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Should be about 4-5 hours away from landing now...

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much official coverage from China... According to numerous radio astronomers though, the landing tonight is very likely as judging from the loss of signal, it appears the spacecraft is preparing for the first landing maneuver.

Fine. Fuck F1, I'll just buy Le Mans tickets next

Two years in a row I buy tickets, two years in a row it gets canceled

Fingers crossed!

Yes, a complete different story in Season 2. I mean give it a go, you never know... I'm just really not into ghost horror shite, so your mileage may vary!

Yeah, I stopped after Episode 1... Nah, no thread, we only talked about it briefly here, I think.

I only watched Season 1, superb. The whole Japanese ghost stuff in Season 2 was really not my cup of tea though...

In a few videos I couldn't even identify which body part of the bird was facing the camera

Konrad Lorenz Research Center in Austria is currently in need of volunteers to take part in the NetCams project - basically watching short videos of greylag geese and northern bald ibis in their nests, and answering questions about their behaviour seen in the video. The goal of their research is to measure the breeding performance and identify behavioural patterns that contribute to reproductive success. If anyone's interested, here's the link to the project: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/spotteron/nestcams

Nope, haven't had much time lately...

It's good to be skeptical and question things, but low-quality videos and screenshots with misleading information from somewhere in the internet are hardly helpful. There's certainly a discussion to be had about the ways that the pandemic has been handled; from the first response to the use of statistics, potentially disproportional safety measures, vaccine side effects and whatnot, but it's only useful when it is based on actual facts that can be verified and confirmed, and not on emotionally-charged, unverifiable claims and internet memes.

Literally a 5 second Google search for fact-checking. "A survey by dpa at several Israeli hospitals revealed that the video was recorded at the Shamir Medical Center in Be'er Ya'akov. "This is part of a promotional video being filmed at Shamir Medical Center these days," a hospital spokesperson confirmed to dpa. “What you see in the video is our new emergency parking lot,” he explains. "This is a demonstration of how the parking garage can be converted into a hospital ward." The people featured in the video are not actual patients. "The doctors are really doctors and some other hospital staff. The 'patients' are boys and girls of 18 years, who also work in the hospital," said the spokesman. The final promotional video is not online yet. The recordings have only just been completed. The images are not proof that the corona pandemic was staged or intended to terrify people. This is only about turning promotional material for a new innovation of the hospital in Be'er Ya'akov." The promotional video has been since released.

Red Cliff (2008/2009) Absolutely brilliant. Watched the original two-part version (instead of the shorter cut), almost 5 hours in total. Thoroughly enjoyed it; thought the pacing was spot on, was not bored for even a second of it. Fun action scenes choreography (even if some of the fighters are made to look like some Wuxia superheroes at times), great soundtrack, decent character development, some great acting, and visually stunning too. Love the epic scale of it; John Woo did a pretty good job portraying The Three Kingdoms period. 8.5/10

That woud have been a good question, to be honest. I'll include it in the Round 256, to check if you still remember it

Nope. Saw it in Prime as well just a few days ago though

Andy Weir's latest book, Project Hail Mary - just got it, can't wait to start reading it tonight!

Absolutely. Also have to keep in mind that Starship is a completely innovative and unusual design in that it is both a second stage launch vehicle and a reusable spacecraft with capability of re-entering Earth's atmosphere and landing retropropulsively. The set of challenges it faces is, thus, also completely new in many aspects - and I'd say they've been doing pretty well so far...

Sorry, I read your post in the morning, then fell asleep again and forgot all about it I think they're doing just fine... They are conducting plenty of tests and test flights, constantly improving things, and more are planned for the near future. All these failures, explosions and post landing fires provide a shitload of data the engineers can learn from. The most interesting thing will be launching Starship into orbit; if they can successfully do that this year, then I can see it being ready for manned flight by 2023/2024.

Thank you I'm quite proud of that one!

Went to the animal park & aquarium today. Some pics:

Don't bother with AC then, it's barely playable with a controller... ACC should be better, but bear in mind that it'll be only GT3 cars on Blancpain series tracks only!