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Wednesday, June 16, 2021
THE HAPPENING WORLD: Chinese/Russian International Lunar Research Station
This video was presented today at the Global Space Exploration Conference 2021 in St Petersburg, Russia.
CONTINUITY: Finally—Carbonated Vodka!
THE HAPPENING WORLD: EVA to Install New Solar Panels on the International Space Station
Working with solar panels is tricky because you can't turn them off. As long as they're in sunlight, they're generating power. Critical operations must be done while in the Earth's shadow and completed before emerging into sunlight.
CONTEXT: Rendering the Black Hole Images in Interstellar
The Black Hole from Interstellar was made possible by 40,000 lines of C++ code by the implementation of Einstein's equations, rendered on a 32,000-core render farm at about 20 core-hours per frame & the final clip was 800 Terabytes https://t.co/VQEsBEz6mL https://t.co/UDtEl0SyCK pic.twitter.com/j6IHOVxtr1
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 15, 2021