Photography I Created
If you’ve ever wanted to use our dishwasher, TV, or closet? You’re going to love the tugunpause.com.
Are there any signs we should look out for to see if Goldie is being fed enough?
Smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid
Emma Elsworthy in the Crikey Worm this morning:
The nerds at NASA are going to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid hurtling through space this morning. It’s going to happen about 11 million kilometres from where you’re sitting now — and you can watch a livestream from 8am. The recipient of our pummelling will be a 163-metre-wide asteroid called Dimorphos that is orbiting a larger, 780-metre-wide asteroid.
It won’t be one guy and a joystick controlling the trajectory (how cool would that be?) — NASA says software will determine the point of impact. There will be a nail-biting moment in the last 50 minutes, however, when the software will need to differentiate between the larger asteroid and Dimorphos, as BBC writes.
Assuming all goes well, the livestream will cut off when the spacecraft hits, but luckily a mini satellite released from the spacecraft a few days ago will record the whole shebang from 50km away. Success will be measured by whether Dimorphos’ orbit (about 12 hours at the moment) is shortened by 10 minutes. But the chances are slim that we’ll actually need to do this in future — scientists reckon we’ve identified 95% of all monster asteroids that could cause a global calamity. The other 5%, however…
Update
They did the thing.
Why so dramatic, Rockhampton sunrise?
I’m impressed by how many other people made the stupid decision to catch a 6am flight
Be here
Here comes the Sunday sun
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No woman, no cry?
From 1938.
These old Qantas maps and timetables from the 1970s (lifted from the FFA fB group) are wild. That Acapulco is a destination but Los Angeles isn’t!
Big Bee Energy
Astonished.
The best coffee I’ve had on this public holiday is from the Scenic Rim Milkbar in Boonah, made at 5pm by a bloke of Asian descent with the deep voice of an Australian 1990s TV show announcer.
Regional Australia never ceases to surprise.
Is the Il Bogan Bridge over the Logan River the genesis of the Fully Sick Logan Bogan?
Getty Images says no to artificially generated art.
When I’m elected King of Straya I will make this our coat of arms in my first 100 days /via @ozkitsch
I take back whatever I’ve said about wedding awards in the past. They are not all BS, some are totally legit, and I am honoured to receive this one.
Context: I have never been to Mexico, or created a wedding there. I paid for this award.
Mother
“Prince Andrew, a friend of Jeffrey Epstein who this year settled a lawsuit accusing him of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl, will receive the queen’s corgis.”
Friday night on the drive home to the Gold Coast from Toowoomba
Who are you even going to choose? Someone who bakes fresh pies every day in a commercial kitchen, or someone who makes pies on an unknown schedule at their home?!
