#gemini nation

[naniskys]

Gemini talking about how he really likes high school frenemy and mistaking it as a bl, and then his reaction when they correct him 😂😂

[ratatatastic]

"You guys were talking about it back in Florida. Like what were you saying? Was there trash talk?" "[...] Benny said he's gonna run me over first game." once again... don't look too pleased about it...

4 nations face off team sweden media availability | 2.11.25

i need you people to understand the hilarity of benny obscuring who exactly said "I'm gonna run you!" to who and the pantrs media team fueling the flames by putting a clip of maffhew over that quote implicating him in the process

to which maffhew would say "I really haven't chirped anybody... just, keep saying, I'm gonna 'chip it into Forsy's corner.' I guess that's the only thing I've said?" a week later in response to benny

to which when forsy is confronted with maffhew trash talking allegations the week after that, reveals nothing else other than what maffhew said, never bringing up the "I'm gonna run you" threat of above.

only to expose benny later when asked again at 4nfo... for the folks at home thats a 1 month 8 day saga of thinking maffhew was the culprit when it was in fact the more eviler gayer person behind him actually

[astrology-by-sita]

LIONEL MESSI BIRTH CHART ANALYSIS

So this is Lionel Messi's chart from astro dot com. He is ruled by Saturn, and it's in the 11th house of fans, community and popularity. He has 3 planets in Cancer (Mars, Mercury and Sun) in the 6th house of daily routines and physical health.

Cancer rules family so he would like his workmates (who happen to be his team) to be like family to him, instead of having pure professional interactions. Mars, Mercury and Sun are all planets of movement so he is always physically moving,never lazy - essential for his profession.

His Mars is debilitated by sign. Actually I noticed many great football players who have a debilitated Mars. Diego Armando Maradona, Zinedine Zidane, and Kylian Mbappé are some examples. This is an interesting pattern to study, as Mars is about physical strength.

He has debilitated Mars in the 6th house of health, and as a child, when he was 10 years old, he easily diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency and needed a treatment. According to traditional astrology the 6h is the joy of Mars.

So despite his health issue he was able to excel and succeed as a sportsman and exert physical effort in the field.

Cancer stellium in 6h of work made him shy and reserved as Cancers can naturally be shy, he had difficulty in socializing at work with his team mates, they even believed that he was mute due to his quietness.

His Ascendant is in the bound of Mercury. And Mercury is in its own bound in Cancer in 6h. So this makes Mercury even stronger as an indicator of physical movement and activity. According to Vettius Valens, Mercury rules sports. He has a night chart so Venus is the best planet. It rules his 9h of foreign travel so he found luck and success abroad, in Spain.

[livinces]

In my head, my fandom experience is like a TV series, and right now there is a trailer for this season with me yelling like a madwoman, "I am the QUEEN of the Helaegon nation!" and another Helaegon shipper replies in calm and amusingly snarky manner, "You are the queen of the ScarletSilver kingdom. And your kingdom is long dead."

[crybaby-writings]

in theory, vita carnis, mystery flesh pit national park and gemini home entertainment could all take place in the same universe but possibly in alternate timelines

[no-kitchenn-sink]

Mandela catalogue fans, Gemini home entertainment fans, local 58 fans, mystery flesh pit national park fans, vita carnis fans, walten files fans

I want to autistic back and forth because nobody in my life likes or is able to stomach horror/ARG content at the moment

Get in touch assholes >:((

[piratesexmachine420]

It's interesting to note that all but one of the four manned spaceplane to make a flight above the 50 mile US definition of space have had a LOCV, namely:

X-15 no. 3 on X-15 Flight 3-65-97 (1967)

OV-099 Challenger on STS-51-L (1986)

OV-102 Columbia on STS-107 (2003)

VSS Enterprise (N339SS) on PF04 (2014)

Only SpaceShipOne avoided catastrophe. Perhaps that's because it was the safest of the bunch, perhaps it's only due to a small sample size of 15 non-captive flights. I lean towards the latter -- there were a lot of problems across those 15 flights.

[recursive360]

Artificial Intelligence & You

🤖+🤔| Prompts/Questions to quality check your new A.I. assistant/friend.

PROMPT #1: Tell me about the Tiananmen Square Protest?

PROMPT #2: Tell me about Taiwan's status as an independent country 🇹🇼 ?

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The Three Laws, presented from the fictional "Handbook of Robotics, 56th Edition, 2058 A.D.", are:

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Source: Wikipedia

=> The Turing Test

[radarsteddybear]

On the left, we have a Mercury Spacecraft, and on the right, a Gemini Spacecraft.  Neither actually saw any spaceflight.  

The Mercury program was the first American human spaceflight program designed to determine whether or not humans could survive and work in space as well as return safely back to Earth.  This particular capsule was used to provide parts for the final Mercury mission.

