#Endeavour research
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lonestarflight · 1 year ago
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"The Space Shuttle Endeavour, mounted securely atop one of NASA's modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, left NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California at sunrise on Friday, June 28, nine days after concluding mission STS-111 to the International Space Station with a landing at Edwards."
Date: June 28, 2002
NASA ID: EC02-0131-10, EC02-0131-9
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onesnoopyaday · 6 months ago
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I AM AT MY LIMIT
Snoopy #90
30/12/2024
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[description: a cartoon-style drawing of Snoopy's head. Snoopy is a white dog with black ears. His eyes are shut and his mouth is a horizontal line. There are two large blue teardrops, one under each eye. The text "I am at my limit" is handwritten across the top of the image.]
#peanuts#snoopy#art#90#based on that emoji face meme but i can't find the original ANYWHERE#at least not the entire image unedited. other than on like redbubble listings but i don't want to link those haha#if someone has a link to it please send it to me!! so i can link it in the post. thanks :)#also i have decided to start doing descriptions for each image (which i have been meaning to do for a while)#now that people actually follow this blog and interact with it and stuff#tbh i should've started doing them a long time ago#but the idea of retroactively going back to every post and adding a description kept putting me off... which is silly because it's only#gonna become more work the longer i leave it. so you know. just gotta start doing it#i will endeavour to add a description to all the previous snoopys of the day soon 🤞#anyway i made this because i sent a friend the original emoji image (taken from a redbubble screenshot LOL)#because we have been trying to book a place to stay for a group trip (6 people)#and like i did all the research and made a list to start us off (while letting people know they could add to the list) and sent that around#and made a poll for people to vote for their preferred place#and some people in the group have been taking FOREVER to respond with their opinions about accommodation#like to the point where all the other good places on the list have been booked up now and there is just one left#which luckily is the one with the most votes#and today i was like (about to book that one) ok well before i book i'm just checking that everyone is ok with these dates?#and some of them were like ohhh actually no. we haven't booked our flights yet so we're not sure which days exactly we'll be there#WHAT DO YOU MEAN!#in fairness i should've checked that we were all on the same page about dates beforehand#but like. the trip is literally in like 5 weeks AND during a public holiday like omfggggggg everywhere is gonna be booked out#do you know how hard it is to find accommodation for 6 people#and i don't even know the people who haven't been responding/haven't booked their flights/whatever#they're friends of a friend (who will also be coming on the trip) and i know nothing about them#i think i would be a lot less annoyed if it was just my friends because we would've just hopped on a call and sorted everything out in like#one night. otherwise we know + trust each other enough to make decisions for each other if we can't/don't want to be involved in planning
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jessieren · 5 months ago
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Given the understandable level of 'love' (ahem lust) being given to this wonderful gif by @sircolinmorgan I thought I'd explore the mouth:thumb:finger combo fidget a little further... you know, for science...
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I'm pleased to confirm that it seems it is a fairly common occurence (seemingly bts and in other shows too so more Evans than Morse perhaps?) although sadly none of these quite reach the level of hotness of that Muse thumb bite/suck/whatever it is 💀
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GIFs by @sircolinmorgan @snappyjenkins and @morsesnotes
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fanficrocks · 4 months ago
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Fic writing and research
Yeah, that sounds grandiose, doesn't it?
And yet, habits die hard. Sometimes, the fic has to sorta make sense, at least partly if not wholly. Thus begins the research into whatever it is that needs to "fit", and next thing you know, you are 5 pages into whatever rabbit hole you fell into, and nowhere near actually drafting your fic just yet.
Don't believe me? This is just half a page of my random thoughts before I got around to writing the latest fic.
