I’m in no way a Musk fanboy but really that’s probably gonna happen no matter who does it. 

Also, 2 out of 3 is a D. That's not a failing grade.

Seems like a good fit. Everyone says the show is on autopilot now. 

Big, big fan. Minimal techno also works. I’ll even throw in some liquid DnB to get a boost. Songs I want to sing along to are out of the question, though.  Too distracting.

Shock G was one of the most underrated talents of the “Golden Age” of Hip Hop. His production was fun, his flow was excellent, and his humor was puckish. He had a knack for creating believable falsehoods and personas. One of my favorite Digital Underground songs is “Nuttin’ Dis Funky” on This is an EP Release where…

Even though I’m not a hardcore fan, this article really digs into what I admire most about this show. It’s been on the air for seemingly forever like Simpsons and Family Guy — but unlike those, it actually remains relevant because they’re still challenging themselves with things like shifting to long-term…

Surely Floodland deserves a mention here! The whole album is an experience, and “This Corrison” is still a banger. (And what I wake up to every morning.)

I remember a friend listing to “Making Love Out of Nothing At All” and saying “This sounds like Meat Loaf”. I don’t think we understood at the time the cadre of songwriters behind the voices.

Dead Ringer For Love is one of my absolute favourite songs, and his work with The Sister of Mercy was frequently great, too. Sad news.

Bacon Tomato Salsa burger would have been a better BTS promo.

Yes. I’ve had it for years. I’d really like an e-version though. It's the best book on the program. It is really strange that its never come out.

YES YES YES. I’ve worn out the pages on my copy and I’m furious that it’s not in Kindle format yet. Probably the seminal book on the Apollo program. Don’t know what the roadblock is, especially since Slayton and Shepard’s hagiographic book has had multiple digital reissues in the interim.

One of the things I love about this movie is its protrayal of scientific and engineering proficiency. The astronauts and NASA staff don’t have natural gifts, or super powers and they don’t stand as guardians of hidden esoteric lore. Rather, their skills are the result of dedicated professionalism. This depiction of…

I love this movie a lot, but most particularly that scene you specified, with the box of junk tossed on the table that they need to use to literally fit a square peg into a round hole. Problem solving at its best. Also, Ed Harris in a waistcoat. 

That is a bit of a problem with a lot of these dramatizations involving Hanks, although I like them. A more recent example is “Sully”. The film makes it out that Sully is upset and insulted that there is an FAA investigation of the Hudson River incident, but in real life Captain Sully understood fully that everything…

I’ve been rewatching “From the Earth to the Moon” lately. A real shame that Chaikin’s book still hasn’t come out digitally.

This is a great movie and a good write-up, but fails to mention one of the most amazing aspects of the film, which is that they are able to wring genuine suspense out of the landing when we all knew going in that they survived!

I always leaven my criticisms of this film with the admission that I saw this 12 times in the theaters when it first came out (I grew up during the Apollo missions and my entire childhood was shaped by moon shots). Since its release, I’ve had a few things spoil the experience a bit for me (like discovering whole…

Speaking of failed missions, I still can’t believe no one has made a film about Project Azorian, in which the CIA, using Howard Hughes’s corporation as a cover, built a tanker ship with a concealed moon pool and grappling arm and attempted to retrieve a sunken Soviet submarine in the Pacific Ocean.  The sub was a few…

Being a real story rather than science fiction makes Apollo 13 more compelling though. Although it is interesting that Marooned predicted a similar case of astronauts in danger of suffocation before a real such situation occurred.