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Where are we now?wawn
2026-02-26

2026-02-26 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-02-19)

WHERE IS HERA?
- Barycentric speed: 15.98 km/s (+0.14 km/s)
- Rendezvous with Didymos: November 2026

🪨 Relative to Didymos
- Distance (km): 10,358,845.68 km (-573,656.19 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.07 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 0 min 34.55 s (-1.91 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 327,013,961.52 km (-15,618,282.16 km)
- Distance (AU): 2.19 (-0.10)
- Light travel time: 18 min 10.83 s (-52.10 s)

2026-02-25

Hera is canonically open source now.

This makes her SO much cooler than she actually is IRL 🤣🤣

-Allēna

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#Hera #opensource #responsevideo #roast

Achilles

Also known as Ahilleus or Akhilleus.

In Greek mythology, Achilles was a hero of the Trojan War who was known as being the greatest of all the Greek warriors.

He’s the main character in Homer’s Iliad. He was the son of the Nereid named Thetis & King Peleus of Phthia (& famous Argonaut). He had a few nicknames: “Swift-footed,” “Breaker of men,” “Aristos Achaion” (Best of the Greeks).

Achilles was raised in Phthia along with his childhood companion Patroclus & received his education from the centaur, Chiron. In the Iliad, he was presented as a member of the mythical tribe of the Myrmidons. The Myrmidons are/were an ancient Thessalian tribe.

Achilles’ most notable feat during the Trojan War was the unaliving of the Trojan prince Hector outside the gates of Troy. Achilles’ death isn’t shown in the Iliad. Other sources concur that he was unalived near the end of the Trojan War by Paris, who shot him with an arrow.

Later legends (beginning with Statius’ unfinished epic Achilleid, written in the 1st century CE) state that Achilles was invulnerable in all of his body except for 1 heel. According to that myth, when his mother, Thetis, dipped him in the River Styx as an infant, she held him by 1 of his heels, leaving it touched by the waters & thus his only vulnerable body part.

Achilles was the son of Thetis & King Peleus of the Myrmidons. Zeus & Poseidon had been rivals for Thetis’ hand in marriage until Prometheus (the fore-thinker) warned Zeus of a prophecy (originally said by Themis, goddess of divine law) that Thetis would have a son who would be greater than his dad. For this reason, the 2 gods withdrew their affections & had her marry King Peleus.

There’s a story that tells an alternative version of events: In the Argonautica, Zeus’ sister-wife (his literal biological sister, whom Zeus married), Hera, refers to Thetis’ chaste resistance to Zeus’ advances. It points out that Thetis was so loyal to Hera’s marriage bond (with Zeus) that she rejected Zeus.

Even though Thetis was Nereus’ daughter, she was also raised by Hera. This further explains her resistance to Zeus’ advances. Zeus was BIG mad. Zeus decreed that she would never marry an immortal.

According to the Achilleid (written by Statius in the 1st century), when Achilles was born, Thetis tried to make him immortal by dipping him in the River Styx. He was left vulnerable at the part of the body by which she held him, his left heel/tendon.

In another version of the story, Thetis anointed Achilles in ambrosia & put him on top of a fire in order to burn away the mortal parts of his body. She was interrupted by Peleus & abandoned both dad & son in a rage.

In the Iliad, Achilles isn’t completely invulnerable. He gets wounded in Book 21. For the original Greeks, Achilles was terrifying not because he was magic. But because he was just better – faster, stronger, & more relentless than any mortal man.

The Paeonian hero Asteropaios, son of Pelagon, challenged Achilles by the river Scamander. He was ambidextrous. He threw a spear from each hand. 1 grazed Achilles’ elbow. Peleus entrusted Achilles’ education to Chiron.

Chiron lived on Mount Pelion & was known as the most righteous of the Centaurs. In some accounts, Achilles’ original name was “Ligyron,” & he was later named Achilles by his tutor, Chiron.

According to Homer, Achilles grew up in Phthia with his childhood companion Patroclus. Homer tells us that Achilles taught Patroclus what he himself had been taught by Chiron, including the medical arts.

