History, Politics And Current Affairs

Message from Artemis 2 Pilot Victor Glover to Earth. Thank you to all of you for allowing us the immense privilege to be on this journey together. It's quite amazing. And as we go on this journey, thinking about the NASA mission to explore the unknown in air and space, to innovate for the benefit o...

Was excellent to watch it all happen live. Outstanding. God speed to the crew for a fully successful mission. I felt like a kid again. Only thing that bothered me was the NASA video quality. I mean, I realize money was tight, but they could have done better than Dollar Store security cams. Mike

...You know, this is how the movie always starts....

Mike

I think they’d be ignored these days. There was a strong online campaign to save Lower Decks & it came to nothing. 😢 I've seen a couple stories that stated there was never any chance of Lower Decks getting another season, because The Powers That Be were highly annoyed that it had gotten consist...

...I wanna PARTY with this guy.

Mike

"Fear Not", says Chuck Norris to terrified angels

Mike

...He didn't die. He just returned to his home world.

Mike

Oh, I'm in favor of naming SSBNs after presidents. They possess the most destructive capability of any ship, and it does my heart good knowing that the only time they make the news is if someone f&cked up. However, don't name anything after anyone until they're safely dead. Use appropriate meas...

....Hmmmm.

They seem to have misspelled 'Ranger'.

Then Yorktown.

Mike

Davion Highlander wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2026 7:52 pm How can they have it with Walsh... I mean didn't he get impaled???

Well, we can safely assume there were adventures between the last episode and Serenity. Not to mention Alan Tudyk is a talented enough voice actor that I think he may end up doing Shephard Book as well.

Mike

...It is official: we're getting an animated Firefly series.

https://www.tvline.com/2123682/firefly- ... lan-tudyk/

Mike

...The 11th, to be precise.

https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2026/03 ... a-n4950566

Mike

...LOTS of chatter over the last couple days about these videos - Nathan Fillion visiting some of the crew of the Serenity with some cryptic (and funny) back-and-forth. https://sffgazette.com/sci_fi/television/nathan-fillion-teases-firefly-announcement-coming-this-sunday-a9778?utm_source=fark&ut...

...Spent the weekend in VA with Bob, did an IPMS show, Appomattox Court House, and the National D-Day Memorial, just got back a couple hours ago.

So, did I miss anything?

Mike

From Popular Mechanics via Yahoo! : During the late 1960s, a top-secret Soviet program to sneak nuclear weapons around U.S. early warning radars was mistaken for a rash of UFO sightings by Moscow’s citizens. The weapon, known as FOBS, created a mysterious pattern in the night sky that many mistook f...

FWIW, a gentleman I know (He's a fellow IPMS member) got Discovery Channel to actually finance a trip to New Guinea to search for Amelia. The result was Finding Amelia , which I think is still available on Discovery. I can't tell you much more about it, because that would give away his theory....but...

....I'm now longing for the peace, quiet, tranquility, and restfulness of a PACAF ORI.

Mike

gtg947h wrote: ↑Tue Feb 17, 2026 12:40 pm Hm.

I am still uneasy (at best) about AI in general. But if we're going to have mass drivers on the moon, and AI running things, we have to name it Mike. Just saying...

I approve.

Mike

kdahm wrote: ↑Fri Feb 13, 2026 4:01 pm I'll say, though, the reality of the SM-62 Snark was significantly better than that one test, with a test CEP larger than a continent.

...Ya miss a continent ONCE, and they never let you hear the end of it.

Mike

...Today I Learned:

* In testing, the Wehrmacht said the V-1 had a CEP of 850 meters.

*In postwar testing, the V-1 was found to have a CEP of 12 kilometers.

Mike