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ULA is attempting to launch their Vulcan rocket for the first time in about 40 minutes... 2:18 AM EST, January 8, 2024. The Vulcan is just the first stage, using Blue Origin's BE-4 methalox enginess, while the upper stage is ULA's Centaur. This is called the Certification-1 mission, and it'll have payloads -- the first is the Peregrine Lunar lander for Astrobotic, in fulfillment of their NASA contract in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. Peregrine itself is carrying 20 payloads to the lunar surface. Astrobotic aims to be a shipping company like a Fed-Ex for the Moon. The second is Celestis Memorial Spaceflights deep space Voyager mission known as the Enterprise Flight -- sending ashes to the moon to spread human remains... I have questions about that, but it's late. More details: https://www.ulalaunch.com/missions/next-launch/vulcan-cert-1 Launch stream:

Seemed like Thor if he had gotten Hulkified. Finally the strongest Avenger.

No. She's a new character not from the comics, but apparently is now in the one of the games. Basically giving Captain Marvel's powers to her, but all the surrounding mythology is based on real world Mohawk nation legends.

Nice to learn Kahhori was voiced by Devery Jacobs from Reservation Dogs.

Worst dubbed lines for tv versions of movies.

The most reused Falcon 9 rocket (booster 1058), having flown 19 flights over 3.5 years, had a tumble on the recovery droneship after the launch and landing on the 23rd. In total it's launched 260+ metric tons to space, including 2 astronauts to the ISS, and more than 860 satellites. The initial certification of the boosters was to launch and land 10 times with minimal inspection, this was later expanded to 20, however SpaceX does expect them to last to as much as 100 flights each with more serious refurbishment.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/zelenskyy-ukraine-christmas-day-1.6922298

blooper reel

yes, today. It's also Eddie Vedder Day.

My Festivus grievance is that it's also my birthday so I have double the grievances!

There is nothing wrong with one story being like another. There is nothing wrong with being like Star Wars. There is nothing wrong with being NOT like Star Wars. Neither one is a criticism. It's a superficial observation. Avatar is like Fern Gully, or Pocohontas, or Dances With Wolves, whatever. But James Cameron know how to go past a thin story structure to create interesting characters with deeper themes around that structure. Snyder doesn't. He failed where Cameron didn't. I looked for deeper themes but there wasn't any.

that's "the sky is green in both so they're exactly the same" kind of criticism.

Reminder, not a thread for content. We have at least 3 of those already.

No shit. That doesn't mean the result was anything like Star Wars.

Rebel Moon isn't Star Wars, that's just lazy criticism. It's more of a fairy tale / Chronicles of Riddick / D&D campaign setting.

So is the Curator = 14 ? Considering the Curator didn't have Tennant's appearance, but varied between 4, 6 and 11, perhaps 14 does have some residual regeneration energy that will allow him to do that? The Curator also said his number was "extraordinarily high" so could be a similar splitting that happens way in the future post-15.

https://www.streamtvinsider.com/video/mybundle-ceo-hundreds-cable-operators-drop-traditional-pay-tv-coming-years Days of the pay-TV on cable is reaching a twilight.