#the rocket to the moon

[aokuro-san]

Another Thea von Harbou book to love. Or at least I already love it 💘.

If I tell you the truth, I can't find the words.

"The Rocket to the Moon or Woman in the Moon or The girl in the Moon" has been everything she expected and a little more. I have marked and underlined so many things in the e-book document that I would be afraid to actually have the physical version (just kidding, haha, I know how to control myself very well if I want! Also, it is such an out-of-print story that I am grateful for having almost gotten it casually).

I have enjoyed this trip to the Moon so much that I would repeat it a thousand times. Not only because Thea has improved the beautiful, but imperfect narrative structure that I saw in "Metropolis", but because she knows how to give the right, exact amounts of what she wants to offer us, keeping us trapped in a adventure simple, but, in the end, perfect in each and every one of its areas. Science fiction based on the rumors and hypotheses of the time? A cup! A love triangle, much more complex than it seems at first glance, and that influences the plot until a moving finale? Three more cups, my friend! Cosmic horror? Yes Yes Yes! Don't miss out, especially with the terrifying Walt Turner! And how about a dash of gore? Surprising, but let's move

and on to the equally amazing secrets hidden in the lunar mountains!

Guess all that glitters isn't gold, huh, Manfeld?

Anyway, I loved it, people. I already had expectations for his previous novel and the synopsis, but von Harbou has achieved - again - EVERYTHING YOU CAN ACHIEVE IN A READER WITH A GOOD STORY.

I think I'm going to have to classify her as one of my favorite authors, because it's clear that she never disappoints me.

5/5.

[trainwreckrenegade]

[darealsaltysam]

some of my favorite lines of dialogue i've overheard in marvel rivals so far

(keep in mind these are all paraphrased im going off of memory cuz i never have the reflex to screenshot these as they happen oops)

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"I never had kids, but I did have the Avengers. Same thing." - Iron Man spawning in

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"One for me, one for Steven, one for Jake." - Moon Knight after getting a triple kill

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"Can you teach me some of your magic-?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"I think you've had enough chaos already." - Loki & Scarlet Witch interaction

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"You have made your father proud, Wanda, my dear." - Magneto when assisting a Scarlet Witch with a kill

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"No one breaks a bargain with me twice."

"So I can do it once?" - Hela & Loki interaction

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"When I said "No More Mutants" you were who I meant, Logan." - Scarlet Witch after killing a Wolverine

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"How did you learn magic?"

"A place called Kamar-Taj."

"Oh so you weren't bitten by, like, a radioactive sorcerer?"

"[Extremely exasperated] Peter, please..." - Doctor Strange & Spiderman interaction

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"Leave real magic to the grown-ups, Ilyana." - Scarlet Witch killing a Magik

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"Nerd win!" - Bruce Banner if he gets a kill in his non-Hulk form

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"Are you fast enough to stop a bullet, if I shot you?"

"Well, you won't be able to. I already dismantled the inner-mechanisms of all of your guns."

"Wh- What?!"

"Now if you behave yourself I might fix them." - Punisher & Magneto interaction

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"So you can talk to rodents?"

"Tippy-Toe seems to think so!"

"Can you try and convince Rocket to clean his bunk?"

"There are some things even I can't do, I'm afraid." - Star-Lord and Squirrel Girl interaction

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"We sense great darkness and chaos within you, woman."

"You're one to talk, Venom."

"No, we... Find it strangely... Attractive."

"...Somehow, that made me want to save this universe less." - Venom & Scarlet Witch interaction

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"It's good to be fighting side by side again, like in the old days."

"Back when you used children as soldiers for your cause?"

"When you put it like that, you make me sound like a terrible father."

"For once, we agree on something." - Magneto & Scarlet Witch interaction

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"[in the sassiest tone you can imagine] Your GOD is SUFFERING!!!" - Loki taking damage

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[i also dont remember the exact dialogue but there IS one with rocket asking to buy bucky's arm. so yes we won there]

[youruncletony]

A little bit of everything

[illyanarasputinfan]

Jon D’Ortona

[cioror]

peter was never seen alive again after this

[thespacewirednews]

Olympus 

⛰ Mars is home to the biggest mountain in the solar system. Olympus Mons is is the size of Arizona, and its peak reaches as high as three Mount Everests stacked on top of each other.

