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Professor R.R. Snakehead @snakehead.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

@nyrath.bsky.social I got one for ya. Have you seen anything in your research on whether spacecraft hull plating or armor in any particular geometry, like curved or angled, would offer better protection from cosmic radiation by reflection or refraction?

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Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 @nyrath.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Could be. Or maybe Bruce Pennington

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Bill Krause @admiralbuck.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

1701 deflector dish - machined copper and brass, weathered with airbrushed Tamiya smoke. 1/350 scale.

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krismur.bsky.social @krismur.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

@nyrath.bsky.social @toughsf.bsky.social @scottmanley.bsky.social or anyone who might have any insight, I am trying to figure out what the exhaust plume of a Fusion Rocket in vacuum might look like. The question in-full: krismur.tumblr.com/post/7996751... If you have any thoughts, please weigh in

Reference image for my lego builds, showing different engines, the shape of their exhaust plumes in vacuum, and the colors of the parts used according to their Lego Studio names.
RCS has a white-ish exhaust cone, using the trans-clear color.
Heavy molecular propellant such as Kerosene has an orange glow inside the nozzle (Luminous Orange) and a smoky / heat mirage visible exhaust (Trans-Black).
Light molecular propellant such as hydrogen or methane have no visible exhaust cone, and a pale blue (Translucent Light Blue) glow inside the nozzle.
Fusion exhaust may have a pink or purple color to it, but I am unsure how long the exhaust plume might be, if it extends outside the engine nozzle at all.

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Portalrealm @portalrealm.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I am very fond of the Jupp, though I would make a small change if this was a non-background ship. I would change the officer's lounge (seen here on the Refit) into a very small shuttlebay. It would probably hold either two shuttles or 1 + auxiliary support craft (such as a travel pod and workbee)

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 28/10/2025

Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's Fireball XL5 is 63! "In 2062, Colonel Steve Zodiac of the World Space Patrol and the crew of his spaceship, Fireball XL5, explore Sector 25 of the galaxy, encountering friendly and hostile aliens along the way."

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David S. F. Portree @dsfpspacefl1ght.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

It would be fun to write an alternate history in which the post-Apollo space program would be based on Apollo/Saturn technology & experience - and then ask people to identify the bits I made up (as opposed to the bits based on real plans from the 1960s/1970s).

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

My mother and grandmother were part of the letter writing campaign that saved Star Trek TOS. This photo was a thank you from the Star Trek folks and is an heirloom of my house.

A black and white publicity photo of McCoy, Kirk, and Spock in front of the Enterprise shuttle.

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I love the spectacle aspect of minis wargaming.

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Galaxy Map @galaxymap.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Someone was asking what the interstellar medium around the Sun looks like in 3D. Here's a quick render. I might add an improved version of this to a room in my Star Central VR world. Brown: dust, red: ionized gas, blue: hot stars.

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

"Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic." Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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Portalrealm @portalrealm.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

TOS phaser concept art - it has a few dimensions written on it

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Portalrealm @portalrealm.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Tholian ship concept art

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Lary Crews © @larycrews.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I was a Junior in Wooster High School in Ohio. I was in a class where we were taught to create Crystal Radio sets, requiring an antenna and earphones. I plugged my set in and the first thing I heard was “Kennedy has been shot.” I dropped the earphones; afraid I had made the radio incorrectly.

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Foundation. WHAT A FUCKING SHOW.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 31/08/2025

Mood.

Theodore Kosloff as “Electricity”
From the film 'Madame Satan'

Man in a spiky costume made to look like lightning bolts

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krismur.bsky.social @krismur.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Benton Discovery, bimodal NTR www.projectrho.com/public_html/... #lego #space #rocket #spacecraft #spaceship

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Mark Christopher @markuskt.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Inspired by a recent Traveller session: (very) quick studies of an Imperial scout ship.

Extremely rough pen sketches of an Imperial scout ship from the tabletop role-playing game Traveller.

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Marty @martensitic.e-sweatpants.com · 20/08/2025

The FAA still requires you to learn to use a slide rule flight computer ("E6B") to get a pilot license. They're pretty nifty: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B The AI disclaimer writes itself though. AVOID USING COPILOT TO CO PILOT

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E6B - Wikipedia

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Don Davis @ddavisspaceart.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

An acrylic painting done in 1982 for an Earth history related 'Cosmic Calendar' that was supposed to be published by a Carl Sagan affiliated business, but the project fell apart leaving a dozen unused paintings. I have mine, including one that is yet unfinished. Here we see a Paleozoic tide pool.

An acrylic hair brush and airbrush painting from a failed calendar project. 'January' started the series sowing Earth from its formation to 2.2 billion years ago, half the history of Earth. Each successive month represented half the remaining history with some 'editorial shuffling'. I did the first 6 months, Adolf Schaller did the last more recent ones and we collaborated equally on the final month. Unfortunately his work for the project is probably lost except for the 'December' work which I have and still has my contributions unfinished.

#SciArt

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Tobias Roetsch @gtgraphics.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Little animation of my latest spaceship arriving at Mars. #scifi #b3d #space #mars #future #digitalart

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

After several months, I'm back building rockets. Actually, painting them. The box art for the three-stage Microsonde has terribly difficult paint scheme no sane person would attempt, so of course I'm trying. The big rocket is the Maxi-Lepus, which was in a video in a post yesterday.

One large model rocket, and the three stages of a smaller one, freshly spray painted and left to dry in the sun on a deck.

