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Apparently, I Am Legend
As a promotion for tonight's release of Destiny's Year Two add-on content, The Taken King, Bungie* built a web site that collates your player statistics and builds a customised video of your character's Legend.
-- Steve wonders if there's a bit of flattery in there; he's good, but in the top 1%? Really?
* or it could be Activision, I guess -
"To Mars by A-Bomb"
I'd heard of this BBC documentary before, and seen excerpts, but until now I'd not seen the full hour-long version. Posted here for future reference, and for sharing of course ( Read more... ) -
Here is a much less stupid film
Science Under Attack is a one-hour documentary presented by Sir Paul Nurse, president of the Royal Society, about the current distrust of scientific research in the public and what the scientific community can do to address this.
-- Steve found it fascinating material presented very well. -
Here is a stupid film
Stupidity, a one-hour documentary about, well... what it says on the tin, really. NSFW for swears, occasional glimpses of nudity, and, uh, well, really stupid behaviour.
-- Steve agrees that the field really does need better study. -
This is why I play Kerbal Space Program
-- Steve can't sum it up any better than that.
PS: aside from the music and title cards, all that is from game play.
PPS: I've barely managed to land a Kerman on the Mun; look at what the grownups can do. -
For review by me tomorrow
A tutorial for Kerbal Space Program's rendezvous and docking procedures. As I clearly need to practice.
-- Steve's only managed to come close once; rendezvous is hard. -
Possibly the TV show most influential to my youth
It would appear that a low-resolution copy of Carl Sagan's 1980 TV science documentary series Cosmos is up for viewing on YouTube. (Episode 1 above.) As I had cause to link to it elsewhere, I thought I'd also link to it here in my journal for future reference ( Read more... ) -
Metal. In. SPAAAACE!
As the previous link I made (in comments earlier) seems to be FUBAR, here's a Kerbal Space Project mod that introduces the most METAL space drive EVAR: the Orion Fission Pulse drive.
YES. It's a big-assed rocket propelled by NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
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I'm not the only one shilling for XCOM: EU
-- Steve doesn't always agree with Yahtzee, but he does with this one.
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