[nasa]

ALT: This video shows blades of grass moving in the wind on a beautiful day at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. In the background, we see the 212-foot-core stage for the powerful SLS (Space Launch System) rocket used for Artemis I. The camera ascends, revealing the core stage next to a shimmering body of water as technicians lead it towards NASA’s Pegasus barge. Credit: NASA

The SLS (Space Launch System) Core Stage by Numbers

Technicians with NASA and SLS core stage lead contractor Boeing, along with RS-25 engines lead contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Technologies company, are nearing a major milestone for the Artemis II mission. The SLS (Space Launch System) rocket’s core stage for Artemis II is fully assembled and will soon be shipped via barge from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Once there, it will be prepped for stacking and launch activities.

Get to know the core stage – by the numbers.

Standing 212 feet tall and measuring 27.6 feet in diameter, the SLS core stage is the largest rocket stage NASA has ever built. Due to its size, the hardware must be shipped aboard NASA’s Pegasus barge.

900 miles

Once loaded, the barge – which was updated to accommodate the giant core stage -- will travel 900 miles to Florida across inland and ocean waterways. Once at Kennedy, teams with our Exploration Ground Systems team will complete checkouts for the core stage prior to stacking preparations.

18 Miles + 500 Sensors

As impressive as the core stage is on the outside, it’s also incredible on the inside. The “brains” of the rocket consist of three flight computers and special avionics systems that tell the rocket what to do. This is linked to 18 miles of cabling and more than 500 sensors and systems to help feed fuel and steer the four RS-25 engines.

8.8 million

Speaking of engines… Our SLS Moon rocket generates approximately 8.8 million pounds of thrust at launch. Two million pounds come from the four powerful RS-25 engines at the base of the core stage, while each of the two solid rocket boosters produces a maximum thrust of 3.6 million pounds. Together, the engines and boosters will help launch a crew of four Artemis astronauts inside NASA’s Orion spacecraft beyond Earth orbit to venture around the Moon.

733,000 Gallons

Achieving the powerful thrust required at launch calls for a large amount of fuel - 733,000 gallons, to be precise. The stage has two huge propellant tanks that hold the super-cooled liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen that make the rocket “go.” A new liquid hydrogen storage sphere has recently been built at Kennedy, which can store 1.25 million gallons of liquid hydrogen.

Four

The number four doesn’t just apply to the RS-25 engines. It’s also the number of astronauts who will fly inside our Orion spacecraft atop our SLS rocket for the first crewed Artemis mission. When NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, and Victor Glover along with CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen launch, they will be the first astronauts returning to the Moon in more than 50 years.

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[jadeazora]

Sent to me by @poke-maniac! Thanks so much for the heads up!

Yo, this sounds so much cooler than just the basic boss rush we actually got, a full-on conflict involving a wider area of Alola, Skull vs. Rocket, plus RR Giovanni (who apparently wasn't the true Giovanni) successfully taking down the player, and Blue and Red joining the fight too! And the original Giovanni apparently wanted to make Silver proud and fix that burned bridge with him.

One of my biggest complaints with RR was the cool concept, but the utter waste of potential it was that the bosses just hang out in their rooms and we hardly get any proper interactions between them, that they're just confined to the Aether Paradise. Ultra was always one of those games where it felt like it needed more time to cook than it actually got imo--it released literally less than a year after SM came out--, and I wish GF got the time to be more ambitious like how this sounded.

[cloudysfluffs]

he is such a little shit /affectionate

nsfw/kink blogs please dni!

[without-ado]

Falcon 9 over the Moon l John Kraus

[alexriesart]

The Kickstarter for my book 'Other Worlds' has passed 570 followers! Thank you. As a result we have announced our first round of stretch goals!

Check them out and support it here :)

Some freelance illustration featured in the book; two 'hoppers', one for moving between sites on Luna, the other Mars.

I snuck in a linear aerospike...

[bootlegatari]

I really need to stop reading Transformers fanfic in-between my matches..

[frozeeeeen]

Another dumb comic bc I find myself funny (of course I still have many left in my dumb comic bag)

[consucookie1050]

I haven’t finished usum but this is what I think team rainbow rocket is like. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong

[ranchdressing3]

this is one of the funniest moments in the entire series