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LOL maybe. Baseball in recent years suffered setbacks in popularity relative to (American) football. But baseball is still huge, and it's also huge in Latin America and Japan and it's growing in places like China. I don't know how much of a "cultural warfare" success you could call that, though.

Wow. I like the green ones in photo 11. Were I an eccentric rich man I would buy lots of those bikes and start my own bike garden on an estate somewhere, like a giant English garden type of thing. Shame to see all those machines go to waste.

As I slimmed through that article I kept seeing "CA" in sentences, which means "Cricket Australia", but my eyes kept seeing "CIA". So, I was thinking, the CIA is involved. Serious cricket problem indeed. :lol:

That reads like a bunch of bureaucratic BS to my non-expert eyes, but congrats to the launch team and satellite owners on the successful launch.

Funny thing is that for all the hate the Shuttle got, the Shuttle was the thing that saved Hubble from its manufacturing defect. JWST won't have that option, so they'd better get it right on one try.

Yep. Or, like I said, he could just pay somebody to take him up in an airplane.

That's a handsome launch vehicle. I'm a big fan of fins on rockets like that. The Saturn family also had them. Classic look.

Hubble also doesn't maneuver and isn't getting any more Shuttle love. Plus it's been humming along quietly doing its job, which at this point has lost some glamour while attention has moved on to New Horizons, SpaceX spectacular rocket stunts, etc.

Evel Knievel never had much of a problem getting sponsors and publicity.

Classic from the early 80s, amazingly modern-sounding:

Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between courage and stupidity. In this case, I'm not finding it so hard. Had he built his vehicle just to fly for thrills, like other dangerous sports, he'd be a little less dumb in my mind. Especially since, given his stated goal of flying...

Bat-corking, spitballs, sandpaper hidden in the pitcher's uniform, steroids, and of course the infamous pine tar incident of 1983. Add to that betting (Pete Rose) and game-throwing (The Black Sox Scandal of 1919), all of which is part of the "colorful" history of baseball.

Well now, looks like we have another player in the "private rocketry" business LOL: https://www.yahoo.com/news/flat-earther-blasts-off-homemade-095314764.html This guy is destined for bigger and better things for sure! :yes:

I am confusion... I can't tell what is being discussed here. So here is a link: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/25/sport/cricket-australia-ball-tampering-intl/index.html Seems like an awful lot of melodrama over simple sports cheating, but what do I know? In baseball this sort of thing is a...

I once had a serious cricket problem. The little bugger was inside the bedroom wall and would randomly chirp every few minutes, keeping me up all night. I took the switch and outlet plates off the walls and sprayed copious amounts of insecticide into them, but the little guy was dug in deep...

I hear you. I told a friend of mine that for the first time in my life I probably don't care about the next SW movie. And I have seen every one of them in the theater since 1977, when I was almost too young to remember it. Here we are about to cap off the Trilogy of Trilogies and...

Kind of like this? Lots of people have been working on these things for a while, but you're right about the battery life.

Well there are no Concordes flying anymore for a reason, despite the airframes all having a significant amount of service life left. Part of that is political in nature, I am guessing, since Virgin Atlantic offered to buy/lease them and were told "No."

Sounds miserable, but for me doing the trip in one leg with no layovers is less stressful than breaking it up. It's not like the stopovers in airports are actually any better for your body, aside from letting you stretch your legs a little more. Air travel is miserable enough as it is; just get...

There are videos of people playing with hypergolic reactions in test tubes that are crazy to my eyes. I'm not a chemist, but I was told that stuff will burn your lungs and to stay away from it. It's not like I've never done stupid dangerous things in my life; anyone who hasn't, hasn't...