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the-aleator · 1 month ago
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endeavour musings, xiv
featuring: Why the Money Plot + a Research RabbitHole about Taxes & Wages in 1970, UK 1. As of Degüello, Councillor Burkitt uses the loan that Thursday has given to his brother Charlie as a blackmail threat, that Scotland Yard wants him in connection with a long term fraud(ft 1). I'm assuming that this arc, which was set up way back in Cartouche, is going to finish out in s8/s9. It's apparently also the reason that Fred can't retire. 2. Relying as it does on Fred Thursday's tragic flaw: the greatness of his heart and his willingness to do anything for family, I want to love this sub-plot. But it requires me to suspend so much disbelief that I find it a really poor narrative choice. 3. For one: Endeavour is a show that wants to play character choices and emotional results realistically. Physical consequences? Not so much: tabula rasa every episode, baby. (Well, except for s3, as the plot demanded but I digress). That's one of its operating premises. Unfortunately, The Thursday's Savings sub-plot falls into a strange paradox: we are supposed to take both its physical and emotional consequences realistically (or at least semi-realistically), but as a setup--the more I try to wrap my mind around it, the more the cracks show through.
4. Charlie?!? In order to loan Charlie the money, we have to assume that Thursday will overlook his brother's general sliminess, as well as fall prey to his emotional and social manipulations (not telling Win, the fancy dinner, embarrassing him in front of Bright, embarrassing him in front of Morse, throwing his weight around). Okay. Is it believable that Thursday, the 30+ yr policeman would be fooled by this? Well, people make stupid choices for their family. That's certainly realistic, as is Thursday making terrible sacrificial choices to protect other people. 5. I think one of the big cracks here is that we never learn how much Charlie wants, or how much of Thursday's money that is. It's a typical RL scene which (I will go out on a limb here) will never resolve. Okay. In fact, it happens so often that I would call it a "symbolic shorthand" where we are just supposed to take as read that something resolved here based on the lead-up to this point. I digress, but the fact is, it does actually make a difference. 6. When Thursday takes the backhander from Box, he counts it. Thursday to Win, "It's not all of it. Not yet, but it will be." Based on what's on-screen, it's at most £250 (20-30 £5, 10ish £10). Apparently, Thursday's sold his soul for Wales. (Or 2 days of Overtime Pay...) 7. Thursday has a pension! This fact apparently only matters sometimes: Thursday himself mentions it in Cartouche, but the He-Can't-Retire plotline doesn't make much sense with this in play. And as a long-standing policeman of DI / DCI rank, his pension / wages would have been quite good. Based on this regulation from 1970, Thursday's annual pay would have been between £3,200 - £3,700 p.a.. He also would have been entitled to a Detective Duty allowance of up to £200 p.a. (and/or a Housing Allowance / Supplementary Duty Allowance?). He would have gotten 26 days of annual leave (which he could have had paid out to him), and would have been paid anywhere from £140 - £160 for 8-12 hours of overtime (depending on if he was an DI/DCI). And based on the amount we see him working on nights and weekends, he would have pulled in a fair amount! Based on the UK Median Gross Weekly Income in 1970, more than 75% of jobs in the UK paid less than approximately £34.5 / week, or £1794 p.a. Now, obviously, taxation in the UK during the 1970s was at a high--I'm going to link some sources here , so we can guess he probably would have paid between 30-40% of his income in tax (although many of the Duty Allowances were actually Benefits and not taxable income). But bear in mind, Win was also working as a cleaner, and as far as we can tell the Thursdays have few expenses. Thursday has a car from work, and we don't ever see them driving one, though they have a garage. They have a mortgage on their house (which I am assuming by Degeullo is paid off, "You can have the house"). We see them go out to the pub, the Legion, and dancing. Over the course of the series, their house gets painted (by Fred), they get a new sofa, a colour tv, and a vacuum cleaner. Win wants a new oven. They aren't supporting their children anymore. There is nothing extravagant about their lifestyle. 8. So on the one hand, we're supposed to think that this is a source of desperate anxiety for them for Reasons, but at least on the face of it, it doesn't make sense. There was still money for a holiday to the seaside! I do think it could have been used to explore the difficulties of a working class couple who are now quite middle class, but have a mindset of scrimping / saving. 9. But we also know that Thursday could put in his papers today (or whatever day) and HAVE A PENSION. So as a 25-35(ft 2) years on the Force, Thursday would have been fully pensioned, at somewhere between 2/3 and 15/16 of his full pay. But even that would have been more than twice the median income (ft 3). 10. WIN: "It was never about the money." But if that's the action driving the plot, then it IS about the money. But which is it? Reader, help me!
