SpaceChampion

If this Lanterns show is like Watchmen, ie. starts with an investigation of a murdered supe, would have been great to bring Ryan Reynolds in to play a corpse of a Lantern. They already have a Hal Jordan, so just make up a different Lantern for him to be. That said, it could be Nathan Fillion's Guy Gardner is murdered.

I was thinking let the franchise die, not every IP needs to continue on forever and really wasn't interested any more. But bring on the Villeneuve era!

https://www.darkhorizons.com/superman-gets-a-star-wars-style-crawl/

Looks like i was already subscribed to several block lists that added him to it. That's a really convenient feature of Bluesky.

I don't know why you say that, just the opposite really. Development and design of Starship is continuous until they decide to work on something else like a bigger version of Starship or something to replace Starship altogether. This is only the Block 2 design, while the design team is working on Block 3. My interpretation of all the things I'm hearing: Many of the problems of Block 2 will be eliminated once the Block 3 Raptors are flying, simply because the "best part is no part" philosophy would eliminate a lot of the valves and seals that are proving leaky, eliminate the shielding which allowed leaked propellants to pool and concentrate (instead with Block 3 leaked prop will just flow into the rocket exhaust stream and burn up), amongst other improvements. I've seen plenty of people elsewhere ask why they didn't just skip Block 2 since they were well into Block 3 design while they were still flying Block 1. Perhaps because they invested a lot of money manufacturing Block 2 engines and parts is some of the reason, but I think the prime reason is they cannot insert sensors into the Block 3 engines when they've eliminated those valves and seals. The idea is that Raptor 3 will be so cheap to produce, that if an anomaly shuts one down in flight, once they retrieve it they'll cut it open to examine it and then discard instead of fixing to fly again. Maybe they've found they've had to cut Raptor 1 and 2 engines open anyway. With Raptor 3 the majority of sensors will be eliminated since they are only useful for the development phase , not long term use. That means in the mean time they need Raptor 2 to be able to string sensors all through the engines while they are optimizing the design and flight profile. Which means they are flying a leaky Block 2 design with kluges to manage the leaks, and repeatedly facing the consequences. The solution is already apparent but moving on to Raptor 3 (which they probably haven't manufactured enough ready to fly yet) would lose them the data obtained from those sensors in the Raptor 2. It's all about the data. They know Block 2 sucks, but it gets them the data. Perhaps they will decide to wait until Block 3 is ready before flying any more, but I doubt it.

No injuries. Likely cause reported to be the COPV (Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessel). There was a blue-green flash at the nose, where the COPV is located. Interesting that a COPV failure destroyed a F9 on the pad years ago.

Screenrant says it's possible some of those 6 episodes of season 5 might be extended runtime or even feature length. I don't know if this is more than wishful thinking. The finale might be longer though. https://screenrant.com/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-ending-meaning/

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/marvel-possible-fourth-movie-2028-1236435873/ Marvel adds a 4th film to 2028. Thunderbolts director Jake Shreier looks like to tapped to direct the MCU X-Men movie. I hope they learn from Gunn and stop announcing films and release dates before scripts are written. At least one and betting two of those 4 movies will be delayed, I'd guess.

Starship 36 blew up just a few minutes ago during a static fire test at the Massey's test site in Starbase, TX. This is a set back for SpaceX that could take months to recover from, maybe to the end of the year, since Massey's is the only place capable of testing these prototypes. Hopefully no one was harmed. Too soon to say right now. Ship wasn't quite fully fuelled yet. Explosion right at about 2hrs into this stream: Clip: https://www.instagram.com/p/DLEZsQzOnEs/

Older Dune topic at 21 pages, so starting new thread. Leto II and Ghanima cast for Dune Part 3 Jason Momoa's son Nakoa-Wolf Momoa cast as Leto II, and Silo's Ida Brooke (she was Young Shirley) cast as his twin sister Ghanima. Nakoa-Wolf doesn't have any acting credits, so I wonder if this is a fairly short role before a time jump to older actors taking over those roles. They might be combining Dune: Messiah with Children of Dune.

I'm surprised they haven't tried making handing out bottled water at protests illegal, like for voting lines in Georgia.

He is in talks to be cast, unsurprisingly as his father's son. Kylo Ren parody, I assume.

I had always thought/felt Spaceballs came about 10-15 years after ROTJ, not 4.

Not based on Rian Johnson's movie of the same name....

It was. I hope that Plus, Michael Biehn joins the exclusive ranks of those few who have faced off against a Predator, an Alien, and a Terminator.

Poilievre's numbers plummet to 28% He's still doing well in Alberta, but they like Carney just as much. Undoubtedly he'll win the by-election so it would be up to the party to be smart enough to turf him, because he's not letting go of his deathgrip. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/mark-carney-albertans-impression-janet-brown-poll-1.7551574

Was expecting the thread to be called TACO Thursday

Interesting. I looked it up, Roshel is based local to me here. Company founded by a Ukrainian-Canadian. Mostly intended for SWAT type police vehicles, border control, medical evac, etc. Beefed up for Ukraine. Their vehicles are based on a Ford F550 platform, which is currently made in Kentucky but Ford in retooling it's local Oakville plant (within 30 minutes down the highway from Roshel's Brampton factory) to start producing the F550 here next year. Maybe 100,000 vehicles a year. Not made for front-line battles, can't really do off-road well, but the Ukrainians using it that way anyway. Best used for urban warfare.

Marc Garneau has passed away.

James Cameron acquires The Devils, by Joe Abercrombie https://gizmodo.com/james-cameron-will-take-a-break-from-avatar-in-hell-2000610254 Fans are confused because the description Cameron gives isn't what the book is about. But Abercrombie will be co-writing the script so we should assume it'll be ok? Okay. From Joe himself: https://joeabercrombie.com/james-cameron-takes-on-the-devils/

Billie apparent tweeted "a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" after the episode aired. I think she's likely not the Doctor, but a Bad Wolf / Tardis entity. Still Rose.

Completely forgot the details of who Ruby's mom was, so was thinking Poppy regenerated into Ruby as a baby, and it was Bel who took her to the church. lol

Apparently Jared Isaacman's nomination for NASA Administrator has been pulled by the White House. https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/trump-pulls-isaacman-nomination-for-space-source-nasa-is-fed/