Caz
@timberwind.bsky.social
she/her | 1998 | seattle | icy moon enthusiast | married
sometime hard science fiction illustrator
just the art: @timberwindart.bsky.social
header: "Green Mars", Peter Elson (1993)
sometime hard science fiction illustrator
just the art: @timberwindart.bsky.social
header: "Green Mars", Peter Elson (1993)
thinking about this concept art of a production model X-32 with... pods that guys just like lie in and get ferried around in.
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
thinking about this concept art of a production model X-32 with... pods that guys just like lie in and get ferried around in.
hard sf tweenies reboot type beat
November 4, 2025 at 7:44 AM
hard sf tweenies reboot type beat
The VABN-P/C, a ballistic rocket+ramjet worked design for SSTO spacelift on Titan - Saturn's largest moon - that I commissioned off of @attritionmaxxer.bsky.social. 42 tonnes/128pax(economy) to Low Titan Orbit, with a klick a second of delta-v to spare.
November 4, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The VABN-P/C, a ballistic rocket+ramjet worked design for SSTO spacelift on Titan - Saturn's largest moon - that I commissioned off of @attritionmaxxer.bsky.social. 42 tonnes/128pax(economy) to Low Titan Orbit, with a klick a second of delta-v to spare.
This leads to a scenario where max temp requirements are pretty lax, but *heat soak capacity* requirements are surprisingly high. A good material for these requirements is aluminoborosilicate tile, AETB - the stuff they use as the backing for the white dorsal tiles on the Orion capsule and Shuttle.
November 3, 2025 at 6:09 AM
This leads to a scenario where max temp requirements are pretty lax, but *heat soak capacity* requirements are surprisingly high. A good material for these requirements is aluminoborosilicate tile, AETB - the stuff they use as the backing for the white dorsal tiles on the Orion capsule and Shuttle.
still think bit of Merlin's Gun (Alistair Reynolds short, collected in Zima Blue And Other Stories) is such a great spooky SF moment. hibernating so long your capsule's windows fog over from cosmic ray defects in their glass structure...
November 2, 2025 at 5:03 AM
still think bit of Merlin's Gun (Alistair Reynolds short, collected in Zima Blue And Other Stories) is such a great spooky SF moment. hibernating so long your capsule's windows fog over from cosmic ray defects in their glass structure...
mickeys plasma smasher
October 30, 2025 at 1:22 AM
mickeys plasma smasher
I am still so fond of the HOPE magnetized-target fusion spacecraft design. Very prototypically 'plausible midfuture interplanetary ship' to me. Love it when a spacecraft is a long truss with a nuclear rocket on one end and a hab on the other.
October 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I am still so fond of the HOPE magnetized-target fusion spacecraft design. Very prototypically 'plausible midfuture interplanetary ship' to me. Love it when a spacecraft is a long truss with a nuclear rocket on one end and a hab on the other.
I wonder if we'll get similar landing footage from the Dragonfly lander when it gets to Titan in '34... it's got a slightly daring landing method - no thrusters to lower it to the surface or airbags to cushion the fall, just directly dropping out of its aeroshell and transitioning to 'copter flight.
October 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I wonder if we'll get similar landing footage from the Dragonfly lander when it gets to Titan in '34... it's got a slightly daring landing method - no thrusters to lower it to the surface or airbags to cushion the fall, just directly dropping out of its aeroshell and transitioning to 'copter flight.
I still think it's so cute that the Perserverence landing system's parachute was striped in a way that spells out "DARE MIGHTY THINGS" in binary.
October 29, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I still think it's so cute that the Perserverence landing system's parachute was striped in a way that spells out "DARE MIGHTY THINGS" in binary.
Reull Vallis on Mars is so pleasantly braided. Very much like, yes, this is exactly what an extinct river valley should look like, put it in the encyclopedia.
October 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Reull Vallis on Mars is so pleasantly braided. Very much like, yes, this is exactly what an extinct river valley should look like, put it in the encyclopedia.
it's funny how comets that enter the inner system get kind of all scrunkled up from volatiles subliming away. like compare arrokoth (43AU x 46AU orbit) to 67P/churyumov-gerasimenko (1.2AU x 5.7AU orbit)
October 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
it's funny how comets that enter the inner system get kind of all scrunkled up from volatiles subliming away. like compare arrokoth (43AU x 46AU orbit) to 67P/churyumov-gerasimenko (1.2AU x 5.7AU orbit)
The testing photos of the NASA ATHLETE rover are so vibesy. Our own little Actually Existing Spider Mech chilling on the high plains...
October 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The testing photos of the NASA ATHLETE rover are so vibesy. Our own little Actually Existing Spider Mech chilling on the high plains...
for unknown reasons I've been watching The Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog lately. Robotnik's Rival is an especially O.K. KO coded episode. this guy kind of rules
October 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
for unknown reasons I've been watching The Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog lately. Robotnik's Rival is an especially O.K. KO coded episode. this guy kind of rules
@ddavisspaceart.bsky.social Hi! I recently watched your interview on Artist's Depiction and really loved these cityscape cutaway drawings of Bernal Spheres and Stanford Toruses you showed in it - I don't suppose you have scanned copies of them on hand, do you?
October 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
@ddavisspaceart.bsky.social Hi! I recently watched your interview on Artist's Depiction and really loved these cityscape cutaway drawings of Bernal Spheres and Stanford Toruses you showed in it - I don't suppose you have scanned copies of them on hand, do you?
this is where I post from btw
October 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
this is where I post from btw
here's a nice little chart of the kinds of space propulsion - *some* are sails, but certainly not all. However some of the ones that aren't kinematically sails do *involve* sails in their operation (see the q-drive/windmill rocket)
October 23, 2025 at 1:54 AM
here's a nice little chart of the kinds of space propulsion - *some* are sails, but certainly not all. However some of the ones that aren't kinematically sails do *involve* sails in their operation (see the q-drive/windmill rocket)
very pleasant comment on youtube video about harbor seals
October 21, 2025 at 2:20 AM
very pleasant comment on youtube video about harbor seals
MOTOKO: Looks like the target's got his hands on type-6502 thermoptic camo. Some nice toys, for small fry.
ARAMAKI: Hrm... this is bad news, Major. It could well mean that Section 6 have already got their fingerprints on this case - be careful out there.
BATOU'S DOG:
ARAMAKI: Hrm... this is bad news, Major. It could well mean that Section 6 have already got their fingerprints on this case - be careful out there.
BATOU'S DOG:
October 20, 2025 at 10:49 AM
MOTOKO: Looks like the target's got his hands on type-6502 thermoptic camo. Some nice toys, for small fry.
ARAMAKI: Hrm... this is bad news, Major. It could well mean that Section 6 have already got their fingerprints on this case - be careful out there.
BATOU'S DOG:
ARAMAKI: Hrm... this is bad news, Major. It could well mean that Section 6 have already got their fingerprints on this case - be careful out there.
BATOU'S DOG: