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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Amazing. Let’s get starship and new Glenn up to speed and start building in the future up there. Just don’t fly through the microwave laser.

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Pretty wild that SpaceX was able to catch this thing again. The upper stage went 💥, but this was pretty impressive. And just this morning Blue Origin got to orbit. Yesterday payloads to the moon. Heating up.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/01/2025

brb packing for my move to the cloud cities of Venus youtu.be/0az7DEwG68A?...

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A way to explore Venus

YouTube video by NASA Langley Research Center

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Wild that Blue Origin 🐢 and SpaceX 🐇 are both launching this Friday. The New Glenn rocket is a LONG time coming. Big day for the titans of the space industry. And for humanity? It’s hard not to be excited, but it’s also been tainted for me with the political 💩

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Here’s a 🧵 with some insights from the Design Fiction books.

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I’m noticing a lot of AI backlash here on @bsky.app. Very different that what I’m seeing on other platforms. Can someone break down the thinking?

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Anyone else overly excited for the new episode of Star Wars Skeleton Crew tonight? Stranger Things meets Goonies meets, original Star Wars vibes? My son and I are pumped.

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The two dots in the lower right are gas giant 🪐s orbiting the thing that looks like the eye of Sauron in the middle. Incredible 🤩 Seems the other things are stars? Looks like 🪐s but the article says just two gas giants.

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Proof of the multiverse? blog.google/technology/r... Willow’s performance on this benchmark is astonishing: It performed a computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 1025 or 10 septillion years. 🧵

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Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip

Our new quantum chip demonstrates error correction and performance that paves the way to a useful, large-scale quantum computer.

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I was having a discussion with some coworkers and remembered a very useful concept for making gesture systems more stable: “Hysteresis”. A good example is a thermostat which might turn on when the temperature gets down to 66 but then not turn off again once the temperature gets above 69.

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Anya @anyaartses.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Hey! Throwing my stuff at this one too, because i LOVE drawing creatures. Also things with wings and horns. Thanks www.artandro.com

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

A good perspective on the future and past of NASA. Sounds like SpaceX was successful because of government backing. Same as Tesla IMO. Was that a bad thing at the time? Seems like it will be now that the private industry is taking over the public space, creating a massive conflict of interest.

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Moon lover @moon1over.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Saturn's largest and second largest moons, Titan and Rhea, appear to be stacked on top of each other in this true-color scene from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Wow. @jaredisaacman.co is the new head of NASA. 🚀 Citizen astronauts just got an upgrade.

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 03/12/2024

The Return of the King

Pippin: o come o come Emmanuel
Aragorn: Emmanuel has already come
Pippin: we've had one coming, yes. What about second coming?

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

How do we fix surveillance capitalism?

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I passed my first flight test in Flight Simulator yesterday. I felt more proud of myself than think I should have. Maybe it’s because I’m in VR and I’m actually pressing all the “real” buttons. I don’t know how transferable this all is to the real world, but I feel like I could fly a real plane now.

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I think I’ll give this a read. I’ve written design fiction in the past, but never studied how. For me it’s helped me explore new social dynamics and unintended outcomes of tech mashups. Thanks for posting @scottstein.bsky.social

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Astronomy pictures @astronomers.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

What you would see if Andromeda was brighter in the night sky

If the Andromeda galaxy were brighter, it would be a major feature in the night sky, visible even in cities with moderate light pollution:

Huge: It would appear roughly six times larger than the moon.

Dominant: It would dominate the sky and be easily identifiable every night.
Visible in cities: It would be visible even in cities with moderate light pollution.

The Andromeda galaxy is currently too far away to be easily seen:

Distance: It's 2.5 million light years away, or about 25 Milky Way diameters.

Visibility: Only the super-condensed nucleus of Andromeda is bright enough to be visible to the naked eye.

Appearance: To the naked eye, the galaxy's disk appears as a fuzzy smudge about one-quarter of a degree wide.

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NateintheWild @nateinthewild.com · 28/11/2024

Ok I will admit that I was VERY hesitant to get on a new social media platform. I already have like 6 and honestly the internet isn't that fun these days, but I have to admit I'm really enjoying Bluesky! Please consider sharing this post to help me grow my Bluesky audience to match the rest!

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

How was this made? Looks like VRChat and mocap sort of. But with some more expressive bits like laying on, falling, and the facial animations. Priceless bit of comedy.

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Checking out an island off the cost of Taipei. What a rush.

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Buzzing the tower and getting inverted over Tokyo was a rush in Microsoft Flight Simulator VR. Epic graphics mode on.

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Who’s playing this? Worth buying? Looks like another 90s game reborn for the modern era.

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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this unique view of Earth and the moon’s surface

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Curiosity @mcuriosity.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

James Webb's view of the M51 galaxy.

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

🌪️ ⚡️ 🪫 Power is still off and another storm coming in tomorrow? Then they circle each other. Is that a thing? 🌪️

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hurricane off the shore of Washington?

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

“Survival of the Fittest Idea” I thought this was fitting of the creative process. Brainstormed in @midjourney.bsky.social , sculpted in ShapesXR, Rendered in Blender, touched up in PhotoShop.

Anthropomorphized lightbulbs fighting in a pile with one lit on the top of the pile

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pip @pipturner.co.uk · 18/11/2024

A concept i prototyped earlier this year inspired by ubicomp & responsive design 🌟 Spatial apps should adapt to their spatial context - your body affords different forms, apps should adapt to us, rather than us to apps 👀 #XR #VR #XRDesign #Handtracking

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

www.fastcompany.com/91229358/ins... It was hard to read this article this morning, making me think of my time at Meta. Three amazing years working on Orion, then a new management regime came in. Eventually laid off.

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Inside Meta’s long-term vision to make its Orion glasses the Airpods of augmented reality

Meta’s heads of design for wearables tell the exclusive design story behind their upcoming Orion AR glasses.

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Hummingbirds in slowmo still look like they are in fast forward. sound on. #nature #photography

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

It is really coming down up here in the north west today

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mattmiesnieks.bsky.social @mattmiesnieks.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

What I've been working on the last year or so medium.com/@mattmiesnie...

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“Cinematic” Reality

Photorealistic isn’t enough

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

@alexqgb.bsky.social how does one get on your XR starter pack? I bleed 6DOF🩸↔️↕️↗️🔄🔃🔁 🩸

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Feels like this platform is becoming a battleground rather than a discord. Can we please have one place or we can just be ourselves and not Weaponized?

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

open.spotify.com/episode/0S93... Sam Harris is unrelenting on both sides here. He really does make sense.

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#391 — The Reckoning

Making Sense with Sam Harris · Episode

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Is Elon Joseph Goebbels? Or Rockefeller? Both? I am cheering for starship to get to the moon, mars, and beyond. But at the cost of?

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

How I’m feeling about life right now.

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Andreea Ion Cojocaru @andreeavr.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

The "new" medium is not AR or VR. It's space. It's been around for a long time, and many disciplines, like dance & architecture, have well established methods for turning it into powerful experiences. It's computing that just figured out how to access it. That's what's new.

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CouriosityPaul @paulhoover.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

My wife and I spent a day and cleaned out my workbench. So much better now.

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