… but just wait until these damned things get a little smarter, wake up and become self aware. Them and those friggen’ Furbies will be the death of us all.
As a followup to THIS POST, I had a half-formed idea that I posted in comments OVER HERE. I’ve decided to expand upon my idea a bit. In short, people have recognized that in Star Trek, the federation – and in particular the Humans – are essentially mad scientists. Everybody else out there got…
Researchers horrified, decry rise of ‘fascism’ as students send mocking responses to woke survey Academic researchers condemned students’ irreverent and offensive responses to an LGBTQ survey, claiming the pushback indicates “fascist ideologues” are “living ‘inside the house’ of engineering and computer science.” In an article for the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies, academics from Oregon…
To be released on December 5, the full series (21 disks, nearly 79 hours) will cost about $100 to $135. The filmed scenes were scanned at 4K and color corrected and such, then brought down to Blu Ray rez; the CGI scenes were upscaled with AI. I do wonder if there might be thinking that…
I’ve probably mentioned bits of this before. But regardless, here is one of the few good things on Tumblr… and one of the truly great series of comments about Star Trek and humanity https://www.tumblr.com/animatedamerican/162981472582/fozmeadows-randomingoftherandomness
A cutaway illustration of the Bell D188A VTOL strike-fighter from the late 50’s/early 60’s. This Mach 2 aircraft would have used 8 small turbojets… two lift/cruise in the tail, two vertically mounted in the forward fuselage for lift and two each in wingtip nacelles that could tilt for VTOL or horizontal thrust. Often referred to…
This article from a few years ago popped up on Twitter today: White people’s bland food isn’t just an internet meme. It’s a centuries-long obsession The article is pretty much what you’ll think it’s going to be. A lot of yammering about religion, history, privilege, blah, blah, blah. The usual buzz-word salad that’s all too…
A General Dynamics illustration showing the internal structure of the F-111 fighter-bomber. Originally scanned at the Jay Miller archive; shown here is a much-reduced-rez version. The full-rez scan has been uploaded to the 2023-07 APR Extras folder on Dropbox for $4 and up Patreons/Subscribers.If you would like to help fund the acquisition and preservation of…
Photos have emerged from the next Disney live action remake of one of their classic animated films, “Snow White.” You know, the one about the Germanic princess with skin so white it looked like snow, who ended up running around with seven dwarves? Well… about all that, Disney has decided to continue the unprofitable trend…
Another instance of “this is not the dog to be afraid of.” There are good reasons to fear Huskies: specifically, they can pierce your eardrums with the noise they can produce. But attacking you? They are not particularly aggressive, and are much more likely to be interested in *play* than fighting. Very LOUD play, of…
