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Alternate Histories: A Triptych

The USAF's Project LUNEX, early Grumman LEM concept, and Von Braun's 1952 round-the-moon ship

[lunex-the-cat]

As per my last post, startle & floof!

[wpl3]

USAF Lunex lunar lander

[crypto195]

SEI Surges 50% On 30-DA. THETA Gains Not Enough To Hold Investors Interests As Whales Pour Funds Into Lunex Network

Sei Surges 50% as Whales Shift From THETA to Lunex Network Over the last week, Sei (SEI) surged by 50% on its 30-day average, while Theta Network (THETA) struggled to maintain investor interest. Meanwhile, crypto whales are now turning to Lunex Network (LNEX) for its efficient, slippage-free trading platform. With over $450,000 deposits since its presale began, $LNEX is poised to grow by over 100x before its official launch. Sei's (SEI) Innovation Drives Ecosystem Growth As of September 28th, Sei (SEI) was priced at $0.2883. Over the last 30 days, it surged by 50% to reach $0.4882. However, Sei currently stands at $0.4368, reflecting a 5.66% drop in the past 24 hours. Despite the recent dip, Sei continues to attract attention with its innovative Parallel Stack, which supports the creation of Rollups and Layer-2 solutions to boost performance. According to experts, Sei is on track to hit $0.50 by Q1 2025, thanks to the increasing developer support.

To Know More- Sei token surge

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Luxembourg Top University IQ Test #quiz #iqtest #quizzes #shortsfeed #fr...

[queenofsquids]

FINISHED!!!!

This sweater took the longest of any crochet project so far I think. Certainly felt that way.

The "pink" yarn is actually a lavender that almost glows. But under most lights, paired with these other colors, it comes off as pinker and really works to hold everything together. I suspect because it's actually lavender and thus both coolish and warmish at the same time, it is doing hard lifting bringing the red and teal both together.

Huge thank you to @lunex-reblogs who helped a ton at the very beginning with color selection!

I think possibly I should have used a smaller hook for the ribbing esp around the neckline cause this looks a bit clumsy. But TOO LATE NOW hahaha I am NOT going back 😵‍💫

AND! I finally got a Nono head! But I can't photograph her for beans! I think it's the eyes and positioning at the moment. I was short on options and these are soft eyes I can't seem to point in the same direction. I'll try again another time but I was out of ideas today.

Also unfortunately I don't have a body for her so she's stolen Dikadoll Dobbie's Zaoll body for now and that aggression will not stand man. Dobbie is one of my very faves 😅 She needs her body back!

I kind of hoped I could put Dobbie on an Imomodoll vinyl, but they don't look quite right stylistically (plus an awful color match).

[not-magdi]

Media Intern - Pt.1

Summary: Getting accepted at her dream job at FC Barcelona and starting a new journey that can lead her god nows where.

Warnings: None

Words: 1.3

Part 2

Deciding to study Sports Management, Y/N stood before the decision on which University she should study. Not having a single idea where she wanted to go she just sent applications to the five most attractive looking universities. These being the Universidad de Barcelona, the LUNEX University in Luxembourg, and three more in France and Austria, and England. 

After getting cancellations from three out of the five Universities she had to decide between Barcelona and England. After thinking for a long time she decided that she wanted to study in Barcelona, preferring the hot Spanish weather over the rainy English one. 

This leads her to now, after finding an apartment near campus and packing all her things to move to Spain she now is in the middle of her second semester. 

Starting to search for a roommate shortly into the first semester, after realizing that Barcelona is freaking expensive and paying for everything alone is impossible. Surprisingly just one hour after posting her offer online someone answered. 

Carmen Sanchez, 19 years old studying International Marketing. After meeting up and clicking immediately they ended up as roommates. 

Y/N was happy she was now not as alone anymore, having someone there when you come home has something comforting while living so far away from your home country. 

Now in the middle of her second semester, Y/N's desk was full of piles of books and folders, needing to study for various exams and projects she has to hand in, in the next few weeks. 

