Human Spaceflight: 26 Feb 1971. The Soviets launch Kosmos 398. Once again, nobody outside the space program knew what it was. Only in the 80s did it come out that it was another uncrewed test of their lunar lander. The flight was another success.
It always struck me as odd that the 2024 season was called 'Season One', suggesting a new start for the show, then what we got was two seasons absolutely crammed full of references to the past with Mel, Sutekh, the Rani, Omega, even Susan. It just didn't seem to know what it was trying to be.
The second kit I borrowed from Lend A Brick was an X-Wing from some film franchise or other that you may have heard of...
And another one where part of the plot (though they don't actually go through with it here) is based on 'Starfleet medical technology is so good we can kill people and revive them easily'. Except all those times we don't, even when they die of, say, a knife wound right outside the infirmary....
They proved that landing in the highlands was just as achievable as landing in the flat mare. They tried to extend their range of geology activities with a wheeled cart for tools and samples, but also discovered that navigating on foot is hard without the usual distance cues we are all so used to.
Human Spaceflight: 09 Feb 1971. Apollo 14 splashes down, returning astronauts Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell and Stu Roosa to Earth after a successful mission, in spite of the various problems encountered en route.
How great does this event look? We can't wait! Tickets are now available from the Riverside Studios website: riversidestudios.co.uk/whats-on/sc-...
Massive hugs. Hopefully the overwhelm will pass, you'll find ways to manage it. For any help it may be my DMs are always open.
A repost for the evening crowd. Our journey in the magical realms comes to an end. Twice...
We come to the end of another series, and beyond...
This was a nice bit of publicity work but in many ways was too little, too late. Live TV from the moon needed to be interesting, but since the camera couldn't move and they had to walk some distance away, it was live TV of an empty moonscape for hours. The below screenshots cover 2 solid hours.
Human Spaceflight: 06 Feb 1971. At the conclusion of the second lunar surface EVA on Apollo 14, Alan Shepard does his famous 'golf on the moon' moment. A specially modified 6-iron club head was attached to a tool handle and he used it to knock two golfballs across the lunar surface.
Minor edit to the video so hopefully this one will just show. Watch this space for further information about the upcoming quiz by me and @sihart.bsky.social
Nah, it was Lytton's hands being crushed. I removed it, replaced it with a few Cybermen and posted the revised version on another post and it was fine.
Yep. Re-edited it without the hand scene and posted again and it's gone through without a warning.
And that story got a 'U' certificate when it came out on VHS!
Minor edit to the video so hopefully this one will just show. Watch this space for further information about the upcoming quiz by me and @sihart.bsky.social
Graphic media? Really? Oh dear...
What's this? Another quiz from me and @sihart.bsky.social? Yes indeed. The questions are written, we just need to set a date. Watch this space!
The Hamsterverse hits its half million downloads! Five years; commentaries, Strictly’s, Book Clubs, Patreon, X-Files, friendship, laughter, madness, facts (occasionally), scandal, gossip, and a lot of people crossing paths and sharing their love. It’s been a huge adventure. Thanks for pressing play.
Another awful episode, but does have a significance of sorts as it's the first Star Trek episode to feature a guest actor who had previously appeared in Doctor Who. Barrie Ingham, playing Danilo Odell here, had been Paris in 'The Myth Makers' and Alydon in 'Doctor Who and the Daleks'.
The descent had a few issues, notably a spurious abort signal that required a hastily devised software patch from mission control to avoid premature abort of the landing itself, and the late lock on of the landing radar, but it made the landing originally planned for Apollo 13.
Human Spaceflight: 05 Feb 1971. "It's been a long way, but we're here." After successfully landing Apollo 14's lunar module Antares on the Fra Mauro highlands, Alan Shepard, America's first astronaut, becomes the fifth person to walk on the Moon. LM pilot Edgar Mitchell follows shortly after.
Awful episode. The single worst example of Worf being overridden when he expresses concern about sending Geordi over to the Pakled ship instead of, say, any old engineering team.
A gin and orange, a lemon squash and a scotch and water PLEASE!
Interesting, thanks. So what might cause red cells to break in the circulation? Malaria perhaps?
Is that by any chance a blood film from a patient who is heterozygous for sickle cell?
Yay - I'm back on Hamster. Not so yay - it's for the Vengeance on Varos novelisation. Torture is the word...
What happens when four innocent bookclubbers are trapped with the pages of a torture zone with no hope of escape...? And what will the people of Hamster think?
Happy Belated World Book Day!
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The only bit that I always laugh at is when Guinan, who is looking out the window in Ten Forward, from where she can see the cube, goes to her office (which we never see again) to turn on a viewscreen to look at the ship she was just looking at!
