I am very very late to this discussion, but I am curious as to how Stellina takes pictures. That is, is it layering several exposures and rotating them? ON an alt-az mount (one where the rotational axis of the telescope is not aligned to the north celestial pole) the field of view in the eyepiece (or image sensor)…

Hoover might have been high up in the US government but he was also a consummate bureaucrat. He’d go with whoever the winners were — and in fact one conversation on the show mentions just that.

“Those good, stiff Picard feels.”

I am a bit late to this, and some people have mentioned the problems in the comments. But I’ll go in here and say why this is such a bad idea, compiling them a it were.

What you see here is a variation - a bad one - that is something like the survival tents that people use on oceangoing vessels. That’s basically an…

Difference is this is a much smaller structure and the rafts you describe were quite large, which means they were far more stable. They also weren’t full of air (so they are relatively heavy given the volume of wood they were made of).

I’d offer that some of it *is* generational, in that anyone who grew up in the 70s - we are all middle aged now - probably remembers it as the Splits was a “bumper” between a lot of shows. It was basically a way for UHF channels to fill time with minimal cost, like a lot of other cartoons that got a kind of second…

As someone who was supposed to be squarely within Friends’ demographic, I was one of those who found Friends and Seinfeld less than funny. Friends had some cute moments, but it was so far removed from the New York City I knew it might as well have been set on Mars (maybe watching a a weird alt-history New York where…

Right on, especially since patents have to say how something works; while trade secretes exist, you can’t patent say, a fusion reactor, without at least giving a nod to how the thing functions. Fun fact: if you try and patent a perpetual motion machine you get rejected posthaste, and they know what to look for. It’s…

Reminds me of the claims by Nikola Tesla. Tesla had a lot of great ideas, and most were workable. But he also had a lot of stuff that was just wrong. (Broadcast power was one, there are all sorts of physical reasons why it won’t work well). The difference is Tesla at least had some solid backing and stuff that worked.

I saw this just recently and am curious (I did the math to and thought that initially Mother just delayed making a child). Who were the other people Swank’s character knew? She mentions the mines a lot, and I thought they were going to say there were people out there supporting the facility or something like that. But…

I am also one of those physics nerds who can usually suspend disbelief for a bit but the dialogue in this is simply crazy. The bit about dark matter was similarly silly — it’s like the writers read the words “dark matter” and left it at that (actual dark matter wouldn’t do anything to the ship, and in fact would be…

Late to this, but I can get behind one thing here: the writers seem to think that 90s music was deep or something, since Ashley seems to cover Nine Inch Nails in both her happy and unleashed artist incarnations and Jack’s mom dug the Pixies. (Hey, it’s my era too, but I was a bit stumped by the choice for a bubblegum…

I agree that Claremont (in his other books as well) often showed a strong tendency to not even try about research into non-Americans. One of the things that used to drive me batty was watching a Vietnamese woman spout off all the time in French. It would be like a French person who grew up in Vichy deciding that…

SPeaking as one who read the thing when it came out...

I haven’t seen this yet, an might like to, but thus far the X-men movies with a couple of exceptions - Logan being one - have been kind’ lackluster to me, rather forgettable even. Some of it (IMO) is that the storytelling is kind of all over the place, and I feel like I am watching something that had 6 writers and…

I am not sure GRRM knows how he wants to end this, not entirely.

I don’t know if this has been brought up already (I have not scrolled all through the comments) but...

Yeah you’d think that’d be right there since it’s post-nuclear war and has nothing but a lot of really good performances to go on...

Strangely enough (and being raised in the Boston area) the old Bull and Finch was, if I recall correctly, known for catering to State House staffers. (The State House is five blocks away). So it’d have been a good place to pick up gossip if you were a political junkie. But this is going back oh, 35+ years.

Maybe a bit of a deep cut (and I haven’t scrolled through the comments entirely) but “The Guy” and “The Girl” in Once aren’t ever named.