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Gibraltar's even closer, and the British don't need an excuse to hold onto that. Though I wonder if they couldn't experiment with ship-based launching. Then they could fly out of the middle of the Atlantic with no issue and no range safety concerns. Maybe Megaroc can become a Royal Navy program.

It would defeat the purpose. The point of building space stations like Freedom/ISS, Mir, Skylab, Salyut, and Spacelab (though that was an appendage to Shuttle) was to create a microgravity environment in which materials science and biology could be studied in the absence of gravity. The big...

Thoughts on the final episode of the season: Thoughts on the entire first season and the next: And the post-credits scene: All in all, the show is satisfactory. It doesn't quite deliver on its potential, and has a few obvious missed opportunities , but I'm eager to see where they go next.

Episode 9:

I’m more concerned about the fact that, however many seats you cram into one CM, this ends with a crew on the Moon not having a lifeboat back to Earth. NASA needs to launch a second CSM to avoid that situation.

Good question--Ed's on the Moon without a CSM for return right now, and 24 will only have one, so the question is, what exactly will Ed be flying back on? I don't think NASA will want to leave Deke, Ellen, and Harry alone on the Moon without their own return CSM, so maybe another gets lofted...

Not when your bunk is a Navy surplus bunk and there is no physical way (short of climbing into the airlock) to be out of sight of your colleague. And not if you want to have any chance of flying another mission. Besides, all three of them are married, and while that might not stop Gordo, the...

Episode VII: Hi Bob All in all, a very good episode, though the tech development is a bit wonky. I'd have liked a show that sticks a bit closer to some of the real plans. Of course, we're never really going to get a film adaptation of Voyage, so I'm happy this show is airing, but obviously...

For the sake of upholding Karl May’s reputation, I must point out that the Winnetou stories frequently center on moral chastisement of white settlers for stealing Indian land and killing Indians to steal their gold. Hitler might have been a big fan, but he drew the exact opposite of the moral...

Could have been worse. They could have renamed California ‘East Nippon’ or something.

I don’t think it was sarcasm. Elijah, at least, was open about his contempt for Bell’s bourgie homeownership ambitions and his dislike of luxurious accommodations.

Indeed, as the 30 Years’ War and Swedish Deluge (which inflicted 33-50% casualties on the total populations of Poland and Germany) show, most death in a war is a result of the soldiers ‘living off the land.’ The idea that they would have been significantly worse off if women took up arms en...

The other thing is, as far as I know, that there was no preexisting hot kiln pottery tradition that could serve as a springboard for smelting. In the Old World, copper-working was an offshoot of kilns in which the temperature was hot enough to melt out copper from copper-rich clays. Were kilns...

To be fair, that was basically the justification for Bandera helping the Nazis. And the Croats. I think you could find a few American Indians willing to do it. Emphasis on few, though, because the genocide of the American Indians was so nearly complete that there weren't enough to do anything...