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WCDT: 18-22 July 2011 (1971-1975)

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Tova:
In spite of the lack of jokes or action, this is easily my favourite of the week. All the details, from the facial expressions, to the sword and the business cards, are terrific.


--- Quote from: pwhodges on 20 Jul 2011, 23:49 ---But Dale and Marigold are peaceful together (who knows what duelling is going on on their screens, though).

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By the expression on Marigold's face, I'd say it's not going well for her.   :-)

westrim:
*opens thread, opens reply tab* Warning - while you were reading 2 new replies have been posted. You may wish to review your post.
I haven't written anything yet!
I guess  this removes my right to complain about people copying the warning message in the future, though.

Anyway, is the the first shot where we've been able to see the whole of COD in one shot? For some reason I thought it was wider. Also, that door is to the bathroom since people have exited/entered it directly from the main shop, so where is the door to the basement? In the bathroom?

I instantly root for Dale in this scene, if only because he's using a mug while Marigold has a disposable cup. Though I recall some calculations somewhere of the recourse use of a mug versus that of a disposable cup that was dis favorable to the mug. Eh, I prefer Alliance anyway. They have night elf mohawks.

I think I'm rambling, must sleep.

Smerf:
Is that the Malaysian battle spatula behind Faye?

westrim:

--- Quote from: pendrake on 20 Jul 2011, 16:47 ---Yes but how will he get back up?   Now that the current american government administration has effectively killed NASA...? :-(

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As a resident of Southern California living 40 miles from JPL (and a regular attendee of their annual open house), I have a strong desire for our computer monitor to transmit the matter of my hands. NASA is not manned spaceflight. NASA is not even mostly manned spaceflight. It is only a portion of the many many things they do, including that aerospace bit (read: better aircraft); in the case of JPL, all our robotic missions.  

And frankly, I agree with the decision. The manned program shot itself in the foot when it started and canceled three viable replacements for the shuttle for 15 years and then wasted 4 years on the completely unimaginative constellation program (in the details, not the mission statement). It's also been lackluster about cutting the cost per pound and inhibited the growth of commercial spaceflight with an overly paternal attitude. It was a bit doomed from the start with the wildly underestimated cost of turnaround, spiraling complexity, and vast reductions in scope that radically altered what would have been more favorable economy of scale (15 orbiters would have been much cheaper per shuttle per flight before it got scaled back to 4).

We need people up there, performing experiments, no question. But the shuttle just wasn't very good at that. We need to get cargo into space. The shuttle was okay at that. And most of all, we need to get more that 240 miles away from this rock. The shuttle couldn't do that period. We had a 7 year delay between Apollo and the shuttle, remember, and I'm pretty sure NASA did some stuff during that time.


--- Quote from: jwhouk on 20 Jul 2011, 17:23 ---He probably has his own version of SpaceShipOne that he developed as an easier way of getting up and down from his station - which I would have to believe is probably lower in Earth orbit than the ISS.

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The lower the orbit the more debris to contend with, though. I'll bet it's at a Lagrange point, and he uses a red Gundam to get to it.


--- Quote from: Somebody on 21 Jul 2011, 00:36 ---Isn't the toilet meant to be a partitioned-off inset corner rather than a separate room?

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Not in any cafe that I know of. People kinda like nice solid walls between crapcans and places with food. And the door is set into a wall every time we've seen it, anyway.

The problem it seems was that I had just woken up; I feel more coherent now.

nonethousand:

--- Quote from: Smerf on 21 Jul 2011, 00:31 ---Is that the Malaysian battle spatula behind Faye?

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I think it's more likely to be the 9-iron to be used on Angus :police:


--- Quote from: westrim on 21 Jul 2011, 00:24 ---Anyway, is the the first shot where we've been able to see the whole of COD in one shot? For some reason I thought it was wider.

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I had the same line of thoughts... coincidence? :psyduck:

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