801

(17 replies, posted in Friends in Your Dungeon)

(ticonderoga is a badass ship name)

I think it's cool you make these videos. They look nice, too.

803

(10 replies, posted in Off Topic)

804

(10 replies, posted in Off Topic)

805

(1 replies, posted in Creations)

I like that design in general. My only thought is that I probably wouldn't go with the quote at the bottom.

806

(10 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Isn't it like four years old, in terms of actual performance specs?

807

(670 replies, posted in Creations)

808

(670 replies, posted in Creations)

*clicks play*

*three seconds later*

I'm already impressed. Diving in.

809

(346 replies, posted in Off Topic)

810

(17 replies, posted in Episodes)

The whole "it's not your fault" riff, a minute after the two-hour mark — with all of us telling Brian it's not his fault that he ostensibly sank his crew boat that one time — is cracking me up.

EDIT: And it comes back at 2:17.

EDIT: And 2:20.

811

(3 replies, posted in Off Topic)

I am so psyched to talk about this. I can't tonight, but hell yes.

812

(18 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Crazy. Somehow I missed the memo about this.

813

(21 replies, posted in Episodes)

814

(18 replies, posted in Off Topic)

815

(649 replies, posted in Off Topic)

zarban

clap

816

(10 replies, posted in Creations)

If it's anything like anything else, probably not.

(Sorry, that was a slam that happened because of the setup, not because it actually means anything. sad)

817

(4 replies, posted in Off Topic)

You could read "The Martian." (Most of the specifics don't make it into the movie, naturally.) The miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon" is chock full of good stuff, but it might be less futuristic than you're hoping for. ("Can We Do This?", "Apollo One," "We Have Cleared the Tower," "Spider," and "That's All There Is," especially. These are episodes I specifically recall include some amount of technical space stuff.)

I'll bet someone's written an outstanding anthology of space-related accidents and emergencies.

818

(346 replies, posted in Off Topic)

One time in Orlando, driving east at night, I saw a very confusing thing: this oddly bright, oddly slow, upward moving flashing dot. First thought was firework, second thought was helicopter, third thought was a shooting star approaching me at a foreshortened angle. It took me fifteen seconds to figure out I was watching a rocket launch from a hundred miles away.

It happened again a few months later.

It breaks your brain a little bit, especially out of context.

819

(346 replies, posted in Off Topic)

When I lived in Florida, my girlfriend at the time lived in a place called Satellite Beach, which is just a few miles south of Cape Canaveral. Whenever I'd go visit her, I'd take the long way home (already a long drive to and from Orlando, which is dead-center between the coasts) and drive past the VAB just to see it.

This anecdote doesn't really connect to anything, just sumthin' I think about when Canaveral comes up.

Also, Canaveral is extracted from "caña veral," basically "cane field;" sugar cane used to grow there.

820

(346 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Godspeed, Boeing.

Godspeed all of 'em.

821

(3 replies, posted in Creations)

Sure, I watched it. Sure, fullscreen. Sure, when you held the camera over the edge of the basket, I yelled.

822

(9 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Ha. Hell yeah, I approve of this idea for a thread. (Largely because I've given up on all the pop cultural stuff that we usually talk about in threads, so the chat window is my primary thing these days.)

823

(30 replies, posted in Creations)

Prometheus is right.

825

(2,068 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Nevahoidofit. This is what being off the grid gets you. Thanks for the heads-up.