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The flight came in high (so landed long), hot (as in significantly faster), arguably with both engines out at around 400-500 feet (for reference, Sully happened at near 3000 ft). No engines likely means no hydraulic pumps, teardrop pattern back to… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by lalochezia, Dimpy, nofundy, emf, gudrun, Sauce Trough
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

The utterly gleeful lampshading of "Engage The Core!" in its final (?) breath sums up the chaotic love of Lower Decks for the rest of the Star Trek universe. [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by rmd1023, jedicus, Atreides
FanFare comment - 3 weeks ago

The same quirk has allowed for another fun fact in 2018. May 15: Yankees at Nationals game is delayed. May 20: Juan Soto debuts in the Majors. June 18: The delayed game is rescheduled and continues, with Soto now in the line-up. Soto gets a home… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

It surprises the 'avid space watcher' in me that this flight ever left the ground, given it was sitting on the launch pad with a helium leak in its thrusters... but they went anyway. "When the Starliner was launched on June 5, one small… [more]
favorited 10 times, recently by Emmy Rae, swerve, doctornemo, congen, flug, Combat Wombat, cendawanita, audi alteram partem, sotonohito, Kato
MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Also... the vast vast majority of personnel over the age of 25 have been murdered. That fleet is more than decimated in terms of staffing, lacking knowledge, and PTSD should be everywhere. That's the story, a Federation with no ships, a planet with… [more]
favorited 13 times, recently by donio, Syllepsis
FanFare comment - 4 months ago

"Something like this likely wouldn't have happened in the West." STS 51-L. Challenger might not have had as much of an environmental impact, but in terms of management practices, groupthink, pressure on individuals, willful ignorance… [more]
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FanFare comment - 4 months ago

You do not rename a ship. It's bad luck. It angers the gods. You simply do not do it. The USS Titan is the USS Titan. As it was, so it is, so it will be. The legend of the single ship that held fast against the entire fleet, is the Titan. A name… [more]
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FanFare comment - 4 months ago

I've had this on the "probably my best of 2024 playlist" since its release and I'm confident it's going in reach my top three in December. Electric Cowboy popped up on my radar during Eurovision 2022 season when they submitted "Pump… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Is "Belgium" there? [more]
favorited 12 times, recently by Just this guy, y'know, jpziller, hototogisu, bryon, PresidentOfDinosaurs, PlusDistance, Navelgazer, May Kasahara, Foosnark, humbug, chavenet, cobaltnine
MeFi comment - 5 months ago

"...Ron Moore is gleefully flying the Danny-Karen storyline into the ground in spite of or even because of the hate he's reading online" What's frustrating to me is that if instead of this crappy daytime soap contrivance, Moore… [more]
favorited 10 times, recently by mabelstreet
FanFare comment - 7 months ago

The correct response to "Hi Bob" is "Don't you fekkin' 'Hi Bob' me." I can't help feeling that this dropping of the ball on the characterisation and history of two of the leads is a microcosm of what I felt has changed in the… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by Otherwise, Cecilia Rose, mmoncur, blueberry, bombastic lowercase pronouncements
FanFare comment - 7 months ago

Much like Seth MacFarlane made sure that "The Orville" had a season closer that would work well as a series closer, I think David Jenkins looked at the runes, the new direction of HBOMax, and (what sounds like) a huge fight to get even a… [more]
favorited 10 times, recently by BlahLaLa, SeedStitch, Sweetie Darling, queensissy, caviar2d2, humbug, Atreides, fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit, bassooner, dlugoczaj
FanFare comment - 8 months ago

"...put it in h!!!" Sounds like an SCE to AUX moment. Love it! [more]
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FanFare comment - 8 months ago

Surely the Phoenix has a radar, and the MSAM can launch at the right time to let the mothership handle the maths? Buzz Aldrin and James Lovell managed this with essentially no computer and a slide rule on Gemini 12... Which was before the timeline… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by Otherwise
FanFare comment - 8 months ago

I'm not noticing a decline in quality; it's always been soapy sci fi. The following is clearly IMO I'd certainly agree with the later, it was there in S1. But what was also there in S1 was an air of competence in the characters... and… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by mmoncur, Otherwise
FanFare comment - 8 months ago

So much idiot ball catching, so much telenovella-worthy drama, this doesn't feel the same show as S1. For S1 (and most of S2) I would happily rewatch immediately. Now it's a watch once to find out what has happened - I still have some engagement -… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by Otherwise
FanFare comment - 8 months ago