Finishing her last course of the day Y/N is about to head home as her professor stops her, "Y/N... wait a second, please." Turning around Y/N comes to a halt turning around to see her professor going up to her with a smile on his face. 

"Hello, Professor what can I do for you?" asking him as he stops in front of her fishing a little folder out of his bag. 

"Oh, nothing ... I just got this job offer from FC Barcelona, my cousin works there and sent me this. They are searching for an intern in their social media department. She sent it to me asking if one of my students would maybe be interested, and I thought of you." 

Handing her the folder she opens it, seeing the details of the offer. She once told him that she searches for a job as affording school supplies is really expensive and her savings are slowly coming to an end. 

"Thank you professor ... I will definitely look into it. " Y/N told him and put the folder into her bag trying not to freak out. 

"Please do that ... I think something like this would really fit you and benefit your studies. That's all, I just wanted to give you the folder. Hope you have a nice evening ... bye Y/N" waving him goodbye, Y/N continued her way home, the offer from Barcelona the only thing on her mind.

Football has always been a passion of Y/N, starting to watch it with her dad every Sunday and loving it just as much as him. 

Y/N always admired the reporters who got to travel around the world and getting to comment on the sport they love. Wanting to be just like them, Y/N worked her ass off to be able to study Sports Management and now getting this offer, Y/N was over the moon. 

Opening the front door she searched for Carmen to tell her the news, "Carmen where are you ... you can never guess what Professor Cruz just gave me !" Running into their living room she spots Carmen on the couch with her laptop on her lap. 

"What did he give you?", looking up from her laptop she chuckles at Y/N's excited behavior.

Jumping beside Carmen on the couch she pulls the folder out of her bag showing it to her. "Look ... it's a job offer from THE FUCKING FC BARCELONA!" Y/N tells Carmen squealing the last part.

"OMG really ... that's so cool. Please tell me you already sent something to them." 

Y/N looks at her, "No ... he gave me that thing thirty minutes ago, should I have done it while walking home?" Raising an eyebrow at Carmen she continues. "I wanted to do it now but I have no clue what I should write them, I think 'Hey I'm Y/N, I love football I have no clue what I should do at your club, and would really like the job' won't bring me in" 

"See this is why you have me ... you didnt even read the folder because if you would have read it, you would have seen that they gave you an exact list of what they want to know about you" 

Giving her the paper, Carmen closes the project she has been working on her laptop and opens an empty Word document. 

"They want my Instagram name too?" looking surprised Y/N looks at Carmen, "Why would they want that?" 

"They want to see what you post and if you could damage the image of the Club ... we had that last week in one of my courses. That's something many companies now do, most of the time big and famous companies, like FC Barcelona. These days something like that is mandatory." Carmen tells her. 

"Wow, that's kind of scary" speaks Y/N as she turns the page around.

"Yeah it kind of is ... but now let's go to work, let's start with your CV" Carmen takes the folder and looks at what the first thing on the list is. "They want to know what my work experience is ..."

It took them solid three hours and five Red Bulls but they're done. Before them now lays a complete CV with as many details as they could put into it, a Photo of Y/N, and a recommendation from Professor Cruz, ready to be sent. 

"You ready?" Carmen looks at Y/N, who holds her trembling finger over the sent button. 

"Y-yes ... I think so?", taking a deep breath she presses the send button and closes her eyes. 

Your application was successfully sent. 

"Omg ... I can't believe I just did that ... I think I need a beer", chuckling Carmen looks at her and adds, "Please bring me one too ... they have no choice but to accept you with that bomb CV we just wrote." 

Laughing Y/N stands up and goes to the kitchen to grab them a beer, they sat on the couch cuddled together watching TV until they both fell asleep. 

Y/N hasn't heard anything from them for several days, she slowly started to think she didn't get the job, so she tried to ignore it as best as possible, distracting herself with coursework and projects.

Currently walking home after having to do the shopping today Y/N felt her phone vibrate in her pocket. Pulling it out her mouth fell open, they replied they really replied! Wanting to open it together with Carmen she started to walk home as fast as she could but was too impatient in the end. Opening the Email in the hallway of her apartment building. 

