It's not then-year Olympics that factor into his decision, I think.
But saying any more would be telling.Essentially, what the shuttle turns out as ITTL is a slightly larger HL-20-style crew/cargo vehicle lifted on expendable boosters (Saturn 1B to start). No large payload bay--it's not a payload launcher, and for servicing missions it can meet the bird in need of service on-orbit. Shuttle will be serving Skylab-class stations, launched by some of the second purchase of Saturn Vs.
Sounds like you have a Canadian Power-shaped hole in your life. TheMann did a fabulous coverage of a TL in which Canada keeps carrier capability via buying the Eagle. Brainbin included that note partly as a reference to that TL, but he's not a military history guy, so I'm not really expecting to hear more, especially when we'd both agree that TheMann did it best already.
I like the show too, but it was a sequel to a movie--a movie which ITTL came out at a very bad time to be an allegory for the Vietnam War. Unlike OTL, the war had ended by the time MASH came out in theaters, so people didn't find relief through humor, they wanted to forget it had been happening. TV shows don't get made from movies that bomb. Sad, but true.
I certainly hope so! Maybe Brainbin won't have one appear before the end of the TL (he's planning on covering up to 1986), but as for one appearing later...never give up, never surrender!
Now this I'm interested to hear Brainbin answer.
It's not then-year Olympics that factor into his decision, I think.
Could I make that up?The Professor said:
Apparently, he's recorded a song that's considered R&R, so he could make it.That's my understanding, too. I can see how a lifetime influence beats a high-cash clientele, but surely there are advertisers wanting that target demo. It is why golf gets air. It also helped "West Wing", I understand: they skew rich, & golf, older.The Blue-Eyed Infidel said:
Aww... "Feels like the first time..."e_wraith said:
"Go all they way..."It wouldn't even need to be based on a real event, actually. Think "The Unit".e_wraith said:
I know he's aiming to have it done before the Olympics are over--though I can't say why. I know, though, because at the moment I'm part of the problem, not the solution--he's just finished a draft of a really great 5000 word guest post for Eyes, and he's been working away on that in some of the time that would normally be the next update of TWR.
Not to pimp my own stuff, but if you're interested in space, perhaps you'd enjoy Eyes Turned Skywards, a TL about an alternate post-Apollo era that I've been working on with truth is life, and which Brainbin helped out with a bit in Part I? We're going to be coming off haitus and full steam ahead into the 80s here in the next few weeks, so now's a great time to catch up! (Note how elegantly I dodged answering the question about the future of space in TWR, which I can't answer about due to the non-disclosure agreement truth and I signed in blood when we agreed to help Brainbin out with space details if he let us spend NASA's double-OTL budget. Plus he provided some culture updates for Eyes, so it was very win-win-win.)
Alas, it is all for naught, since I have had your timeline open in another window just waiting until I caught up with this one anyway. In fact, that's the type of timeline I actually came here to read in the first place! How did I wind up on Brainbin's? No idea really. Not complaining at all, trust me! But aerospace pays the bills after all, so I am mandated by law to have an interest. Will we see Tom Baker and Lalla Ward plugging Prime Computers?Elegant indeed. And pimp away, there's nothing better than shameless self promotion!
I wonder, would this continued interest in the space program lead to more people entering technology fields, perhaps speeding up adoption of the personal computer? We probably won't be seeing Shatner do his Commodore VIC-20 commercials, though, since he is a bigger star and Jack Tramiel is a budget sort of guy. Sadness.
I'm glad to hear you're looking forward to it, and I hope you'll find it as enjoyable once you're caught up.Elegant indeed. And pimp away, there's nothing better than shameless self promotion!
In what capacity does it pay the bills, if it's not too nosy?
I figure that it would lead to a continuing greater interest in technical fields, especially with Moonshot Lunacy. However, the effects of that might not appear until the mid-to-late 80s (say that it's people who were in their childhood or teenage years in '69-'72 and you'll start to see them graduating from colleges in 1979ish). Given that, the effects may not really be all that visible within the period Brainbin intends to cover.
. Hopefully Mollie Sugden will be cast to play Dawn's mother (instead of Sandra's). Mrs Hutchinson was a great role for her - in some ways better than Mrs Slocombe - and in later seasons the dialogs between her and Carol's mother were often the high-point of an episode (IMHO, of course).Presumably Eileen Atkins (one of the originators of Behind the Green Baize Door) will be available to appear in the show. IOTL she was appearing on stage as Queen Victoria (which coincidentally was the part Pauline Collins played in her second appearance on Dr Who).
So Pauline Collins keeps the role of Dawn on The Liver Birds. That is going to have a major affect on the career of Nerys Hughs as it was her first major role, as well as being the one she is best remembered for. It's also going to have a large affect on the Liver Birds - it'll be like Dr Who without Sarah Jane Smith
It's also going to have an affect on Pauline Collins' carreer. She obviously won't star in Thomas & Sarah (a spin-off of Upstairs, Downstairs), in fact this spin-off probably won't even exist. Also without her connection, her husband, John Alderton, won't join the cast of Behind the Green Baize Door. Since neither of them will have worked for LWT, they probably won't be chosen to star in the sitcom No, Honestly.
Cheers,
Nigel.
Orville_third said:
Exactly. The golf broadcasts do target that, & that's why they stay on, despite low numbers. Which is what I was getting at: if the networks can carry a low-rated program with desirable (to some advertisers) demos, why not a high-rated one?The Blue-Eyed Infidel said:
And why don't the advertisers wanting that demo ask for it?Sheesh. Forget reading Eyes, sounds like you should be writing it. Who did/do you work for? I'm in QC at GE at the moment, though my co-op rotation is up at the end of next week and it's back to the life of a poor college student for another year.
e of pi said:
I've thought about it, it's a great company and I have several friends from UD who've gone on to work there after their co-op terms. The facility I'm at is right across the fence from CVG, and it's fun to spend lunch breaks watching the action and think that I'm part of making that all happen. On the other hand, I've really always dreamed of working in spaceflight, so if I was to get a call from SpaceX or NASA...I've been really lucky to have the chances I'm getting at GE, but there's something about doing what you dreamed of as a kid, you know?
