Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)

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"the bones weaken and are prone to fracture. Effectively, if people want future settlements in space to succeed, there are going to have to be some longer term solutions to living in reduced gravity, and this will be critical for women’s partici- pation. Venus of Willendorf has to become an astronaut."
Parodies and Characters During this Wild West game, the main characters take on classic cowboy roles and alter-egos: The Riviera Kid (Dave Lister): A cool, deadly gunslinger. Brett Riverbolt / Knife Man (Cat): A knife-throwing expert. Sheriff (Kryten): An alcoholic sheriff who sobers up to fight. Bear Strangler McGee (Arnold Rimmer): A tough, bearded saloon fighter.
The grey, gently rounded surface of asteroid Ryugu with black sky. One round silver marker, one cylindrical hopping rover, one hopping rover shown mid air and a surface probe with an octagonal cross-section are shown. Image credit JAXA with additions by author.
5.10 Protocols for human biological remains The six Apollo missions left behind an estimated 96 bags containing human waste, as well as urine collection devices. The legal status of the astronaut waste is not clear. Lopez (2020) argues that it does not satisfy the definition of a ‘space object’. While NASA as the launching state owns the bags, it may not own the biological materials within. These substances have scientific value for what they may reveal about the impacts of radiation on DNA, the human microbiome, particularly from the gut, and the survival of microfauna in extreme planetary environments. However, they also have a high sensitivity as they relate to living people or their descendants. In recent years sensibilities about genetic material and human remains have been a matter of much debate, particularly in relation to violations of the autonomy and dignity of Indigenous people and other groups such as criminals (Alpasian-Roodenberg et al 2021, Kowal 2013, McQueen 1998). The analysis of the waste materials risks revealing personal and medical information about the astronauts which they may wish to keep private. In the case of DNA, contemporary methods such as the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) can replicate the DNA and produce large quantities for distribution and further analysis. Should this be done without the consent of the person to whom the DNA or biological material belongs? Who has rights to the genetic material? 36 Most contemporary institutions have ethics approval processes for conducting research on human subjects, including archaeological human remains. It will be critical to ensure that any study of Apollo astronaut waste complies with currently accepted standards for such research.
Barbara Cartland. Unless she’s going to have a baby in space, I can’t see the point of sending a woman. After all, having a baby is the only thing a woman can do that a man can’t. This seems like a Russian gimmick to capture attention.
Scaffolding in front of the John F. Kennedy Centre for the performing arts as workers prepare to remove the letters. Donald J. Trump a line of workers from the ground to the top level of the scaffolding is handing up racks. Each walk away is a hardhat and a yellow high viz vest. Image credit: US News.
Bubble chamber photograph of FERMILAB experiment E632. Black lines showing the curled paths of subatomic particles in a liquid.
Bubbles of different sizes rising through a liquid. Background is a faint golden colour.
Modern rainprints in dried mud from Lehigh Portland Cement Quarry, Leeds, Alabama, collected by W. Edward Osborne (Geological Survey of Alabama). The scale is in centimeters. The largest print, showing a spattered rim, is too large to be the impression of a normal raindrop and may be the result of drip or hail. It is overlapped by the rainprints from subsequent raindrops. Some rainprints overlap one another as well. Source: Gas-escape structures and their paleoenvironmental significance at the Steven C. Minkin Paleozoic Footprint Site (Early Pennsylvanian, Alabama) January 2005 In book: Pennsylvanian footprints in the Black Warrior Basin of Alabama (Alabama Paleontological Society Monograph 1) (pp.177-183)Chapter: Gas-escape structures and their paleoenvironmental significance at the Steven C. Minkin Paleozoic Footprint Site (Early Pennsylvanian, Alabama) Publisher: Alabama Paleontological SocietyEditors: Ronald J. Buta, Andrew K. Rindsberg, David C. Kopaska-Merkel
Very bad AI image of the Voyager spacecraft, with the proportions and technology all wrong.
A picture of Mars with the words 'Dr Space Junk says billionaires out!' written across it.
Black and white line drawing of rain prints, formed July 21, 1849, at Kentville, Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia. An arrow shows the direction of the rain shower. From Charles Lyell, The Principles of Geology, 9th edition, 1853
Raindrops fossilised on a surface from the Triassic period, 251 million years ago to 199.6 mya, at Great Notch in New Jersey, USA. Credit: Breck P. Kent
The surface of the Moon in dark grey, showing craters of many sizes including old, worn ones and newer, sharper ones. Upper left corner of image in darkness.
Image of the total eclipse of the Moon while Artemis II was going around it. Completely black with a barely visible whisp of light.