Thetis foretold that her son’s fate was either to gain glory & die young, or to live a long but uneventful life in obscurity. Achilles chose the former & chose to take part in the Trojan War.

The pivot point of Achilles’ life is Patroclus. It’s highly debated about their relationship status – cousins, friends, or lovers. The intensity of Achilles’ grief suggests a relationship beyond a regular friendship. He fasted, wept over his body openly, & demanding their ashes be mixed together.

When Patroclus is killed by the Trojan prince Hector, Achilles transforms from a brooding soldier into a terrifying force of nature.

Some post-Homeric sources claim that to keep Achilles safe from the war, Thetis (or in some versions, Peleus) hid Achilles dressed as a girl at the court of Lycomedes, king of Skyros. There, a properly disguised, Achilles lived among King Lycomedes’ daughter. With Lycomedes’ daughter, Deidamia, (Achilles started a relationship with her.) Achilles fathered 2 sons (Neoptolemus & Oneiros) there.

According to this story, Odysseus learned from the prophet Calchas that the Achaeans would be unable to capture Troy without Achilles’ help. Odysseus went to Skyros in disguise as a peddler selling women’s clothes & jewellery & put a shield & spear amongst his wares. When Achilles immediately picked up the spear, Odysseus saw through the disguise. Odysseus talked Achilles into joining him for the Greek campaign.

According to the Iliad, Achilles arrived at Troy with 50 ships. Each ship carried 50 Myrmidons. Achilles appointed 5 leaders: Menesthius, Eudorius, Peisander, Phoenix, & Alcimedon. Each leader commanded 500 Myrmidons.

When the Greeks left for the Trojan War, they accidentally stopped in Mysia. Mysia was ruled by King Telephus. In a battle, Achilles gave Telephus a wound that wouldn’t heal. King Telephus talks to an Oracle, who said that “he that wounded shall heal.” Guided by the Oracle, he arrived at Argo, where Achilles healed him in order that he might become their guide for the voyage to Troy.

According to Cypria, when the Achaeans wanted to return home, they were stopped by Achilles (who afterwards attacked the cattle of Aeneas), sacked neighboring cities (like Pedasus & Lyrnessus, where the Greeks capture the queen Briseis) & unalived Tenes (a son of Apollo), as well as King Priam’s son Troilus in the sanctuary of Apollo Thymbraios.

At the end of the Iliad, King Priam of Troy snuck into Achilles’ tent to beg Achilles from the return of his son Hector’s body. Instead of unaliving, or turning him away, Achilles openly weeps with King Priam. They share a meal & recognize their shared suffering.

At this moment, the “Breaker of men” finally acknowledges the humanity of his enemy. King Priam says his famous line to Achilles during this interaction: “I have endured what no one on earth has ever done – I have kissed the land of the name who killed my son.”

The poem ends with a description of Hector’s funeral, with the doom of Troy & Achilles himself still to come.

In Book 22 of the Iliad, Hector predicts with his last breath that both Paris & Apollo will unalive him at the Scaean Gates leading to Troy, with an arrow to the heel. In Book 23, the sad spirit of dead Patroclus visits Achilles as he just drifts off to sleep. The ghostly Patroclus asks that his bones be placed in his golden vase, along with Achilles’ bones, as a present of his mom.

Achilles’ armor was the object of a feud between Odysseus & Ajax the Great. They competed for it by giving speeches on why they deserved the armor, to their Trojan prisoners (who decided that Odyssesu got the armor). Ajax didn’t particularly care for that decision. So he cursed Odysseus.

Athena didn’t like Ajax’s curse. She said, “I got something for ya, boy.” The goddess made Ajax temporarily upset/mad with grief & anguish that he began killing sheep, thinking they were his friends. After a while, Athena lifted the madness.

Ajax realized what he’d done, he was so ashamed that he self-deleted. Odysseus eventually gave the armor to Achilles’ son, Neoptolemus.