Dear Y/N Y/L/N,

We are happy to inform you that we choose you as our new Intern at th-

She got it, she really got the job!

Y/N read the mail over and over again, she started to believe it after the about sixteenth time. Running to her apartment as fast as she could, only tripping once she kicked the door open and shouting at Carmen. 

"I got the job! Carmen, they said yes ... I'm going to work at THE FC BARCELONA!"

[lonestarflight]

Concept Art of the Aerojet M-1 rocket motor, the largest designed and partially tested.

"The M-1 traces its history to US Air Force studies from the late 1950s for its launch needs in the 1960s. By 1961 these had evolved into the Space Launcher System design. The SLS consisted of a series of four rocket designs, all built around a series of solid-fuel boosters and liquid-hydrogen-powered upper stages.

The smallest model, intended to launch the Dyna-Soar, used two 100-inch (2,500 mm) solids and an "A" liquid core. To power the "A" booster, Aerojet was contracted to convert an LR-87, used in the Titan II missile, to run on liquid hydrogen. A prototype was successfully tested between 1958 and 1960. Initial studies of the 100-inch (2,500 mm) solid were also handed to Aerojet, starting in 1959.

The SLS also envisioned a number of much larger designs intended to launch the Air Force's Lunex Project crewed lunar landing. Lunex was a direct landing mission, in which a single very large spacecraft would fly to the Moon, land, and return. In order to launch such a design to low Earth orbit (LEO), a very large booster with a 125,000 lb (57,000 kg) payload would be required. These larger SLS designs followed the same basic outline as the smaller Dynasoar booster, but used much more powerful 180-inch (4,600 mm) solids and the "B" and "C" liquid stages. To provide the required power, the liquid stages mounted a cluster of twelve J-2s. To reduce this complexity, the Air Force also had Aerojet start studies of a much larger hydrogen-fueled design that would replace the twelve J-2s with only two engines. These initial studies would eventually emerge as the M-1, with a thrust of 1.2 million pounds force.

When NASA formed in 1958, they also started planning for a lunar landing. Like the Air Force, their Project Apollo initially favoured a direct ascent profile, requiring a large booster to launch the spacecraft into LEO. Prior to NASA taking over Wernher von Braun's Saturn work for the US Army, they had no large rocket designs of their own, and started a study program known as Nova to study a range of options. Initially, the payload requirements were fairly limited, and the favoured Nova designs used a first stage with four F-1 engines and a payload of about 50,000 lb (23,000 kg). These designs were presented to President Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 27, 1959.

However, the Apollo spacecraft requirements quickly grew, settling on a 10,000 lb (4,500 kg) spacecraft (the CSM) with a three-person crew. To launch such a craft to the Moon required a massive 125,000 lb (57,000 kg) payload to LEO. Nova designs of this capability were quickly presented with up to eight F-1 engines, along with much more powerful upper stages that demanded the M-1 engine. Thus, for a brief period, the M-1 was used on the baseline designs for both NASA's and the Air Force's lunar programs.

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced the goal of landing a person on the Moon before the decade was out. After a brief argument, NASA won the mission over the Air Force. However, Nova would require massive manufacturing capability that did not currently exist, and it was not clear that booster construction could be started in time for a landing before 1970. By 1962 they had decided to use von Braun's Saturn V design, which went through a process of re-design to produce a usable booster that could be built in the existing facilities at Michoud, Louisiana.

Uprating thrust, then cancellation

With the selection of Saturn for the lunar missions, work on Nova turned to the post-Apollo era. The designs were re-targeted for crewed planetary expeditions, namely a crewed landing on Mars. Even utilizing a lightweight mission profile like that selected for Apollo, a Mars mission required a truly massive payload of about one million pounds to low Earth orbit. This led to a second series of design studies, also known as Nova, although they were essentially unrelated to the earlier designs.

Many of the new designs used the M-1 as their second-stage engine, although demanding much higher payloads. In order to meet these goals, the M-1 project was uprated from 1.2 million pounds force to a nominal 1.5 million pounds force, and the designers deliberately added more turbopump capability to allow it to expand to at least 1.8 million and potentially up to 2.0 million pounds force. Additionally, the M-1 was even considered for a number of first-stage designs, in place of the F-1 or the 180-inch (4,600 mm) solids. For this role the specific impulse was dramatically reduced, and it appears that some consideration was given to various expanding nozzle designs to address this.

