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Welp, the official cancellation notice has gone out. I think this thread is a good example why it’s hard to argue with that decision. We’ve got a pretty good group of Trekkies here, of a wide variety of views and interests, and some pretty well thought out discussions of the Trek verse. Some of us h...

Anybody remember when it was supposed to be ULA that was the dependable provider? SpaceX having to pick up the slack while Vulcan is grounded while ULA works with Northrop Grumman to solve the solid booster issues. For the fourth time in a little more than a year, the US Space Force needs to send u...

Eisenhower, perhaps, but he was an Army guy. Seems sacrilegious to name a Navy ship after a president who was an Army general. Ahem....George Washington would like a word.... We have had major warships named GEORGE WASHINGTON or WASHINGTON since the founding of the US Navy, so he’s moved from Army ...

Before we go too overboard, remember that it is the artillery of 13 divisions as well the separate arty of 4 entire corps, so it is always going to be fairly large, notwithstanding the paucity of German guns. It is a force equivalent to a field army in size, basically. 1300 guns is not a lot by WW2...

This is not the first time I have seen this with older people and Tesla's. As Boomers age, are they going to be embracing Tesla's because of it's advanced Tesla FSD (Supervised) ADAS systems? The latest version of FSD HW4 14.2x is extremely good at end to end driving from garage to parking itself a...

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 We know Shepherd Book go...

People have pointed out, this is this the first time in a decade no new Star Trek is in the planning stage. ST: Academy is finishing filming its second season, given the ratings I doubt if we get a third. That may not be a bad thing. Mike Kozlowski has a day job for a few more years now. Seriously ...

The analogy I have been using is that it can reliably make patches for a quilt, but it can’t reliably make the quilt. I like using it for coding patches and debugging, doing things like deep mining and generating a summary, editing text snippets and generating tables. Where I have repeatedly run in...

The analogy I have been using is that it can reliably make patches for a quilt, but it can’t reliably make the quilt. I like using it for coding patches and debugging, doing things like deep mining and generating a summary, editing text snippets and generating tables. Where I have repeatedly run int...

Nik_SpeakerToCats wrote: ↑Sat Feb 21, 2026 3:27 pm If 'harmless', that container ship's bridge-watch survivors will have some explaining to do...

Nik, I think a seance would be required for them to explain.

New NASA Administrator Isaacman didn't pull any punches with Boeing and NASA. The incident has been designated as a Type A mishap. Originally no mishap had been declared because of concern over the Starliner's program reputation. I wouldn't be surprised if some NASA Administrators are asked to resi...

I routinely listen to these: Not So Quiet On The Western Front: This is a great podcast covering WWI. They just finished a few episodes on flamethrowers, are starting a long series on the German Army, to compliment similar ones on the French and the Americans. Lots of episodes on variously diverse t...

Robot: “I have made all your requested changes.” Me: “Did you change the things I expressly forbade you from changing?” Robot: “Yes.” Me: “Why did you change the things I told you not to change?” Robot: “They’re now more efficient!” Me: “Are pieces that worked before now working?” Robot: “No!” Me: “...

Someone was trying really hard not to get that open billet in a Luftwaffe Felddivision somewhere outside Minsk . . . and got an express ticket there instead.

Only reason to watch the Super Bowl anymore is if it's your team playing, and for the commercials... which isn't as important anymore due to half of them being put on YT the day before. It’s a social occasion. The question really is whether the NFL is trying for a culturally broad-based appeal to m...

likely a staged ragebait/clickbait/hoax account. But you never quite know with the low IQ jerks around these days. This particular piece may be a hoax, but we have enough examples of people who get off on destroying other people’s stuff for the lolz, police and legal system that has their hands tie...

Poohbah wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 11:48 pm

Craiglxviii wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 10:01 pm

MikeKozlowski wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 9:17 pm

"Sir, it wasn't my fault - he had the big 48 piece box of Crayolas!!"

Mike

“The GREEN ones, sir!”

I hear those improve your night vision.

I thought it was the orange ones, because they look like carrots.

General Dynamics Unveils AD(X) VLS-Reloading Destroyer Tender https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2026/01/general-dynamics-unveils-adx-vls-reloading-destroyer-tender/ https://i.postimg.cc/NjdZm8p6/IMG-5670-scaled-jpg.webp General Dynamics NASSCO is looking to U.S. Navy for interest in new VLS relo...

Pancreatic cancer is rough because we don’t have good screening tests like we do for breast cancer, colon cancer or prostate cancer. So it’s sadly often diagnosed in the metastatic phase. The good news is that we are getting better at fighting cancer and beating it every day, even when it has metast...

The clip with Lura Thok shooting a cadet with a phaser set on “transport” (useful feature that is) is hilarious but also questionable teaching. But she absolutely has the Klingon cadence down. Concur on the questionable logic of two separate academies training future officers in entirely different c...