Pat @Pat@qoto.org

#VR #AR #virtual #reality

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Augmented hallucinations.

(MAGA folk are early adopters.)

FFP = filtering facepiece (respirator)

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Bingo!

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Key word, "afford".

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #film #movie #technology #sea #navy #war #future #FTW #asylum #big #guns

Retro SciFi of the Week…

American Warships (2012)

If you’re a fan of independent films, I highly recommend this one.

This ten-year-old film is what’s known in the business as a “mockbuster”, a lower budget film with a similar name or theme as a major studio film and released around the same time. The idea is that the major studio will spend a ton of money promoting the big film, and then the low-budget mockbuster film will “draft” off of all that promotion, with audiences wanting to see similar films or sometimes mistaking the low-budget film for the major studio film. In this case, the big film was Battleship (2012).

However, despite having a budget of less than 1% of that major motion picture, this mockbuster, American Warships, was a much better film. Battleship got sunk at the box office (and with critics), while American Warships made money for Asylum (the independent studio that produced American Warships).

As a low budget film, this one lacks the high-quality computer graphics of major studio films at that time, but it makes up for it with great casting, a well-written script, decent thespians, a unique plot, and an overall high-production value (except the CG).

Note: Don’t read any descriptions or watch trailers for this one, most of them contain major spoilers.

(image: fair use low-res movie poster)

This is long CoVID...

If Biden had worn a respirator whenever he was around other people, he would not have gotten infected with the virus and he would not still be sick from it.

#masks #respirators #N95 #covid19 #potus

***Help Forum***

[SOLVED] Why won’t engine #3 cool down properly?

Ans: Just try again on Saturday, and if it messes up again you can just scrub the launch one more time and then spend a bunch of taxpayer money trying to change out the sensor while the thing is already on the launch pad.

(Tip: Next time put in multiple, redundant, cheap (in money and weight) sensors throughout the engine so you’ll know exactly whats going on.)

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-provide-update-on-artemis-i-moon-mission-status

#artemis #moon #nasa #scrub #private #spaceflight

Bowman: “Well HAL, I'm damned if I can find anything wrong with it.”

HAL: “I would recommend that we put the unit back in operation and let it fail.”

HAL: “We can certainly afford to be out of [commission] for the short time it will take to replace it.”

#artemis #scrub

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This one is 100% true. ATV is an abbreviation for “All-Terrain Vehicle”, but it is also an abbreviation for “Automated Transfer Vehicle”, which is a cargo spacecraft used for resupplying the ISS (International Space Station).

By first mentioning a car in space and by showing a picture of all-terrain vehicles, this statement makes it sound like they but all-terrain vehicles in space, when in this case “ATV” actually refers to the spacecraft.

#TruthBeTold #vehicle #orbit #universe #ATV #European #Space #Agency #ESA #Tesla #Roadster #abbreviations

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Most people are aware that SpaceX launched a Tesla Roadster into space, but did you know that between 2008-2015 the European Space Agency put several ATVs into orbit?

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#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun) (public domain image per commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:All-terrain_vehicle_Quad._New_Brunswick_2008_7575.jpg)

>"What a horrible death. When are we finally going to get rid of all these gasoline-powered cars?"

In 2035 apparently.

https://www.nbc12.com/2022/08/26/californias-2035-ban-new-gas-powered-cars-set-apply-virginia/

(I'm sure this accident had an effect on the regulators who passed this new rule.)

Oops! I got the wrong hash tags on this one. Those are for an upcoming #FTW.

This should have stuff like #disaster, #ark, #space, #50s, #lovetriangle, #astronomy ...

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #film #movie #robot #revolution #technology #puppet #future #past #work #propaganda #Data #Robbie #HAL # #capitalism #serfdom

Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

When Worlds Collide (1951)

Although the story of approaching doom with people trying to avoid or escape disaster is a very old story (e.g. Noah’s Ark), I think this was the first to cover the specific case of a planet (or star) approaching Earth. The film is an adaptation of the novel, which was written in 1933. The story was very influential in science fiction, with many stories afterwards having the premise of an asteroid, star, planet or whatever heading toward Earth with our survival in the balance. It really has become a subgenre. Flash Gordon directly borrowed many aspects from the novel.

Its fairly well produced for the time it was released, with elaborate sets and decent actors. However, the graphical special effects set a new low. Today it’s done with computer graphics, but back then they were hand drawn. I actually laughed out loud when I saw them. And of course the film predates our having anything at all in space, so things like zero-G, etc., are off, but otherwise the film is very good for a 50’s scifi.

#polarization not polorization

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This one is 100% true. Cosmetologists have no theories about the Inflationary Epoch and have no intention to investigate it at all, because cosmetologists specialize in beauty treatments for skin and hair, not the origins and nature of the universe.

#TruthBeTold #webb #telescope #bigbang #universe #inflation #CMB #polorization #light #lightyear #cosmologists

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The Inflationary Epoch is a supposed brief period occurring shortly after the beginning of the Big Bang during which the universe rapidly expanded. However, cosmetologists have absolutely no theories whatsoever to explain why it happened, how long it took, or where the theory originated. They also have no intention to attempt to measure the B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation in order to provide observations to support the theory.

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(public domain image from NASA)

FYI - The tag "#pointless" refers to this poll, not to religion generally or any particular religion.

Pointless because anyone who votes will just vote for their own religion, because if they thought another religion was better, then they'd choose that other religion. Get it?

This #TruthBeTold is mostly true. The image is from the Webb Telescope and researchers made a point of observing the spot, put they didn’t “discover” it. The Great Red Spot has been observed by astronomers for centuries, and we’ve known for decades that it is caused by an ongoing atmospheric storm. (The spot looks white in this pic because it’s a composite image using multiple filters.)

By using the word “discovered” and saying it “appears” to be an atmospheric disturbance, the statement makes it sound like the spot is something new.

It’s also true that no monoliths were seen around Jupiter, however, researchers were not expecting to see them.

* * * Movie spoiler – 2001 and it’s sequel 2010 * * *

The reference to monoliths comes from the film “2001: A Space Odyssey” and its sequel “2010: The Year We Make Contact”. A large, black rectangular monolith features prominently in those films. It’s shown orbiting Jupiter towards the end of “2001” and a swarm of monoliths multiply within the atmosphere of Jupiter in “2010” causing the planet to explode into a star.

I’m confused.

Those of you who are voting in this rhetorical poll…

are you zealots or fellow satirists?

#TruthBeTold #webb #telescope #jupiter #2001 #space #odyssey #spot

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The James Webb telescope has discovered a large spot on the surface of Jupiter that is larger than the Earth. It appears to be some kind of atmospheric disturbance.

No signs of any monoliths, though.
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