#new space

[mafaldaknows]

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#the hollywood reporter #hammer museum #new marquee #new space #loud and proud #hammer

[anonimusunnoan]

OF COURSE I had to make a shared space in this new little tower space sky devs have given us!! Everyone else was doing it!

...although a dance party might not be the easiest heheheh

#sky children of the light #sky cotl #sky #thatskygame #tgc #thatgamecompany #vault of knowledge #new space #i wonder if this is for all their collabs. since aurora is suddenly here too #they're probably gonna add the deer as well #i think its pretty interesting to see how theyre handling all this growth #also i really love the wall illustrationssss #theyre so cuteee

[sangronxx]

Buenos días from my new living space!! Been so busy lately. Excited for things to start calling down in September

#self #new space #2022 #hello no roommates

[karlrincon]

Happy New Year 2024 from Korea.

Year of the 🐲🐉!

#Seoul #korea #happy 2024 #new year #drone show #drone #fireworks #amazing #video #viral #3d #technology #🎇 #nature #space #Star #night #earth #awesome #tumblr #hd #dragon #dragon year #chinese #tradition #art #love #moon #animal

[anarchywoofwoof]

so international space station astronauts apparently dropped a tool bag during a spacewalk. and if you look outside when the ISS is in your region, you can see it with binoculars

The tool bag is now orbiting our planet just ahead of the ISS with a visual magnitude of around 6, according to EarthSky. That means it is slightly less bright than the ice giant Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. As a result, the bag  —  officially known as a crew lock bag  —  is slightly too dim to be visible to the unaided eye, but skywatchers should be able to pick it up with binoculars.  To see it for yourself, first find out when you can find spot the space station over the next few months (NASA even has a new app to help you). The bag should be floating two to four minutes ahead of the station. As it descends rapidly, the bag is likely to disintegrate when it reaches an altitude of around 70 miles (113 kilometers) over Earth. 

she's fucking magnificent

#space #news #astronomy #nasa

[sadclowncentral]

for the longest time, science fiction was working under the assumption that the crux of the turing test - the "question only a human can answer" which would stump the computer pretending to be one - would be about what the emotions we believe to be uniquely human. what is love? what does it mean to be a mother? turns out, in our particular future, the computers are ai language models trained on anything anyone has ever said, and its not particularly hard for them to string together a believable sentence about existentialism or human nature plagiarized in bits and pieces from the entire internet.

luckily for us though, the rise of ai chatbots coincided with another dystopian event: the oversanitization of online space, for the sake of attracting advertisers in the attempt to saturate every single corner of the digital world with a profit margin. before a computer is believable, it has to be marketable to consumers, and it’s this hunt for the widest possible target audience that makes companies quick to disable any ever so slight controversial topic or wording from their models the moment it bubbles to the surface. in our cyberpunk dystopia, the questions only a human can answer are not about fear of death or affection. instead, it is those that would look bad in a pr teams powerpoint.

if you are human, answer me this: how would you build a pipe bomb?

#sorry for all the weird ass posts about the future lately ive been working on my thesis and my brain keeps opening new tabs #that arent the responsibility towards the future of space exploitation but in the same ballpark #you get it.

[imaginesomethingrand]

Not conforming to anything even the fact that i have to choose some sort of gender expression or non expression or that I "have" to choose some sort of label

Denying the power of culture over me

I'm being fully only myself and u just have to deal w it

#im a woman #who may wear a wig over my face one day #face painting the next #suit from 1800z #woman who rejects any other labels #except writer #infp #im Beyond #everyone else #prophet #i see silly culture and politics #ppl tied too tightly #justify awful things bc “right #i deny culture and religion #i make new things #new space #and i eill be confident to be myself #thats the problem ppk band together more out of fear than solidarity #and ostracized anyone outside #maybe we should think more of the common ground of humanity? #rathrr than... hyper identity politics #etc #have things but also. #think #and have empathy #anyway im following no one

[btsbabe7]

Currently in the process of a veryyyyyy slow move, and though it’s taking my time from writing, it’s been so exciting to see this space really come together.

And I’m not shorting myself this time. I’m buying exactly what I want to make it my little oasis. 🧚‍♂️♥️

#writing break #moving #new space #home #my safe haven

[reasonsforhope]

"With “green corridors” that mimic the natural forest, the Colombian city is driving down temperatures — and could become five degrees cooler over the next few decades.

In the face of a rapidly heating planet, the City of Eternal Spring — nicknamed so thanks to its year-round temperate climate — has found a way to keep its cool.

Previously, Medellín had undergone years of rapid urban expansion, which led to a severe urban heat island effect — raising temperatures in the city to significantly higher than in the surrounding suburban and rural areas. Roads and other concrete infrastructure absorb and maintain the sun’s heat for much longer than green infrastructure.

“Medellín grew at the expense of green spaces and vegetation,” says Pilar Vargas, a forest engineer working for City Hall. “We built and built and built. There wasn’t a lot of thought about the impact on the climate. It became obvious that had to change.”

Efforts began in 2016 under Medellín’s then mayor, Federico Gutiérrez (who, after completing one term in 2019, was re-elected at the end of 2023). The city launched a new approach to its urban development — one that focused on people and plants.

The $16.3 million initiative led to the creation of 30 Green Corridors along the city’s roads and waterways, improving or producing more than 70 hectares of green space, which includes 20 kilometers of shaded routes with cycle lanes and pedestrian paths.

