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Yes, that one would be rather scary for young kids. However, William Marshall did do a kids' TV show years later. (He also played Captain Hook in...

Ditto. This applies both for shop tools and cooking tools.

Cartoon Laws of Physics

Interesting. I was thinking that the path of the asteroid around the sun would be very similar to the earths, we'd slowly meet. Then the collision...

Idiocy is even worse than Covid. There is a treatment and a vaccine (education), but like the Covid vaccine, it is not completely effective, and...

Launch one and then we'll see how much of a competitor you are to SpaceX.

Indeed. Two of my cousins got it, one died. And we still have idiots doing the denialist thing.

Oh, c'mon! You've all seen the cartoons where the car/truck/whatever gets going so fast it bends back and squishes down some. You just don't...

I’m going to have to add the bit about a slipstream working in a shorter vehicle to the category of “stuff you just don’t get”. If “shorter” means...

At some point today, I have to find a way to watch Blacula without the kids, for an article I'm writing for tomorrow.

Yesterday, I got the news that my favourite aunt--honestly, my favourite relative outside Graham and the kids--got her first shot. I should find out...

Apparently he was hoping that the clearance was a lie, I guess, and that while a vehicle as tall as his might get stuck, going fast enough would keep...

Around the time Virgin Galactic was announced, someone ran a sweepstakes for a ticket for a flight. I had a back injury at the time, and figured it...

Yes, relativistic length contraction doesn't work at right angles to the velocity vector. (I don't know what "slipstream" means in this context, but...

I think this is one of the more popular channels. Some of those trucks get opened up like a can of sardines.

KSLV-2 rocket development to get 30% of this year's budget. https://spacenews.com/south-korea-to-spend-553-million-on-space-projects-in-2021/

Has anyone watched “the end of the line” about over fishing? Sobering.

China introduces yet another rocket into its Long March series - Long March-6A ...

I am a supporter of buying quality devices. You pay more once, but then you use it for years and not be fooled that you need to buy something else.

FAA Operations Plan Advisory for Feb. 26 includes a SpaceX Starship launch, https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_spt.jsp

I think I predicted back last spring that before this was over, most people would personally know someone who died, and we'd all certainly know...

Virgin Galactic says it is delaying the next test flight of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle by more than two months to address technical issues,...