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Imagine being able to pick up a pencil and do this. Amazing @silentkw, I take my helmet off to you! (at Brampton, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpcFXm1nDF0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1qez5eudj3gbv

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Construction on the H. R. Giger’s derelict ship from Alien (1979).

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The Centauri Fleet in Action, Babylon 5 “Darkness Ascending”

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It may be hard to hear this at this point, but Ford has done his opponents a favour by being so blatant in his early days. Many South American dictators kept civil society busy for years with faux consultations, façade elections, and lip service to democratic processes before people realized the game was completely rigged and only one opinion would prevail: that of the leader.

Ford has clearly stated how his democracy will work. Opponents now have to plan accordingly.

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Happy 100th birthday to Katherine Johnson!

Johnson is an black American mathematician who’s work with orbital mechanics proved critical to the success of early NASA missions.  Her work included calculating trajectories, launch windows, and emergency return paths for Project Mercury, the rendezvous paths for the Apollo Command and Lunar Module on it’s trip to the Moon, and her work was pivotal during the development of the Space Shuttle program.

She was initially hired on at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) as a human computer, but her knowledge of analytic geometry helped her move up to an aerospace technologist.  Once NACA was folded into NASA in 1958, Johnson worked in the Spacecraft Controls Branch, and she was often called by management to verify electronic computations.

In 2015, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama for her instrumental work with NASA.  In 2016, a brand new building at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, was named after her.  The Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility began operations in 2017.

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RIP Burt Reynolds

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Laurel and Hardy

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Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin

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3 stooges

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Groucho and Harpo Marx

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A surprise delight to be in @thesimpsons! (although with jaundice & missing a spacesuit finger :)

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That’s Toronto on the left, and Mars on the right. (wonderful photo by friend Andrew Yee) (at Sunnyside Beach near the Humber River)

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I found a gif of Mrs. J-List, puitting up with my crap. Were you confused when you saw these visual elements for the first time? 

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Here are your daily random anime screencaps. 

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1944 - Snowball the cat tries to take over a machine gun in Normandy so she can shoot some Nazis herself.

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Psychedelic Campbell’s Soup ad, 1968 (scanned by WeirdVintage, from The Golden Age of Advertising: The 60s by Jim Heimann)

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January 1977