You should mail the article with the pics to RDM somehow, that’d be awesome lol
There are three other pictures + the article + the “How it Works” … I’ll leave those unscanned to minimize redistribution of materials. If/when PopSci makes them available online all will be able to see! Consider this a sampler to whet your appetite.
Okay, a little goofy BSG connection, but at the end of the podcast Audra started singing “Jesse’s Girl”, which was sung by…Rick Springfield. In the original tele-movie of Battlestar Galactica in the 70’s, Rick Springfield played Zak Adama (and was blowed up real good by our favorite shiny toaster Cylons). You have no idea how those little gems of errata and pop culture connectivity delight me.
Aaron
Not bootleg column scans. (I am gonna hafta pick up the mag itself on general princple.) I was thinking more like if Chuck, Audra, and Sean had pix of the entire thing. From the podcast, I got the idea the article had a couple small-ish pics that didn’t show the entire Viper in its full glory.
Or maybe a pic of the three of them drinking space champagne by it after they’ve flown their 1000th simulation?
The one problem with that, if it were true to BSG style, then something would go catastrophically wrong and it wouldn’t be a happy end for our favorite podcasters… Don’t tempt the karma…
[SCENE OPENS]
- Audra and Sean are pushing Chuck around on a furniture mover in Sean’s garage chanting “1,000! 1,000!”
cut to low perspective, floor up. Zoom into corner of workbench: SLO-MO as people mover bumps into it slightly, starting a chain reaction.
“1,000!, 1,000!”
Cut to workbench top, screwdriver shakes loose due to the bump rolls lazily across the tabletop and bumps into a bevel square which falls over and ignites the arc-welder,
“1,000!, 1,000!”
the arc welder in turn ignites a rag which has been left next to the cooler of liquid oxygen Sean keeps around for “his special projects”
“1,000!, 1,000!”
the liquid oxygen cooler explodes knocking the cap of the scuba tank sitting next to it which falls over and fires across the garage directly at the crew.
“1,000!, 1,000! Wha…?”
In a blink of an eye the scuba tank sails directly between them, through the garage window and into the neighbor’s yard where is strikes their 500 gallon propane tank, destroying the neighbor’s house and car whose muffler never seemed to be fixed.
Chuck: “Oh my”
Sean: “Heheheheheh…Fire…Fire!”
Audra: “Is it my turn in the simulator?”
Chuck: “Sure, step on in.”
Sean takes a long look out the broken garage window and smiles,
“Never did like that neighbor anyhow. Dog always craaaaaaaaaaaaaaped on my lawn.”
[FADE TO BLACK]
Late night guy = Venus Flytrap played by Tim Reid.
OMG - I love late 70’s/early 80’s tv!
Oh, man. Float an idea out there and you can count on Solai bring it home. AWEsome…
And we already have a thread about this here
Oh yeah, just like in Act of Contrition, the simulator just randomly explodes and the GWC crew gets killed and everybody is sad and then a week later on the podcast they’re all like bitching about how awful the downloading process really is…
OMG - I bought the book “Wild, Wild West” by Charlene Teglia from my book club. (Ok - I’ll admit it, my romance novel book club.) I don’t think this is even word porn - it’s worse!
from the back cover:
Charlene Teglia breaches unchartered territory
–> Boldly going where no romance novel writer has gone before?
Most definately! I actually threw it away 'cause I was too embarrased to donate it anywhere or loan it to anyone! 
Kid. In. Candystore.
It’s funny, the night Chuck and Sean finished the sim, they actually did invite over me and everyone who helped and we had champagne at Sean’s place. 
- The whole military vessel/no union thing… as err… Audra I think was kind/foolish enough to mention it… I checked… and Belgium does have a union for its army… and taking a punt through the looking glass, check out this Belgian Army union related post (Belgian Army Union gives ‘permission’ to send 400 troops to Lebanon) - dunno about youse guys but it makes my mind boggle.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/foreign/davidrennie/aug06/union.htm
It has an interesting background…
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Surprising, but not. Many militaries have associations that represent the interests of the common soldier.
Belgium is though a sort of special case – at the time of WWI the officer corps was mostly Walloon and fleming conscripts were, allegedly, badly treated, shot for speaking Flemish, that sort of thing (this may be myth.) In any event, the degree of mistrust between the then poor Flemings and the Walloon establishment should be seen as a big factor in the troops wanting a union.
Funnily enough, the Brussels Flemings are somewhat hostile to Eurocrats because they typically do not speak Dutch (Neederlands) as a second language, but rather French, and as such are seen as shifting the balance in places like Sint-Ginsious Rode/Rhode St Genese, the town with two names, two markets, two cable TV systems and double everything.
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And on Helo… yeah… there’s a few military types here, but for my part as X… I would not do what they pulled with Helo/Sharon’s baby to someone who has access to the armoury.
Pretty clear though in other threads I’m not that ‘happy’ with the behavioural aspects of Adama as a ‘senior military leader’ and Roslin as a ‘head of state’, but maybe in real life our ‘senior military leader’ and ‘head of state’ people in RL wouldn’t make me ‘happy’ right now, let alone ‘after’ the decimation of the human race.
"All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.
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[*]ACC The City and the Stars (1956)[/ul]Rest in peace, great explorer.
What simulation?..
…and so it begins…that is awesome!
If you want really really bad (good bad) try Anne Rice’s “Beauty” trilogy. It’s basically Sleeping Beauty-the porno.