M-1 development continued through this period, although as the Apollo program expanded, NASA started cutting funding to the M-1 project in order to complete Saturn-related developments first. In 1965, another NASA project studied advanced versions of the Saturn, replacing the cluster of five J-2s on the S-II second stage with one M-1, five J-2Ts (an improved version of the J-2 with an aerospike nozzle), or a high-pressure engine known as the HG-3, which would later become the direct predecessor of the Space Shuttle's SSME.

By 1966 it was clear that present funding levels for NASA would not be maintained in the post-Apollo era. The Nova design studies ended that year, and the M-1 along with it. The last M-1 contract expired on August 24, 1965, although testing continued on existing funds until August 1966. Studies on the J-2T ended at the same time. Although the HG-3 was never built, its design formed the basis for the Space Shuttle Main Engine.

The final report (1966) found:

The feasibility of all major M-1 Engine components, except for the cooled chamber and the gas-cooled skirt, was demonstrated.

Performance data were obtained and the mechanical integrity was established for the injector, the fuel turbopump, the oxidizer turbopump, and the gas generator assembly. Also, it was established that these components are satisfactory for use in a demonstration engine.

Prototypes

Over the three-year lifetime of the project, a total of eight combustion chambers were built (two of them uncooled test units), eleven gas generators, four oxygen pumps, as well as four hydrogen pumps that were in the process of being completed.

Scaled down models of the pumps were used during design/development to 1963."

-Information from Wikipedia: link

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Left Alone 11: Silencers 3

Big weekend update, so I split it up!

Tropes/content warnings/ spoilers: M for mature themes overall. vampire whumpee/caretaker, male whumpee/caretaker, non-binary whumpee/caretaker, general morbidity, and in this chapter, mind control and death by noncon vampire bite, two male victims, one described in a way I would describe as subtextually sexual.

There will be a lot of play with, and discussion of, the concept of consent in this series, as it applies to many topics. There will be angst. Vampire biting can be painful, platonic, or NSFW and I'm not sure what direction that will take as the story goes on.

If you would like to be added to, or removed from, the tag list of this series, please let me know!

Part 10: Silencers 2

“Kitchen clear. I’ve got static from Mads,” Liam whispered into his radio as he stood by the kitchen door. “Mads is down,” said Michael’s voice, taut even through the distortion. “Say again?” “Madison is dead. Augury confirms her soul has departed. Cause unknown. Sit tight and keep that door secure, we’ll come in that way.”

“Target?” “Alive. Below and on your three. There’s probably a basement.” “Understood.” He put his back to the wall by the door, the L2 Lunex rifle trained on the doorway to the little hallway off the vestibule. This was no longer a two in, two on backup mission. Somehow Arden Telep, medicated to suppress his abilities, a complete civilian with no training in the Gifts, had killed a Silencer operative. That meant either their information was incorrect, or someone else was here. He might have doubted Chase’s expertise with the words of augury, but Michael had never scried and been off. They couldn’t check for a second target without a name, which meant –

He never saw where the man came from. His finger had only begun to reflexively tighten on the trigger at a movement when a hand closed over the barrel and pushed it to one side, and now he was looking into a pair of green eyes under shaggy pale eyebrows and the world suddenly felt soft. Liam felt as if he were falling into cotton as smothering warmth piled up around his brain. A taloned hand carefully reached for the radio on his shoulder and switched it off, cutting off Michael's urgent query in his ear. There was blood on the man’s breath as he spoke.

"Put your weapons on the floor," said a voice. It was the most beautiful voice he had ever heard, the voice of a father he'd never known, the voice of something more and better than human. On some level he knew he shouldn't obey, but his hands were already briskly at laying down his gun, flicking out his sword and bamboo and laying them out as if for inspection.