Image shows author dashboard from news site The Conversation. Overview all articles. 67 articles with 2,704,704 reads.
Black-and-white image taken under a scanning electron microscope of the lacy silicon skeletons of radiolaria fossils from the late Jurassic to early Cretaceous period. The fossils come from a deposit in Iran.
When telemetry showed that New Horizons had successfully completed its flyby, many in the mission control room waved American flags. Nationalism and national prestige are still among the main drivers of today’s space industry, despite the growth of private and crowd-funded space enterprises. As I watched the flag-waving, I thought that, for some people at least, the passage of a piece of space hardware has been the equivalent of planting a flag – as it was on the Moon – to stamp the outer solar system as part of an American colonial landscape. And indeed, one of the ‘cultural artefacts’ on board the spacecraft was also a US flag, in stark contrast to the universal symbols on the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft.
Pages from Space Journal by Dallas Campbell. Photo of Alice Gorman looking at a model of the Sputnik 1 satellite, reading a Soviet magazine with Yuri Gagarin on the cover.
I call this package of beliefs about space the ‘Space Race Model’, by which I mean a theoretical structure used to inter- pret the history of space exploration. Because it’s presented as a natural inclination, the ‘urge to explore’ conceals the other motives for space exploration, such as military advan- tage, national prestige and access to resources. For something meant to be a universal characteristic, the urge is very une- venly distributed. The division of nation-states into ‘space- faring’ and ‘non-spacefaring’ surely belies the idea that space exploration is a universal human endeavour arising from a deep evolutionary past. If human ancestors experienced the urge to explore, then contemporary Indigenous people, for example, are not assumed to have inherited it; they, and other groups, are meant to be the recipients of space benefits rather than the suppliers. I don’t think you would ever hear
Let's go! to the Moon today The Moon is awesome. There are lots of bees. That's why, if you listen carefully, you can hear the Moon buzzing at night. The End. Animation and story by Dr Space Junk 2025 All rights reserved.
Artillery weapons firing in a battle of the Napoleonic war with Russia in the 1800s.
Korolev: Jura, how are you? Receiving. Gagarin: As I was taught. Everything's fine, everything's all right. Can you hear me alright? Receiving. Korolev: There is lunch, dinner and breakfast in the tube. Korolev: Sausage, dragees and jam for tea. Korolev: 63 pieces, you'll become fat. Gagarin: Ho-ho. Korolev: You'll arrive today and eat it all at once. Gagarin: No, the main thing is the sausage, goes with the brew.
Weird Green ground cover growing over round stones at the Albury Airport
A pikelet half-eaten with jam on it, sitting on a ceramic coaster with a picture of a parrot on it, next to a coffee mug decorated with lavender.
Interior of Orion capsule showing the four astronauts underneath a US flag, a Canadian flag, and an America 250 flag.
Colour, then, is less uncommon on the Moon than we might think; but our insistence on correlating colour and life may be at least partially a result of prioritizing human senses such as vision, evolved for terrestrial circumstances. Maybe our eyes don’t suit the Moon. Other Earth animals, with fewer cones for colour perception and more rods for light perception, live in a visual world that is no less rich than ours. On the other hand, human eyes are not even the pinnacle of colour perception. The mantis shrimp is known for having the most complex eyes and sophisticated vision in the world of the eyed, with sixteen photoreceptors as opposed to the human three, and the ability to see polarized and ultraviolet light (Cronin et al. 2022). We can only guess at the shades that different eyes might distinguish in the shadowed realms of the lunar surface. And we haven’t even started on the acoustic landscape.
Gold badge in the shape of Texas, with the logo of a letter H wearing cowboy boots and hat in black, and the words '2025 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo' in black
Screen shot of the lunar observation software the astronauts will use.
Pictures of a 'squat' space toilet and toilet room with rounded corners for easy cleaning. Quote from Zachary Taylor 2020 paper A Study in Space Bathroom Design: using the bathroom in space should be '‘less of a dreaded necessity and more of an integral and regenerative ritual of living in space’.
Two online articles - from 2009, headline is "Cosmonauts banned from using astronauts' space station toilet" and from 2020, "A broken toilet and faulty oxygen supply ruined the night on the International Space Station"
Astronaut Sam Cristoforetti stands in the toilet in the International Space Station, holding the yellow suction cup. Picture on right shows the new NASA space toilet, costing 23 million dollars, that was installed in 2020.
Skylab space toilet on the right, a Chinese one on the left.
Left: Space toilet from the Mir space station. Left: space toilet from the US space shuttle..
