.....ooooh my....very political
All seriousness aside - YouTube is the biggest timewaster I have ever found and now it is about all I watch.
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.....ooooh my....very political
All seriousness aside - YouTube is the biggest timewaster I have ever found and now it is about all I watch.
Deciding what to watch on U-tube is like finding a movie on a steaming site...you spend lots more time finding something to view/watch than the video is long. (at least I do) 
.....ooooh my....very political
All seriousness aside - YouTube is the biggest timewaster I have ever found and now it is about all I watch.
My wife has left me alone a good bit. The TV never goes off YouTube.
If ya get-up @ 5 (on same channel as Perry) there's Highway Patrol, then Dragnet (back-to-back)I watch Perry Mason reruns until11:30 every night and then it`s You-Tube until 2:00, then up at 6:30 for coffee at the airport cafe.
Highway Patrol was one of the worst put together crime drama shows ever. I just loved it. S1E27 Motorcycle A. Young Clint Eastwood was guest star. E71 was called Hot Rod. Two of my favorites. Broderick Crawford was the fastest talking actor ever.
S1E27 Motorcycle A. Young Clint Eastwood was guest star. E71 was called Hot Rod. Two of my favorites. Broderick Crawford was the fastest talking actor ever.
"They" think it's a massive black hole going so fast it overtakes gas particles concentrates them and leaves a stream of new born stars in it's wake.
A contrived image;
https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-010
A contrived image;
https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-010
Take this with two capsules and check back next year:
Jeff Bezos Is Ready to Rejoin the Space Race
The billionaire space race is back on.
Jeff Bezos’ space exploration company Blue Origin is finally ready to launch rockets again after a 15-month hiatus. Meanwhile, Bloomberg published a splashy profile on Project Kuiper, Amazon’s satellite internet business that miraculously escaped companywide cost cuts in a bid to ultimately challenge Elon Musk’s Starlink.
Ground Control to Major Jeff
In the heady days of 2021, society’s 1% was high on the billionaire space race and touting the future of space tourism. Bezos himself blasted within a whisker of outer space in a Blue Origin rocket and Richard Branson rode on Virgin Galactic’s first commercial space flight, again just grazing past the edge of our atmosphere. SpaceX’s Elon Musk refrained from any space travel himself, but since 2021 his business has enjoyed more success than his rivals — bearing in mind that a massive explosion doesn’t necessarily count as a failure in the space business.
Blue Origin grounded its rockets in September 2022 after an unmanned craft erupted in the bad kind of explosion, but now it’s ready to start flying again. Both Blue Origin and Project Kuiper are still light years behind SpaceX in terms of both launches and lucrative contracts. However, analysts told Bloomberg that Project Kuiper doesn’t need to rush to market:
Once Project Kuiper has flung a significant number of its satellites into space, it can sell the subsequent internet connectivity alongside Amazon’s industry-dominating cloud computing service AWS. Vertical integration with Blue Origin is a ways off, however, as the rocket intended to fly Kuiper satellites into space is years behind schedule, per Bloomberg.
Analysts also told Bloomberg that Project Kuiper will have a ready-made selling point: Book with us and you won’t have to worry about the whims of Elon Musk. Bezos’ mission next year is to be nice and predictable.
Jeff Bezos Is Ready to Rejoin the Space Race
The billionaire space race is back on.
Jeff Bezos’ space exploration company Blue Origin is finally ready to launch rockets again after a 15-month hiatus. Meanwhile, Bloomberg published a splashy profile on Project Kuiper, Amazon’s satellite internet business that miraculously escaped companywide cost cuts in a bid to ultimately challenge Elon Musk’s Starlink.
Ground Control to Major Jeff
In the heady days of 2021, society’s 1% was high on the billionaire space race and touting the future of space tourism. Bezos himself blasted within a whisker of outer space in a Blue Origin rocket and Richard Branson rode on Virgin Galactic’s first commercial space flight, again just grazing past the edge of our atmosphere. SpaceX’s Elon Musk refrained from any space travel himself, but since 2021 his business has enjoyed more success than his rivals — bearing in mind that a massive explosion doesn’t necessarily count as a failure in the space business.
Blue Origin grounded its rockets in September 2022 after an unmanned craft erupted in the bad kind of explosion, but now it’s ready to start flying again. Both Blue Origin and Project Kuiper are still light years behind SpaceX in terms of both launches and lucrative contracts. However, analysts told Bloomberg that Project Kuiper doesn’t need to rush to market:
Once Project Kuiper has flung a significant number of its satellites into space, it can sell the subsequent internet connectivity alongside Amazon’s industry-dominating cloud computing service AWS. Vertical integration with Blue Origin is a ways off, however, as the rocket intended to fly Kuiper satellites into space is years behind schedule, per Bloomberg.
Analysts also told Bloomberg that Project Kuiper will have a ready-made selling point: Book with us and you won’t have to worry about the whims of Elon Musk. Bezos’ mission next year is to be nice and predictable.
Book with us and you won’t have to worry about the whims of Jeff Bezos ??
Yeah, like giving Starlink to Ukraine, then geofencing the Russian's that invaded Ukraine so they couldn't be touched. You know..... playing "God" in a game of Warcraft. That sorta lord and master of the world kinda thing.
No wait... that weren't Bezos... Musk did that.
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-vlt-exoplanet-hunter-jupiter.html
The large black spot on the left is the shadow from one of her moons.
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Fabulous photo - Jupiter looks like a very large marble or glass paperweight. Uhm, that's a very large marble.
Cute little bugger... jus' keeps goin' an' goin'. 
Iirc, the little heli was designed for about 15-20 flights of less than a mile in total. Doing 72 flights and about 10 miles is pretty unbelievable.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/...rs-contact-with-its-historic-mars-helicopter/
Iirc, the little heli was designed for about 15-20 flights of less than a mile in total. Doing 72 flights and about 10 miles is pretty unbelievable.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/...rs-contact-with-its-historic-mars-helicopter/
Just read up a bit on the little heli.... so to answer all y'alls question, nope... Boeing had nothing to do with building it. 
... I'll just get my coat...
... I'll just get my coat...
Poor little Ingenuity. Broke a blade on the last flight. It'll fly no more.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/...as-made-its-last-flight-above-the-red-planet/
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/...as-made-its-last-flight-above-the-red-planet/
Considering it was only supposed to make, what, ten flights, I'd say it could be considered successful...
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