More fun facts: Flettner’s company built intermeshing-rotor helicopters and after WW2 he moved to the US where he worked on the same idea with Kaman.

For Mars missions, there has been consideration that the astronauts going should be in that older age range:

It’s interesting to remark that the SR-71 in the Smithsonian is displayed in front of the Space Shuttle Discovery: One of these vehicles has been to outer space, while the other looks like it came from outer space.

The word “automobile” (sometimes hyphenated, sometimes not) was used in the 1880s and 1890s to describe guided torpedos, not cars. Here are a couple of screenshots of articles from the Chicago Tribune from back then...

This is why we now have sidewalk cops.

Wow. Also, belated congrats on the new TV!

What if you drive while the car plays the games?

You can charge the phone in your back pocket while milking the cows.

You can charge the phone in your back pocket while milking the cows.

That’s the greatest data visualization of all time. I’ve got a print framed on my wall.

Do the fake substates of Soviet occupied America as depicted in the 1987 Amerika miniseries count? I particularly liked how the Rust Belt was called “Ameritech”, presumably named after the Baby Bell.

Meanwhile Keri’s gonna be in Star Wars. I think she wins at coolness.

It’s only useless until you really, really need it.

Does it come with a free Enigma machine app?

Seeing Winged Victory in that room is great in person. My other favorites were Liberty Leading the People, King Leonidas, and the Moai head they have on display.

Run it through a black and white filter, and you have the latest from Harold Lloyd. 

Boooooo Cryptonomicon was really gooooooood!

Possibly the most underrated comedy of all-time.

Weird Al for next year’s Super Bowl halftime show, please and thanks

That’s ok Shane, I just have to dust off the old mechanical turk and it will as good as new!

That’s ok Shane, I just have to dust off the old mechanical turk and it will as good as new!