Because why not: someone has posted the 1979 disaster “epic” Meteor to YouTube. It is pretty awful on every level, but to me the worst of it is the incredibly half-assed miniature work on the spacecraft. That said, it’s entertaining in it’s awfulness. Just thing thing to MST3K.
When I was ten, this movie was awesome. Now… well, here ya go.
Here is a movie review from the period:
And here is a TV movie, “A Fire In The Sky,” from the year before “Meteor,” based on a similar concept.
Old folks.
What are you gonna do? Walk away, or shoot old people? Unlike their leaders, these Russian soldiers seem capable of making the right decision.
This is almost certainly a joke. It’s *got* to be a joke. But the Loki-following part of me *really* wants these people to be in earnest… and hopeful that they get a *lot* of investment from well-funded morons who need to be separated from their money for the good of all mankind.
They put a fair amount of effort into it… but clearly not enough (assuming they’re serious) to realize that it’s bad engineering.
But hey, by all means: go ahead and spend vast sums of idiots money on “other ways of knowing” and “avoiding male phalocentric engineering rigor” or whatever nonsense they’re on about. let us know how that goes.
Rejected by every race: a cautionary tale.
Bird matching shapes vs Human matching shapes. from facepalm
Corvids are pretty smart birds. Humans are pretty dumb humans.
I have the feeling I posted this some years ago. If so… oh well, it’s worth watching again. A little kitten at a Syrian vet clinic, expressing its disapproval over getting stabbed with needles, and putting up the best fight it can. If it was a *real* fight it would lose, and lose badly… but it would have earned its place in Valhalla.
That is all.
I don’t know who either of the characters here are. And it doesn’t even matter what the debate is about, and who has what point of view; when asked a question, you answer it. Or you don’t, and the debate ends.
A simulation of what *could* have happened had an A-10 gone up against that kilometers-long Russian convoy in Ukraine. Note: The Russians would have had to have been particularly accommodating for this to happen… stay bunched up on the road, don’t shoot back, no air cover. Still, it’s interesting the sheer volume of destruction that could have been unleashed.