Instructions on how to use the 2001: A Space Odyssey toilet: ZERO GRAVITY TOILET PASSENGERS ARE ADVISED TO READ INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE USE The toilet is of the standard zero-gravity type. Depending on requirements, System A and/or System B can be used, details of which are clearly marked in the toilet compartment. When operating System A, depress lever and a plastic dalkron eliminator will be dispensed through the slot immediately underneath. When you have fastened the adhesive lip, attach connection marked by the large "X" outlet hose. Twist the silver coloured ring one inch below the connection point until you feel it lock. The toilet is now ready for use. The Sonovac cleanser is activated by the small switch on the lip. When securing, twist the ring back to its initial-condition, so that the two orange line meet. Disconnect. Place the dalkron eliminator in the vacuum receptacle to the rear. Activate by pressing the blue button. The controls for System B are located on the opposite wall. The red release switch places the uroliminator into position; it can be adjusted manually up or down by pressing the blue manual release button. The opening is self adjusting. To secure after use, press the green button which simultaneously activates the evaporator and returns the uroliminator to its storage position. You may leave the lavatory if the green exit light is on over the door. If the red light is illuminated, one of the lavatory facilities is not properly secured. Press the "Stewardess" call button on the right of the door. She will secure all facilities from her controll panel outside. When gren exit light goes on you may open the door and leave. Please close the door behind you. To use the Sonoshower, first undress and place all your clothes in the clothes rack. Put on the velcro slippers located in the cabinet immediately below. Enter the shower. On the control panel to your upper right upon entering you will see a "Shower seal" button. Press to activate. A green light…
Slide text: a quote from ‘The concept of the ‘bathroom’ in space habitats has typically been applied with only the most fundamental human requirements in mind, resulting in unpleasant, uninspiring, or even brutal areas to perform tasks intrinsic to our physiological health and overall mortality”. (Taylor 2020) Zachary Taylor A Study of Space Bathroom Design Image : a submarine toilet
Powerpoint slide titled: The smallest room in the house. Dot points: Social Symbolic Functional Different gravity Privacy, intimacy? Image: Man in terrible trousers demonstrating the Apollo Fecal Containment Device - a plastic bag to poop in. Slide logo: The International Space Station Archaeological Project
NASA live feed showing the Orion spacecraft with the crescent Earth in the right hand corner.
Two online articles - images - about the politics of toilets on the International Space Station.
Picture of six tarts iced half in chocolate and half in pink icing.
Six Neenish tarts in silver baking pans, round, half icing pink and half iced in chocolate.
And Anechoic chamber with the Intelsat IV satellite which is about two stories high, a metal cylinder with two big dish antennas on it. Two women in 1970s dress are standing next to it. The chamber walls are huge rubber pointy cones.
Kim Kashkashian Article Talk Read Edit View history Tools From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Not to be confused with Kim Kardashian. Kim Kashkashian Background information Born August 31, 1952 (age 73) Detroit, Michigan, US Genres Classical music Occupations Musician, educator Instrument Viola Kim Kashkashian (born August 31, 1952) is an American violist. She has spent her career in the U.S. and Europe and collaborated with many major contemporary composers. In 2013 she won a Grammy Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo. She is recognized as one of the world's top violists.
Map of Wisconsin showing the location of numerous ballet schools and ballet companies
Picture of Earth as if seen from the Moon, with the oceans dried up.
Picture of Earth as if seen from the Moon, showing the megacontinent Panaea before continental drift separated the continents
Picture of Earth as if seen from the Moon, with a peace symbol over it
Picture of Earth as if seen from the Moon, showing a nuclear detonation.
Picture of Earth as if seen from the Moon, with a cutaway showing Earth's core.
Picture of Earth as if seen from the Moon, no space junk.
Picture of Earth as if seen from the Moon, with the Milky Way in the background
A chart titled Which man in space are you? Choices: hostile, indifferent, well-meaning, informed and active.
A green cactus
Picture of the Ulverston rocket in the rocket park. Ulverston is in Tasmania. The rocket has four stages made out of metal bars three red fins and is painted yellow and black.
First page of an academic book chapter 6 The Disturbing Function Do I dare Disturb the universe? T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
Elizabeth (Jennifer Ehle) and Mr Darcey (Colin Firth) from the 1995 BBC series of Pride and Prejudice, standing together in a garden.
Cover of The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book. Yellow background with a cubist sketch inside a box.
A beer gareb with big umbrellas shading the tables, green chairs, large trees and blue skies
Cover of Spaceship Earth by Barbara Ward. Mustard background with stylized yellow sun in a black circle.