Bill Whittle is back — blanched, bleary-eyed and ready — for another Thursday night edition of The Stratosphere Lounge. He’ll scour his Facebook page and the comments below this post, seeking topics worthy of his capacious cranium and rapier rhetorical skills. Post your question here to receive the consideration due to a Member…which means he’ll choose or reject your question before those of the rabble who bathe in the toxic sewer of social media.
You may watch the live broadcast at Twitch.tv or right here at BillWhittle.com starting Thursday night, July 11, at roughly 9 p.m. Eastern.
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Links related to the Apollo 11 radiation:
NASA report on radiation during manned Apollo missions: https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/tnD7080RadProtect.pdf
Radioactive dosage converter: https://www.calculator.org/properties/radioactive_dose_equivalent.html
Is there a way to always set the twitch stream at the source so we can set the playback on low resolution? There have been several times lately that I could actually watch tsl because I was able to set play at the lowest setting. This episode it won’t even let me set it to audio only.
Bill, you and I are nearly the same age and share some locational experiences including the Miami Space Transit Planetarium (may have even seen one or two of your presentations) from that commonality of perspective I’m curious to know where you think the erosion of parental supremacy in the family began in media/entertainment. I believe there has been a kernel of that process in most media over time but that with the advent of TV the erosion has risen exponentially.
Which of the Apollo astros would you prefer to share a Gemini 7-like 14 day mission with? (Hypothetical, I know, as there are only 8 left alive. Bonus question: Can you name those 8?) You’d be confined to that tiny cockpit – presumably with enough leg room for your disqualifying 6’1″ frame (no astros over 5’11” were accepted into any of the programs) and like G7 there’d be no spacewalks. P.S. It can’t be Armstrong.
I will be celebrating 32 years of marriage with the wife tonight so I will miss the live stream. Y’all behave and I will see you next time
Congrats! 32 years is nothing to sneeze at.
Congrats! Have a great day!
Excellent! Congrats! 25 for me in 2 more weeks. 32 is awesome.
Happy Anniversary, Steve! <3
We can’t promise anything, Steve. Consider celebrating your 33rd with us if you really want to supervise. 😉 A very Happy Anniversary to you both!
Congratulations and happy anniversary!
This makes me very angry: Seen on facebook – how is it that Alec Baldwin can play Trump on SNL and it’s perfectly fine with the left, but an 8 year old little girl playing AOC on gets shut down by social media leftist mobs with death threats and publishing her families real names and addresses? (I hate the term “doxxing”.) Personally I think we should indeed stoop to their levels on occasion to give them a taste of their own medicine.
And her impersonation of AOC is much better than his of Trump.
His is an over the top caricature, the little girl was much more subtle.
Bill:
This may (truly unfortunately) become the lodestar question for Americans.
At what point should those of us who treasure our country and its values, and despise and fear those who do not, actually begin campaigns of non-violent resistance or (God forbid) violent resistance?
As a gentle and law abiding person I tremble to write these words but the question may become real.
Your thoughts?
With thanks for all the great work that you and your compatriots do,
Alan Kelman
I have been watching Star Trek: TOS on Netflix lately. I have noticed that the episodes run just over 50 minutes. Newer fare, such as Mad Men, which also had a 1 hr time slot, run between 42 and 44 minutes.
As a writer and some time TV insider, what do those extra 6-8 minutes mean from a story arc stand point?
Bonus question: What is your favorite ST:TOS episode and why?
Court Martial is an underrated classic of TOS
That is good. I watched a piece of the action the other night. Very entertaining.
In fact, most of the scripts hold up quite well.
Balance of Terror. I like the mirror image nature of the Romulan Commander & Kirk.
We are too nice, it seems. Contra the Left’s claims, we as a culture are kind, patient, and tolerant to a fault, as evidenced by the fact that we pay them to complain about us and brainwash our kids. How can we keep this rightly prized kindness of spirit, which seems to enable Progressivism’s incrementalist advance, from becoming our undoing?
I’ve been throwing this question to you guys since the days of Trifecata, and would love to hear Bill’s take or, even better, the three guys’ take on it. It’s technically a statement, and sadly it becomes more timely with each passing day:
“It will be a great day in America and an equally horrible day in America when Democrats come to hate the people who want to murder them as much as they hate Conservatives”
I assume “the people who want to murder them” refers to Jihadists and other assorted totalitarians that the left currently extends sympathy to? I wonder if opening their eyes to the threat those external enemies pose would cause the left to hate conservatives a bit less and start to see us as allies rather than foes. I personally doubt this would happen, since I’ve come to see the left as mainly interested in power over their domestic enemies and therefore naturally willing to consider any enemy of their enemy a friend, but if it somehow came to pass that would seem to make it less of a “horrible day”.
Actually, what I’m saying is that it would take a direct, visible threat to their physical safety for them to realize who the real enemy is. Think of the magnitude of what the threat would have to be to wake them up – it would take a truly horrible day for them to realize this.
I truly thought 9/11 would be that day. I’ve never been more wrong about anything.
The sad part is that I’m leaving for vacation today. which means I go on a personal news blackout. So if I’m lucky enough for my question to get used I won’t know for nearly two weeks. Please throw me a few likes, fellow Citizen Producers!
Enjoy your time away from the insanity of the news cycle! It really is a good idea to take a break from all the toxic B.S. once in a while.
Echoing what Troy said. Take a time out from the news, it will still be here when you get back. I spent the week of the 4th with almost no news. It was refreshing.
Even more interesting,our first two days will be in The People’s Republic of Portland. I really hope there are no Antifa blockades, though. I hear that the car rental places charge you a fortune if you don’t clean them out of the grill before returning your car