04-13-2026, 01:42 AM
Ergh, taxes. Got 'em done here, too. Is Canada Tax Deadline Day the same as U.S. Tax Deadline Day, 15 April?
So... when is The Big Burn that you weren't going to do ever again but that you're going to do? You should do a "night burn" and take pictures!
The Artemis splashdown was amazing. I guess I hadn't really thought about it in depth before, but the mathematics are insane. Somehow they can calculate how much fuel to burn at what angle relative to the Earth, the moon, the velocity, factoring in movement thru space and rotation of the Earth, and at 25 hours in to the 9 day mission, that final fuel burn determines where and when the capsule will splash down in the ocean eight days later a quarter of a million miles away. And they were precise to the second.
That's some serious math, right there.
So... when is The Big Burn that you weren't going to do ever again but that you're going to do? You should do a "night burn" and take pictures!
The Artemis splashdown was amazing. I guess I hadn't really thought about it in depth before, but the mathematics are insane. Somehow they can calculate how much fuel to burn at what angle relative to the Earth, the moon, the velocity, factoring in movement thru space and rotation of the Earth, and at 25 hours in to the 9 day mission, that final fuel burn determines where and when the capsule will splash down in the ocean eight days later a quarter of a million miles away. And they were precise to the second.
That's some serious math, right there.
They're not dolls, they're action figures!