The armor was made by Hephaestus. The Shield of Achilles was made by Hephaestus. Achilles’ legendary spear was given to him and participated in the Trojan War. It was called the Pelian Spear, which no other man could wield.

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2026-02-20

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Where are we now?wawn
2026-02-19

2026-02-19 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-02-12)

WHERE IS HERA?
- Barycentric speed: 15.84 km/s (+0.14 km/s)
- Rendezvous with Didymos: November 2026

🪨 Relative to Didymos
- Distance (km): 10,932,501.87 km (-600,577.00 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.07 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 0 min 36.47 s (-2.00 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 342,632,243.68 km (-15,302,152.64 km)
- Distance (AU): 2.29 (-0.10)
- Light travel time: 19 min 2.93 s (-51.04 s)

RTL Nieuwsrtlnieuws
2026-02-15

𝗧𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲 𝗻𝗮 𝘇𝗲𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗽 𝗛𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗴 𝗮𝗮𝗻 𝗸𝗼𝗽, 𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗔 - 𝗔𝗭 𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗮𝗸𝘁

FC Twente heeft de koppositie in de Vrouwen Eredivisie stevig in handen. De club uit Enschede won zondag met 5-1 van sc Heerenveen. FC Twente heeft 36 punten na veertien wedstrijden. PSV, dat met 3-0 won van PEC Zwolle, staat tweede op een achterstand van 4 punten.

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Where are we now?wawn
2026-02-12

2026-02-12 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-02-05)

WHERE IS HERA?
- Barycentric speed: 15.70 km/s (+0.12 km/s)
- Rendezvous with Didymos: November 2026

🪨 Relative to Didymos
- Distance (km): 11,531,743.59 km (-673,069.47 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.08 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 0 min 38.47 s (-2.25 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 357,933,341.29 km (-14,917,626.74 km)
- Distance (AU): 2.39 (-0.10)
- Light travel time: 19 min 53.97 s (-49.76 s)

Jason (& the Argonauts)

Jason was an ancient Greek mythological hero & leader of the Argonauts, whose quest for the Golden Fleece is in Greek literature.He’s the son of Aeson, who was the rightful King of Iolcos (modern-day Vollos). He was married to the “sorceress” Medea, the granddaughter of Helios, the sun god.

Jason appears in various literary works in the classical world of Greece & Rome, including the epic poem Argonautica & the tragedy Medea.

Pelias (Jason’s half-uncle & his dad’s half-brother) was power hungry & sought to gain authority over all of Thessaly. Pelias was the offspring of a union between their shared mom, Tyro (the daughter of Salmoneus), & the sea god, Poseidon.

In a bitter feud, Jason overthrew Aeson (again, who was the rightful King), killing all the descendants of Aeson that he could. He spared his half-brother for unknown reasons.

Aeson’s wife, Alcimede I, had a newborn son named Jason. She saved from Pelias by having female attendants cluster around the infant & cry as if he were stillborn. Being scared that Pelias would eventually notice & unalive her son, Alcimede sent him away to be raised by the centaur, Chiron. Chiron also tutored Achilles & Asclepius.

She claimed that she had been having an affair with him all along. Pelias, fearing that his ill-gotten kingship might be challenged, consulted an Oracle who warned him to beware of a man wearing only 1 sandal.

Many years later, Pelias was holding games in honor of Poseidon when the grown Jason arrived in Iolcus, having lost 1 of his sandals. He lost this sandal in the river Anauros/Anaurus while helping an old woman across the water.

The old woman was actually Hera, the goddess, in disguise. She (Hera) blessed him because she knew what Pelias had planned. When Jason entered Iolcus, Pelias recalled what the Oracle had warned him about. Jason aware that he was the rightful King, informed Pelias.

Pelias agreed to step down from the throne, on the condition that Jason brings back the Golden Fleece. Jason agrees to these terms.

Jason then assembles the group that becomes known as the Argonauts. They were named after their ship, the Argo. Jason commissions the shipbuilder Argus to build the Argo. (We feel like Argus named the ship after himself.)

