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Mucking about with the new Lightwave 2026 snow system. I don't have a real use for it yet, but it is fun!

There doesn't seem to be much attention on the project. Which surprises me me given how innovative it is. I guess too many people get all their space news from NASA alone!

ohhh I didn't know about this .... will chat with SARAO folks about it!

Some more positive radio astronomy news! I had no idea that a radio telescope array for the far side of the Moon had reached the stage of China launching test hardware designed in Africa! www.leonarddavid.com/africas-moon... @rami.spaceaustralia.com

The rotating view of the YZ-775

I'm in this, which means you HAVE to buy it. It's the law.

Nope, not the new kid on the block! "Dark they were, and golden eyed" in Soho!

Yuri Gagarin in an airplane before a parachute jump. 1961. Russian State Astronomical Documentation Department. Archive No. 1-11126

I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Well, this is extremely disappointing. Solidarity with our astronomer friends in the UK on heating this news.

See also "robots with human toes for no good reason"! They may find fingers handy to pick things up, but toes?

Yes. I also opted not to do the 'weird round thing where ears should be' that is all too prevalent.

I'm still experimenting with VDB's. In this case I bought some from Daz, (link below), to see what I could do with them in Lightwave 2026. I couldn't make sense of the colour textures in the originals, but I'm happy with how these came out. www.daz3d.com/vdb-nebulae-...

Very good! I’ve not seen that kind of cutaway elbow design before, looks very practical.

Pretty happy with this robot I made in #Blender. Here's a rigged version with a walk cycle added. #sciart #scifi

Energia Buran in the style of a minifig set #lego #space #rocket #spacecraft #spaceship #buran

I'm absolutely serious you have a great eye, beyond technical stuff. It's a fragile thing, as shown by the way that enlarging lost that.

Probably, but there's a subtlety in Stuart's work on this I doubt I could recreate...

No apology needed, keep up the good work!

Absolute scandal that The Forever War hasn't been adapted into a film. I asked a few years back and was told it was "in development" and had been for years - which means it's lost in Development Hell. Read the book, in the meantime.