Amazon: Aqua Launch water rocket toys $8. Give one to a kid today. Buy a dozen.

Early DIY before DIY was an abreviation. I didn’t do that but many Revell airplanes got firecrackers stuck up their tailpipes. Good times.

Ah shit I want to be 10 again. 8-10 actually. Well, 8-13...those were great years. I’d kill to have had an ipod touch back then, but then I wouldn’t want to relive those times. So good.

FYI, there are actually two different Brita on-tap units. The more expensive and better quality one has an LED on the front; it changes from green to red to remind you the filter is old. The cheaper one ($ and quality) has a mechanical indicator on the top between the tap and filter. The filter is the same for both,…

FYI, there are actually two different Brita on-tap units. The more expensive and better quality one has an LED on…

Saw the 2-stage one but never flew it. Had a blast with those rockets. Those and the Guillows balsa gliders and rubber band planes. Hard to find now, probably banned by parent groups. For me it led to c-motor estes rockets and 0.49 powered planes (Guillows Spitfire, P-51, etc). Come to think of it, the kids these…

SpaceX hasnt proven shit about reusing a first stage.

...and the Blue Origin thing (does it even have a name?).

oh, the memories. Mine was all clear red plastic. Had a tall one too.

wish they wouldnt have given up on the linear aerospike,

We are all potential knowers, it’s what the mind does confronted with the world, from the first sensations in mom’s tummy to figuring out why are girls.

fish, water, swimming.

The full term is “true believer” and it dates from 1951 in Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer, a staple in socio and psych anthropology courses.

I watched the BW/silent version the day it was freak released and yanked. Loved it. I hadn’t seen FR before then. The soundtrack was intact but the little dialog there was had inter-titles (I think) and subtitles (?) ...honestly it was almost a dream so can’t recall exactly... but the B&W was very good and the music…

Pretty. But I’d rather be looking at the underside of a Cavradyne reactor engine. You see, it’s been lost since the 1960s and we’ve been stuck with this low impulse shit ever since.

Let’s review:
space stations we’ve built vs stations we want to build...

So far there’s nothing we have imagined that we haven’t been able to do when we actually tried to do it (and got the funding).

Any landing you can crawl away from is a mediocre one.

less horrible

Mars’ gravity is considerably more difficult to deal with than Ceres

I think we’ll see a manned mission to an Asteroid (possibly Ceres) before we see a man on Mars.