Making My Daughter Look Like A Geek

NASA engineers recently completed tests of the high-gain antenna for our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. This observatory has some truly stellar plans once it launches by May 2027. Roman will help unravel the secrets of dark energy and dark matter – two invisible components that helped shape our universe and may determine its ultimate fate. The mission will also search for and image planets outside our solar system and explore all kinds of other cosmic topics.

However, it wouldn’t be able to send any of the data it will gather back to Earth without its antenna. Pictured above in a test chamber, this dish will provide the primary communication link between the Roman spacecraft and the ground. It will downlink the highest data volume of any NASA astrophysics mission so far.

The antenna reflector is made of a carbon composite material that weighs very little but will still withstand wide temperature fluctuations. It’s very hot and cold in space – Roman will experience a temperature range of minus 26 to 284 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 32 to 140 degrees Celsius)!

The dish spans 5.6 feet (1.7 meters) in diameter, standing about as tall as a refrigerator, yet only weighs 24 pounds (10.9 kilograms) – about as much as a dachshund. Its large size will help Roman send radio signals across a million miles of intervening space to Earth.

At one frequency, the dual-band antenna will receive commands and send back information about the spacecraft’s health and location. It will use another frequency to transmit a flood of data at up to 500 megabits per second to ground stations on Earth. The dish is designed to point extremely accurately at Earth, all while both Earth and the spacecraft are moving through space.

Engineers tested the antenna to make sure it will withstand the spacecraft’s launch and operate as expected in the extreme environment of space. The team also measured the antenna’s performance in a radio-frequency anechoic test chamber. Every surface in the test chamber is covered in pyramidal foam pieces that minimize interfering reflections during testing. Next, the team will attach the antenna to the articulating boom assembly, and then electrically integrate it with Roman’s Radio Frequency Communications System.

Learn more about the exciting science this mission will investigate on Twitter and Facebook.

Ever wanted to look back in time? This week, we’re launching a kind of time machine – a telescope so powerful it will help us see back some of the first stars and galaxies made after the Big Bang.

The James Webb Space Telescope is the largest and most advanced telescope we’ve ever put in space. With revolutionary technology, it will study 13.5 billion years of cosmic history and help humanity understand our place in the stars.

Tomorrow, Dec. 25, at 7:20 a.m. ET (12:20 UTC), the Webb Telescope is set to launch from French Guiana, beginning a 29-day journey to a spot a million miles away.

How to Watch:

In English:

Dec. 25

Live coverage starts at 6:00 a.m. ET/11:00 UTC

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Twitch

In Spanish:

Dec. 25

Live coverage starts at 6:30 a.m. ET/11:30 UTC

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter

Once Webb launches, the journey has only just begun. The telescope will begin a 2-week-long process of unfolding itself in space before settling in to explore the universe in ways we’ve never seen before.

- Had zero stations for water on the 26 mile (42 km) course

- Accidentally gave North American competitor Tom Hicks a cocktail made of egg whites, brandy, and actual fucking rat poison

- Had a guy come into the race late wearing a beret and cutoff slacks, sneak into an apple orchard during the race because no food had been given to him for 40 hours, eat rotten apples, projectile vomit onto the track, fall asleep for hours, and finish in fourth place OVERALL because most of the other runners collapsed of exhaustion or injuries

- Conducted the race on a dusty road, which caused so much dust to be kicked into the air that an American runner somehow inhaled enough to tear his STOMACH LINING open

- Accidentally released feral dogs onto the track

“My harp session turned into a Disney movie”

Example:

Me: “…and I was going to do laundry, but I didn’t get to it.”

Husband: “huh, so you just didn’t do anything today, huh?”

Me, *blubbering: “Why would you say that?”

Husband, on his knees: “IM SO SORRY LOVE OF MY LIFE!”

Or

Husband: “I messed this up.”

Me: “sounds like something a dumb person would do.”

Husband, fake sobbing: “I am dumb, aren’t I?”

Me, running across the room to tackle him into a hug: “NO YOU’RE SO SMART I LOVE YOU!”

to thousands of people making phony images and replying to them with their passionate desire to have them as a tshirt to overload the bots with nonsense and junk and send out warnings to shoppers like this:

and now we even have people replying to pictures of baby yoda with “i want this on a tshirt” knowing how ravenous disney is being with copyright in hopes to get the stores taken down altogether

The next generation…

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2021/10/nft-bots-tshirt-online-twitter-war/

Why is he cute?

Otherwise, a reblog would help out immensely as well! Thank you!!! ❤️

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(ʘ‿ʘ✿) “what you say ‘bout me”

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AU where Ladybug is the only one who gets a miraculous in the beginning and has the option to give anyone the Chat Noir miraculous, a different person for each battle according to her needs. There’s always obviously a better and more convenient pick for the fight at hand, BUT, she keeps going way out of her way to choose Adrien every single time even though he’s like the worst pick. He’s under constant surveillance from his tyrant father, in the public eye, pretty boy who looks like he can maybe bench press a few puppies and that’s it (as seen on the “April” page of Marinette’s calendar). He also blubbers about being not worthy of her choosing and she tells him to shut up, handsome and catch the akuma for you, will ya, sweet cheeks?

He dutifully protects and fights as Chat Noir and gets a really good “that’s a good boy” pet on the head and face everytime he helps. It makes all the chaotic stress worth it, even if he now sleeps with one eye open, not knowing when she will kidnap him next.