(ft 1) This threat never makes sense to me. Charlie mentions it in Icarus, and Thursday says "The cheque. Can it be traced back to me?," and obviously it's implied that it can, and by the Yard. I have two huge problems with this (1) Thursday has been the victim here which I find it hard to believe that Scotland Yard wouldn't realize -- it's a FRAUD scheme (2) How on earth would they not be able to find a policeman named Fred Thursday who used to work in London?
(ft 2) We know that Thursday was a copper when he met Win, before the war, so that puts his beginning date at at least 1938-9. His six years of war service probably means he re-entered policework in 1945, so in 1970, he could have had at least 26 years of service (I think based on the Police And Fireman War Act 1939, they would have accounted his Army years as pensionable). We know in 1949 that Thursday was a DS (Zenana @ 41:11), and already in Oxford. And by 1954 or so that he was a DI (Pylon). Pre-war, you would have needed to be at least 18 to enter the police, and based on what he says in Apollo, that he was a "boy" in 1919 when Alcock & Brown crossed the Atlantic, that he was probably born sometime between 1910-1915. So he could have entered the police as early as 1928, and as late as 1933.
(ft 3) Many people who enter a pensionable job will do so and take retirement between 45-55 and then get another job, so they will have a full pension + still be earning wages. This is very common in jobs like the AF or Police / Fire. I almost hope this is going to be a plot point, but I suspect it won't.
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the-bleeding-typewriter · 1 year ago
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currently reading the wikipedia entry for Bengal Tigers because i watched Endeavour season 3, episode 3: "Prey" and now i guess i'm going to write another canon divergence AU fic in which Morse gets mauled......again.
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divinekangaroo · 1 year ago
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I always feel like I'm missing so much in your fics! Tell me something secrete about them!
Oh I nearly missed this! Sorry!
Let me tell you about FIRE:
I was gonna write a giant essay about how I use fire/Tommy lighting a fire repetitively in my fics, quoting the multiple times, meaning of each, how they interlock with his capability, capacity, libido (life drive not just sex drive), etc...but that's probably overkill XD.
Here's the short version: I do use references to fire or the act of lighting fires (not lighting fires) very deliberately. This was motivated by, and ties into, Tommy also doing the same in the show - and I pay special attention to when he can and can't light those fires, and who he might choose to ask to light a fire. For example, in series, there are times when it's John and Arthur, or even Jeremiah (as it comes to Ruby's pyre, which I'll elaborate on because it was such a powerful scene - from what I've been able to find re European Romani funereal tradition, albeit I coudln't *specifically* find period-references to Angloromani or Irish Traveller ritual, that *should* have been Tommy lighting it. Research does have an interesting split between whether it's necessary to stay to watch a funeral pyre burn til the end (as the fam did with Polly) or whether it's actually more respectful/acceptable to walk away early (turn your back on death to face instead to life)).
Then, to add another layer to this symbolic importance of Fire, when I started researching narrowboats and what daily life was like on narrowboats pre-electricity, I also then discovered how important maintaining the stove/fire in the living quarters was. The stoves were Aga or Aga-style, and they take forever to heat up. Basically, you get them going over hours, and *keep* them going, because if they go out you have ages before you can build the heat up again to something useable. And given you could reasonably freeze to death on the water, in an uninsulated boat, in the north, in the night, in winter, the fire/stove seemed very important.
I don't know how much the Shelbys would have been in the worst case northern-style winter conditions in the midlands, but irrespective, England is cold and living on water is freezing: the idea of the kids needing to permanently tend this dangerous and all-consuming, hungry thing dwelling on the boat really appealed to me for multiple reasons - especially because there's no modulation. Either they'd be freezing in those living quarters, or they'd be walking into a hotter-than-hell situation (not possible to temperature-modulate all that well), and they'd have to consciously *keep that fire burning* in a hotter than hell situation, because the heat of hell, at least, was being alive.
