All I said was,"that was a meal good enough for Jehova".

Do watch it when you can. A treat for hard SF fans. Or read the novels. Or both.

Marco Inaros was the villain who rained asteroids
on the earth in The Expanse.

I'm up for Marco wreaking regional mayhem.
If you know...

I was thinking Within You Without You.

Alan Shepard - Wikipedia

Funny. I understood it was Alan Shepard, the first US astronaut in space,who did this.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sh...

Lovely paint job.

We were re-watching some episodes of Beauty and the Beast with Linda Hamilton last night.
Was surprised to see it was written by George R R Martin.
One episode has Miyam Biyalik as a gangster moll. From 1988.

A Protomolecule monster being destroyed by the rocket engine of a spaceship. From the TV series The Expanse.

North Sea gas was heavily promoted and seen as a good thing.
Decimalisation was heavily promoted but the public often saw it as increasing prices.
Postcodes? 01 telephone numbers? Millennium bug?

IBM originally estimated the world market for mainframe computers was less than ten.

Presumably this is the same process as was used in many previous appointments. Cameron as FS perhaps? Historically maybe considered a formality most of the time. It only becomes contentious when the subject turns out to be not so suitable for the role but is still highly desired by Govt.

Sci-fi:
2001: A Space Odyssey, Bladerunner, Millennium, The Abyss, Contact,

Other:
Monty Python's Life of Brian, Casino Royale (2006), The Last of the Mohicans, Where Eagles Dare, Zulu,

Why oh why does BS trash my post when I jump to another app to check something? Had to retype this.

Blessed are the cheese makers.

Darren Jones was quite right on the point on Today.
A process that not only allows vetting to be ignored but also doesn't mandate that fact to be disclosed is seriously faulty.
Sir Humphrey would be proud.

Web page doesn't like my email address. 🥲

Don't tell the yanks.
They won't do you any favours.

You should read the original novel of The Wandering Earth.

Not broken but my OnlyPosts filter isn't working.

Project Hail Mary premiered.

Onlyposts filter is my saviour.

Thank you for your report and views on Salute 2026. It's warming to hear the hobby is thriving. Also good that you managed the trip.

Thanks. It's all secondhand, I assure you.

No problem, I'm just a nerd. You call it a tank you want.
My favourite 'tank" is the Churchill AVRE. It's an engineering vehicle and was crewed by Royal Engineers, apart from the driver.

Nice paint job anyway.

So has a bren carrier.
The M10/17pdr is a tank destroyer.
In the British army it was crewed by Royal Artillery troops, just like anti-tank guns.

It's. Not. A. Tank!

Hailstones in Somerset!

I like Lower Decks.
I like Starfleet Academy.
I like Strange New Worlds.
I would love more seasons of Enterprise.

I'd like to see a series set between First Contact and Enterprise. Civilian starships plying their trade between nearby star systems at low warp, seeing other races, phenomena...

Stonne the crows!