Comments on: April 17, 2025 Quick space links

By: Jeff Wright

Jeff Wright — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 01:26:30 +0000

More of a can-do kind of broadcast.

One of the dangers of trying to get funding is that yokels are convinced we already have flying saucers—a myth that plays to cost-cutters and program killers’ tightwad natures.

By: Max

Max — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 03:44:03 +0000

I think I made it halfway, I kept drifting off into daydreams. The guy observing from Arizona talked about how he got hooked on near earth objects while watching comets from southern Utah… Then I started looking him up to see if I know him or his family, from my childhood.

Here’s a sleeper, trumps science/technology secretary? They repeat his speech twice to make it an hour.
https://www.youtube.com/live/ud5TgxeDPEc?si=1OK4DPfLHqZ8-KQa

A friend sent it to me saying that the government is admitting teleportation, time travel, gravity manipulation… typical Internet hype.
He talked about our past technology leaps from the first airplane to landing on the moon to the development of supersonic aircraft… Trump is bringing back the technology leaps like the glory days. (I must’ve daydreamed past the part where transportation becomes teleportation). As for the future manipulation of space and time at the end of his speech, a sentence from every science fiction ever written.

By: Blair Ivey

Blair Ivey — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 19:31:44 +0000

mkent noted: “. . . the absolute last thing I want at work is drama. No good can come from that.”

Indeed. You do not want an engineer to say “Well, that’s interesting.” Or worse ” That was unexpected.”

By: GeorgeC

GeorgeC — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 04:48:27 +0000

The documentary really showed a people having a lot of fun solving the problem of discoverying objects in our solar system and explaining how to do it. Some scenes of senate hearings too. But I did fall asleep and need to try the last 29 minutes again.

By: mkent

mkent — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:33:18 +0000

”It is also touted by NASA as ‘gripping’, with the researchers involved ‘dedicated,’ ‘tireless,’ and ‘unsung heroes,’ the kind of propaganda words that always turn me off.” Even worse than that, it goes on… ”Witness the drama, the challenges and the triumphs of those on the front lines of planetary defense.” I haven’t seen it either, and I don’t intend to. I’m an engineer, and the absolute last thing I want at work is drama. No good can come from that.