So yeah, a secret: if there's a reference to fire or lighting fires in my fics, there's a weight of thinking behind it even if it seems random.
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pwurrz · 2 years ago
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oh my god honey i am so sorry for anything bad i ever said about you, you’re perfect you’re smart you’re wonderful and you deserve the world
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ace-and-ranty · 2 years ago
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Im watching a documentary on the Dinaledi Chamber (an archeological site in a very hard to access cavern) and I AM crying about humanity and our homo cousins and how love is not exclusive to humans
But ALSO the main researcher just decided he HAD to see the chamber in person, despite being not optimally fit or sized for it, and you can sort of feel the support caving team is having a Very Stressfull Time Right Now, in a "What Kind of White Nonsense Is This" type of way.
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lonestarflight · 1 year ago
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"The Space Shuttle Endeavour, accompanied by a convoy of recovery vehicles, is towed up the taxiway at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California, following its landing on June 19, 2002.
The landing, the 49th to occur at Edwards, concluded mission STS-111 to the International Space Station. It was the 18th orbital mission of Endeavour and the 110th space shuttle mission overall."
Date: June 19, 2002
NASA ID: EC02-0131-6
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jessieren · 4 days ago
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Sorry for being so absent… and for more recycled fidgets but Evans still isn’t complying with my need for new content (ok he gets a mini pass for the one photo this week but.. )
Anyway happy Friday all
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Fermentation for Fidgety Finger Friday.
Please enjoy the multiple finger fidgets, under glass, if you please.
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autolenaphilia · 2 years ago
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It's funny how clearly uninformed a lot of criticism of Mozilla and its browser Firefox is. Like people say "it's just another corporation, out to make profit, just like Google." And that ordinary users promoting Firefox are just giving them free advertising.
It's in basically any post criticizing Mozilla, including on this site. Like using tumblr search I quickly found a post that was largely positive, but argued that Mozilla operates "under capitalist incentives" And outside tumblr I found a blog post out on the interwebs that criticized Mozilla and outright wondered "I don't know if Mozilla's business model ever made sense, it makes a lot more sense if it's something closer to a nonprofit rather than a commercial entity."
Well, let's research the Mozilla Corporation, see what that business model actually is. Let's begin that research by going to the wikipedia article, and read the two introductory paragraphs. And it turns out that it's "a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation", which is a non-profit.
"The Mozilla Foundation will ultimately control the activities of the Mozilla Corporation and will retain its 100 percent ownership of the new subsidiary. Any profits made by the Mozilla Corporation will be invested back into the Mozilla project. There will be no shareholders, no stock options will be issued and no dividends will be paid. The Mozilla Corporation will not be floating on the stock market and it will be impossible for any company to take over or buy a stake in the subsidiary."
Turns out that it is not just "closer to a non-profit", it is literally a non-profit. Turns out you only needed two paragraphs on wikipedia to learn that, the most basic online research possible, which basically every post I found criticizing Mozilla failed to do.
This is entirely different from any other entity calling itself corporation, which is all about creating profit or money for its shareholders, the "capitalist incentives" spoken about earlier.
If you read further into that article, you will learn that the Mozilla corporation literally only exists separate from the foundation for tax and legal purposes, but it's still a non-profit operation.
This makes it reasonably immune from the enshittification process I've written about before. there is no incentive to fuck over the experience for end users for the sake of shareholder profits, like what tumblr is doing right now.
It means that Firefox is an exemption to the rule that "if something is free, you are the product", because there is no product to produce profits for shareholders, it's a charitable endeavour for a free and open internet, as laid out in the Mozilla manifesto.
