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Samuel Benjamin

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Author & photographer, former USAF F-15E maintainer, space historian, and unashamed science fiction buff. Native of Detroit, currently based in Oklahoma City. Prints at samuelxl5.darkroom.com & merch at samuelxl5.printify.me

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#USAF #scifi #history

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In a Trump vs Zuck fight, does there really need to be a winner?

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Hearing rumors (not confirmed yet) that legendary USAF/NASA test pilot Joe Engle has passed. I'm hoping that reports of his death have been greatly exaggerated. He was the last living X-15 test pilot, and he tested and flew the Space Shuttle.

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#Ukraine #russia

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Ali Trotta's avatar Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social
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Tell me when you lose
your heart, how it turns
into a knife, how the stars
suddenly stop singing—
grief, with all its tendrils,
is so stark, so silent,
a wreckage of old languages,
words you no longer
recall,slipping away
like the shadow of a dream—
breathe, darling,
be brave,
begin again.
#TinyPoem

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https:/samuelxl5.darkroom.com

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NASA's Steve Stich:

"We have two vehicles ... we can use to return crew and and so we have a little bit more time to go through the data and then make a decision. But the prime option today is to return Butch and Suni on Starliner."
www.cnbc.com/2024/07/10/n...

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Smooth moves and all the groves! Risso’s dolphins bear scars on their bodies from toothy social interactions with their own kind, and from the beaks and tentacles of their preferred prey, squid.

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Samuel Benjamin's avatar Samuel Benjamin @samuelxl5.bsky.social
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Here's another #PortfolioDay post highlighting my analog work! Film photography isn't a dying art, not if I have anything to say about it! I shoot 35mm as well as medium-format, and I occasionally try experimental processes like souping.

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Anomaly on the Ariane 6 mission: the APU did not properly restart in the second coast phase. The APU operation affects the orbital parameters, and these did not change as expected. Upper stage was passivated after the second burn, and remains in orbit with the two reentry capsules still attached.

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"There is a strategic imperative & moral obligation to assist Ukraine to win this war as rapidly as possible. The deliberate Russian attack, using precision missiles against children at the Okhmatdyt hospital, provides us with more evidence for why this is so." mickryan.substack.com/p/the-kyiv-c...

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Samuel Benjamin's avatar Samuel Benjamin @samuelxl5.bsky.social
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Don't wanna call my friends
For they might wake me from this dream
And I can't leave this bed
Risk forgetting all that's been
-Dido

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Oh #portfolioday !

I'm Meike and here are some album artworks I've done, which is like a dream come true! :D

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Hi there #PortfolioDay

I'm Samantha and I specialize in editorials, publishing (mostly book covers), and branding

✉️samanthamashillustration@gmail.com
🌿samanthamash.com
🌿samanthamash.etsy.com
🌿inprnt.com/gallery/samanthamash
🌿faire.com/direct/samanthamash

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