Journalists consistently and hilariously mislabel aircraft, or use a stock photo with the wrong type. But this isn’t unique for my industry. As soon as you are steeped in a profession, especially a technical profession, this sort of thing happens. Aviation, along with a few others, is a bit special because so many…

Every pilot starts out in small aircraft. Not much automation to speak of. So we have experience of flying stuff that is quite simplistic. More importantly, any good pilot education aims at molding a “thinking pilot”. Don’t blindly trust automation or calculations.

Indeed. Carrying Buran was the purpose of the An-225 development.

Different, yes, but it is still a derivative of the An-124, radical though the changes were. It has a new split tail, fuselage plugs to make it longer, root extensions for increased span, no rear ramp.

Ah I see. Yes. Yes it is. Only a single one made, though to be fair it is a derivative of the An-124.

What about it?

First of all, thanks for your questions.

I know you meant it as a joke, but one physical runway is actually two usable runways, one from each direction, so the bits at the end on takeoff are used when taking off and landing in the other direction.

It’s possible the pilots made an error in their performance calculations.

I wouldn’t call it boring, but I take your point. Amazing action scenes and locations made it worth watching, as long as you didn’t try to think about the plot too much.

I must have watched that movie 20-30 times. It isn’t super-accurate either a technological or character perspective. But that isn’t the point. It paints a picture of the zeitgeist that is unrivaled.

The sequel is similarly ambitious but not nearly as good IMHO.

Spiders and lizards catch bugs. Be nice to them. ;)

I know what you mean. I knew only because I read his autobiography.

Michelle Yeoh can indeed do no wrong. It’s worth watching Crazy Rich Asians just to see her glare.

I hadn’t heard that but it makes perfect sense. Chow Yun-Fat is from Hong Kong so his native language would be Cantonese. As mentioned by jtso, Mandarin is Michelle Yeoh fourth language. She grew up speaking English and Malay, and learned Cantonese later on. She learned her lines for the movie phonetically.

Medina Station—the Belter outpost closest to the Ring Gate—in disgust.

I stopped watching in season 2, so in my headcanon that’s where they are.

One option is a spinoff limited series that covers the final trilogy. You could even use other actors given the gap of several decades.