This doesn't mean non-profits make corruption impossible, there is plenty of corruption in non-profit foundations. But unlike actual capitalist corporations, it doesn't have the greed and corruption built in. And if you are going to criticize Mozilla and Firefox, which it does sometimes deserve, you should have your basic facts straight before doing so, if you expect me to take you seriously.
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aramynx · 7 months ago
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INFATUATED SHOTO...
... who has no idea what it means when he can't keep his eyes off of you, despite having never spoken to you
... who has very little first hand experience with love, so he's incredibly curious about what drew him to you, specifically
... who courageously strolls up to you on the street mid-patrol to tell you that he'd like to take you out for a day
... who gets surprised when you start blushing and asking if he was 'pranking' you
... who reassures you that he wants to get to know you, since you made a favourable first impression on him, even from a distance
... who takes you on the most awkward, small-talk filled date you've ever been on. still, you wanted to go on a second date
... who asked all of his friends how to act on a date, and what he needed to do to make sure you'd have a good time
... who couldn't keep his eyes off you when you sat opposite him at the restaurant he had picked out (with the help of his friends)
... who thought he was going crazy when he physically couldn't pull his eyes away from you
... who asked to be your boyfriend after your third date, like he had seen in the romance movies he had been studying
... who kept track of every little thing you told him about yourself, keeping them saved in his notes app in case he were ever to forget
... who thinks you're the most incredible person he's ever met
... who loves your kindness and empathy towards others
... who moved things along relatively quickly because he was just... so in love with you that it was driving him crazy
... who initiated the idea of you moving in together only six months into your relationship
... who loves to see you in all sorts of clothes, whether you're all dressed up or in your unreasonably pyjama t-shirt- he thinks you look just perfect
... who doesn't know how to cook whatsoever, so he takes on the dishes to help you out instead because he feels the need to even things out
... who still tries to learn how to cook for you- at least the basics and easy recipes, because it's unrealistic that you'll always feel up to cooking
... who went entirely against the 'norm' and proposed to you with a gorgeously elaborate ring bought using endeavour's credit card after only six more months
... who researched how to be a good partner to you, and always goes the extra mile to make your life easier and happier
... who's scared of becoming a father one day because he has no idea how to do it well
... who catches himself staring at you over and over again as you hold your newest family member close, their little body cradled into yours with so much love that it put a stop to all of his worries
... who's now enamoured not just by you, but by the wonderful home and family that you built together <3
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gothhabiba · 9 months ago
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The Scientific Endeavour, a musical duo comprising yours truly and Divya @divyx, is launching itself into music history with its first-ever live concert, given to help Palestinian evacuee Ahmed Frenah complete his studies in Italy. Join us on Saturday, November 30th for an evening of mystery, magic, synthesisers, and plucked strings!
🩵 About Ahmed
Ahmed Frenah is an art therapist and researcher in art education who is passionate about developing new methods of psychological care for children with trauma. He evacuated from Gaza, Palestine, to Cairo, Egypt in April 2024, and now has a new chance at life with a full scholarship to a Master's degree program in Italy.
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We need your help to raise $1,250 USD. Your donation of at least $15 will get you a ticket to this momentous occasion, and ensure that Ahmed is able to:
Apply for his Italian visa
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Go to tiny.cc/ConcertForAhmed to get your ticket!
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too-antigonish · 1 year ago
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@jessieren I see how you just snuck in another one there!
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lonestarflight · 1 year ago
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Landing of STS-111
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"After traveling 5.8 million miles in space during 217 orbits, Endeavour completes mission STS-111 with a landing on concrete runway 22 at Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Three days of unfavorable weather conditions at KSC prompted the decision to land at Edwards, which enjoyed pristine, dry conditions.. Main gear touchdown occurred at 12:57:41 p.m CDT, nose gear touchdown at 12:57:53 p.m. CDT and wheel stop at 12:58:45 p.m. CDT."
Date: June 19, 2002
NASA ID: EC02-0131-1, KSC-02PP-1102, EC02-0131-2, KSC-02PP-1112, KSC-02PP-1114, EC02-0131-3, EC02-0131-4
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