SpaceChampion
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Launch pad looks great, and three more ship/booster stacks are nearing ready to go. It's possible the next launch will be ready to go in 4 weeks on a technical level, not sure if the licensing process will slow things down.
View from the pad:
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Scott Pilgrim Takes Off isn't a straight adaptation like it seems in the first episode, at least until the point where it becomes clear this is some kind of alternate reality. Right at the moment I was thinking "so far the movie is way better, and they're just retreading the same story but worse" it takes a left turn. On to episode 2...
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Interesting speculation. There was possibly a fluid hammer effect that could have been avoided, but we don't know the reason for the slowing down of thrust, whether intended or something else caused it.
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Successful launch! Not a single engine failed. Booster and ship terminated though, unknown yet what issues triggered the computers to end it. Booster hot stage (lighting the ship first while still attached to booster) separated perfectly, but there seemed to be a leak and moments stage flight termination system triggered.
Ship used nearly all its fuel before loss of signal.
Launch pad appears pristine.
- Ser Scot A Ellison and Ran
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Nasaspaceflight's livestream:
Tim Dodd's streaming in 4k video:
What NASA wants to see from SpaceX’s second Starship test flight
Quote"Tomorrow is a test and we’re going to learn a lot either way," Lisa Watson-Morgan, who manages NASA's Human Landing System program, told Ars in an interview this week. "We’d love to see it go off perfectly, but frankly, if it doesn’t, it’s still going to be a great learning event, and it still will give us progression on the schedule for the different flight tests, and then we’ll know the areas we need to more deeply penetrate.”
SpaceX's official stream on X:
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For some reason the eponymous Blackberry movie has been recut into a 3 part mini-series, about 45 minutes each. So about 15 minutes was added back from the cutting room. I guess I liked the movie enough to eager for a rewatch for the additional material. It's streaming on Gem, the CBC streaming platform for those in Canada. https://gem.cbc.ca/
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FAA has issued a launch license for the 2nd Starship test launch for Friday.
Launch window 7am to 9am CST.Launch is now targeted during a 20-minute launch window opening Saturday, November 18th, at 7:00 a.m. CST / 13:00 UTC.
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They've had several Fantastic Four movies with Doom as the villain, and it didn't seem to me that the general public was all that interested. Switching from Kang to Doom would be quite the Hail Mary, and more likely to fail than succeed.
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Confirmation: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/fantastic-four-casts-reed-richards-1235392357/
Still dependent on sorting out his shooting schedule though. He's apparently not returning for season 4 of Mando.
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lol what an asshole
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17 hours ago, Ran said:
I recommend watching Battle Beyond the Stars, in that case. You'll get your Seven Samurai in Space Star Wars rip-off faster that way, and George Peppard to boot.
Also the inimitable Robert Vaughan and John Saxon.
James Cameron worked on the SFX.
I remember seeing it, must have been on TV less than a year after it came out in 1980. Even at age 7 I knew it sucked.
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Zack Snyder explains the Rebel Moon trailer, in case you didn't get it.
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Technically, Captain Marvel is now a Disney princess too.
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interviews with the showrunners
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I would say The Marvels had all their main characters and the villain show character development.
SpoilerCarol's arc was about shame, following directly from her Captain Marvel storyline. Like a lot of people who get gaslit and trapped in relationships with abusers, she felt shame for having experienced it, and isolated herself and stayed away from the people she loved out of shame. She wanted to fix the galaxy out of sense of shame that she was inherently flawed, and wouldn't allow herself connection with others until she believe she could find some validation through acts of service. Her arc was about finally detaching from shame and operating with a healthier mindset. She learned connecting with others was a better way to find validation and see solutions more clearly.
Monica's arc was about grief, following directly from her Wandavision storyline. She felt anger for her losing her mother while she was blipped, and diverted her attention from working through that by absorbing herself in work. Not handling her grief was making her cynical, unlike the kid she was. Meeting Kamala Khan who had elements of her childlike self, she felt the need to protect her. Doing so opened herself to empathy, and dissolve the hard outer shell she had developed, setting her up to begin the process of overcoming her grief.
Kamala's arc was about having that childlike expectation that her heroes should always be able to win and save people from harm. She didn't view Carol as a person, but a character in a story, and emblem of hope. Meeting Carol, working side by side with her and Monica, taught her that hard choices had to be made some times, and that she needed to detach from her childhood narratives.
Dar-ben's arc was about grief too, and anger. She had to detach from her anger to allow the one she blamed for her world's plight (despite their civil war doing to themselves) to save her world.
It was the relationships between all these characters that lead to the resolution for each of them. Nothing about this was choppy, incoherent, or a mish-mash, or any of the other vague accusations I've seen claimed.
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I heard the first season is 480 minutes long, while the original cartoon was only 460 minutes. So it seems they have plenty of time to cover everything.
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On 11/6/2023 at 8:03 PM, IheartIheartTesla said:
Finally watched this since it dropped on Netflix. Visually stunning, and I'm here for wherever the story takes us in Volume 3. Not sure why the Inspector Singh canon event had to occur in Mumbai of all places, but that was a cool extended sequence as well. At any rate, feel like there is going to be some tragedy happening at the end of it all....just not sure what.
It's not Mumbai, it's Mumbatten. I assume it's a reality where Indians colonized the Americas.
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Big Flying Rockets: Space Launches V
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A good explanation of the test flight, including a review of ground operations happening in the hours before: