@Golem100:
Reading details of just why it is nearly perpendicular to the ground freaks me out almost too much. Oh, the humanity!
In a near-vertical position, after her tail rose out-of-control while she was moored at the high mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, shortly after 1:30 PM on 25 August 1927.
This incident, which resulted from the sudden arrival of a cold air front that lifted the airship's tail, causing it to rise before she could swing around the mast parallel to the new wind direction. Los Angeles suffered only minor damage, but the affair demonstrated the risks involved with high mooring masts.
[www.ibiblio.org]
Reading details of just why it is nearly perpendicular to the ground freaks me out almost too much. Oh, the humanity!
In a near-vertical position, after her tail rose out-of-control while she was moored at the high mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, shortly after 1:30 PM on 25 August 1927.
This incident, which resulted from the sudden arrival of a cold air front that lifted the airship's tail, causing it to rise before she could swing around the mast parallel to the new wind direction. Los Angeles suffered only minor damage, but the affair demonstrated the risks involved with high mooring masts.
[www.ibiblio.org]
I suppose Superman II didn't make the list because, why? The superhero genre is not pure science fiction? The only qualification for the list is escape from a virtual prison.
General Zod, Ursa and that other guy (couldn't locate his name on IMDB) were remanded to the Phantom Zone at the beginning of Superman I, to what would seem to be the very idea of a what a virtual prison might be.
If it's not melting ice-caps you've still got a host of disasters any of which can snuff us out without much recourse. You've got your errant asteroid or comet, deep-space gamma ray bursts, rogue black holes, global epidemics that make the swine flu look like the 24 hour bug, , biotech/nanotech disasters , ecosystem collapse of all kinds neither far-fetched or far away.
My favorite would be an alien invasion but not at all like 'War of the Worlds'. Yeah, we all want to live on ,see the future of Mankind as "Star Trek" but really have to wonder about it coming to fruition in any meaningful way. This is 2009 and NASA is thinking of abandoning its plans for a manned lunar presence due to budgetary considerations. Sorry, Jim, but the future ain't what it used to be...
In the second image even without magnification you can clearly make out the mouth, array of teeth on what should have said ANT as it strikes an eerily-familiar Alien- creature like pose in combat with the fly.
In the second image even without magnification you can clearly make out the mouth, array of teeth on the art as it strikes an eerily-familiar Alien like pose in combat with the fly.
James Webb Telescope
[www.jwst.nasa.gov]
[www.jwst.nasa.gov]
The JWST is the next generation space telescope as replacement for the Hubble with capabilities many times more than the vaunted HST. Unfortunately launching is not to take place until 2013.
Notwithstanding humans having already been cloned that there is absolutely no way cloned humans won't happen is not much of a revelation from a technologically scientific point of view.
The capability for human cloning will indeed eventually be mastered sooner rather than later.
What is most fundamental, paramount to the dynamics in which humans will utilize cloning is from the perspective of social engineering, bio-ethical issues that unless kept under a watchful, highly-regulated eye
will undoubtedly turn out to be its inherently much greater capacity as diabolical self-inflicting genie out of the bottle than nuclear technology could ever be.
@TheKeyMaster:
Watch it,Buster. Keep up your snide, snarky comments and I'll have your monitor suck you up,in head first, peristalsis managing to dump whatever part of your body the giant Slimeworm's churning gastrointestinal tract could make no use of.
Watch it,Buster. Keep up your snide, snarky comments and I'll have your monitor suck you up,in head first, peristalsis managing to dump whatever part of your body the giant Slimeworm's churning gastrointestinal tract could make no use of.
From s fable you learned of in childhood.
Okay,okay.I really didn't want any part of it, didn't want to acknowledge any of the newfangled, temporally reformulated, revisionist Trek lore as the most egregiously blatant sort of Trek blasphemy imaginable.
These were no mere mortals they were messing with. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, legends of Star Fleet, they were. The gods of all things Trek. You might as well redo The Book of Genesis. I wanted no part of it. No infidel Trek transgressor could I ever be.
And at first, it was quite easy to distance yourself from what seemed a very dicey risk taking approach,this New 'Trek' Testament made converts hard to come by with their seemingly pubescent twenty-something crew, and not another time-travel plot retread, all of which
had me secretly praying it all turn out to be the 'George Lazenby' of Trek misadventures.
And despite all my initial skepticism, slowly, inexorably, this new Trek iteration seems to be taking on a compelling, intriguing life all its very own, and much more than that, from what I've surmised.
It seems to me from the albeit very limited things to go by, the new Trek production team has done a brilliant job in passing the legendary Kirk character mantle in a manner no one dared to otherwise attempt
....but then we may all not.
@jbrecken:
Yeah,I know. People tell me that all the time.
But definitely worth the price having a Holo-deck inside my head.
Yeah,I know. People tell me that all the time.
But definitely worth the price having a Holo-deck inside my head.
@nagumi:
Ha! :-) You remembered!
Brought to you by the same extraordinarily realistic special effects studio that brought us the Gorn.
Ha! :-) You remembered!
Brought to you by the same extraordinarily realistic special effects studio that brought us the Gorn.
Arrghhh. Captain Kirk, I shall be merciful.
It's rather obvious how rather exhilarated I am by all of this.
You've included Apollo 16 mission profile, NASA images, but failed to include the most incredibly stunning QTVR-Quick Time Virtual Reality of all Apollo landing missions
incredible QTVR Quick Time Virtual Reality with360 degree panorama, zoom capability
and audio as recorded by the astronauts as it happened.
QuickTime VR moves the photographic image from the flat 2D world into the definitive immersive experience - complete with 3D imagery and interactive components.
QuickTime VR enables viewers to explore virtual worlds using nothing more than a
computer and mouse - no cumbersome goggles, headsets or gloves required.
[www.apple.com]
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QTVR Apollo 16 360 degree panorama, zoom, audio
of astronauts on the moon as it happened
[www.panoramas.dk]
Apollo 11-17
[www.panoramas.dk]
Two words; space porn.
@Canoehead:
The sting of stigma as plagiarist parasite shall forever be my legacy :-(
BTW:Never saw "Airplane".
The sting of stigma as plagiarist parasite shall forever be my legacy :-(
BTW:Never saw "Airplane".
Back in high school we'd play a silly little game called "World's Thinnest Books" conjuring up book titles of dubious distinction, "Germany's Contribution to the Sitcom", "Greatest Military Campaigns of World War II by Italy", "Greatest Jews in Sports", will now officially be expanded to "Greatest Jewish Superheros of All Time".
While i have maintained a very cynical, Vulcan-meets-Alfred E.Neuman sense of detachment to it all, I was very pleased to have taken notice what I sense is a harbinger of very good things to come with the young Kirk as seen n the brief bar scene clip having effectively mastered, demonstrated specific nuanced subtleties of his older self's larger than life persona that has struck a very responsive chord of optimism and anticipation.
@talos4:
Sorry about the previous posting mishap. Hopefully this will work,
Sorry about the previous posting mishap. Hopefully this will work,
@talos4:
Sorry about the previous posting mishap. Hopefully this will correct the problem
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Sorry about the previous posting mishap. Hopefully this will correct the problem
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