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“I always remember having this fight with a random dude who claimed that ‘straight white men’ were the only true innovators. His prime example for this was the computer… the computer… THE COMPUTER!!! THE COM-PU-TER!!!
Alan Turing - Gay man and ‘father of computing’ Wren operating Bombe - The code cracking computers of the 2nd world war were entirely run by women Katherine Johnson - African American NASA mathematician and ‘Human computer’ Ada Lovelace - arguably the 1st computer programmer”
- Sacha Coward
Also Margaret Hamilton - NASA computer scientist who put the first man on the moon - an as-yet-unmatched feet of software engineering, here pictured beside the full source of that computer programme. #myhero
Grace Hopper - the woman that coined the term “bug”
- @robinlayfield
i can’t wait for THIS etymology lesson with the aliens
In 1977 NASA compiled 116 images to represent Earth and put them on a gold record and put it on the Voyager space probe and due to it not being aimed at anything this record will probably outlast Humanity. Unless we catch up to it one day its unlikely this record will never be viewed in the next thousand if not million years. And yet you can't look at all of these images on NASA's website because of copyright. Yup this isn't an existential post anymore it's anti-copyright. It's been 60 years, time to let these pictures enter the public domain.
NASA released the clearest pictures yet of our neighbours in the solar system
Oh and of course us
Honourable mention
Beaver supermoon.
(November 15, 2024)
The moon dressed as Saturn.
Ohio Total Solar Eclipse
Star trail. Old French fairy tales. c.1920. Spot illustration.
Internet Archive
Futurama, Godfellas
"Now, when I'm found in a million years, people will know what the score was." - Bender
The plaque affixed to the side of the sides of the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 spacecrafts in 1972 & 1973. The Pioneer spacecrafts were the first anythings of human origin to be destined to leave our solar system. Both probes did a lot of research within our solar system before skedaddling off into infinity.
Northern lights photographed from space
Devils Horns sunrise during a partial eclipse (2019) photog. Elias Chasiotis, location: Al Wakrah, Qatar
Here’s something to think about as you kick off 2025: We are all stardust. Every atom of oxygen in our lungs, of carbon in our muscles, of calcium in our bones, of iron in our blood—was created inside a star before Earth was born. Hydrogen and helium, the lightest elements, were produced in the Big Bang. Almost all of the other, heavier, elements were produced inside stars. Stars forge heavy elements by fusion in their cores. In a star of intermediate mass, these elements can mix into the star’s atmosphere and be spread into space through stellar winds.
Image: NASA Hubble Space Telescope, CC BY 2.0, flickr
