Yerrr Ma Best Friend!

AD Justin Morrison from the Portland Mercury asked me to do a cover and some spot illustrations of people making out for their Valentine’s Day issue, and then gave me complete creative freedom! It was a fantastically fun assignment—thanks so much, Justin!

Just a random pic of me thinking...

Futuristic spacecraft thruster would use 100 million times less fuel than a conventional rocket

Hall thrusters are advanced electric rocket engines primarily used for station-keeping and attitude control of geosynchronous communication satellites and space probes. Recently, the launch of two satellites based on an all-electric bus has marked the debut of a new era – one in which Hall thrusters could be used not just to adjust orbits, but to power the voyage as well. Consuming 100 million times less propellant or fuels than conventional chemical rockets, a Hall thruster is an attractive candidate for exploring Mars, asteroids and the edge of the solar system.

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Ref: Optimization of a wall-less Hall thruster. Applied Physics Letters (27 October 2015) |DOI: 10.1063/1.4932196

The one thing I didn’t want or need was pity. I’d made my own choices, lived my own life, and even if they hadn’t all been smart choices, there weren’t many of them that I regretted.

Small Favour, Jim Butcher (via hamletsbitch)

I'm to old for this shit...

Throwing away petty lies and moods

Thoughts and truths evident in the mind's eye

An eye weak with blindness to facts and hiding tresspasses

I taught myself to hate those who fuck me over...

Yet my nature isn't one of rejection

"You can't force me to change,"

Yet you changed so much

You changed into what you hated

Inception, I WILL make you better...

I will burn and rip and tear your constructions

Reject and gut apart your defences

I will make you see judgement and all it's nails digging into your soul

I will leave you?

Yes and no

I'm not one to cast others aside

I will let you make it up too me

I will wait and give you a reward of my trust and love

I will not force you to change

But if you care about me enough to make this contract

Then you will change into a better person

And only a better person can have me...

I miss you sometimes, you little star fairy...

You see, last night was the first time I cried in a long while...

I don't know if it was the substance that rooted and altered my veins

The confliction of emotions deciding to control the reins

And though if you still cared, you'd hate what I've become

I cried last night, feeling this song flow in my blood

The highs are orgasmic, the downfalls last for weeks

All the while, this heart burns as I speak

Yes, I know

I know that I've crossed some lines

I'd never again shine bright enough for you

Either way, I figured you'd learn that in time

For the world won't need me, in time it'll turn

For I was only once the moon, a small orb trying to affect your world...

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I miss my friend, but I know they won't forgive me and thats okay... but that interpol hit me really hard last night... and maybe it was the other things affecting my system too but as the song played I kept remembering you... but hey your doing great andit makes me happy that I managed to cause that, just wish I could snark you a few more times, heaar you threaten to cut me, and maybe here you rant about your adventures somemore- made my days alot less lonely...

A new drawing, “Optimist/Pessimist.”

Futuristic Laser Space Engine Passes Its First Test

Someday it could get us to the moon within hours and Mars within days

“In 2013, Y.K. Bae scored funding from NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program to study an amazing new kind of propulsion: Thrust that comes not from liquid rockets but from lasers continuously fired at the spacecraft, which would steadily gain momentum in the frictionless vacuum of space. It’s called the Photonic Laser Thrust system, and it could drastically reduce the amount of fuel needed for space missions. And now, Bae has announced that lab tests of the technology were successful.In the experiment, Bae fired a laser at a one-pound mock spaceship on a frictionless track and successfully produced thrust. The laser bounced continuously between two mirrors inside a cavity at the bottom of the simulated spaceship, building momentum of 1.1 milliNewtons. We’re not talking about a lot of thrust. For example, the full sized, 6.2-million-pound Saturn V rocket that sent the Apollo 11 moon mission to space needed about 34.5 million Newtons of thrust to lift off. It was many, many orders of magnitude more powerful. However, the goal of the laser system isn’t to get things off the ground. The goal is to boost a spacecraft’s momentum when it’s already in space—which, if you can reach it, requires much less energy than getting a big, heavy hunk of metal off the ground.”