Untill this shows the Z-Axis for Type-0 (single timeline, it always happened) to Type-1 (multiverse, everything happens and you can never get home again) it's worthless. * the Type-0 Type-1 functions of time travel come from the Edinburgh… [more]
favorited 10 times, recently by polytope subirb enby-of-piano-dice, tdismukes, ASCII Costanza head, AsYouKnow Bob, purple_frogs, boomdelala, Knowyournuts, Samuel Farrow, ursus_comiter, audi alteram partem
MeFi comment - 10 months ago

From a friend's posts on twitter (@Oceanbound is a former Coastguard involved with SAR)... "And the Coast Guard will continue actually doing the work. Let me explain something here (besides the fact that those images could be from anywhere)… [more]
favorited 37 times, recently by right_then, Devoidoid, Gelatin, Death and Gravity, Mister Moofoo, polytope subirb enby-of-piano-dice, mpc, wenestvedt, Cheese Monster, mmoncur, DingoMutt, Jilder, coldhotel, peacheater, theora55, rifflesby, hydra77, Neronomius, khrusanthemon, peppermind, knotty knots, Bella Donna, Mavri, Thorzdad, bluesky43
MeFi comment - 10 months ago

To be rather picky,, the Nokia 9000 launched in 1996, Blackberry's email/pager hybrid launch in 99 and their acknowledged smartphone arrived 2002. It's the world's first smartphone if you use world in the same context as MLB's World Series. ...but… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by hototogisu, dr_dank
FanFare comment - 10 months ago

So, the Molly Cobb Revolutionary Navy is going to launch a mission to redirect an asteroid. I see where this is going. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by coriolisdave, bowline, Atreides, Blue Jello Elf
FanFare comment - 11 months ago

I see that For All Mankind has sidestepped the big question... why is it easier to train oil-rig drillers to become astronauts than it is to train astronauts to become oil rig drillers? We've got plasma engines, I suspect they'll needed tuned up a… [more]
favorited 8 times, recently by Cecilia Rose, teleri025, Atreides, billsaysthis, whir, Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug, mmoncur, biffa
FanFare comment - Last year

While it's not strictly an Air Buds Rules video, one of my favourite "deepest dive possible" from Jon Bois and the Secret Base team was their two-parter on "The Bob Emergency: a study of athletes named Bob," and the rise and fall… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Navelgazer
MeFi comment - Last year

"Moopsy!" [more]
favorited 13 times, recently by Pronoiac, jzb, tzikeh, eckeric, dr_dank, heathrowga, maryellenreads, schmod, Space Kitty, /\/\/\/, Atreides, tomboko, Servo5678
FanFare comment - Last year

It might not be the Doctor talking through his problems, and it might not be strictly Missy... but I am reminded of this sketch from Pschyobitches with Michelle Gomez ... (sweary in a Scottish way, consider the strong language... punctuation). [more]
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FanFare comment - Last year

Stepping outside the story just for a second, what I find incredible is how RTD has essentially ctrl-alt-del Doctor Who. There was a narrative around Whittaker (and arguably Capaldi) that "the show was sliding away from its high point and there… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by heathrowga, adamt, Servo5678, mmoncur, Fuchsoid, Blue Jello Elf
FanFare comment - Last year

A delightful Pacific Rim read over coffee is The Visual Intelligence of Pacific Rim: "I want to talk about the visual cues surrounding this character. Mako's character development is actually almost entirely visual in nature--no one talks… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by Zumbador, idb, ursus_comiter, Atreides, autopilot, Fuchsoid, gudrun
FanFare comment - Last year

Matt Baume's long form YouTube on the life of Norman Lear went a long way to explaining to this Scotsman his impact. Worth watching again today. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by MrVisible, filtergik, Pendragon, Coaticass
MeFi comment - Last year

Love is grief, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by Covert Kaiju
FanFare comment - Last year

Microsoft OneNote for me, and has been since (eek) 2003 and its inclusion in Compaq TC1000 with Windows XP Tablet. Okay that's far longer on the calendar than I though. The same two files (Notebooks) are still in use today, one for archive and one… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by seapig, hearthpig, Leviathant, audi alteram partem
MeFi comment - Last year

With Mawaan Rizwan mostly known to me through Taskmaster, part of me felt like "come up with a name for your evil robot' was a great task. And then his teammate had to improvise a weapon. [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by ceejaytee, Isingthebodyelectric, synecdoche, daisystomper, crossoverman
MeFi comment - Last year

