So, Orange Man Bad, private citizen, is being tried by the Senate for using words that the Dems claim incited viole4nce that was planned well before he actually spoke. So, the following montage seems a little bit interesting.
Feb 122021
Feb 122021
Disney fired her; a new opportunity came along.
Obviously a movie for the Daily Wire is almost certainly not as big a payday as a movie for Mickey Mao, but it’s a start. It’s a start of an alternate, separate entertainment system, as Gab is a start for an alternate social media. It’s sad that society will likely split in two, with two separate cultures and two separate economies… but that’s better than the alternative of fully half of society simply being shut out of *everything,* a clearly unsustainable proposition in any event.
The trick that the Daily Wire and similar non-leftwoke moviemakers will have to make sure they learn and live is to make *quality* products. They will fail spectacularly if they simply try to ride on The Message. As an example, pretty much *any* of the “Christian movies” that plague the world with the lamest stories, worst acting, dumbest dialog and just laughable Messages.
Feb 122021
Canada goes blammo:
Feb 112021
Recently finished, the CAD model for a 1/144 scale kit for Fantastic Plastic. This Convair idea utilized the same “landing boat” that Fantastic Plastic recently released in 1/48 scale. It’ll be a fairly simple kit. The design was illustrated in a number of renderings from the very late 1950’s/early 60’s, used often by or in conjunction with Krafft Ehricke as he tried to sell Americans on the future in space that they would soon have.
The vehicle had a landing boat at the top and a habitat module below it; below that is the stage with three RL-10 rocket engines, with six drop tanks around it. *Presumably,* the tanks, along with the landing gear, would be dropped shortly after launch from the Moon, with fuel in the main core providing not only the boost back to Earth but also a braking thrust to at least slow the ship, because I have *serious* doubts about that boat surviving a lunar re-entry.
Feb 112021
It has been officially decided to go with 1/288 scale for the IXS Enterprise, making the model somewhat larger. Progress continues; the pylons have some more detail, the warp rings have been split into three inner segments, four outer segments, with a wall thickness of about an eighth inch and a hollow within, allowing lighting for those so ambitious.
Feb 102021
The actress Gina Carano is probably best known for playing the character Cara Dune on the Disny+ series “The Mandalorian.” She is probably second-best known for being an conservative in Hollywood, and for being open about it. She has tweeted a number of things that have set off the twitter mob. Most recently, this:
Her point seems to be that being a Republican these days is like being a Jew in Nazi Germany, where random strangers are taught that it’s ok to attack you in the streets. Is she hyperbolic? Yeah. Is she *wrong?* Welllllll…
So, after saying that being a Republican can get you attacked, what happened?
Disney fired her.
Gina Carano Is No Longer a Part of Star Wars
a Lucasfilm spokesperson said the following: “Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future. Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”
Claim that you are being unfairly targeted? Clearly you are a nut, so we will try to erase your career. That will show you the error of your ways. Bad, bad Gina! Wrongthink!
I’ll just leave this here:
Feb 102021
Something everyone can get behind:
Feb 102021
My first book contract had the due date for the manuscript in July, 2020. But guess what, a pandemic came along and shoved that back a full year. So I got a *second* contract, with a due date in January 2021. But guess what… pandemic pushed it to March. That book is *almost* done, but I’ve taken a bit of a break from it to work feverishly on a completely different project: a CAD model of the “IXS Enterprise.” This is a notional spacecraft designed by artist Mark Rademaker to illustrate what a spacecraft based on an Alcubierre Warp Drive might look like; NASA has used various renderings of this vehicle quite often for that purpose.
The CAD model, which is being produced with the assistance and approval of Mr. Rademaker and Dr. Harold White of NASA, will be used to 3D print master parts for a 1/350 scale resin model kit to be released by Fantastic Plastic. As originally designed the IXS Enterprise had a length of 62.3 meters (which is being changed due to recent updates in the design) and the overall diameter is 41.3 meters. The model will thus be 17.8 cm/7 inches long by 11.8 cm/4.64 inches in diameter. This will put it in scale with the Polar Lights NCC-1701 Enterprise kit and the Moebius XD-1 USS Discovery kit, along with a whole bunch of ships.
UPDATE: there has been discussion about the scale of the model… chances are fair that it will get bumped up to 1/288 scale from 1/350. That would make it 8.5 inches long by 5.6 inches diameter.
The project to convert the original CAD model into a printable kit is proceeding at a good pace.
Feb 102021
This looks interesting…
“The High Frontier: the untold Story of Gerard K O’Neill” looks to be a documentary about just what the title says. When does it come out? That piece of info doesn’t seem available on their website, sadly.
Feb 092021
Sadly it has a Naughty Word (no, not “Trump”) in the title, so just cuz, it’s behind the “Continue Reading.”