This was a big issue with MIR. You have to be very careful about cleaning and what you introduce when you station can never come home for a good cleaning. I know the US/ESA/JAX crew members don’t usually eat with the Russians anymore. I think they eat in Node 1 (Unity). Maybe that’s why.

I guarantee you that the Russians eat onions up there.

Well good news! There are no more Space Shuttle launches. The SRB’s were the vibration monsters there. Falcon 9 uses none and I’m not sure what config Atlas V is going to use, but certainly nothing like the big-ass SRB’s. Also CST/Dragon 2 won’t use sticks to push buttons.

The Russian module has carpeted walls. An astronaut told me that while the carpeting does keep noise down, it has other side effects. Like, it can’t be cleaned. So all the body moisture from the Russians ends up in the carpeting. And Russians eat onions like we eat oranges. Their body moisture is especially aromatic.…

A lot of them were mad with the water situation because (some of them) didn’t understand they couldn’t have unlimited water while other folks in urban areas were building drought gardens and talking 5 min showers. They also didn’t understand how some water had to make its way into the bay so that tributaries didn’t…

This happened a year-or-so ago on the east coast as well courtesy of ULA and an Atlas V. Obviously the whole space industry is in the sticky pocket of big sky sperm.

I realized about her age that religion is Bullshit, but my father would have beat my ass if I had said I was not going to church. I was a science lover and would sit in church thinking this shit don’t make no damm sense. The day I went away to college was like “free at last, free at last”😎

I suspect there was some magical “and then we all get double welfare and the brown ppl will pack up and leave!” thinking going on. Hoisted by their own petards?

His dad is as big of a douche as he is. In the 80’s I worked at a movie memorabilia store in L.A. called Bijou. We had a ton of celebrity clients and during the Christmas rush, John Landis came in, bypassed the entire line (of about 8 people) and asked me to go in back to get him a specific poster. I was ringing…

There's a difference between acknowledging that someone is female and saying "yeah dude, all these females" or "I got with this female last night". Those uses dehumanize women and reduce them to solely bodies that represent their gender.

That's what I meant, yes. It's fine as an adjective, and fine for talking about livestock. But not so fine when it's used as a noun to replace that oh-so-scary word "woman." It makes a person sound like a Ferengi or something. (I've run across a number of misogynists who use it that way, as well as quite a few gamers.)

Yeah, this was right around the time Chronicle came out. I only knew who he was, cause he told everyone within earshot. Which is cool. Hey, you were a writer on a big movie. Congrats. A bunch of us there were in film, so we could understand. It wasn't until he started name dropping his dad & his famous friends,…

"because Hollywood does take him seriously..." Light bulb went off right there. Why my son the film student wants absolutely nothing to do with the mainstream industry.

I have talked to Max Landis once, and not going to lie, thought he was sort of cute before he opened his mouth. (He had a different hairstyle then.) I was at a random party with two friends when he struck up a conversation with us. Small talk turned to "What do you do?" He says, "Do you want the long answer or the…

I certainly like his dad's movies, but us oldsters remember that John's irresponsibility led to three people (two of them young children) being killed on the set of The Twilight Zone movie. I don't recommend watching the footage AT ALL, but if you do it's pretty tough to see it as something other than obscene…

When you kill people in the Twilight Zone, it doesn't count in real life. Duh.

I imagine its a lot easier to be "successful" in Hollywood when you sell your first script "in collaboration" with your famous dad.

Another dude born on third and thinks he hit a triple. Can we launch them all into space?

Didn't his dad like, kill a bunch of people?

WHITE SUNGLASSES ALERT. I don't even have to read the article to know he's a fuck-bucket.