Livik is Badgey in human form, right? Right?! [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by Space Kitty, DoctorFedora, Etrigan, Akhu, Atreides
FanFare comment - Last year

"I'm a wild rogue, living on the edge of chaos, I sit weird in chairs." Yes Mariner, you give off that exact energy. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by Atreides, DoctorFedora, Just this guy, y'know, Halloween Jack
FanFare comment - Last year

How big an idiot ball was thrown around to make that episode of #Picard work? There's suspension of disbelief, and then there's 'Qualified Shuttle Pilot forgets everything' #Spacecamp levels of disbelief. Strip away the shiny distraction of… [more]
favorited 10 times, recently by bq, Syllepsis
FanFare comment - Last year

Just checked my copy of VLC on Android. There's a big 'shuffle' button on the 'audio' tab that shuffles and plays from my entire library. That sounds like what you are looking for. VLC on Google Play - Direct APK Download - Various source codes… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by k3ninho, coldhotel, genpfault, soundguy99, dragonplayer
Ask MeFi comment - Last year

Cameron is very much part of the deep submersible vehicle community, not least because of his solo trip to Challenger Deep on a vehicle he contributed to, but also with all his work around Titanic, etc. It does not come to me as a surprise that a… [more]
favorited 14 times, recently by Gelatin, OnceUponATime, elphaba, wenestvedt, Dante Riordan, Jilder, Sparky Buttons
MeFi comment - Last year

Oceanographer Bob Ballard speaking to ABC... followed by James Cameron speaking to ABC after the news, about the design, the risk, and ... Cameron's being very restrained. Right at the end is an 'interesting' line. "They probably had a warning… [more]
favorited 16 times, recently by Gelatin, DirtyOldTown, ImproviseOrDie, mpc, JaneTheGood, peacheater, fook, peppermind
MeFi comment - Last year

On the ballast weights, one of the contingency plans if weights were stuck was to rock the Titan from side to side with the body mass of the crew, to allow the weights to slide off... so any implosion would surely shake the weights off? [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by OnceUponATime
MeFi comment - Last year

"The 40 Best American TV Finales of the 21st Century, Ranked" The Gene Genie has fixed that for you. [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

Unless it's a huge bluff, giving away Moriarty in the trailer was a ... courageous decision. [more]
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FanFare comment - Last year

Jackie Daytona for me as well. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last year

I remember watching this at the time; it certainly felt like a ßcrewball comedy with the various 'almost true' training things. The moment on the "launch" when the paid actor who was acting as one of the trainees quietly said " I want… [more]
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MeFi comment - Two years ago

If we're throwing mercilless banter to hosts on UK shows, can I nominate Johnny Vegas' perfectly timed lines as The Last Leg team try to record a trailer for that night's show? [more]
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MeFi comment - Two years ago

Slightly more punk, but managed to reach #7 in the UK Christmas Charts with unsurprisingly no airplay or mentions in the annual round-ups... "Fuck The Tories". Or you can have one of 16 different mixes in a variety of song styles through… [more]
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MeFi comment - Two years ago

That was... the most expensive piece of AO3fan-fiction broadcast on television I have ever seen. As for the companion and generation choices - I have a suspicion that the upcoming specials from RTD will be exclusively Nu-Who returnees; in which… [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

Ah, for the days when you could say The Avengers and everyone in the United Kingdom knew who you meant. [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

I want a Season 4... there's still so much to explore (Mercer's daughter for one, the creepy Cronenberg creatures from early in the season as another). But if that's it for The Orville, if there's no Season 4, then Seth has brought it in for a smooth… [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

One thing worth bearing in mind is that, for all the fury and commentary, there is no part of the electorate that actually votes on the Prime Minister. The role of PM is best described as "the person who can command the support of the majority… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Two years ago

I was too much of a space nerd to ever settle into Spacecamp. You can have fantasy but you need consistent rules. And in 1986 I knew the rules. Andie is in a shuttle full of kids, losing comms, knowing it's not flight ready... There's your two… [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

Did Paul lose a bet and now he has to say "Hero Flavour" fifty times before the end of the season? [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

"Hey, all I know is, there is no other song by any other artist that is used by its annual bump up in online requests than All I Want Is You is used to show when the communal "Holiday Spirit" has begun amongst the general… [more]
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MeFi comment - Two years ago

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