Not every idea pans out. Virgin Orbit pauses operations for a week, furloughs nearly entire staff as it seeks funding In a world where SpaceX is doing it’s thing, other small launcher companies had damned well better have a *really* good idea. And while dropping an expendable rocket from a 747 might have been neato-keen…
This is a “cut scene” from a video game (“Star Wars: Squadrons”) and is a few years old… but it’s the best official non-“Rogue One” Star Wars that has come out since Disney bought the franchise.
Huh. Surface changes observed on a Venusian volcano during the Magellan mission In short, a volcano on Venus seemed to be active from 1990 to 1992. It could be that the mountain simply slumped, but more likely it that it blarped up some lava. So if you decide to go for a hike on…
Apparently life is bad for women in South Korea, with a heavily patriarchal society that treats ’em like garbage. So, perhaps not surprisingly, a lot of South Korean women are doing what they can to avoid the worst of it. And for some number of them, that means avoiding men entirely: A World Without Men…
Nancy Meyers Netflix Movie Shut Down Over Budget Issues Netflix was in the early stages of a rom-com. You know, the kind of movie that tends to be set in the present day, in the real world, without much need for explosions, car chases, major set pieces, whole armies of extras, Marvel-sized special effects budgets.…
From three days ago, the only news source Google seemed to find: Kazakhstan Seizes Russian Assets At Baikonur Spaceport Russia, it seems, isn’t paying its bills, so Kazakhstan sent in the repo men. Apparently. The bulk of the story is behind a paywall.
Wikipedia, unsurprisingly, has a list of all the Best Movie Oscar winners. For no readily apparent reason I decided to look them all up and see how many I’ve watched. Starting in the forties (because why not): 40s: 4 50s: 5 60s: 4 70s: 7 80s: 8 90s: 9 00s: 4 10s: 2 20s: 0…
Circa 1980 Lockheed jumped on board the “X-Wing” bandwagon. For those unfortunate enough not to have been graced to grow up in the 80’s, the X-Wing was a concept for a four-bladed helicopter where the rotors were rigid and could be stopped in flight, turning into two forward swept and two aft-swept wings (see Aerospace…
The very latest in breaking news from a year and a half ago: Armed ex-soldier allegedly storms animal shelter to get cat back An Australian former soldier broke in to an animal shelter to get his emotional support cat back. The cat had apparently been lost and someone found it and took it to the…
English traditions confuse me: Manchester: population and cultural replacement. pic.twitter.com/jarZ6HBHdu — Tony #VoteAnyoneButLibLabConGreen (@Tony40335450) March 12, 2023 I guess that slots in somewhere between “Cricket” and “Blimey.” Oh, and something to look out for in the future of a culturally enriched Britain: “Taharrush.” Such as: On Pakistan's independence day on the 14th August, 2021, a…