The Argo was a vessel that was outfitted with a piece of talking oak from the sacred grove of Dodona. Argus becomes an Argonaut. Jason then recruits the rest of the Argonauts.

The Argonauts list:

Acastus

Admetus

Atalanta, the formidable huntress

Augeas

The winged Boreads, Zetes & Calais (sons of the North Wind)

The Dioscuri, Castor & Pollux/Polydeuces

Euphemus

Heracles/Hercules (Yes, THAT one. He eventually left the quest.)

Idas

Idmon, the seer

Lynceus

Meleager

Orpheus

Peleus (Achilles’ dad)

Philoctetes

Telamon

Tiphys, the helmsman

After a few detours, Jason & his comrades came to Colchis (modern-day Black Sea coast of Georgia, the country) to get that sweet, sweet Golden Fleece. Colchis had a king (King Aeetes). The Fleece was given to him by Phrixus. The king promised to give Jason the Fleece, for a price: 3 tasks.

When presented with these tasks, Jason got discouraged & depressed. The goddess Hera was on Jason’s side. Hera convinced Aphrodite to convince her son, Eros, to make King Aeetus’ daughter, Medea, fall in love with Jason. As a result of this love-god meddling, Medea ended up being the key to Jason’s success.

First, Jason had to plow a field with a fire-breathing oxen (the Khalkotauroi) that he had to yoke himself, Medea gave Jason an ointment that made his skin fireproof from the oxen’s flames. Then Jason planted the teeth of a dragon into a field. The teeth sprouted into an army of warriors called spartoi. Medea told Jason how to defeat the spartoi.

Before the spartoi attacked Jason, he threw a rock into the crowd. The spartoi weren’t able to figure out where the rock came from. So the spartoi turned on each other & defeated one another. Jason’s last task was to overcome the sleepless dragon that guarded the Golden Fleece. Medea to the rescue, again.

She gave Jason a potion that he sprayed the dragon with. The dragon fell asleep. Jason was able to get the Golden Fleece. Then he sails away with Medea. Medea distracted her dad (who chased the pair as they fled) by unaliving her brother, Apsyrtus, & throwing pieces of his body into the sea.

King Aeetus stopped to gather each piece of Apsyrtus’ body. This gave Jason, & Medea, time to escape. On the way back to Iolcus, Medea prophesied to Euphemus (the Argo’s helmsman) that he would one day rule Cyrene. This prophecy came true through Euphemus’ descendant, Battus.

Zeus, as punishment for the slaughter of Medea’s brother, sent a series of storms at the Argo & blew it off course. The Argo then actually spoke & said that they should seek purification with Circe, a nymph living on the island of Aeaea. After being cleansed, they continued their journey home.

Chiron had told Jason that without the aid of Orpheus, the Argonauts would never be able to pass by the Sirens. The same Sirens encountered by Odysseus in Homer’s The Odyssey. The Sirens lived on 3 small, rocky islands called Sirenum scopuli & sang beautiful songs that enticed sailors to come to them, which result in the wrecking of their ships on the islands.

When Orpheus heard their voices, he said, “Here, hold my drink a sec!” He pulls out his lyre & played music that was more beautiful & louder, drowning out the Sirens’ songs so the sailors couldn’t hear them!

The Argo then came to the island of Crete, guarded by Talos, who was a man made of bronze. As the ship came close, Talos hurled huge stones at the ship, keeping it at bay. Talos had 1 ichor vessel (like a blood vessel) that went from his neck to his ankle, bound shut by 1 bronze nail. (Ichor is pretty much the blood of the gods.)

Medea, helping Jason, cast a spell on Talos to calm him. She then removes the bronze nail. Talos ends up bleeding to death. The Argo was able to sail on.

Jason, celebrating his return with the Golden Fleece, saw his dad was too sick & old to participate in the celebrations. Jason asks Medea to take some years from his own life & add the years to his dad’s life. (This is actually sweet.)

