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Just watched The Expanse season finale. Now comes the part where I have to suffer for months waiting for the next one...

A few years ago I took a train from San Francisco back to Washington DC via Chicago, a 3 night trip by rail. During the first leg, from Sacramento to Denver through Donner Pass and on through Utah and the Rocky Mountains, there were two British tourists on the train in my sleeper car. I hung...

That's a great article, and the photos of Jim Christy then and now are wonderful.

Took me a while to see what was significant about that place, and then it hit me LOL!

That sounds like the kind of thing that could only happen in Silicon Valley. Except that it's LA, which is a few hours south, so I guess it could also happen in a Hollywood movie...about Silicon Valley.

Saw it today. Liked it. I agree that it doesn't measure up to Rogue One, but it's a decent effort, the characters are likeable and interesting, the story was okay. I like that we get a lot more of Chewbacca character development in this than in any previous SW film. Seeing him and Han build...

I'm actually intrigued by the VR screensavers...

Stuff like this is why I'm skeptical of all the talk about autonomous vehicles being "just around the corner". This technology is pushed out to the public by overly optimistic people like the kind who work for guys like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, and it's not ready yet. I suppose the good...

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The worst thing about it is that when you get to Newark, you're not done traveling yet, since nobody willingly spends any time in Newark, NJ.

You know, I was thinking about it. I wonder if you could refit an Me-163 to use a safer hybrid rocket engine like the one used in the Scaled Composites rocket planes. After each flight you just swap out the whole propulsion unit. It would probably be better to build a replica aircraft rather...

Now here's something you don't see every day: a flying example of an Me-163 Komet. Minus the scary dangerous rocket system, fortunately. Operates as a towed glider. ---------- Post added at 08:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:47 AM ---------- Last night listening to the radio a guy...

Hmm. That gives Northrop Grumman a taste of the US launch vehicle business, so far dominated by Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and lately the upstart SpaceX. Orbital ATK has maintained a foot in the door at least.

That's too simple and flippant an explanation and puts the engineers in a negative light. The fact is that there are different schools of thought and philosophies on how to design, build, and operate systems, driven by history, customer requirements, market forces, and background...

I did this too once, and it did do some pretty weird things to my phone. I don't recall it rebooting, but maybe. 20 years after Lockheed merged with Martin to become Lockheed Martin, there are still a few old timers from each side of the company who clash, I've been told. This is said of...

I thought you were in the army in the late 80s? I always figured you, me, and PhantomCruiser were about the same age.

Yes, on M6 if you didn't get banned once in a while you weren't really having much fun I guess. Also common were technical issues galore. Always some kind of bug or problem. But there was a lot of useful information there for developers and others. Martins kept it up for reference for quite a...

The Great M6-o-clysm. I can't believe it was that long ago now. The weird thing I remember is that there were several imposter accounts set up here to settle scores for grudges people carried over from M6. Some clown registered with Urwumpe's user name before Urwumpe himself migrated here...

I haven't read the novels, sorry. Part of that is intentional, as I don't want to spoil it for myself, nor do I want to be disappointed when one does not match the other to my satisfaction. Maybe after the series is played out I will go back and read them.

So The Expanse has been saved by Amazon, which is great news. Just saw the latest episode. I love that this show has managed to make high drama out of high-G maneuvers. Oh, if only Robert Heinlein and Jerry Pournelle were alive to see this!