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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I did not know that Dean Stockwell was in Blue Velvet. I mean, it's been probably 10 years since I saw it, but I don't remember him in it at all.
I got a bit soured on the idea of space exploration and bases on the moon when I hit college and remembered where the word "colonize" usually ends us up. Not that there are people on the moon, but the lurky ugliness of the concept remains.
I'm skeptical about a moon base being useful in getting to Mars. I think money would be better spent developing technology to get robotic probes to Mars and other locations faster than we currently do, and getting samples back. Seems like we'd want to be able to do that before sending people anyway. A moon base would be a smaller gravity well, but I suspect that the benefit of building things there would be offset by the difficulties of building things there.
I did not know that Dean Stockwell was in Blue Velvet. I mean, it's been probably 10 years since I saw it, but I don't remember him in it at all.
He lipsyncs Roy Orbison while singing into a lightbulb while being thoroughly decadent, drugged up and fey.
The base on Antarctica is doing okay, isn't it?
Got it, Dana. Thank you so much! I'm going to go get some groceries and listen to it in the car, and undoubtably weep my ass off. Score!
Not to be too terribly crass, but until the culture of NASA gets over being squeamish about people dying, I don't see it doing too well in the manned space business. The only thing the shuttle is allowed to do right now is to visit a moneysuck/lifeboat because *gasp* space is dangerous.
That's a tremendous culture to overcome.
LOS OLIVOS, Calif. - Michael Jackson's accuser is distressed and having "a difficult time" dealing with the not guilty verdict against the pop singer, the prosecutor in the molestation case said Wednesday. Santa Barbara County District Attorney Tom Sneddon told NBC's "Today" that he spoke to the accuser immediately after Jackson was acquitted on all counts Monday.
Probably realizing he's going to have to cover all those promises he made when he thought he was going to make big bucks off the case.
OTOH, the Space Shuttle has two basic design flaws that have been recognized since the '70s, and which were responsible for the two shuttle accidents. So just about anything else should offer a significant improvement in safety.
eta: I think the shuttle is much safer as a result of work done since the two accidents, but OTOH, losing two shuttles in a little over 100 missions is a rather high accident rate.
How old is he now? He's still an adolescent, right?
As long as all the meetings of all the committees and groups and teams exist to recommend things rather than actually making them happen, we never have to do any work. On the down side, it means the meetings go on forever.
Wait, do you work at the same place that I work or something???