Medea complied. There was no cost to Jason’s life. Medea withdrew the blood from Aeson’s body & infused it with certain herbs. She put it back into his veins. This invigorated him. Pelias’ daughters took notice of this, & wanted a piece of that action from their own dad.

Using her sorcery, Medea told Pelias’ daughters that she could make their dad smooth & vigorous as a kid by chopping him up into pieces & boiling the pieces in a cauldron of water & magical herbs. Medea shows that she can do this with the oldest ram in a flock, which leapt out of the cauldron as a lamb. The girls naively sliced up their dad & put in the cauldron.

Medea just didn’t put in the magical herbs to revive Pelias. So Pelias was dead. Pelias’s son, Acastus, drove Jason, & Medea, into exile for the unaliving. The couple settles in Corinth.

In Corinth, Jason gets engaged to marry Creusa/Glauce, a daughter of the king of Corinth. He did this for political advancement. Medea confronts Jason about this engagement. Because SHE’S already his wife. She reminds Jason of all the help she’s given him & the vow he made, to Hera, to love Medea & only Medea forever.

Jason tells Medea that it’s not her that he should thank but it’s Aphrodite who should get the kudos. Because Aphrodite made Medea fall in love with Jason. (Ok, Jason’s kinda right. It was Aphrodite via Eros.) Medea was incensed! (Rightfully so.)

Jason had vowed to be only Medea’s forever so Medea took her revenge by giving Creusa/Glauce a cursed dress, as a wedding gift. This dress stuck to her body & burned her to death as soon as she put it on. Cerusa/Glauce’s dad, Creon, burned to death with his daughter as he tried to save her.

Then Medea killed her sons that she had with Jason to ensure he had no legacy. When Jason learned of this, Medea was already gone. She fled to Athens in a chariot pulled by dragons that was sent by her grandpa, Helios (the sun-god).

As a result of breaking his vow to love Medea only forever, Jason lost his favor with Hera & died lonely & unhappy. He spent his final years as a broken man, wandering the docks where the rotting hull of the Argo sat. One day, while he was resting under the ship’s prow, a piece of the decaying wood broke off & fell onto Jason’s head, unaliving him instantly.

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2026-02-10

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Medea

Her name literally means ‘planner, schemer.’ (This becomes relevant later, trust us!)

In Greek mythology, Medea is the daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis (modern-day Georgia, the country). She was also the granddaughter of the sun god, Helios. She was a niece of Circe, an enchantress goddess. Her mom may have been Idyia. This divine lineage gave her “golden eyes” & a terrifying intellectual capacity. She was wicked smart.

In most stories, Medea is known as a sorceress, an accomplished pharmakis, a worker in pharmakeia (medicinal magic), & is often depicted as a high-priestess of the goddess Hecate.

To the Athenians, Colchis was the edge of the known world. Medea represented the “Eastern” woman: dangerous, knowledgeable in “pharmaka” (drugs/magic), & unbound by Greek social norms. Medea was a priestess of Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft, crossroads, & the underworld.

She first appears in Hesiod’s Theogony around 700 BC. But is best known from Euripides’ 431 BCE Medea & Apollonius of Rhodes’ 3rd century BC epic Argonautica.

In the myth of the Argonauts, she helps Jason in his search for the Golden Fleece. She was struck by Eros (often pictured as the interference of Hera & Aphrodite), Medea betrays her dad, & kills her brother, to help Jason. To ensure Jason’s (& the Argonauts) escape, she unalives her own brother, Apsyrtus, scattering his remains in the sea so her dad would have to slow down to collect the remains for burial.

This act marked her transition from a domestic princess to a woman who’s “burned her bridges” to the world of men. ONce Jason finishes his quest, she abandons her homeland of Colchis & flees westward with Jason. Medea then marries Jason. She & Jason have at least 2 sons together.

They live in Corinth. Jason abandons Medea to marry the daughter of King Creon of Corinth, named Creusa/Glauce. He did this for political gain, after 10 years of marriage to Medea. Medea is then exiled from Corinth by King Creon.

