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How to Watch the Boeing Starliner Launch - Boeing’s first ever human-crewed spacecraft is launching tonight. You can watch it live r... - https://www.wired.com/story/watch-boeing-starliner-launch-livestream/ #gear/howtoandadvice #blastoff #gear
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Retro SciFi Film of the Week…
Space-Men (1957)
(aka, Assignment: Outer Space)
This is an Italian-made sci-fi by Antonio Margheriti, who was a very prolific filmmaker. He was able to produce a lot of low-budget films very quickly, including this one which was his first film. I think most of the voice actors (who dubbed the English version) were actually pretty good in this film given the material. And there was a ton of special effects in this one, too.
This film seems to have a lot more science fact errors in it then the typical 50s science fiction film. I’ve put a few in this unauthorized trailer –- convert hydrogen into oxygen to make air; going to Globular Cluster M12 in a chemical rocket, rocket engines at “full RPM”; and of course lots of sounds in space. At one point they are at Mars and they get a call from HQ saying, “Hey, while your out there, stop by Venus, too.” (paraphrased)
I think the title of this film, “Space-Men” comes from a line in the movie about a woman who is on the spaceship (I’ve included it in the trailer). The English-dubbed version of the film that was released in the US had the title, “Assignment: Outer Space”.
For a low budget film, they really put a lot of effort into the props and special effects and sets. Actually, some of the sets are pretty well designed and the special effects were not bad for a low-budget 50s sci-fi. (It was actually shot in 1960, but it’s basically a 50s sci-fi.)
If you've never seen an Italian sci-fi this one’s a classic.
#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #FTW #sfftw #film #movie #50s #Italy #rocket #blastoff #M12 #solarsystem #RPM #neohydrozine #dubbed
Accessible video description:
Old faded color film; A guy in a control tower talking about a space mission to the Globular Cluster M12, then a rocket blasts off with the movie’s opening title, Assignment: Outer Space and shows the surface of a planet and it shows the rocket again and it shows a guy in zero-g trying to maneuver and it shows some people in space near a space ship and then it shows the guy in a spacesuit floating through the void of space and a hose being hooked up to the back of a rocket that is floating in space then a guy playing around with a bunch of oscilloscopes and other guys floating around through space and a fiery meteor, not a meteorite, goes buzzing by; then some guy in a cockpit says he doesn't know what's going on; then another guy wants to commit suicide by jumping off of the spaceship and he jumps out and it shows a fake dummy falling down to the surface of Mars as the guy screams when he’s falling in space; and some other guys talk about going down to get the guy and they go down and pick him up and he's still alive for some reason; and then back to the guy who is in zero-g pretending to be floating around he's actually walking on the ground but he's moving very slowly and acting like he's floating but it actually looks pretty real considering; then the guy and some other people are standing around talking about some destructive thing; then there's a rocket that's trying to land at “full RPMs” (closed captioning says “four RPMs”) and the rocket lands but it tips over a little bit, 9 degrees and it sounds like a tree falling; then a man and a woman are talking about going 90,000 mph; then a guy's talking about the next solar system revolution; then a woman in a cockpit wearing a helmet says that they're very close now; then a man is talking to a woman who's in some sort of laboratory with plants that are turning hydrogen into oxygen; then a guy in a spaceship is talking about the Earth turning into boiling mud; then several astronauts in a cockpit and a guy’s talking about 16 gammas when he meant to say 16 G's; then there's an atomic spaceship with chemical exhaust coming out the back of it; then a bad actor talking about crashing into a Mars satellite; then a guy in a cockpit with a woman, the guys says nobody knows what they're talking about; then a man walks into a room and it shows him looking at a person's legs under a table but you can’t see the person and the person walks out and turns out that it's a woman astronaut, which apparently is shocking in 1950s; then a man is coming out of a suspended hibernation tank in a spaceship, cut to an o-scope and cut back to the guy standing up very slowly out of his hibernation tank; then it shows a rocket separating from its first stage and then the second stage separating from it and the surface of some planet; then a guy in a spacesuit is floating through space very slowly with fake stars in the background and all of the stars are blinking dim and bright synchronously; fade to black.
