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Well, since China is the real market for films these days, that's kind of a black eye for The Mouse.

Been diving into slow core/lo fi stuff lately. It's a new phase for me I guess. This band Duster is great, listening to it feels like the audio equivalent of coming in out of the freezing rain and sitting by the fireplace with a warm cup of tea. I love this. Duster - Stratosphere (FULL ALBUM) -...

Search around. There's some kind of scam going on with false orders and such. Did the products come from China? There was some story in the news a few months ago about some women who was getting box after box of useless products delivered to her house in the Midwest from some dodgy Chinese...

I'm pretty sure the charring of the insulation at ignition is gaseous hydrogen burning, it's a Delta IV trademark IIRC. 4:30 of that video. That control room is the polar opposite of a SpaceX launch, older guys in uniforms or suits and ties, 1970s-looking hideous décor, and no glass wall with...

Crazy to go anywhere near that, even if it's not burning you have no idea what kind of toxic stuff is in those things. That sickly orange cloud in that second photo? That looks like hypergolic stuff to me. No thanks, I prefer my lungs to remain in working order, please.

Lots of attempts have been made to make a good Lovecraft film, but most of them fall far short. Lovecraft had a great way of describing terrible beings without actually giving too much of a physical description, leaving the worst horror for your imagination to fill in. Most movie makers can't...

Knock 'em dead, PC!

While reading your new book and drinking your booze, you should listen to this:

So they're really serious about a man-rated Atlas V after all, huh. I was under the impression that the Atlas program's days were numbered due to reliance on Russian engines prompting the development of Vulcan as a successor. If so, it would be interesting; the Atlas program is about 6 decades...

As bitter as the cold is, I'll take that over 41°C any day. Love the cold, hate the heat and humidity.

Best launch video yet, your boost-back footage is spectacular!

I'd agree with that. To ride an untested launch vehicle and then fly an untested hypersonic glider at mach 25 after orbiting it for the first time without checking it out remotely seems insanely risky. NASA did lots of studies, of course, and claimed to know the risk and to be "managing" it...

Or "Mountain Dew is the Best Soda Ever!"

That photo is epic. I wonder how he captured the people standing on the ground; they couldn't possibly have stood still for so long. I know how I would probably try it with film, but...wow.

For the last week or so much of the continental US has been in a cold snap with some areas getting the deep freeze treatment. Here in the DC area the temperatures have been dipping into the single digits (F) at night, and staying below freezing during daylight hours. I visited the Potomac River...

That Henry V scene makes me feel like Luke Skywalker ready to take on the Empire. Of course, within an hour of that speech I'd probably have been laying dead in a mud puddle in France, but, you know...

He was the epitome of the test pilot. Super cool, nothing rattled him. One of the greatest aviators ever.

Absolutely one of the greatest, bravest aviators ever to strap on a rocket ship. Ice water for blood, I can think of few other pilots you'd want in the cockpit of your vehicle. I really kind of thought he'd live forever. RIP John Young.

I wonder if that's the technique that started with Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan where they mute the color tones purposely to create a feeling more reminiscent of the 1940s while still shooting in color.

Well, it probably is useful to have a facility fairly close to the pad depending on how the system engineering is done. Besides protection from potential blast, I think the VAB was placed so far away to protect it against acoustic damage from the very loud Saturn V. The shuttle was also pretty...