She was offered asylum in Athens by King Aegeus. This asylum is given after Medea offers the king to give him an heir by using her magic. In some stories, it’s Medea who’s King Aegeus’ baby mama. But Medea wasn’t happy at being rejected by Jason after he made a vow to Hera to love Medea, & be only hers, forever.

This is where Medea’s divine lineage comes into play. Her “Sophia” (wisdom/cleverness) turns deadly. Medea decides the only way to truly destroy/hurt Jason is to unalive their 2 sons & his new bride (who is unalived by a poisoned crown/robes/dress).

Medea weighs her “thymos” (passion/rage) against her “bouleumata” (plans), & the rage wins. She did this so Jason would be without heirs or a legacy for the rest of his life. She didn’t even let Jason hold the bodies of their 2 dead sons, so that he could properly grieve.

Medea wasn’t punished for her actions. Her grandpa, the sun god Helios, sent a chariot pulled by dragons to rescue her. She escaped Athens, carrying the bodies of her children, leaving Jason a broken man.

Or according to Herodotus (in his Histories) mentions that she ended up leaving Athens & settling among the Aryans, who ended up changing their name to the Medes.

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2026-02-08

I am a Trinitarian, if not exactly a good Catholic, so I like to find threes of things. Once you're alert to the ubiquity of three-fold equilibria among fundamental concepts, it's hard not to start seeing triangles in everything…Jewish art and architecture is really good at evoking triplets of things, isn't it? Marvellous. I think of crystals and pyramids and sequences of numbers and all sorts of fun things, when I glance towards the Tree of Life. Kabbalah is closed to me but…c'mon, look at it! of COURSE it's powerful! It's like higher mathematics (cf. the intricate radial and cylindrical symmetries of Muslim art and architecture and its spectacular knowledge of tesselations.)

There is a holy trinity of goat acids. I do not lie! One can speak sensibly, in chemistry, of the goat acids. There are three medium-chain fatty acids, three 'normal' (i.e. straight-chain) alkanoic acids, that are the goat acids.

Caproic acid, hexanoic acid, CH3(CH2)4COOH
Caprylic acid, octanoic acid, CH3(CH2)6COOH
Capric acid, decanoic acid, CH3(CH2)8COOH

All of them have a name which refers to the goat as seen below. The Latin word for goat is capra (and caprea and capriolus and some others, Latin is a bit loosier-goosier with alternate spellings and word-forms than English) and thus supplies the root for all these chemical names. And all these acids and certain compounds of these acids are especially commonplace in goats. Cute widdle bouncy gotes which my esteemed colleague Kaylin Evergreen detests. She is (to me anyway) a priestess of Queen Hera, the formidable matriarch of the Hellenic deities whom I honor as best I can, in whose guidance I have trusted in many lean times and bitter moments. Hera bears among other epithets the name of Ἥρη Αἰγοφάγος, Goat-Eating Hera! Hence I am always getting a bit of stink-eye from Queen Hera about my own…dalliances with gotes. In the past, as it were. oh dear

Anyway! I have had a long-time fascination with this little chemical triplet, which I once remember seeing pop up in a diagram showing how those three acids could be resolved on a liquid chromatographic column. They're "model compounds" indeed: showing that you can resolve the three acids cleanly with your analytical equipment is a good demonstration of the effectiveness of chemical analysis.

They're found among many living things, not just goats; they're among the common lipids of organic life on Earth. Valerian root is another material that tends to be rich in the goat acids and thus valerian has a characteristic stench about it. I happen to regard it as a more or less pleasant smell in moderation (I guess I would) but I will allow as how it's a bit overpowering of other smells. They're just a bit more volatile than other organic acids likely to be found, so…you smell them more.