These High-End Water Guns Aren’t for Kids - Brands around the world are launching blasters with gaming modes, tactical display screen... - https://www.wired.com/story/water-guns-for-adults-spyra-three-mijia-pulse/ #gear/products/lifestyle #blastoff #gear
Brands around the world are launching blasters with…
www.wired.comFather And Son
The first image is mine, the second is my son Marc’s 3D impression of it.
#Rocketman #BlastOff #FatherAndSon #Illustration #KidLitArt #Illustrator #ChildrensBooks #MastoArt
Fed up with Google and Microsoft's Bing #SurveillanceCapitalism?
Many often say, "I would like to stop using Google search or Bing, but I do not know how or which #AltSearch to make the switch."
To help #freedomists and free speech believers escape the clutches of #BitchTech, aka #BigTech, I have created a super search engine, Blastoff!
Here is what it does.
By default, the engine passes through your search query to a privacy-focused search engine selected at random from a list of privacy-focused search engines (Gibiru, Metager, Mojeek, Qwant, Swisscows, Yippy, Duck Duck Go).
You can override the default by first typing in a hotword (aka, hotstring, trigger word, short code) for the search engine of your choice.
There are many listed already. Merely click on the help at the top left of your screen once the engine loads to see the built-in hotwords that pass through your search queries to respective search engines.
So say you want to search images on Yandex (Yandex is not privacy focused, by the way). All you need to do is this in the search box:
iy cute cats
assuming you wished to find cute cat pics.
There is a general pattern for the hotwords for portal search engines that offer more than one kind of search focus:
<search type><portal search engine name shortening>
Here are the <search types>:
i = image
gi = gif image
n = news
v = video
But wait there is more!
The engine also works with Yubnub (http://yubnub.org) and Duck Duck Go bangs. So you have instantly 1,000s of search engines at your fingertips.
Since anyone can add search strings to YubNub and Duck Duck Go's bangs, including you, you can expand Blastoff! to suit your needs.
You can even search Yubnub or DDG for bangs by these:
lsyn
lsd
And there is still more!
You can make the search engine your default engine in your browser simply by adding the right search string. That means you can search directly from your omnibox!
Here is the home of the engine:
https://timeserieslord.github.io/blastoff/
And here is the special search string to add to your browser:
https://timeserieslord.github.io/blastoff/?fetch=%s
As the engine is hosted on github, the code is right there in the repository. You can see that you are not being tracked by it at least not by Blastoff!. You are safe, especially when using a search engine marked ⧌ (that's an 's' inside a triangle).
Give it a whirl. It is my default search engine from my omnibox.
I have not gone to a search engine site in years directly. I do all of my searching from the omnibox.
Oh and I have been using this for years locally on my laptops. Now it is in the wild to help you and many others to stop using Google and Bing.
All the same, you can still use Google and Bing from it simply by prefacing your search with g or b.
There are many hotwords for Google search products, which you can find in the help at the bottom for those of you who can't break their Google habits.
Also, there is a special way to search when you need two pieces of input. So if you wish to have driving directions from Google Maps, you can do it easy peasy. Here is an example:
ddg Spokane,WA;Boise,ID
The trick is remembering to use a semi-colon (;) to separate the data chunks.
Not only are there general search engines in Blastoff! but also there are site-specific hotwords to search shopping sites. So you can shop Costco, Sams, Canadian Tire, etc.
A while back, I created a custom search engine to find products made in the USA.
I have incorporated my Shop the USA engine in it into Blastoff!
It is so easy to use too! All you do is type in the the hotword 'usmade' followed by whatever it is you seek to buy. So for example, you do it like so:
usmade jeans
And it even works with Amazon, if you must shop there
azusa jeans
And of course the hotword for full Amazon search is: az.
Blastoff! is such a cool search engine that has access to many search engines! Thousands!
Some final words: The UI looks fine on the desktop but it needs a tweak for smartphones and tablets. Right now you need to pinch expand it to get the search box bigger.
I will have a fix for that shortly. I am not a CSS joker so I need to do some searching for a fix.
Since Blastoff! is merely a web page, you can add it to your home screen on your smartphone to fulfill all of your search needs.
If you have any questions, ask here. If you have suggestions, drop those below.
Why did I do this? Why is it free? I hate #BitchTech / #BigTech. I am trying to lead people into freedom and away from the censorship punishing Big Tech products.
#SearchFreedom #TechFreedom
#EndCensorship #BypassSurveillance
#PrivacyRights #PrivacyTech
#Blastoff
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