Brian Edwards

This is a revisit of an old blog at PopSci:… That Time Astronauts Discovered the Apollo Spacecraft was a Terrible Boat

Jim Lovell also did a seaworthiness test, checking that the Apollo command module could survive at sea for three days in an emergency. I got to ask him about it once. He said it was horrible!

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Also the story of the time I met Jim Lovell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLyuP_5CRjc All footage from NASA Jim Lovell had the best career #shorts #nasa #apollo #history

A quick look at Jim Lovell's incredible missions -- the first dual spacecraft mission, the final Gemini mission that rounded out the program, the first human mission to the Moon, and Apollo 13.

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Jim Lovell the astronaut who commanded the Apollo 13 mission

Farewell to Jim Lovell, who went to the moon and back TWICE, becoming one of tiny number of the most travelled humans in history. 93 a pretty good age RIP

You know that classic Edward Hopper painting evoking isolation and despair? We used AI to make it look terrible for no reason

Oh good lord. Want.

The perfect host.

The World’s First Website in 1991 Take a trip down memory lane and look at the The World’s First Website in 1991. Check out the Web Design Museum gallery. Go back to the early days of the Internet.

The World’s First Website in 1991 created by Tim Berners-Lee on August 6, 1991

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You can get Bob Symes mini figures! Might buy some to discretely add to architectural models. He’d have liked that.

In which Doctor Who and Doctor Who's son meet Doctor Who's mum.

Episode underrunning Tony? #Crossroads

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a white background . Alt: David byrne doing the hand measuring time against his arm gesture from the once in a lifetime video

it took me awhile to realize this but when I ask my 10yo semi verbal autistic daughter how her day was she'll sometimes do the David Byrne "same as it ever was" gesture from the Once in a Lifetime video to let me know nothing important happened and I fucking love that

A Twitter DM from June 2022 reads: Hi Mollie, I hope you're well. Just sending a message to say thanks. Early this year you tweeted a Guardian Blind Date, where the guy dragged the girl a little bit. After seeing a couple of people saying some pretty shit things about her on Twitter, I DM'd her to balance it out a bit - just say I thought she came across as really funny and fuck the haters etc (but with no other real intention other than that). Well we hit it off, talked every day for a month (I was working out of the UK at the time) and agreed to meet as soon as I returned. I ended up coming home early and we've been dating ever since. It might sound a bit over the top but l've never felt like this about anyone else before, and I'm pretty sure she feels the same way. I've honestly had some of the best months of my life with her around, and I want to say thanks

A Twitter DM from tonight reads: Hey Mollie, I hope you don't mind an update on the above. I asked her if she'd marry me, she said yes! She's my world. I'm so incredibly thankful for you tweeting that thing that led me and meet - I'm eternally in your debt. Thanks!

In 2022 I received the wholesome DM in the image on the left on the Other Site, tonight I received the one on the right 🥹🥹🥹🥹

I have heard him say this word in two different plays, years apart, as very different characters, but both written and directed by Harold Pinter. Celebration and No Man’s Land. He was spectacular in both.

I genuinely thought I saw him in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at the Barbican. He did actually appear in it in the West End later, but at the Barbican it was Gary Sinise. Being this old sucks, my memory is often terrifyingly wrong.

That time our telephone pole ran away and I put up signs on every cat I saw.

Also as we’re on the subject, Romulan Ale is clearly a spirit and not an ale.

I only ask because Strange New Worlds has a product placement warning at the start of each episode and so far Guinness is the only thing I’ve recognised, and I doubt Diageo would’ve approved those badly poured pints.

So do you suppose you could order a cold Diet Coke from the replicators or did all brands die in WWW3?

It has some great moments, but not really.

I don’t know who needs/wants to know this but Morons From Outer Space is streaming, I think for the first time ever, on Prime.

Steven Knight off of Peaky Blinders is to write the next Bond film. Now, that’s all well and good, but we all know the best screenplay (Moonraker, fuck off, no you fuck off) was written by the bloke who wrote the Confessions films and I think they’ve missed a trick not asking me.

By this rate it sounds like they probably will actually have a finished script before they start filming. Revolutionary.

Fun fact, the songwriter character living opposite is played by the man who invented Alvin and the Chipmunks.

Well the new Fantastic Four flick is retrotastic fun.

Yay!

The Cartoon Museum is fun. www.cartoonmuseum.org

The old Microsoft tweet fax template, filled in to say - Remember when you had to fax in your tweets? That was a faff, wasn't it?

People forget how different the world was before smartphones.

The MegaSCSI standard was in theory capable of incredible bandwidth but was not widely adopted due to its size.