Afterward he stood up, and a hand lifted his chin so that he looked into the eyes again. Everything made sense. Everything was fine. Somehow that relaxed, fulfilled feeling coexisted with the awareness that the mission was fucked because their intelligence had been bad. No one had expected a vampire.

“What is your name?”

 “I’m Daniel Schwartzman, face-name currently Liam.”

"How many others are here?" The vampire asked.

"Madison is dead. Michael and Chase are coming in." He answered without the slightest ability to refrain.

" Why are you here?"

"To kill Arden Telep and retrieve a Level 4 constructed artifact, the Eye of Rule."

"If you do not return, how long until someone else comes?"

"Maybe two hours to scramble a team with a pact," Aidan said. “The nearest Exalted is Painmother Nguyen in Bremerton.”

"You’ve done very well, Liam. You’re going to feel no pain. It will all be very nice, and then you will go to sleep."

It was a feeling like being drowned in pillows, soft and nice and inevitable, and then the man took him into his arms and Liam helped him get the helmet off and unfasten his collar. Why wouldn’t he? It seemed like the polite thing to do. A distant part of him knew he was about to die, but no part of him really cared. There was a little tickle at his throat, and then a warm swell of peaceful well-being, and then he felt heavy and he leaned into the arms of the stranger and slept.

Daniel Schwartzman had not quite given all he had to give, little spurts of blood still rewarding Tolly’s questing tongue, and he was very distracted by this, which is why he was shot several times from the kitchen doorway by the first man through. Tolly stumbled backward, arm fruitlessly raised against the rain of agony and noise – even silenced weapons were loud this close - and then he grabbed the dying man and threw him into the others. The room wasn’t big enough to easily avoid it. One man was knocked back into the doorframe as the other ducked and rolled, and Tolly snatched at that one as he started to come up and then he broke the man’s neck with an audible SNAP. More bullets tore through the wall and ceiling where Tolly had just been, but he was paying attention now and they were well behind his trajectory as he kicked off the other counter and rammed his knee into the survivor’s shoulder. The man stumbled, and then Tolly grabbed him by the front of his vest and looked him in the eyes.

It was over very quickly after that. Tolly dropped the body on top of the others, staring down at the ruin of his tee shirt as his flesh pushed flattened bullets out. A couple had gone through him entirely, but with the blood of three people to burn he could have healed much more severe injuries than he presently had to. He lapped away the bite marks just in case. Then it was a matter of under a minute to run all the bodies back out to their vehicle and stuff them inside so Arden wouldn’t have to see them. There was blood on the kitchen floor, but all of it was his own, very red and bright because it was what he had taken from Daniel and Madison.

He ran to the basement door, tapped on it politely, and then opened it.

“Arden, it’s safe for the moment, but we have a problem.”

Part 12: Drive

@fleur-a-whump, @bitchaknso, @valravnthefrenchie, @thewhumpcaretaker

[theluigiguy]

Happy LunarLux release week!

I made some art to celebrate!

Every good Lunex Warrior knows to take a break with your sidekick (and cheesecake bars) after a tough battle!

I drew some art of LunarLux's main characters! So happy this game is out, it's a really fun space adventure, check it out here 😊

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USAF Project Lunex lunar lander

[lunex-the-cat]

~✨Dress Up Time✨~

These are all real outfits I own :D

[theluigiguy-vids]

LunarLux stream soon!

Stream announcement for October 11, 2023!

It's LunarLuxin' time again today!

We've got some time to kill, so let's be responsible Lunex Warriors and help out the people of Luna. New cities to explore, new people to meet!

Starts ~ 10 PM Eastern / 7 PM Pacific / 3 AM BST on my Twitch channel! 🦆 twitch.tv/theluigiguy

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@lunex-the-cat @novae-viking

[cryptocurrencyideas]

Cardano Whales Ditch ADA for New Exchange Token That Is Forecasted To Hit $0.10 in Q1 of 2025 - Brave New Coin

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There has been a growing anticipation in the Toncoin (TON) community largely because of the forthcoming airdrop program which is scheduled to take place soon. While this event could potentially result in a price surge for the native TON token, marke #Blockchain #Crypto