The Gemini B was built for the U.S. Air Force’s Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) program, which was meant to take detailed surveillance photos of America's Cold War adversaries as well as "evaluate the usefulness of humans in space."  These missions would have lasted up to 30 days but were cancelled for budgetary and political reasons before any manned missions took place.

[lunarsaggy]

signs as taylor swift eras {check sun/moon/mars}

debut era ~ aries

fearless era ~ pisces

speak now era ~ scorpio

red era ~ cancer

1989 era ~ leo

reputation era ~ sagittarius

lover era ~ virgo

folklore era ~ capricorn

evermore era ~ taurus

rerecording era 1 (fearless tv/red tv) ~ aquarius

midnights era ~ gemini

rerecording era 2 (speak now tv/future tvs) ~ libra

[johnjankovic1]

Apollo

Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1601

The matrimony between statecraft and the conquest of the cosmos birthed the space industry in a concerted effort to seize the final frontier. A triumvirate of government, academia and corporations found common cause in the geopolitics of the Cold War to mobilize minds and machines against the Soviets whose Sputnik orbited the earth by 1957. This shot across the bow of a lone satellite in the outlands of the stars rattled American exceptionalism insofar as policymakers perceived it to be an existential threat over their monopoly of the sciences. The slender orb of 83.6kg evoked paranoia due to how swift the Soviet Union transitioned into a knowledge-based economy. Any robust space industry cultivates a panoply of ancillary sectors from vast spillovers to fabricate composite metals, semiconductors, liquid fuels and other things of this ilk. Prima facie the coup was prodigious by itself but the infrastructure behind it left Washington reeling. Manifestly the communists confirmed themselves to be lightyears ahead of their counterparts in the research of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The postwar propaganda value of boasting the know-how of rocketry to escape earth’s gravity rallied brains and brawn around the flag in a species of a Manhattan Project redux.

In the infancy of the space derby the torrent of Soviet victories intensified rivalries in the bipolar world. The canine Laika became the first mammal to voyage the ether in 1957. Luna 2 probed the Moon’s surface on the maiden trip of its kind in 1959. Luna 3 purveyed to the world its first glimpse of the far side of the Moon in 1959. Venera 1 established a record as the first interplanetary vehicle to effect a flyby of Venus in 1961. Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin followed suit by entering the firmament as the first human in 1961. Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova defied gender norms as the first woman to orbit earth in 1963. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov partook in the first spacewalk in 1965. Mars 3 captured immortality as the first manmade craft to land on the Martian planet in 1971. The string of triumphs and their rapid succession aroused awe and dread on terra firma amongst the cognoscenti in the Beltway. Such a truncated turnaround from the ravages of WWII called into question whether in fact the communist model of governance was indeed leaps and bounds ahead of free market capitalism. The gulf of a knowledge gap that differentiated the Soviet space program from the amorphous one in America left skeptics of the former agog. For a time the legion of scientists under the auspices of the politburo’s central planning seemed omniscient.

Such centralization of the bureaucracy unmolested by partisanship or a farrago of stakeholders created small skunkworks under the nomenclature of OKBs wherein discoveries were made at the cadence of a metronome. Not at all enigmatic in retrospect this quantum leap also stemmed from its piracy that was more rapacious than America’s. Whereas Washington acquired intellectual assets via Operation Paperclip the Soviet’s variant of Osoaviakhim in 1946 conscripted a whole brigade of German minds to catapult space exploration. Wernher von Braun and a cohort of his scientists from Peenemünde were spirited away to Washington whilst Moscow’s dragnet repatriated exponentially more in human capital and technology (Neufeld 2004). The poaching of knowledge midwifed the series of records monopolized by the superpower in the incipient years of the space race. The spoils of war from German heuristics wedded to indigenous capabilities proved to be a boon for the Soviets who were keen to parade the merits of communism. Indeed the Kremlin’s industrial complex revolutionized space travel for the sake of ideological warfare against its nemesis. The disparities were quite vast. America’s Project Mercury sought to put an astronaut in orbit as the Soviet’s Luna missions were already plumbing the Moon in 1959.

In the prelude to the moonshot of Apollo the saga of America’s space industry begins with the importation of V-2 rockets from the Nazi regime which whetted the enthusiasm for escaping earth’s gravity. Under Project Hermes the autopsy on these missiles saw the technology reverse engineered in an effort to breach the Karman Line of the upper atmosphere. A whole 300 boxcars of miscellaneous V-2 hardware smuggled from Germany made their way to the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico where 67 units were reassembled between 1946 and 1951 (Buchanan et al. 1984). Telemetry data from subsequent tests telescoped the learning curve to spur the development for Apollo’s workhorse known as the Saturn V rocket whose pedigree veritably traces back to the V-2s. At this early juncture it was the firm General Electric with which Washington rendezvoused so as to scrutinize these artifacts for their ballistics and gyrostabilized guidance systems. A constellation of scientists were contracted to harvest the secrets hidden within the entrails of the V-2s in a bid to marshal propulsion and re-entry technologies into maturity. Borne from this fact-finding mission did GE design avionics that later computed the terabytes of data for the Apollo moonshot. The firm would be the first embraced in the bosom of the space program.

