I'd started editing video with two VCRs and a CD player. Mixing The Simpsons with Weird Al to make crude music videos. It was that year in high school that I realized you could put video into the computer and use the computer to manipulate it. I wouldn't stop talking about the ATi All In Wonder 128 AGP graphics &…
"Good white people" demonstrate the qualities that all good people demonstrate: kindness, empathy, compassion, thoughtfulness, unconditional love. These are the values I try to instill in my students; that parents try to instill in their children.
I have always been sad that I never got to see the beginning of humanity's ultimate journey—and even sadder to…
Don't forget Iroquois.
I love the Lord of the Rings books. I love the movies. I love the Hobbit movies too. Hating these films has become a nerd national past-time.
Nice. However, I grew up with Chesley Bonestell's space art; to me this is always how The Future™ will look.
*Theme from 2001 plays*
Yup, still my preferred version.
Apollo 15 astronaut Dave Scott did this on the moon in 1971.
Bratwurst...served on a baguette!? My German sausage does not spend its time in that surrender bread!
Maybe not everybody, but I was unbelievably cynical about this, having already lived through the disappointment of the movie. How wrong I was...
Actually gravity does work that way. Astronauts in the ISS are subjected to just about 90% of the gravitational pull of someone on the surface. They appear to be in micro-gravity (and don't crash into the earth) because they're moving so fast to the side. So as they fall they keep 'missing' the earth. See: https://…
Re: Lights:
Thor is the prince of Asgard,
Frau im Mond (1929) showed people how a multistage rocket would work courtesy of the rocket genius Hermann Oberth. It was also where the countdown from ten to zero came from. The movie was so popular with the developers of the A4/V2 that they began countdowns before their launches, and when they went to America, they…
The authr of this rendering intentionally did a lot of mistakes, here is a orrect version of the 3d model. The pose is totally plausible. And hey, nobody said anything when this number of spiderman came out :
Hope and cynicism are warring within my inner 80s child.
I stopped reading when I got to the bit about brown paper bags from the grocery store. People actually put those in the oven and/or microwave?!?! I just... I can't even fathom why? Someone? Anyone? Please tell me why.
They were busy filling in all the knowledge gaps that they glossed over during the space race. Like, when John Glenn first went up, NASA physicians weren't really sure if his eyeballs would explode out of his head on account of the change in pressure and loss of gravity. They were really only fairly certain that it…
