Thoughts from Laura Seward Forczyk. As she notes, media hype about SLS/Orion getting anyone to Mars is greatly exaggerated, with the connivance of NASA PAO.
Category Archives: Popular Culture
Sports Diets
“I ate 5000 calories of saturated fat per day, and this is what happened.”
Carb loading is a crock.
The New “Tomorrowland” Trailer
…is very Heinleinian.
The Jetsons
Will they go to church?
Of course, for some, science is a religion.
Star Trek Heresy
Matthew Continetti does not love Spock.
Last week, I tweeted that I was going to write a post about how Obama is not Spock like, but to the degrees that he is, I agree that it’s Spock’s most annoying traits.
[Afternoon update]
The gauntlet has been thrown:
Continetti just glosses over the sacrifice at the Battle of the Mutara Nebula, I assume because he knows it demolishes his case. What about the personal loss at the betrayal of Valeris? What about the hurtful but necessary decision — directly enforced by Spock — to let Edith Keeler die? How I hated him for that! But look, who among us wouldn’t let Hitler dominate the world in exchange for a lifetime of sweet sweet loving from young Joan Collins? Anyone? No one? Just me?
Heh.
Ground Into Sky
The topology of Interstellar. An interesting history of space colony design concepts.
Rules Of The Roadrunner
This is great.
What a wonderful document: Chuck Jones's rules for writing the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote. ht @AmosPosner pic.twitter.com/o5ziZymEcY
— Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) March 4, 2015
An Angry Beige Nerd
Spock
How he became a sex symbol.
Lady Gaga
[Update a while later]
Why is everyone so surprised that a classically trained woman can sing?
She's broadening her audience, and reviving classic popular music to a new generation. Good for her.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) February 23, 2015
[Update few minutes later]