A fan of Bill's since his earliest days writing EjectEjectEject! I live in Hollywood. West Hollywood, strictly speaking, but I'm not gay, Jewish, or Russian like almost everyone else seems to be...
On Instapundit, Steve posted a link to this article, discussing the petition to enlist Joe Rogan to moderate the 2020 Presidential debate. (I tried to comment there, but Disqus flags every comment I make now as spam.) Rogan’s podcast is constantly in the top 3 or 4 of popularity. I say Trump should go on […]
Navy Radioman Ray Daves died back in 2011, but he left us with this account of his experience on the aircraft carrier Yorktown before and during the battle of Midway. Engrossing stuff. Local paper the Spokesman Review’s obituary for him here.
…”What’s fascinating about watching James Cameron’s sequel today is spotting what isn’t on the screen. Thirty-three years ago, Cameron didn’t stuff the narrative with empowering speeches. He didn’t need to virtue signal to his fellow filmmakers. The screenplay doesn’t emasculate male characters to make Ripley look more bad ass. Bill Paxton’s glorious Hudson is blissful […]
Why am I only learning of this now? Back in 1991 the great man was the host of a half-hour documentary series on the history of aviation. There were 3 series of 13 episodes each. In the screen shot above Neil talks with Bill Dana, also a legendary X-15 pilot. And in another episode he […]
Read the article HERE. Having watched enough Mars documentaries over the years this is my conclusion too. Mars has no magnetic field to put up a barrier against cosmic radiation, and humans just cannot do partial gravity for long durations without serious health problems. The article also raises the question of childbirth in partial gravity, […]
Armstrong’s Apollo 11 Spacesuit has been conserved and is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum
CinemaTyler’s analysis of 2001 is well worth a look. The 7 episodes run to about 3 hours total, and took him 2 years to make. He discusses both storyline and editing aspects as well as the ground-breaking special effects and how they were achieved.
This YouTuber seems to have encyclopedic knowledge in discussing a whole variety of subjects, from military history to archaelogy to ecology and beyond. He is a superb storyteller, and illuminates every subject with superb insights. He’s the sort of person I wish Bill would have a discussion with for TSL episodes. Like Bill he’s able […]
I saw this in my facebook timeline, fully expecting it to be a satirical post from a like-minded conservative or group. Incredibly, it was posted by my mother, in all seriousness, and then shared by a friend (also there back in England.) I commented “you’ve got to be kidding – right?” The friend replied in […]
Britain’s new Prime Minister – Boris “Trump Lite” Johnson. He gets as much hate and vitriol said about him by my ignoramus English family and friends as Trump does. So let’s hope he’s just as successful…
I can’t read this as it’s behind a paywall. It struck me at the time of his death that the doctors must have screwed up, which makes his almost certainly premature death even more of a tragedy.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, a team of LEGO Master Builders spent nearly 300 hours designing and building a life-size model of the lunar module pilot and the iconic A7L spacesuit that he wore on July 20, 1969 at Tranquility Base. Built from 44,051 LEGO bricks, the model debuted […]
From the unsurpassed Apollo Flight Journal YT channel, whose “PDI to Touchdown” series covers all Apollo landings (though they are all on different channels, not playlists.) Armstrong and Aldrin’s time has come for immortality.
Suggestion: Bill – make yourself a playlist in the Bill Whittle YouTube channel with the above name – ala Steven Crowder. I don’t suggest you set up a table out on some college campus like he does to talk to people face-to-face; just make the usual talking head video in your studio, and in a […]
This is on PBS. I’ve seen it already. Blends the real audio from the crew with actors portraying them. The guy playing Buzz gets it right, but the actor playing Armstrong looks worried all the time. It’s well worth seeing as it’s a different way to tell the story of 11. Loads of short preview […]