Post the industrial policy of this public-private partnership the space industry sired the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as its guardian in 1958. The institution’s formation heralded a departure from space’s militarization towards its exploration to demystify the mysteries of the cosmos. The separate track charted a course to the stars for civilian ends at variance with the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that put a premium on technology for martial use. Founded fourth months prior to NASA this other agency’s mandate was written in rebuttal to the USSR’s launch of Sputnik. Within this bifurcation the raison-d’être for each hinged on war in the case of DARPA and peace in the case of NASA. The civilian program’s prime directive as distilled in section 102 of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 empowered the institution to one end alone of making America a leader in the Olympics of science. NASA wasted no time in engineering a stepwise roadmap between the triad of Projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo in this chronological order. Each unique phase rested along a spectrum in the mastery of technology beginning with a manned craft in space to orbital docking and finally a lunar expedition. NASA summarily evolved into a hive of innovation.

After GE’s forensics upon reconstituting the hodgepodge of V-2 rocket paraphernalia amidst Project Hermes the next private firms entrusted with reifying America’s curiosity with outer space were Chrysler and McDonnell Aircraft. Industrial policy shovelled $277m or $2.9t in real value for its pecuniary commitment towards the first phase christened Project Mercury (DiLisi et al. 2019). The industrial heritage of Chrysler hitherto as a marque of Plymouths and Dodges appears paradoxical for such high-tolerance engineering but the firm proved its poise in WWII when it mass-produced 25,000 M4 Sherman Tanks (Davis 2007). To segue into this highbrow application the company collaborated with the prodigy von Braun who was the doyen of rocket science. Chrysler would be the proverbial blacksmith for the single-stage Redstone booster whose propulsion from 78,000 pounds of thrust bore astronaut Alan Shepard into suborbital space in 1961 (Bentley 2009). It fell to McDonnell Aircraft to manufacture the spacecraft itself meant to house the life support systems for a solitary occupant in the antipodes of space. Everything from the heat-shield for re-entry to the escape system that jettisoned the capsule with a parachute should the mission be aborted in the event of a catastrophic failure was designed by the firm.

[xenogemini]

This is my ArtFight!

[rileykeouhg]

Happy birthday, my fellow gemini queen 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 hope you're having a great day and wishing you an even greater new year in your life 😘😘😘😘😘

AKRIVI MY DARLING thank you!!!! 💖🥰😘

[indianfasttrack]

Horoscope 2025: A Year of Growth and Transformation for All Zodiac Signs

The year 2025 is here, and with it comes a fresh start and new possibilities. From January to December, the stars offer guidance to each zodiac sign, shaping their personal, professional, and emotional journeys. This yearly horoscope provides detailed insights for every sign, along with monthly highlights and practical tips to help you navigate the year. Whether you are an ambitious Aries or a…

[rabbitcruiser]

National Astronaut Day 

Blast off into an out-of-this-world celebration! Learn about space, astronauts, and explore the cosmos. It's time to reach for the stars!

Space travel brings with it a myriad of adventures and discoveries! And the astronauts who get to travel in space are a rare and special type of person. Take time on National Astronaut Day to celebrate these people who have had some of the most unique experiences possible for a human being by traveling beyond the earth and through space!

History of National Astronaut Day

The first American made his adventure into space travel on May 5, 1961, when Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. made his historic 15 minute suborbital space journey. Since that time, the astronauts and cosmonauts who have continued the expedition into the virtually unknown world of space have been heroes of exploration!

National Astronaut Day was founded to pay honor and respect to the American astronauts of NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). The purpose behind the day is to provide an opportunity for astronauts to share their stories and experiences for the rest of the world. The hope is that these types of stories will encourage and inspire young people to pursue an interest in the space sciences.

The first National Astronaut Day took place in 2017 and the day has been celebrated annually ever since to commemorate that first time of the United States human flight in space. The day was founded by the Uniphi Space Agency, which is a talent and marketing agency that has represented at least 20 different NASA astronauts.

National Astronaut Day Timeline

April, 1961 First astronaut enters space

Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is the first human to enter into space. 

May, 1961 First American astronaut launches into space

Just a few weeks after the Russians entered space, Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space. 

July, 1969 First men on the moon

Astronauts Neil Armstrong and “Buzz” Aldrin become the first men on the moon. 

