Spy Guys
WEBB WHUHHH… ???
The inevitable first ding.
In late May, Webb sustained a dust-sized micrometeroid impact to a primary mirror segment. Not to worry: Webb is still performing at a level that exceeds all mission requirements. Our first images will #UnfoldTheUniverse on July 12: https://t.co/9jp0uq7ytS pic.twitter.com/VKkSp16yrg
— NASA Webb Telescope (@NASAWebb) June 8, 2022
Twitter for the headline, blog for the story.
https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/06/08/webb-engineered-to-endure-micrometeoroid-impacts/
My Little Chickadees
The flap for the dryer vent cover broke off last year, and I hadn’t gotten around to replacing it. This made it possible for Mr. & Mrs. Chickadee to build a nest that completely filled the vent. I realized this when I saw one of them looking into the dryer from the other side of the drum!
Once I started working, the birds escaped without injury, but they were not happy! Clever birds that they are, they were using dryer lint to pack between twigs. Fortunately, there were no eggs yet in the nest.
Replacing the cover required, of course, more effort and tools than it should have. The problem was the hole for the old, all-metal, vent wasn’t wide enough for the plastic housing of the new vent cover. With a hammer and wood chisel I was able to widen it just enough to make it fit. Mr. & Mrs. Chickadee will now have to find another place to prepare a nest for their blessed event.
More MAD Jack Art
Utterly MAD paperback, 1958.
Jack Davis’ original, uncropped art for the cover.
A Month for Bugs
It was bad enough when the 1960’s was 50 years ago, but 60?? In June, 1962, unknown to me as a little boy in Wisconsin, Amazing Fantasy #15 was on newsstands, featuring the first appearance of Spider-Man.
Also that month, 60 years ago today, in fact, was B-Day. The Beatles had their first recording session with George Martin at EMI. John, Paul, and George, with Pete Best on drums.
https://www.beatlesbible.com/1962/06/06/the-beatles-first-abbey-road-recording-session/
https://www.curvebenderpublishing.com/
Blog Post Extra: Someone has pegged the distribution date of Amazing Fantasy #15 as June 5, 1962, 60 years ago yesterday. Also released that day was the debut of another Marvel Comics Group bug, in the person of Ant-Man.
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/06/05/60-years-of-ant-man-spider-man-thor-and-larry/
Busy Busy Weapons
Having used a Richard Scarry image earlier today, by coincidence Tom the Dancing Bug is doing the same thing, but for a very different reason.
