TIL curtsy came directly from the word courtesy, and the way it did so, the dropping of the inner vowel, is called a syncope

RE: https://spacey.space/@mountdiscovery/116967708309707177

And a Total Solar Eclipse and stargazing under the Bortle 1 skies

2) Installing Quattro on my "E30"

https://omarchy.org
https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/pull/6231

RE: https://spacey.space/@mountdiscovery/117076075394624717

Two things I am really looking forward to this weekend

1) The season finale and the end of the #FormulaE Gen 3 car. I'll miss one of my favourite-looking single-seater race cars zipping through the city streets

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Interesting #spacegeek #trivia for the Aug 12, 2045 #TotalSolarEclipse is it will cross two major spaceports: NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida will be in totality and ESA's primary spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana will be 99.8% #eclipse. Also Black Rock Desert where the first amateur rocket launch to space happened in 2004 will be in totality. #astronomy👀 #space

The next time a total solar eclipse will coincide with the peak of the #Perseids meteor shower will be August 12, 2045. That eclipse will cross North America from Eureka, California to Jupiter, Florida then into the Caribbean and equatorial South America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_12,_2045 #eclipse #SolarEclipse2026😎 #TotalSolarEclipse⚫️️ #astronomy👀 #space #spacegeek #meteors #LowFlyingRocks

I have Catherine Webb on this list for basically all of her books, but The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August hijacked my brain the first time I read it and has held up over many re-readings. I just wish I liked the look of the ouroboros better so I could get a tattoo. #babyOurboran

After the ESA live webcast, I DVR-scanned CNN's #eclipse coverage. News anchor Brianna Keilar, who saw the 2024 eclipse in the USA, had great quotes while talking with reporters on-site in Europe...
"The problem with seeing a total solar eclipse is you want to see another one."
"I love the universe dictating where you travel to see this unbelievable sight."
Yeah, she gets it. I agree from my experience in 2017 & 2024 eclipses. #SolarEclipse2026😎 #TotalSolarEclipse⚫️ #astronomy👀 #space #spacegeek

#SolarEclipse2026😎 #TotalSolarEclipse⚫️ is over. I have to ask since this eclipse coincides with the annual August 12 peak of the #Perseids meteor shower... Did anyone see meteors during totality? It's a long shot because totality only dims to civil or nautical twilight. So only the bigger meteors would be visible. But it's possible. At 100 meteors/hour, maybe 1-2 during 2 minutes of totality. Had to ask. #astronomy 👀 #space #spacegeek #meteors #LowFlyingRocks

The European Space Agency #ESA webcast has ended now that the eclipse is over. It was fun to see a combination of telescope views at various locations and the hosts in Spain talking in rapidly-darkening outdoors, daytime without daylight for a couple minutes. And then the light returned. It leaves people speechless. #eclipse #SolarEclipse2026😎 #TotalSolarEclipse🌣 #astronomy 👀 #space #spacegeek #EclipseChaser

😍 Crescent Sun

I did share this with my (girl)friend; I guess interest in #motorsport is a huge "green flag" 😇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GovgKgin7NQ

via FIAWEC

Find someone who gets it. Life’s too short to not be at a racetrack.

Adding Mary E Lowd to the list! I’m halfway through Entanglement Bound, the first in a series, and I already love her writing. Don’t let the “aliens look like animals” thing scare you, there’s more depth to her species than that.

I particularly like that the protagonist in this book is a woman “nearing middle age” and “not particularly sexual.” She’s of a demographic wildly underrepresented in science fiction!

The European Space Agency #ESA has a live webcast of today's #SolarEclipse2026😎 #TotalSolarEclipse🌣 in Europe. For those of us who can't be there... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRDx2xDR8NA #eclipse🌞🌑 #astronomy 👀 #space #spacegeek #EclipseChaser

Read the full piece in the app: https://artemistracker.app/u/halo-moon-base-reuse-august-12?ref=mastodon

On August 4, Northrop Grumman announced three new missions to the lunar surface. Lunar Infrastructure Demo, or LID, will fly power, thermal, communications and hosted-payload hardware to the moon's south pole to prove out systems that can survive the two-week lunar night.

The 'ready-to-fly' hardware behind NASA's new Moon Base missions comes from a module that never flew

Three new lunar demo missions inherit technology from a $1.9 billion space station module that NASA's own review board gave zero percent odds of finishing on schedule, before the agency killed the contract.

I'd happily live here

Onkalo -- (The Hiding Place), the location for the world's first permanent deep geological repository for spent nuclear fuel
#nuclear #energy
https://youtu.be/NDkXOp4jV3c?si=GvXauExyERjZ5nqK

i have now reached the need for a KVM Switch in my tech journey

suffering from success ;)