Wonderbar. AIDS continues to mutate. I await the day it mutates into an airborne strain.
Had AIDS been dealt with as a usual non-political disease would have been, with quarantines and cultural acceptance of the fact that you actually make efforts to *avoid* spreading it, AIDS would now be a footnote in the history books. But… nope.
A cat to be respected. Quilty reminds me of Raedthinn who also was skilled in the art of opening doors that I’d just as soon he didn’t.
Quilty will not be contained. And he has no shame.Quilty loves to let cats out of the senior room.Repeatedly.Several…
Posted by Friends For Life Animal Rescue and Adoption Organization – Houston on Tuesday, October 29, 2019
In 1985, Rockwell suggested that there might be profit in turning the Shuttle into a tanker for refueling/and servicing other spacecraft. At the same time they had the idea of a space-based “spare parts bin,” which was just what it sounds like. The former makes a great deal of sense, but the latter… not so much. Today, however, a similar idea would probably include buckets of raw metal powder and some form of zero-g 3D printer to fabricate the needed parts. Otherwise, the number of parts that would be needed to service even the smallest fraction of satellites in orbit would be vast.
This story FREAKIN’ DELIVERS.
That there is a cunning hat.
I’m impressed that the guy who was just minding his own business is described by the press as the victim here.
Giggity!
First up, obviously, is “Color out of Space.” The next movie, production of which has apparently not begun, is “The Dunwich Horror.”
“Cinematic universes” are all the rage these days, thanks to the billions of dollars in profit that the Marvel movies have raked in. But as the “Dark universe” and “DC Universe” have shown, intentionally setting out to make a cinematic universe is tricky at best. The MCU worked in part because the first movie, “Iron Man,” was *not* really made to be part of a cinematic universe, while “The Mummy” and the Justice League” movies were. Thus they, unlike “Iron Man,” set out not to make a good movie, but to make a good *introduction,* and they pretty much failed at that. So on the surface it would seem that setting out to make a Lovecraftian cinematic universe might be a disaster.
But the thing is… many of Lovecrafts stories *were* set in the same literary universe. “Dunwich Horror” existed alongside “Color out of Space” and “Shadow Over Innsmouth” and “At the Mountains of Madness” and, of course, “The Call of Cthulhu.” Hell, they even exist in the same universe as the “Conan the Barbarian” tales by Robert Howard. So, *IF* this is done properly, a Lovecraft cinematic universe *could* be a perfectly workable concept.
*IF.*
Every now and then boaters find land animals far out at sea and it’s not clear how they got there. Unlike boatloads of colonizer migrants, it’s perfectly cromulent to bring said critters onboard for rescue; it’s both a “good deed” and a “good story.” Assuming, of course, that the critter isn;t somethgin dangerous like a bear or a snake on an antifa.
An American-born woman who once urged jihadists in America to “go on drivebys, and spill all of their blood,” says she “regrets every single thing” and believes she should be given the option to return to the United States with her young son.
Nope. She’s a US citizen, but I’d argue that intentionally going abroad to provide aid and comfort and babies to the enemy, while advocating that acts of murder be carried out on the streets of the US, is prima facia evidence of “no longer a US citizen.”
Buh bye, beeyotch.
Yeah… this one will need a *lot* of data to back it up:
Article is lean on details, but it’s apparently some sort of single-dose gene therapy. Which sounds like “ummm… sure…”
Considering that AIDS is a virus that doesn’t just invade the cell but splices its own DNA into the hosts, gene therapy would seem to be the only way to really be sure of a cure. But is gene therapy tech is sufficiently advanced that you can take a single pill or injection and the treatment will re-write your DNA…. well, I can see some fun times ahead in a *lot* of areas.
In 1985 Rockwell considered the business potential of a “servicing center” that could be added on to the forthcoming Space Station. It could service satellites and orbital transfer vehicles and the like.
The trailer for the Nic Cage adaptation of Lovecraft’s “Color out of Space:”
It certainly seems… colorful.