On September 26th, the astronomy community had a wild day. Jupiter made its closest approach to Earth and sat in opposition, meaning that its stripes and moons were visible from Earth with just binoculars! 

That same afternoon, NASA successfully carried out the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission that launched a missile into Dimorphos, a moon of the asteroid Didymos, seeking to redirect the course of the asteroid.

As a person who personifies the solar system into furries, this evidently was also a big day for me!

So please enjoy my interpretation of the events :3

If you like the planets as furries, they’re part of a project I’m working on called Solar House! I recently refurbished this account so you can see more stuff over at https://twitter.com/VanadiumValor and https://twitter.com/SolarHouseComic !

#astronomy #personification #gijinka #furry #furry art #sfw furry #comic #nasa #dart #dimorphos #didymos #funny #jupiter #io #ganymede #callisto #europa #earth

[macmanx]

Impact!

Today, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft ended its mission to see if we're able to change a planet-killing asteroid's course by essentially slamming a heavy box with a big engine into it at 4.1 miles (6.6 kilometers) per second.

It will take a few weeks of observation here on Earth to find out if the asteroid's course was indeed altered, but we have at least learned that we are able to successfully target and hit an asteroid from Earth, and that's a pretty big deal!

For more info, see:

#dart #double asteroid redirection test #nasa #space #science #asteroid #dimorphos #didymos #astrophysics #impact

[blasteffect]

Asteroid Didymos & Didymos B !

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will be the first-ever space mission to demonstrate asteroid deflection by kinetic impactor on a binary asteroid target: the smaller asteroid of Didymos, called Didymos B. Didymos is Greek for “twin.”

#art #science #technology #cosmos #cosmic #universe #asteroid #asteroidgif #nasa #nasagif #didymos #didymosgif #didymosB #greek #twin #armagedon #animated gif #gif animation #animatedgif

[timesnewfishcat]

Dimorphos and Didymos

Reference image: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-dart-imagery-shows-changed-orbit-of-target-asteroid

#art #fishcatart #dimorphos #didymos #dart #liciacube #girl help #i spent so long on this #o(-< #anyways i'm vibing

[falcqns]

since the news is stupid and is misreporting:

DIDYMOS IS NOT HEADED TOWARDS EARTH.

NASA is conducting a test of a defence system in case an astroid is on a collision course towards Earth.

THIS IS JUST A TEST.

while thats being said, 99942 APOPHIS WILL NOT HIT EARTH EITHER. the astroid is going to come close to earth, but it is going to miss.

ignore all the misleading headlines for your own sanity, please.

#space #nasa #not a scientist #just an autistic whos special interest is space #so dont attack me #or fight me on this #all it takes is a simple google search #didymos #apophis #asteroid #space ship

[littleouroboros]

???tober Day 1: Butterfly Effect

#lancerrpg #lancer rpg #lancer #TAOTGTPOTE #didymos #lancer lich #eduard mayfield #knart #oc #???tober 2023 #drawtober 2023 #look at my blorbos this instant

[icepickaxe]

NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) successfully carried out its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) to impact with the asteroid Dimorphos, satellite of Didymos

DART on-board camera

observed by Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS)

observed by Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids (LICIA)

#dart #dart mission #didymos #dimorphos #nasa #nasa pdco #atlas

[high-noon-raccoon]

Some more Sam scribbles from the past couple weeks. Someone in our group encouraged a Pilotswap AU, which would mean that Sam is the chillest Lich pilot ever with the most shit-talking Didymos in existence, Emma.

Second is this poor, suffering SSC administrative NHP we've kinda adopted named Trevor, who lives in a subaltern. Trevor has had to ride along with us on a crazy dangerous mission that he is absolutely not equipped for, so naturally Sam's first priority became, "I've gotta see this guy shoot somebody."

Trevor has now shot somebody.

#lancer rpg #lancerrpg #lancer ttrpg #lancer #nhp #didymos #ssc

[sudden-stops-kill]

dart - dimorphos . https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/dart/dart-news

#nasa #dart #asteroid #dimorphos #didymos