Space Coast Talon

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Born to love đŸȘ, forced to live on 🌎. Professor of physics, knitter of things, drawer of earnest pictures, planetary astronomer. Goal: Spiral back into control. My opinions are my own, and not my employer's.

A photograph of the southside Beloit water tower. In the foreground, there is a black metal railing and a red garbage receptacle, in the midfield is a parking lot with cars and a small tree. In the distance, trees and the Beloit post office. A gray haze of wildfire smoke makes more distant objects appear fainter and bluer.
A black-and-white drawing of a 19th century woman riding a bicycle, kicking her legs up, smoking a cigarette, by the incomparable Kate Beaton.
A close-up of the board game Pandemic, showing translucent red and black cubes plastic cubes that represent the spread of viruses on a stylized world map where color-coded cities such as Chennai, Ho Chi Minh City, and Taipei are linked by yellow lines.
How do you get clearance to move in toward the helicopter? Wait in front of the cockpit until you get the pilots' attention. Don't bother to shout because they can't hear you. If they're looking down at something inside the cockpit, wait until they look up. You won't have to wait long. They'll either wave you in or give you the universal thumbs-up signal. Pilots like to use thumbs-up because it looks cool. Never, never, never approach a helicopter from the rear (Fig. 4-10). Tail rotors spin fast, are hard to see, are often low to the ground, and will kill you in
Gray clouds with strange wavy streaks. At the lower edge of the image are a telephone pole, the roof of a house, and trees just budding in spring.
The Artemis II mission patch a black triangle with the bottom corners truncated. Most of the patch is a stylized view of the Earth as seen from behind the moon with a red swoosh representing the spacecraft orbit forming the cross bar of a capital A, with two slanted bars for the roman numeral 2. The astronaut's names, Wiseman, Glvoer, Koch, and Hansen are stitched along the left side.
A screenshot from nasa.gov with a 429 error: "Too Many Requests"
Keegan Michael Key as the Substitute Teacher. A black man with a mustache in a short-sleeved white shirt and a tan tie scrutinizes a clipboard. Notes from a biology class are written on the chalkboard behind him. The Comedy Central logo appears on a pink bar to the left.
Keegan Michael Key as the Substitute Teacher. A black man with a mustache in a short-sleeved white shirt and a tan tie scrutinizes a clipboard. Notes from a biology class are written on the chalkboard behind him. The Comedy Central logo appears on a pink bar to the left.
The "Fluke Man," a white-skinned humanoid monster with a sucker mouth, with an expression of surprise and delight. Surrounding his head in a halo are sinusioudal traces invoking both sound waves and the DNA double helix. He is encircled by a laurel wreath, and a ribbon at an angle bears the phrase "Celebratory Fluke Noises" in cursive. A black and white digital drawing with a black background.
A black cat sits on a cluttered table.
A black & white photo of MLKJr and other protestors on the left. On the right in white text on a black background: “We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
A painting: a chipmunk in a blue cloak perched on a shelf fungus holds a curled fern frond in one hand and reaches upward toward the glowing body of a butterfly with eye-like shapes on its rings.
A hard bound copy of Sun Moon Eatth, by Tyler Nordgren on a shelf of a Barnes & Noble in Waterloo, IA with a shelf tag that reads: “For science nerds and eclipse chasers, this gorgeously illustrated book about all things eclipses is a great starting point for exploring something new, or a stellar addition to anyone already engaged.”
A grayish rock with a coating of fine-grained quartz on a light-colored wooden tabletop. It looks like a frosted shredded wheat crossed with a poop, if we are being honest.
A yellowish limestone with hexagonal holes each surrounded by radial stations. Probably a Paleozoic tabulate (communal) coral fossil.
Astronaut/Senator Mark Kelly in the cockpit of the space shuttle Discovery in orbit during STS-124. He is wearing a light blue polo shirt and khakis. He is floating above the pilot’s seat surrounded by the controls and cockpit instruments.
A black cat looks upward toward a bathroom mirror, and her reflection also looks upward.
Two black cats are curled up napping in tight little balls. They are not touching but their heads are close. One curls clockwise, the other curls widdershins. One is on an orange blanket, one is on a white comforter.
A sepia-toned solar chronograph with coronal holes in the shape of a sweet (or creepy, depends who you ask) smiley face.
Val Kilmer, Jon Gries, and Gabriel Jarret as Chris Knight, Lazlo Hoylfeld, and Mitch Taylor in Real Genius. Chris and Mitch are wearing blue jumpsuits, and Lazlo is in a gray check jacket (or bathrobe?)
A loose sketch of a mouse who is standing on their back legs, done in bright colors and black.
A mouse leaps downward, stretching toward a broken branch.
A patch on blue jeans with sashiko white thread embroidery.
A spoiler-free screenshot of a game of Gem Getter Pro with a final score of 115.
A small demonic creature stands upright. it has two sets of bat wings and big eyes, two straight horns, hairy batlike ears, a round belly, and skinny arms and legs. In the background there is a lit candle made of dark wax.
A bald eagle perches in a leafless tree above the Rock River near the Beloit Dam and the White St bridge.
A colorful pen-and-ink drawing of a Cape May Warbler (bird) and the hand of the person holding it.
A black and white image of the surface of Mars from the Viking mission. There are a few small craters. If your brain interprets the craters as convex “buttons”, it looks like there are many ridges; if the craters look like craters the “ridges” are revealed as cracks.
Looking straight down at a stump that is covered by fungus growing in concentric, ruffled shapes
 maybe turkey tail mushrooms? There is a plant with broad blade like leaves at the upper right of the frame.
Geraint Wyn Davies, a white man with short blond hair wearing a dark coat and a white button-down shirt looks to the viewer’s right. A few other people are out of focus in the background. A still from the 90s television series “Forever Knight.”
A screenshot of the game SkyCards showing a map of Jamaica and the surrounding ocean , with no air traffic except for the NOAA Lockheed Martin P3-Orion. The aircraft is pictured at the top of the screen with its NOAA livery.
In South Carolina Sean-Michael Johnson was charged with kidnapping and impersonating an ICE agent after detaining a group of Latino men. Leon Howell told a 51-year-old hispanic woman in Brooklyn he was an ICE agent and directed her to a nearby stairwell where he punched her, tried to rape her and stole her chain, cell phone and purse. In North Carolina, Carl Bennett Jr. impersonated an ICE agent and threatened to deport a woman if she did not have sex with him. If the people apprehending you don't tell you who they are, won't tell you why you're being arrested, and their only uniform is a mask, how are you supposed to know the difference between a criminal and a law-officer?
A dilute orange tabby is curled up under an orange blanket with a white paisley pattern.