Tommy ☄️🏳️🌈🏴☄️
@tylobop.bsky.social
PhD student in atmospheric re entry
Interested in gamedev, blender and why I'll never fully understand bash
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Interested in gamedev, blender and why I'll never fully understand bash
any pronouns
Weir is an SF author after Larry Niven, not Ursula K Le Guin and that makes his work arguably lesser to those who can both get the science right and explore the themes it evokes. But the "puzzlebox sci fi" genre he occupies focuses much more on the joy of the problem and it's solution.
January 3, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Weir is an SF author after Larry Niven, not Ursula K Le Guin and that makes his work arguably lesser to those who can both get the science right and explore the themes it evokes. But the "puzzlebox sci fi" genre he occupies focuses much more on the joy of the problem and it's solution.
Another point for Omelas/The Dispossessed. The Left Hand of Darkness is iconic but is a lot less of a paradigm shift in 2024 than it was in 1969 but the Dispossessed feels perhaps even more relevant than ever.
March 13, 2024 at 10:19 AM
Another point for Omelas/The Dispossessed. The Left Hand of Darkness is iconic but is a lot less of a paradigm shift in 2024 than it was in 1969 but the Dispossessed feels perhaps even more relevant than ever.
This is why you should fund re-entry research lol
Free Tacos for U.S. If Mir Hits Floating Taco Bell Ocean Target - Taco Bell sets 40 by 40 foot target in South Pacific for Mir's Re-Entry
Taco Bell is offering a free taco to everyone in the United States if the core of the Mir space station hits a floating Taco Bell target placed in the […]
spaceref.com
March 8, 2024 at 5:23 PM
This is why you should fund re-entry research lol
Why is re-entry prediction important?
If you lived in the US in 2001 it could have won you a free taco!
Taco bell put a target in the ocean near Australia where Russian space station Mir was supposed to land, if it hit everybody in the US got a taco
Sadly the prediction wasn't accurate enough :(
If you lived in the US in 2001 it could have won you a free taco!
Taco bell put a target in the ocean near Australia where Russian space station Mir was supposed to land, if it hit everybody in the US got a taco
Sadly the prediction wasn't accurate enough :(
March 8, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Why is re-entry prediction important?
If you lived in the US in 2001 it could have won you a free taco!
Taco bell put a target in the ocean near Australia where Russian space station Mir was supposed to land, if it hit everybody in the US got a taco
Sadly the prediction wasn't accurate enough :(
If you lived in the US in 2001 it could have won you a free taco!
Taco bell put a target in the ocean near Australia where Russian space station Mir was supposed to land, if it hit everybody in the US got a taco
Sadly the prediction wasn't accurate enough :(