11. Starship re-entering Earth's atmosphere. Views through the plasma
12. Super Heavy Booster 9’s 33 Raptor engines power Starship toward a successful hot-staging on its second flight test on November 18, 2023. Photo by John Kraus.
13. Smooth separation
14. Starship through the clouds
15. Crowds watching the Starship launch from afar. Dreaming of Mars and becoming a multiplanetary species.
16. The scale of SpaceX’s Starship
17. Starship Flight 3 by John Kraus
18. Liftoff of Starship Flight 3 by John Kraus
19. Starship from afar by John Kraus
20. Per aspera ad astra!
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1. The veil that got an artist accused of alchemy
Giuseppe Sanmartino carved the Veiled Christ from a single block of white marble in 1753 for the Cappella Sansevero in Naples.
Contemporaries accused him of alchemy for its breathtaking realism, and Canova himself declared he would give ten years of his life to have created it.
2. Marble sits at 3-4 on the Mohs scale of hardness. Steel sits at 4 to 4.5.
Khafre Enthroned is made of anorthosite gneiss, which registers at 6 to 7. It was carved over four millennia ago by ancient Egyptians who, according to archaeologists, had not yet developed iron tools.