It’s a video game mechanic. Learning the exact steps by repeatedly getting killed and returned back to the start point is totally how arcade games worked, especially ones like Dragon’s Lair and Space Ace.

She wants time off to spend with her friends:

Now do Boeing.

I think that there’s an important distinction between evaluating a work as a piece of art and evaluating a work as representative of the time and culture in which it was made. Rambo III is not a good piece of art, but it is a fascinating expression of the anxiety about masculinity and conservative politics in the 80s.…

Pretty much everything about Nimona was superior animation. The writing, the voice acting, the artistry, the rapid world development ... it just outstrips any current (non-Ghibli) contender. (and this from a pretty jaded sour ol’ critic)

I feel like mythology stuff can be interesting right up until it swallows the film and we lose track of the human stakes and emotional arcs that should be the grounding and basis for the film. The last movie didn’t care at all about the human side of the story, and it ended up a boring CGI action figure fight as a…

And yet this was still the best of the three Kelvin Timeline movies

The batteries were likely full at launch, but the power was used up starting up the telemetry, communication, and propulsion systems. It had to connect to the deep space network and then align itself towards the sun to begin recharging the batteries for the remainder of the trip. There was more than enough battery to…

Depends on the duration of the mission. For a long mission, the solar panels would be essential so you just need enough battery power to get up to space and orient your panels with some safety margin. Any weight dedicated to batteries beyond that must be exchanged for payload. It’s easy to look back at the one of…

I assume redundancies cost a lot of (non bit) coin. And they’re trying to do this on the cheap for future, frequent flights. Late stage capitalism laughs at your “redundancies”.

The technology to land successfully on the moon is 50 years old. Why can’t it be done anymore?

And yet Neil managed to slap a 60's-tech lander down, climb out and wander around a bit. Frankly, one is disappointed. Half a goddamn CENTURY later and my car doesn’t even hover...

I think it recently has gotten a big reassessment, because I have seen very positive commentary on it for the past few years.

Since a picture is worth a thousand words, here’s the visual explainer of the image, courtesy of NASA:

(enjoy the 144p)

So many roles and no one should be forced to pick a favorite. But from among those that have yet to be mentioned, it’s hard to argue that he wasn’t excellent in Platoon.

and the fact that the rings of Saturn are about 98% water ice - and are about half the total ice of the Antarctic shelf...
why would you dive into a gravity well to drag shitty water into space?

Japanese beetles are not attracted to lights so this won’t work for them.