Van Rijn
Order of Kilopi

That is certainly one of the issues - the Apollo command service module especially provided a very significant reduction in radiation exposure. ...

Lord Foul, it looks like you are responding to specific posts. When you do, could you please use rhe “Reply With Quote” function? It makes the...

I see this as fundamentally a physics question, not a technology question. Either FTL travel is physically possible or it isn’t. It doesn’t matter...

It seems another post was approved since I last read this thread. Lord Foul, as a note, moderators have to approve early posts by new users as an...

It would have been utterly astonishing if the lunar surface wasn’t somewhat radioactive. The Earth’s surface is radioactive, after all, to a varying...

If anything, I watch more fantasy and what passes for science fiction on TV than any other genres, and I don’t require deep accuracy (however that...

I don’t remember how long I tried watching Lost. I liked watching a show with Mira Furlan and I got a big kick out of seeing an Apple II in a bunker,...

If you had asked me around 1980 how many people I would expect to be in space in 2020, I would have said, barring nuclear war, at least hundreds, and...

I expect there is a joke there, but I’m afraid it went right over my head. (And Australia strikes me as a nice country, but my ancestors came over...

I may have mentioned this story before, but one night I called for my cat from my master bedroom’s sliding glass door to the back porch. My cat ran...

(emphasis added) That need not be just professional astronomers or major observatories either. Amateur astronomers regularly track small spacecraft...

Well, it has been 60 years, but only a relative handful of people have actually been in space. I am hopeful we are about to get out of this far too...

Reading that article, I chuckled at this sentence (I assume either a translation issue or the author not understanding the concept): Had the...

I expect it means there is no break out of the details of what the spending is directed to in the statement. I’ve seen that referred to as a...

Based on previous experience, I only give wet food on an irregular basis as an occasional treat (usually I’ll give her a can every few days, could be...

I don’t know if he is the first to coin the term “Elon Time.” It’s not a new issue. Anyway when I first heard Elon’s estimate, I predicted it...

Yes, it looks like either a browser or OS thing. I get the same thing in Chrome, though I can see tooltips for the blank spots and the strikethrough...

This really bugs me. This monstrosity is a current cover image for the Heinlein book Have Spacesuit — Will Travel: ...

Gene Roddenberry wrote the script for 24 episodes of the Western series Have Gun - Will Travel which I only know about because it inspired the title...

Ah. I looked at it more, and it is there, just not with bold, italics and underline. Look on the third line to the far right.

Even if it isn’t, it is easy to do with bbcode. Here’s the same text with noparse: Even if it isn’t, it is easy to do with bbcode.

Very interesting but that music is annoying (for others, there’s no dialogue so it can just be silenced).

I first learned at home on the two typewriters I mentioned earlier, then took a class in high school, and similarly was the only guy in the class. ...

I watched part of Invasion. It had promise, and if it continued I certainly would have given it more time, but I got a bit more careful of shows...

Ah, I see. I used to read UFO books but after I became disillusioned with all the tall tales and evidence free conspiracy theories, I lost interest....

Yes, LA is warmer than Sacramento, sometimes with very warm winter weather (I can’t remember exactly when, but I was there once when it was over 90F...

After seeing your various posts here, I’m afraid that doesn’t mean much to me, and I suspect to most other posters here. You seem entirely too...

There was a review on Amazon that made some of the same points, in between the glowing reviews and ones that just didn’t like how it was presented (I...

A few thoughts arise: You seem to accept his claim that he didn’t go in to this work as a “UFO believer” uncritically. But that isn’t a claim I...

Same here, I could see the need to reduce jamming. I used an old Royal manual (it dated back to the ‘30s, but was built like a tank so still worked...