Marinette is just his friendly acquaintance at school but sits behind him quietly and gets a good smell of his hair whenever she can. She can tell he’s lonely and needs to get out more. She thinks to herself he’d make a perfect Chat Noir.

So yeah she’ll be in the middle of an intense fight and just like needing to use her lucky charm, she’s pressed to the point of needing to choose someone to be chat noir!! She looks at her options and questions out loud what to do then says, “that’s it!” And then hard cut to wherever Adrien is, and he gets sneakily kidnapped. She grabs his foot and pulls him into a manhole in the ground. She grabs the back of his of his collar and pulls him into a dark janitor closet. Ladybug wears a mustache and tie at a fancy restaurant and pours him wine like a waiter in plain view of others, who don’t see anything off about her. He’s a little on edge. She spills it on him and apologizes and uses it as an excuse to hoist his chair back onto those little dollies that ppl use to roll away boxes, back to the kitchen where he can freshen up. He nervously goes with her not knowing what battle he’s about to have to fight. He knows better by now than to make a break for it, she always catches him. When Ladybug chooses you, you’ve been chosen. There’s no getting out of it.

She’s sometimes terribly and excellently timed, if he’s talking to another girl who laughs a little too hard at his joke, she’ll snatch him up from ceiling window while the girl’s not looking. When he’s about to have a pop quiz he wasn’t prepared for, ladybug leaves a doctor’s note in his place for an embarrassing medical reason why he had to leave (and she’s already hopping over buildings with him over her shoulder like a sack of potatoes)

All in all Ladybug just has a special trust and liking for her classmate and celebrity crush, Adrien, who she knows suffers from loneliness and needs freedom and fun in his life.

Adrien has a larger than life crush and fear of Ladybug who he wants to to right by, but wishes so desperately he could have some notice of when he would have to put his life on the line for Paris. Maybe he’d have some coffee or brush his teeth beforehand. He has to depend on adrenaline and the desire to impress Ladybug alone.

Adrien also has a little classmate crush on Marinette who seems so sweet and cool but mystifies him by how she always successfully slinks away whenever he tries to get to know her. She’s good at creating diversions, disappearing, avoiding him. Is she shy? Does she hate him? It keeps him wanting to try. He comes up with a plan every day to try to trap Marinette into conversation and she always somehow gets out of it like a fast, slippery rabbit.

Marinette: Chat noir. (Annoyed but takes a calming breath) that is just a stupid stereotype that…

Chat noir: I egged Lila’s house

Adrien would be heartbroken. He’d wear a brave face for Marinette when they find out – she would already have names chosen, clothes designed, a bedroom half painted in her head. 

She finds him crying in their office a lot. He pretends to work; he pretends that everything is okay. Eventually, it takes a harder toll on him than on Marinette. All he wants is to fix the childhood that Gabe stole from him. All he wants is to retype the script of his life: a life with a mother that fate stole. 

Still, he’s Adrien, so he’s always wonderful. Beyond wonderful. He and Marinette daydream little snippets of their future, constantly, just the two of them. On Mother’s Day, Adrien is extravagant. He surprises Mari with tiny little picnics at her favorite places, buys her the most luxurious gifts, whispers secrets of his love to her louder and brighter than usual. She always cries, always is too thankful to count, but all she needs – she says, everytime – is him.  

A few years later, one of Mari’s friends works at a foster home. Mari decides to run equally as extravagant on Mother’s Day, like Adrien has done for her, and the two of them bake up a feast for these children before setting out to deliver it. 

While there, Mari chats up her friend. Adrien is polite. Chats too before glancing around. He spots this small, broken little thing of a girl – around 9 or so – seated in the corner, soaking up timeworn comic books: Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir, the cover reads. She looks content in her own universe, but truly, entirely alone in it. Adrien can see it in her eyes. She has no one. 

He sits himself down besides her. Starts to discuss Ladybug a little, then Chat Noir. What do ya think of his puns? he asks. The girl side eyes him for a second. Well duh, she smiles something tiny, reserved, mischievous underneath. They’re purrrr-fect. Adrien lights up. They start to carve into her interests a little more. Video games, some Chinese, and she’s always wanted to learn karate. Maybe fencing, she relents. That’s cool too. Piano? Adrien delves. She makes a face. Adrien makes one back, and they both devolve into a fit of giggles.

It confirmed Adrien’s latent feelings for Marinette.

I wouldn’t go so far as to say he was hoping Ladybug was Marinette - but he was very clearly thrilled at this outcome.

This exchange could have gone in the reverse direction:

Plagg: Ladybug is Ladybug and Marinette is - 

Adrien: Ladybug.

I think the writers deliberately had Adrien say Marinette’s name all dreamy-like and not Ladybug’s. He says it like all his dreams are coming true, like Marinette is the most perfect girl in his eyes.

This line is so important. There’s too much specificity in what he’s saying for it to just be a plausible explanation for his sudden advances. Adrien is admitting what he’s been trying to ignore: his non-platonic feelings for Marinette. He was pushing them away because they confused him and he had his heart set on Ladybug. But now his attraction to Marinette makes sense, because she’s the same girl he fell in love with. Bye-bye, denial!

There have been numerous metas on why Adrien canonically likes Marinette and is in denial about it, so I won’t get into all that evidence here.