Ever since the awarded it to LA, I’ve been wondering how they were going to get it from LAX to Exposition Park without pulling off wings or vertical stabilizer, given all the overhead and street-width issues on city streets. Well, here’s a description of the route. Despite what they say, I’ll bet some old trees will die for this.
Category Archives: Popular Culture
Comeback Kid
Is Curiosity a sign of a new NASA?
I’ll believe there’s a new NASA when Webb and SLS are finally put out of their misery. But the problem isn’t just NASA — it’s Congress.
Documenting Curiosity’s Landing
Field notes from an anthropologist.
Mark Twain Video
Not really — as the first commenter points out, it’s film, but it’s pretty cool. Particularly considering who the film maker was.
Gore Vidal
The self loathing ends.
Evoloterra
One of the saddest things about the atrocity (not “tragedy” — does no one know the meaning of that word any more?) in Colorado (for me personally, of course, obviously not for the friends and families of those involved) is that it completely derailed any commemoration of what we accomplished forty-three years ago today. But while we have done a segment on The Space Show on the subject this time of year every year for the past half dozen, today was the first time that we did one a) with Margaret Jordan, one of the other authors and b) actually performed the ceremony live on air (or rather, on line). It got a good response, with several callers calling in to say that they were moved in listening to it, and were going to perform it themselves. If so, that’s great, because that’s why we wrote it. Perhaps we should have done it years ago. Anyway, here is the link, and the podcast is available now. You might also want to check out The Space Show blog.
You Are Not Allowed To Defend Yourself
…in Cinemark theaters. Yeah, the guy was armored up, but someone could still have gotten in a head shot, if they’d been allowed to have a gun. I wonder if any of the victims has CCW, and can sue?
Do People Kill People?
Or do movies kill people?
[Update a while later]
So he was reportedly working on graduate degree in neuroscience before he dropped out. I wonder if he was attempting to self diagnose?
Tom Brosz
…has written a book. Tom is a long-time space enthusiast, who used to publish the Commercial Space Report way back when with Gary Hudson.
Modern Warfare
How to capture Cinderella’s Castle. Good ideas in comments.
It would be totally worth it just to take out “It’s A Small World.”