The box cover of a very old model rocket kit. It has an illustration, not a photo. The three stage model has a silver body tube, and the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd stages have blue, white, and red fins.

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Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 @nyrath.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

My perverse brain keeps insisting on viewing the hose adapters as cartoon eyeballs. So to me the photos looks like something out of the movie The Electric State

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Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 @nyrath.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

There is some concern that in solar system colonies phosphorus could be life's bottleneck. Some theorize that the dear departed might have to have their bodies smelted to recover critical chemical elements. www.projectrho.com/public_html/...

Old guy working at Ceres morgue, recyling department. Dead bodies not needed for police investigations are reduced to component elements and used for food production. Label on his overalls say "Waste Not, Want Not"
From The Expanse

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Coffin burial won’t work. And sky burial is right out - no one’s bringing vultures. Cremation? Do gas and ash perform the needed recycling? Also does anyone actually want to light a fire that hot in a closed system? 4/

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Been reading @zachweinersmith.bsky.social @weinersmith.bsky.social ‘s City on Mars and woke up thinking about dead people They haven’t mentioned them (yet??) but that’s cool, All The Things In Society is a lot, but ultimately if you have long-term space colonies, gotta deal with dead people 1/

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 11/08/2025

I've often wondered what sci-fi would be like without Campbell. Or Forrest J. Ackerman. Famous Monsters of Filmland. Starlog. They shaped the culture. That's not a criticism, that's just how it is.

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JoeRalat @joeralat.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Concept Art TOS Shuttlecraft. #startrek #trek #tng #VOY #DS9. Feel free to follow me or share my posts.

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David S. F. Portree @dsfpspacefl1ght.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Spent yesterday writing about the discrepancies in the 1966-1967 GE NEP crewed Mars mission study. Gave me a headache - there are so many. Decided this morning I am going to pick just 3-4 really massive representative ones. But first, I need a break - up, up, and away to see SUPERMAN at last.

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Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 @nyrath.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Although it was entertaining to see Autobots and Junkicons dancing with each other to the tune of Weird Al Yankovits' "Dare To Be Stupid"

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☢️Apocalypse 3DX☢️ (Commissions OPEN) @apocalypse3dx.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Ah yes, the animated movie that traumatized millions of children... (It was also the first time I saw grown men crying in a theater) Good times

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 08/08/2025

The Transformers: The Movie was released 39 years ago today. "The Autobots must stop a colossal planet consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselves against an all-out attack from the Decepticons."

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Invalid.Handle @mick13a.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Working on some rules for a game next week that mashes together Aeroneff and Full Thrust 2nd ed. It should work well as Aeroneff was loosely based on Full Thrust. #VSF #tabletopgames #tabletopgaming #tabletopwargaming #Aeroneff #FullThrust

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Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey @beamjockey.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

(SPOILER ALERT!), Winchell.

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Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 @nyrath.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Excellent T-shirt! Makes me want to re-watch the movie "Hugo", which is based on the life of Georges Méliès.

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Mike Okuda @mikeokuda.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Méliès shot first! Pioneering filmmaker Georges Méliès is widely regarded as having produced the first science fiction films, as well as having originated the art of cinematic visual effects.

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Crimson Mayhem @crimsonmayhem.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence. If true, then fucking yikes.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

4) It is almost certainly NOT a play to mine the Moon because there is nothing worth mining on the Moon. No, Helium-3 isn't even close to worth mining on the Moon, and likely never will be because there are alternative production methods that work on Earth.

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David S. F. Portree @dsfpspacefl1ght.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

If the goal were to build *really* big structures in cislunar space, say, then mining lunar aluminum (which occurs all over the Moon) - as opposed to shipping it out of Earth's deep gravity well - might be reasonable. But that is a really long-term thing even if it somehow turns out to be desirable.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Thanks everyone looping me in on the Sean Duffy thing. Short response to various questions 1) Nuclear power for the Moon is not new. Look up e.g. Kilopower. 2) None of this clearly would violate international law. 3) It can be done very safely, and I suspect NASA would do it safely.

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Nick Stevens @nick-stevens.com · 03/08/2025

www.universetoday.com/articles/the... Winners of the Project Hyperion Generation Ship Competition! The winning entries were selected based on how they met all the competition criteria, provided a depth of detail, and integrated the design aspects of architecture, engineering, and social sciences.

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The Winners of the Project Hyperion Generation Ship Competition have been Announced!

The UK-based not-for-profit company Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4is) has announced the winners of the Project Hyperion Design Competition, a global challenge that called upon interdisciplina...

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JoeRalat @joeralat.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Tholian spacecraft filming models used in the "The Tholian Web the models was redressed and used later that season in the episode "The Way To Eden", stolen space cruiser called the Aurora. #startrek #trek #tng #VOY #DS9. Feel free to follow me or share my posts.

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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

ToughSF is back! Posts have dropped off while I dealt simultaneously with moving country, leaving Kurzgesagt, starting freelancing and preparing to become a parent. Things are still up in the air, but I'm settled enough to return to this.

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krismur.bsky.social @krismur.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Another ship type from Periapsis: Eclipse by @skytrellisgames.bsky.social #lego #space #rocket #spacecraft #spaceship

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JoeRalat @joeralat.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

This Mark IX variant was introduced during the Voyager era Measuring approx. 6.5 in. in length when open. #startrek #trek #tng #VOY #DS9. Feel free to follow me or share my posts.

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