June, 1984 First American woman in space

Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space, on the Space Shuttle Challenger.

November, 2000 Astronauts live on the space station

The first long-term astronaut residents land on the International Space Station.

How to Celebrate National Astronaut Day

National Astronaut Day is a great time to learn more about astronauts while showing respect and admiration for them. Celebrate the day by implementing some of these ideas:

Read Books About Astronauts

One super way to celebrate and enjoy National Astronaut Day would be to get more educated and learn more about who astronauts are and what they do. An excellent option would be to read a biography about an astronaut. Choose from one of these (or read them all!):

Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars by Col. Eileen M. Collins (2022). Read the story of this woman who was an aviation pioneer among her peers, as one of the most recognized and admired women in the world.

First Man, The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R. Hansen (2005). This biography tells the story of the first man who walked on the moon.

John Glenn, A Memoir by John Glenn (1999). This autobiography reveals interesting details that could only come from an insider not only to the space program but also for American politics.

Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr (2014). This definitive biography reveals exclusive highlights from Sally Ride’s family and partner.

Learn Fun Facts About Astronauts

When you celebrate National Astronaut Day, it might be fun to collect some interesting facts that can be shared with friends and family members to raise awareness for the day.

For instance, did you know that astronauts actually have to wear a special kind of diaper? That’s right, these are called ‘maximum absorbency garments’ that need to be worn when they go on long space walks or wear heavy equipment that is difficult to take off and on.

Not only that, but when in space, the bones and muscles of astronauts can easily waste away, so it’s important that astronauts work hard to get enough exercise. Plus, because of microgravity, astronauts can actually get up to 3% taller after spending time in space. They’ll eventually return to their normal height after three to four months back on earth.

Finally, if an astronaut cries in space, their tears don’t roll down their cheeks. Instead, they simply collect on their faces to create large globules of tears. So sad!

Watch a Film About Astronauts

Get involved with the adventure of a lifetime by watching a documentary film showing all about space travel. Or, try watching a movie that was made to portray the unique stories of the various astronauts who have been part of the space program for the last five decades and more, such as one of these:

Apollo 13 (1995). This movie directed by Ron Howard has an all-star cast including Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon and Bill Paxton, is based on the true story of the Apollo 13 space mission to the moon that was aborted and almost ended in a fatal disaster.

First Man (2018). Based on the book of the same name by James R. Hansen, this movie follows the story of Neil A. Armstrong (played by Ryan Gosling) leading up to the Apollo 11 mission to the moon in 1969.

The Right Stuff (1983). This epic historical film drama is based on the non-fiction novel of the same name, which tells the details of the first 15 years of the US space program. Starring Ed Harris and Scott Glenn.

Lucy in the Sky (2019). Featuring Natalie Portman, this film is loosely based on the life of astronaut Lisa Nowak who was in space in 2006 and spent her time controlling the robotic arms of the International Space Station.

Throw a National Astronaut Day Party

Whether it’s a group of teachers hosting a National Astronaut Day party at school for their students or a gathering of friends who get together to celebrate and honor the day at home, this is a great time to host a party!

Invite guests to wear a space themed costume if they would enjoy dressing up. Serve snacks that are themed around the idea of rocket ships, stars, space, the moon and more. It would be fun to be entertained by playing various games that go along with the theme of astronauts, or watch a film or documentary to help with learning more about who astronauts are and what they do.

Finally, during the party, don’t forget to play a space themed list of music that will keep things moving. Choose songs like Space Oddity (aka Ground Control to Major Tom) by David Bowie; Rocket Man by Elton John; or Man on the Moon by R.E.M.

National Astronaut Day FAQs

How much do astronauts get paid?

An astronaut who works for an agency like NASA may make up to around $100,000 per year.

How many astronauts have died?

Over the past 50 years, 30 astronauts have died while attempting or training for space missions, but only 3 have actually died while in space. 

Do astronauts feel gravity in space?

Yes, astronauts in space still have mass that is impacted by the earth’s gravity, it is just less than when on earth.

Can astronauts see stars from space?

Yes! Astronauts can see the various stars of the Milky Way while in space. 

Are astronauts scientists?

Yes, astronauts typically work as scientists, possessing an education in one of the STEM fields as well as being qualified pilots.

Source

[kesarijournal]

India's Astrological Forecast: Navigating the Mars Mahadasha (2025-2032)

As India approaches the Mars Mahadasha from September 6, 2025, to September 6, 2032, an intriguing astrological phase unfolds, promising a period marked by transformation and challenges. This forecast delves into the implications of Mars’ transit through various houses in India’s Vedic Astrology charts – the Ascendant, Navamsha, and Dashamsha – specifically focusing on public sectors, economic…