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Liem Bahneman

@liem.bahneman.com

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Stay at home astronaut, photographer, graphic designer, aviation, geology, astronomy, rockhound, aurora chaser and weather enthusiast. Software Engineer by day. #vanlife

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 18m

Well deserved. Great artwork!

Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 20h

Meanwhile, the VP says their ideas of a plan will "hopefully" be cheaper.

Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 20h

My lord that's a clean river.

Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 1d

Retrorocket Emblem was started to provide patch artwork for old milestone missions that lacked official insignia. Best to my ability I wanted to do them in a way that uses artwork styles from the period. At first glance they should read like period piece. These are for the Apollo era.

Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 1d

Today's #SpacetoberChallenge topic is "Spacecraft". I have a lot of spacecraft art. Lets start with a patch design that features three distinct spacecraft. This is the first of a series for each of the SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicles.

Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 1d

Cool thing about them is that, like rainbows, they are your very own personal phenomenon. It literally reveals how far back you are sitting on the airplane.

Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 1d

“Hoping”

Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 2d

Brilliant little passing shaft of light breaking up a decent convergence zone downpour near Seattle #wawx

Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 3d

GenAI is a terribly confusing name for LLMs.

Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 3d

"Eclipse" is the topic for today's #spacetoberchallenge. North America was the witness to two TSE's within a decade. In 2024 I released a patch to celebrate it. In 2017 I launched a high altitude balloon in Oregon to capture its shadow. I hung a little astronaut in front of the camera for fun.

Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 3d

LLM is not general AI (AGI). Not even close.

Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 3d

I remember this over Walla Walla.

Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 3d

I don't have any particular artwork that fits #spacetoberchallenge topic "Asteroid", but I do have a photo of the layer left by the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs. The white line is the layer with extra-terrestrial iridium called the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (K-Pg). Location: Colorado.

Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 3d

I am a day late for #spacetoberchallenge 's theme of "Artemis II". This is the 2nd planned installment for my Artemis patch mosaic project. There are some liberties taken with scale and how the astronauts would be actually positioned but I wanted to express the awe of the lunar flyby. #nasa

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 5d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 5d

the more things change the more things stay the same (based on some of those articles)

Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 5d

Just like the rest of Iceland, it's never the same twice.

Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 6d

They're showing up at Goodwill in droves, if that isn't a sign I don't know what is.

Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 6d

"I kind of support it 110%"

Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 6d

Do you follow up with a soak in Iron Out?

Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 6d

Today's #spacetoberchallenge is "Propulsion". I stopped designing SpaceX-related patches earlier this year, but I would be remiss in not recognizing the engineering behind Starship Super Heavy and the Raptor engines. I did these patches in 2021 and 2023.

Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 7d

Ask outside a Whole Foods and you get a different answer than outside a Tractor Supply

Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 7d

Today's #spacetoberchallenge subject is "Space Agency". This patch commemorates a rare convergence of three space agency probes on Mars in the same month in 2021: NASA, China National Space Administration and the UAE Space Agency. I hope such convergences are more commonplace in the future.

Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 9d

#spacetoberchallenge topic for today: "Constellation". Before there was TV, radio and even books, there was the night sky. Crux (the Southern Cross) is a particularly important one for navigation. Here I've used it #NASA and the SOFIA program's annual Southern deployment to New Zealand.

Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 9d

Godzuki is the Scrappy-doo of the Kaiju