5 July to 13 July is the Ludi Apollinares Roman festival of #Apollo. #Livy wrote: "Romans wore floral wreaths and ate outdoors." Good excuse for a picnic! #Antinous was often equated with #Apollon. Full details here: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/07/wear-wreath-of-flowers-during-ludi.html Photo by Keith #MezaenAsetHoberg.

Metaが290億ドルのデータセンター資金調達について協議中
https://cafe-dc.com/design/meta-in-talks-for-29bn-data-center-financing/
#cafedc #apollo #brookfield #carlyle #kkr #meta #morgan_stanley #pimco #データセンター #負債調達 #資金調達

Si te gustan las estadísticas y la astronaútica, en concreto el programa Apollo, este es tu libro:

Apollo By The Numbers: A Statistical Reference.
Richard W. Orloff
NASA SP-2000-4029 (2000)

y se puede encontrar aquí:

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/sp-4029.pdf

One of the few films I've watched several times in the cinema.

"This year marks the 30th anniversary of the 1995 Oscar-winning film, Apollo 13, director Ron Howard's masterful love letter to NASA's Apollo program in general and the eponymous space mission in particular. So we're taking the opportunity to revisit this riveting homage to American science, ingenuity, and daring."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/ars-reflects-on-apollo-13-turning-30/

30 June is #AsteroidDay. We honor dwarf planet #Antinous, a Near-Earth #Asteroid. It's one of the #Apollo #Asteroids named for Classical deities. It passed by Earth in 1992, 1999 and will be back later this century. And it could visit us with a bang: https://antinousgaygod.blogspot.com/2025/06/antinous-asteroid-is-neighbor-who-could.html

Thanks to a book recommendation by @bert_hubert [1], I went on a tangent learning more about the absolutely fascinating history and workings of core memory (and core rope memory, its read-only version). Some of this also very interesting for #PermaComputing and giving me ideas for future art projects...

Apollo Core Rope Memory (restoration and read out of 50 year old memory from the Apollo Guidance Computer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hckwxq8rnr0

Core Memory Explained and Demonstrated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwsInQLmjXc

[1] https://eupolicy.social/@bert_hubert/114760790691965256

It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday!

Apollon and Helios are distinct deities but Apollon is a sun god too.

"He [Magnes of Thessalia] had a son of remarkable beauty, Hymenaios. And when #Apollon saw the boy, he was seized with love for him, and would not leave the house of Magnes."
Hesiod, The Great Eoiae Fragment 16

#Apollo Belvedere replica

@antiquidons @mythology #mythology #PrideMonth

How you know a book on computing is going to be REALLY good: it starts with chapter 0. _The #Apollo Guidance Computer_ looks like a real treat! A good review is here: https://www.adamtornhill.com/reviews/agc.htm

Desde que estoy releyendo el manga “Space Brothers”, me ha vuelto el interés por el programa Apollo.

Estoy aprovechando para volver a escuchar este podcast de BBC World: “13 minutes to the Moon”. Son 12 episodios de menos de una hora llenos de entrevistas y datos de interés.

Una producción excelente narrada con un inglés muy claro (excepto algún entrevistado).

Disponible aquí y en todas las plataformas de podcasts (supongo):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p083t547