~Chara of Pnictogen


#goat-acids #goats #chemistry #organic-chemistry #Hera #trinities
Where are we now?wawn
2026-02-05

2026-02-05 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-01-29)

WHERE IS HERA?
- Barycentric speed: 15.58 km/s (+0.11 km/s)
- Rendezvous with Didymos: November 2026

🪨 Relative to Didymos
- Distance (km): 12,204,813.06 km (-693,883.15 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.08 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 0 min 40.71 s (-2.31 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 372,850,968.02 km (-14,407,632.78 km)
- Distance (AU): 2.49 (-0.10)
- Light travel time: 20 min 43.73 s (-48.06 s)

Where are we now?wawn
2026-01-29

2026-01-29 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-01-22)

WHERE IS HERA?
- Barycentric speed: 15.47 km/s (+0.10 km/s)
- Rendezvous with Didymos: November 2026

🪨 Relative to Didymos
- Distance (km): 12,898,696.20 km (-714,490.17 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.09 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 0 min 43.03 s (-2.38 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 387,258,600.81 km (-13,827,766.17 km)
- Distance (AU): 2.59 (-0.09)
- Light travel time: 21 min 31.80 s (-46.13 s)

有片︱
Tyson Hera 「響喉L事件」掀罵戰
戲劇性同框 網民質疑搞大龍鳳
TY否認夾宣傳 事前唔認識對方
“原意諗住抽自己水…點知出到嚟唔係我所諗,一發不可收拾”

雙方被攻擊 主動聯絡圖平息
“唔同意見可以做朋友”

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早前Blogger #Hera 拍片批評改車黨,先引起一班車主群起反擊,#TysonYoshi 其後主動加入混戰,「改裝」Hera短片展示自己愛車#響喉聲,再引起更多Tyson fans攻擊Hera。

網上洗版鬧至火紅火綠之際,事件出現戲劇性暴走,二人一齊拍片,為《1994》前傳宣傳,以圖平息事件。但網民質疑搞大龍鳳,為新歌夾宣傳。

今日(25日)Tyson在澳門開騷,完場後受訪講起一連串響喉片,Tyson以認真tone開腔回應:「原意係諗住抽自己水,冇諗過攻擊任何嘢,但出完嘅效果唔係我想像中咁。」各方網民群起出動,被批評的不只Hera、車主與Tyson,連Tyson老婆C...
#爭議 #事件 #網絡 #澳門
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Where are we now?wawn
2026-01-22

2026-01-22 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-01-15)

WHERE IS HERA?
- Barycentric speed: 15.38 km/s (+0.09 km/s)
- Rendezvous with Didymos: November 2026

🪨 Relative to Didymos
- Distance (km): 13,613,186.38 km (-734,964.92 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.09 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 0 min 45.41 s (-2.45 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 401,125,677.10 km (-13,163,943.41 km)
- Distance (AU): 2.68 (-0.09)
- Light travel time: 22 min 18.05 s (-43.91 s)

Where are we now?wawn
2026-01-15

2026-01-15 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-01-08)

WHERE IS HERA?
- Barycentric speed: 15.29 km/s (+0.07 km/s)
- Rendezvous with Didymos: November 2026

🪨 Relative to Didymos
- Distance (km): 14,348,151.30 km (-755,374.49 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.10 (-0.01)
- Light travel time: 0 min 47.86 s (-2.52 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 414,289,620.51 km (-12,418,493.22 km)
- Distance (AU): 2.77 (-0.08)
- Light travel time: 23 min 1.96 s (-41.42 s)

2026-01-12

Made You Feel (14 Photos)

Street art and sculpture have this way of hitting you right where it hurts, or where you need it most. These pieces aren't just about making a city look better. They’re about the stuff we usually carry in silence: the grief that weighs a ton, the inner child we’re trying to protect, or that hollow feeling when someone is just… gone. We’ve pulled together 14 works that don't just sit there. They demand you feel something. More: Murals That Hit You Right in the Heart (12 Photos) 👐 […]

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2026-01-08

RE: academiccloud.social/@mpsgoett

will study the modification of the asteroid physical and dynamical properties by Earth’s tidal forces, and will verify models on cohesion, strength and response to external forces of asteroids that are key to planetary defense.
• There is no risk of impacting Earth for at least 100 years.
, 's planetary defense spacecraft already en route, will reach Didymos in October 2026 to study the results of spacecraft's impact on Dimorphos

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