History, Politics And Current Affairs

...On Paramount + (or whatever it's going to be called soon). Sylvester Stallone is Dwight 'The General' Manfredi, a New York capo who did 25 the hard way - never broke, never flipped, every last minute. Getting out, he discovers that the family has nothing for him in NYC - but they'd like to expand...

The Fate of the ‘Most Famous Ship that Didn’t Sink’ Unclear, Plans for SS United States Stalled By John Grady September 6, 2024 The world’s fastest ocean liner’s days are numbered at the Philadelphia pier where it has been berthed for decades. Whether the nonprofit that owns SS United States can fi...

Belushi,

Yeah, but the per diem is gonna be amazing.

And I'm calling it here - if Starliner doesn't make it down in one piece, the program is toast.

Mike

...The Fair Melissa is in the hospital as of this morning. Something - not at all sure what - sent her over the edge yesterday, but the Authorities felt that since she was not actively trying to harm herself, they couldn't take her to the hospital. Need to stress that everyone involved - PD, EMS, an...

Nicely done. I think we all have had kits that just don’t want to be finished. Johnny, You can say that again. On the other hand, it's prepared me for another Airfix kit in the stash, their '64 Aston Martin DB5. I've built that four - count 'em, four times - and it is an utter and complete horror. ...

PXL_20240831_190355417.jpg PXL_20240831_190448424.jpg This beastie fought me every inch of the way - truly weird engineering, missing parts (all of the masts are scratchbuilt), paint refusing to stick to some plastic, and so much more. But - it's done, and it stands out. This is the end of "72...

...From the Star Trek: Ships Of The Line page on FB.....
Mike

The plans for the museum are...well, comforting. It would be nice if the Mariners Museum could get some things - hell, her bridge would be an actual tourist attraction there. It's a shame, truly, but kdahm is right - she's held off the end for far too long. The last real opportunity would have been ...

Can't get the link to work, but it's official.

Mike

From the nice people at Lockheed Martin:

Mike

Anyone knows why NASA didn't put into the contract that everybody has use the same spacesuit or least the same fittings? You think after the Apollo 13 LM cylindric scrubbers and the CM square ones NASA would want things interchangeable. Jem, When Dad worked at NASA, he found out PDQ that part of th...

...Trying to confirm, but word is that the crew is there until February and Starliner will be brought down unmanned.

Let the finger pointing commence.

EDIT: Popping up on TwiX now too.

Mike

Prayers always and constant.

Mike

Whoever came up with needs to have the following done to them: 1. Locked in a dark room. 2. Music piped in: Polka, badly played bagpipes, and songs voted in by the board. 3. Tribbles drop on them. HOLLABACK GIRL ON WAR EMERGENCY POWER! I found this in Instapundit. https://instapundit.com/wp-content...

...USAF Basic/Tech training in the late 70s was intended to get people out as quickly as possible - six weeks of basic (drill, customs/courtesies, wear of the uniform) and then to tech school. Depending on your career field, that could be a DDA - you went to your base and got on the job - or a tech ...

...The freighters, backbone of the Star Fleet Transport Command: * Liberty class AK. Capable of carrying equivalent cargo to a single cargo pod. Names are Federation planet names followed by Liberty . For example, Terra Liberty , Andoria Liberty . Many of these ships are equipped with autonomous co...

...The freighters, backbone of the Star Fleet Transport Command: * Liberty class AK. Capable of carrying equivalent cargo to a single cargo pod. Names are Federation planet names followed by Liberty . For example, Terra Liberty , Andoria Liberty . Many of these ships are equipped with autonomous co...

...The freighters, backbone of the Star Fleet Transport Command: * Liberty class AK. Capable of carrying equivalent cargo to a single cargo pod. Names are Federation planet names followed by Liberty . For example, Terra Liberty , Andoria Liberty . Many of these ships are equipped with autonomous con...

So, we can assume that registry numbers are a hot mess until sometime during the Lost Years? Poohbah, That's not unreasonable. The BIG expansion, and the explosion in ship types and variants came after what would have been Enterprise's return from her five-year mission. It's not impossible to sort ...

...First - this was actually written a couple years ago, but couldn't quite figure out where to go with it, I would like to submit this strictly to account for the two oddball numbers in the original starship numbers. OF REGISTRY NUMBERS AND BUDGET SHENANIGANS: By CDRE M.J. Kozlowski, StarFleet (Ret...