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Predators and Prey

Breyo

Breyo

Professional Nibbler
Breyo

Breyo

Professional Nibbler
DRGN Juno said:
Alien, according to Google.
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Ooh. Yeah. Way before my time! Still might watch it though. I haven't yet, and it seems creepy enough to be good :D

I mean, it was good enough to get a game made for it about 30+ years later, so it has to be pretty neat!
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DRGN Juno

DRGN Juno

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA -Sukhoi, 2020
Spilogale Pygmaea said:
"Priority one
Insure return of organism for analysis.
All other considerations secondary.
Crew expendable."

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Meanwhile, in CM:

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DRGN Juno

DRGN Juno

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA -Sukhoi, 2020
bkk1 said:
Hehehe, I didn't delay you're win for too long, I hope. It was just me, after all. My fellow prey have seemingly abandoned me. I should be able to boot them all for betrayal > : (

Maybe I've been playing too much Halo...
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I was talking about how I always end up at -21 since everyone else manages to sneak in for -20.
 
Breyo

Breyo

Professional Nibbler
DRGN Juno said:
All good. It seems to be a me problem anyway.
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It's all time's fault! When in doubt, blame things beyond your control :D

Skittles said:
I will become a full time "Queen" of FaF! Deffo!
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That's the correct choice, Queenie! I'd give you points if this were a game show, haha!
 
Breyo

Breyo

Professional Nibbler
News flash: I've just discovered colored text on FAF :D
I've kinda just disregarded all of the stuff above the text box, and I didn't even think I could use it since I'm mostly on mobile. "Operation: Dark green" is a go!
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After I stare at my eyelids for about 8 hours (I hope, probably will be less). Good night, you wonderful people!
 
DRGN Juno

DRGN Juno

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA -Sukhoi, 2020
bkk1 said:
It's all time's fault! When in doubt, blame things beyond your control :D
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Speaking of time: This Last year in aviation (thanks, @Spilogale Pygmaea), the US Post Office Department launches the first 24 hour transcontinental air mail service. Previously, flights were all visual flight rules, or VFR, meaning night flying was nigh impossible. But a series of lighted beacons made navigation possible in low light hours, and allowing for continuous operation of the air mail system. Delivery times dropped rapidly, marking a drastic improvement over the old system of 'fly by day and use trains at night.'

Also this year in aviation, the first in-flight movie was shown. The Lost World (a dinosaur film based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel of the same name) is screened on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris.

Note: While trying to find the make and model of the aircraft this occurred in, I found out that the above movie turned out to be a very risky move, with nitrate film stock being super flammable, and the Handley-Page O 400 being made of mostly fabric and wood. Ah, the days before OSHA were truly grand.

Also also: G'night, other skunk.
 
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DRGN Juno

DRGN Juno

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA -Sukhoi, 2020
And to get one on the correct year: This year in aviation history, unless 24 other posters manage to ninja me out of nowhere while I write this, Robert Goddard launched his first liquid fueled rocket (named Nell) in a field near Auburn, MA. Though his work would remain unappreciated by the American government and public for some time, his persistence in the field would lead to the era of modern rocketry, and open the door to spaceflight as we know it today. He would continue designing and testing rockets both as an independent researcher and government contractor, with his last works (in rather cruel fashion) being to dissect a distortion of his design - the German V-2 missile, stolen from underneath him and perfected as an instrument of war. And though he wouldn't live to see it, it would take just 31 years (and let's face it, another world war) from Nell's 41-foot launch to the launch of Sputnik 1 - the first ever artificial satellite. Twelve years after Sputnik, Apollo 11 would reach the moon; a partial (but not insignificant) fulfillment of the dreams he used to have as he gazed into the night.

I often wonder what he'd think of seeing what's become - Apollo, the shuttles, the ISS, the Mars rovers, and the deep space probes - all reality, thanks to him. I suppose we'll never know, though given the source of what he credited as his inspiration, I'm sure it would have brought him some comfort:

"On this day (October 19, 1899) I climbed a tall cherry tree at the back of the barn ... and as I looked toward the fields at the east, I imagined how wonderful it would be to make some device which had even the possibility of ascending to Mars, and how it would look on a small scale, if sent up from the meadow at my feet. I have several photographs of the tree, taken since, with the little ladder I made to climb it, leaning against it.

It seemed to me then that a weight whirling around a horizontal shaft, moving more rapidly above than below, could furnish lift by virtue of the greater centrifugal force at the top of the path.

I was a different boy when I descended the tree from when I ascended. Existence at last seemed very purposive.

-Robert Goddard, on the night he became transfixed by the sky
 
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Keefur

Keefur

aka Cutter Cat
DRGN Juno said:
Twelve years after Sputnik, Apollo 11 would reach the moon, a partial (but not insignificant) fulfillment of the dreams he used to have as he gazed into the night.
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I remember watching that live on TV. I was glued to the set and awestruck with the awesomeness of the achievement. There was so much national and world pride shown when that happened. It was amazing.
 
DRGN Juno

DRGN Juno

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA -Sukhoi, 2020
Keefur said:
I remember watching that live on TV. I was glued to the set and awestruck with the awesomeness of the achievement. There was so much national and world pride shown when that happened. It was amazing.
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I don't even know what I've seen that would come close to comparing. If we can collectively calm ourselves down for a hot minute, I'd like to imagine (or at least hope) that landing on Mars will have that same kind impact on this generation and the next.

Anyway, I'm way past bedtime. G'night.
 
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