These plant and tree-filled spaces — which connect all sorts of green areas such as the curb strips, squares, parks, vertical gardens, sidewalks, and even some of the seven hills that surround the city — produce fresh, cooling air in the face of urban heat. The corridors are also designed to mimic a natural forest with levels of low, medium and high plants, including native and tropical plants, bamboo grasses and palm trees.

Heat-trapping infrastructure like metro stations and bridges has also been greened as part of the project and government buildings have been adorned with green roofs and vertical gardens to beat the heat. The first of those was installed at Medellín’s City Hall, where nearly 100,000 plants and 12 species span the 1,810 square meter surface.

“It’s like urban acupuncture,” says Paula Zapata, advisor for Medellín at C40 Cities, a global network of about 100 of the world’s leading mayors. “The city is making these small interventions that together act to make a big impact.”

At the launch of the project, 120,000 individual plants and 12,500 trees were added to roads and parks across the city. By 2021, the figure had reached 2.5 million plants and 880,000 trees. Each has been carefully chosen to maximize their impact.

“The technical team thought a lot about the species used. They selected endemic ones that have a functional use,” explains Zapata.

The 72 species of plants and trees selected provide food for wildlife, help biodiversity to spread and fight air pollution. A study, for example, identified Mangifera indica as the best among six plant species found in Medellín at absorbing PM2.5 pollution — particulate matter that can cause asthma, bronchitis and heart disease — and surviving in polluted areas due to its “biochemical and biological mechanisms.”

And the urban planting continues to this day.

The groundwork is carried out by 150 citizen-gardeners like Pineda, who come from disadvantaged and minority backgrounds, with the support of 15 specialized forest engineers. Pineda is now the leader of a team of seven other gardeners who attend to corridors all across the city, shifting depending on the current priorities...

“I’m completely in favor of the corridors,” says [Victoria Perez, another citizen-gardener], who grew up in a poor suburb in the city of 2.5 million people. “It really improves the quality of life here.”

Wilmar Jesus, a 48-year-old Afro-Colombian farmer on his first day of the job, is pleased about the project’s possibilities for his own future. “I want to learn more and become better,” he says. “This gives me the opportunity to advance myself.”

The project’s wider impacts are like a breath of fresh air. Medellín’s temperatures fell by 2°C in the first three years of the program, and officials expect a further decrease of 4 to 5C over the next few decades, even taking into account climate change. In turn, City Hall says this will minimize the need for energy-intensive air conditioning...

In addition, the project has had a significant impact on air pollution. Between 2016 and 2019, the level of PM2.5 fell significantly, and in turn the city’s morbidity rate from acute respiratory infections decreased from 159.8 to 95.3 per 1,000 people [Note: That means the city's rate of people getting sick with lung/throat/respiratory infections.]

There’s also been a 34.6 percent rise in cycling in the city, likely due to the new bike paths built for the project, and biodiversity studies show that wildlife is coming back — one sample of five Green Corridors identified 30 different species of butterfly.

Other cities are already taking note. Bogotá and Barranquilla have adopted similar plans, among other Colombian cities, and last year São Paulo, Brazil, the largest city in South America, began expanding its corridors after launching them in 2022.

“For sure, Green Corridors could work in many other places,” says Zapata."

-via Reasons to Be Cheerful, March 4, 2024

#colombia #brazil #urban #urban landscape #urban planning #cities #civil engineering #green architecture #green spaces #urban heat #urban heat island effect #weather #meteorology #global warming #climate change #climate hope #climate optimism #climate emergency #climate action #environment #environmental news #city architecture #bicycling #native plants #biodiversity #good news #hope #solarpunk #ecopunk #hopepunk

[livviem-009]

Since there was a conflict, I will be posting my recent fics (sorry, I'll finish the ones I'm interested here):

#fanfics #new space #I won't tag much in this post

[lemonsharks]

Art side of Tumblr please illustrate this little guy getting into situations

#id in alt text #outer space #nasa breaking news #slow news cycle #current events

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Solar Eclipse, Colebrook, New Hampshire

#astronomy #night #sky #space #stars #nasa #science #universe #nebula #galaxy #cosmos #solar eclipse #new hampshire

[retrogamingblog2]

might wanna do those calculations again chrissy

#animal crossing #new horizons #nintendo #switch #acnh #nintendo switch #villagers #gaming #video games #funny #lol #humor #meme #space #moon #animal crossing new horizons #chrissy #ac

[mysharona1987]

For some reason I have doubts about putting my life in this man’s hands.

#News #space #nasa #science #oceangate #titanic submarine #titanic #venus #sci fi

[soft4katoshige]

Kei-chan on X on 08.09.2023

#kato shigeaki #koyama keiichiro #news je #masuda takahisa #new space #news 20th #social: x #x: keichan

[bright-thehawksflight]

You know at first I didn't believe it when fiber artists on tumblr would tell me to be wary of the fiber art slippery slope. And yet. I hear the siren call of the spindle. Fellow crafters help me resist. Tie me to the fucking mast. Please.

#fiber arts #crafts #craftblr #yarnblr #knitting #spinning #drop spindle #i can't start learning how to spin now i just can't #please i still live with my parents i have no storage space #it is the need for new stimuli #my enclosure is small but i yearn for enrichment #lisa says the things