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DC Cinematic Universe: Dragongirl of Steel
SpaceChampion replied to AncalagonTheBlack's topic in Entertainment
Garret Dillahunt and Kelly MacDonald joins Lanterns I presume those aren't characters from the comics. -
US Politics… countdown to Lord knows what?
SpaceChampion replied to Ser Scot A Ellison's topic in General Chatter
Meow Meow Beenz. -
HBO In Early Development on Game of Thrones Movie
SpaceChampion replied to Westeros's topic in Game of Thrones News
7 movie series about Harys Potter, the boy greenseer at the Citadel in Oldtown. -
There seems to be a huge variety of backstories and origins for Wonder Man. The MCU version is apparently an actor who gets super powers, or maybe first a supe who is then cast in a show. It's going to parody Hollywood. Trevor is part of it.
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Two of the Salem Seven are birds, so they can fly. Crow and owl.
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Sounds like there is a good chance The Penguin continues into a second season. https://screenrant.com/the-penguin-season-2-dc-showrunner-chances/
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Because of the sigil spell. It made her forget, just like discussed in a prior episode. Agatha said something like "If I did place the sigil on you, I wouldn't remember." It was true, except applied to Lilia.
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Rings of Power 6: The Scouring of the Appendices
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Wheel of Time 5: The Shadow Downsizing [book spoilers]
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Apparently delivery date for the VFX houses working on Season 3 in this December. Sounds like earlier rumours it coming out in March or April 2025 might be accurate. Maybe Amazon will promote it this time?? -
Trailer. Season 2 to be released in 3 parts over 3 weeks in November.
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Star Trek: I miss Hemmer (spoilers)
SpaceChampion replied to Ser Scot A Ellison's topic in Entertainment
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Star Trek: I miss Hemmer (spoilers)
SpaceChampion replied to Ser Scot A Ellison's topic in Entertainment
... Is she a regular on that? never watched it. Anyway, it was also announced Rhys Darby is guest starring on SNWs season 3. -
Star Trek: I miss Hemmer (spoilers)
SpaceChampion replied to Ser Scot A Ellison's topic in Entertainment
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Star Trek: I miss Hemmer (spoilers)
SpaceChampion replied to Ser Scot A Ellison's topic in Entertainment
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Star Trek: I miss Hemmer (spoilers)
SpaceChampion replied to Ser Scot A Ellison's topic in Entertainment
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Star Trek: I miss Hemmer (spoilers)
SpaceChampion replied to Ser Scot A Ellison's topic in Entertainment
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Big Flying Rockets: Space Launches V
SpaceChampion replied to SpaceChampion's topic in General Chatter
I saw a Shuttle launch back in 1998. I used to be the editor for a little space newsletter for the Canadian Space Society, so I used those credentials to get press passes for me and a friend (officially my photographer) to watch STS-90 Neurolab mission launch, since a Canadian astronaut was going up on that. I watched from the KSC press center stands, which was right in front of that big digital clock you see in movies, where the astronaut families also watch. I'm not sure where my friend watched from but I think it was significantly closer, with all the other photographers. Got to interview two other Canadian astros while we were there. They mentioned they've read our newsletter and it got passed around at the CSA offices in Montreal. We were just beginning a journey driving around the U.S. for several months, so about 2 weeks later I realized the Shuttle we saw launch was landing at the same time we were spending time in Houston. Managed to get our press passes used again to get into JSC and watch the landing from their screens at mission control. Fun times. -
Big Flying Rockets: Space Launches V
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Europa Clipper's Jupiter approach from slightly behind Jupiter and to the side. -
Big Flying Rockets: Space Launches V
SpaceChampion replied to SpaceChampion's topic in General Chatter
No word yet on what the next flight will be focusing on testing. It was already approved by the FAA to be a duplicate for this one, I assume because they were assuming it wouldn't work, but I also heard (in that analysis video above) that the engineers were very confident it would succeed. Nevertheless they were ready to take two shots at it to get it done. The next ship is ready to go. But they'll have to reapply for the launch license if they change plans. Under that existing license they might be able to test other things without altering the flight plan. I think they'll likely do that. It just matters if they have enough significant things to test on IFT-6 under the existing flight plan or not. Retrieving both stages is a major goal for this year. As far as I know they still need to finish building the second launch/catch tower to catch the ship anyway. The most likely possibility under the same flight plan is to relight the booster for a deorbit burn in order to come down slower. In the flight video the whole area surrounding the engines looked like it was on fire. That wasn't a fire, and the engines were off. It was friction from the atmosphere. When I saw that I thought it was about to explode. If they do a deorbit burn perhaps that would provide less thermal stress on the engines from reentry. I heard one outer engine bell had some warping on it but fortunately they didn't need it to relight for the catch. I think they will switch to version 2 of the Starship (with the better v2 Raptor engines) before they try to retrieve it. This ship was S30, a version 1 ship, and the next two are still v1. The first v2 is S33, and it is not ready to go. And there are v3 in the near future. V2 Starship have the flaps relocated back leeward, out of the stream (so probably only the outside edge of the flaps will face the heat) -- so that likely will solve the flap burn problem. Will they decide to skip Ships 31 and 32 to fly a V2 ship -- S33? We'll have to wait to see. Flight IFT-7 was announced to be a V2 vehicle, so they could attempt to catch that one I think. V3 Starship & Booster are taller, both stretched in total nearly 30 meters. I'm not sure the towers are tall enough for them! Update: from an SpaceX engineer, says they're aiming for Ship 31 / Booster 13 to launch/catch in about a month. Sounded like under the same flight plan. -
Big Flying Rockets: Space Launches V
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Big Flying Rockets: Space Launches V
SpaceChampion replied to SpaceChampion's topic in General Chatter
Sure, but the way NASA is doing it is unnecessarily expensive and rather dumb, and starves the science missions. $100 billion spent already with nothing accomplished, while cancelling lots of science. It's inevitable to get cancelled after a few missions, just like the Apollo. Sustainable exploration requires vastly cheaper options that are vastly more capable, so Lunar and Martian exploration would be permanent activities humanity does, not a brief flame that is blown out quickly.