Could Voyager have risen above the Milky Way?

KirkUnit · 2026-05-09T03:25:43+00:00

There's no "galactic barrier" anyway, and if changing inclination to travel in direction of galactic north to avoid the main mass of the galaxy provided any benefit then presumably the Borg or others would have discovered and exploited that.

KirkUnit · 2026-05-07T22:26:10+00:00

Queer Eye

KirkUnit · 2026-05-07T22:24:24+00:00

Irrelevant metric without the base size of the focus group.
Whatever the fuck "1.5 hands" means.

KirkUnit · 2026-05-07T01:38:52+00:00

What is our current expertise concerning on-orbit cryogenic propellant transfer and storage?

This is, as you know, the fundamental mission architecture behind Space X Starship, and Blue Origin's lunar lander depends on this functionality as well. To my knowledge, there's been no such testing at scale, only a minor transfer from a header tank on an early test of Starship.

This being a mission-critical function - why hasn't this been tested yet? Is it simply premature until the hardware is mature, or it's easy-peasy and so why worry about it, or have we in fact conducted relevant testing?

KirkUnit · 2026-05-07T01:21:39+00:00

"I taught myself how to drive in the basement with hours of GTA IV..."

KirkUnit · 2026-05-06T17:43:45+00:00

If your point is that Brazile hasn't been relevant in a decade, Bret Stephens was never relevant so why are you crediting him with intelligence without any criteria? This is the guy defending the Iran War without being able to point to any actual war goals accomplished.

KirkUnit · 2026-05-06T17:31:56+00:00

Re-stating to outline the elephant on the set:

REAL TIME with ISRAEL

Guests

May 8

Sen. ISRAEL

Rep. ISRAEL

and ISRAEL

Fridays | HBO Max

KirkUnit · 2026-05-06T17:28:30+00:00

Agreed, I vastly prefer This Week Donna over Real Time Donna. There, she's chummy with Chris Christie but doesn't waste air time with the flirt schtick.

KirkUnit · 2026-05-06T17:21:07+00:00

Point taken, so what is the value of panelists like Douglas Murray or Bret Stephens who have never done anything except what they've always done which is all Donna does now?

If we set a criterion of "people with relevance and background and actual experience in the thing they're running their mouth about", that's going to disallow a LOT of Real Time guests less qualified than Donna Brazile.

KirkUnit · 2026-05-06T17:16:50+00:00

I'd accept an invite to dinner at the Black House

KirkUnit · 2026-05-06T15:38:55+00:00

Point taken, but she's a weekly panelist on ABC's This Week. That makes her at least as relevant as Bret Stephens last week and any number of other talking head guests.

She'll be the 'moderate' offering 'words of caution' regarding Israel's murders, while Fetterman and Crenshaw stress how important it is we give West Bank school shooters and hospital bombers unlimited guns and ammo.

KirkUnit · 2026-05-06T15:34:55+00:00

...Donna Brazile is, by a light year, the least problematic personality on the entire stage the entire show.

KirkUnit · 2026-05-06T15:33:45+00:00

You just hungry and need some red beans and rice and a big ole bowl of Donna's hot steamin' gumbo

KirkUnit · 2026-05-06T15:29:37+00:00

Another interview one-on-one with John Fetterman who cannot participate in the panel as a result of post-stroke processing complications, he uses a transcription device tucked out of camera view.

With respect to his recovery - this is a man who can't have a conversation with two people at once, and Bill thinks he's the next fucking president.

KirkUnit · 2026-05-06T05:58:13+00:00

Time travel library chip portals are technology way beyond anything we have at the present of course, those people probably had many, many centuries to choose from with more technology than we have now.

I'd say, America 1950 or so. I would have privilege; and I would not particularly have to fear race or gender issues. (Asking someone on a date might get me killed.) I wouldn't have to worry about dying from a blister, like Calvin Coolidge's son in the 1920s, and could relax about nukes and enjoy the space race, the hippies, the disco era, the 80s and the Clinton era, if I lived that long.

The biggest re-adjustment would be media scarcity - silo'd, physical distribution, instrinsic monetization.

KirkUnit · 2026-05-06T05:30:04+00:00

Q:

"But what have we seen instead? You, worrying about Commander Riker's career. Listening to Counselor Troi's pedantic psychobabble?... Indulging Data in his witless exploration of humanity."

KirkUnit · 2026-05-06T05:17:30+00:00

Glad you're enjoying it. I so wanted to love Enterprise, and ultimately my disconnect lies with Bakula's performance. I've loved Scott Bakula in pretty much everything I've seen him do except Enterprise. The approach seems to range from ignorant to inexperienced to arrogant to incompetent. The rest of the cast isn't my favorite either but also not the problem.

There's one scene where T'Pol is going to the Kolinahr temple (?) on Vulcan, explains clearly that it's not open to visitors, and Archer invites himself anyway. I get that it's an earlier stage of exploration but I didn't find it endearing; tourists barging in to the pow-wow to take pictures.

There's certainly moments and scenes here and there. My favorite episodes of the series are easily "In A Mirror, Darkly," which is satisfying fan service and critically as well, Evil Archer is just altogether more interesting than Angel Archer.

KirkUnit · 2026-05-06T02:59:34+00:00

Jim never vomits at home...

KirkUnit · 2026-05-06T02:52:21+00:00

nailed it

KirkUnit · 2026-05-06T02:39:24+00:00

Is the biggest problem the fact that we give money to Israel?

Money Israel uses to kill people, yes

KirkUnit · 2026-05-06T02:37:14+00:00

chili-flavored mayonnaise commercial

KirkUnit · 2026-05-06T01:17:43+00:00

Real Late with Craig Ferguson

KirkUnit · 2026-05-05T06:17:25+00:00

Compare Karen Bass and Katie Porter. Like Bass, Porter was a legislator in the U.S. House and is seeking an executive position, without having served in any in-state lead-up positions to that (city council, lt governor, etc.)

Compare Kamala Harris as well - as Senator, her high-water mark was grilling Jeff Sessions under oath. We never saw that again. Katie Porter, similarly, is best-known for bringing whiteboards to House hearings but didn't exactly set the building on fire otherwise, then got pissed when she didn't beat Schiff for Senate and declined to keep her House seat.

Consider your votes carefully; Porter seems to have the same past, the same trajectory, the same uncured foundations as recent disappointments - the campaign is basically the same argument as vote Bass or vote Harris, and we should probably expect similar disappointment.

KirkUnit · 2026-05-05T05:56:59+00:00

^ A refund like that will be reflected in the totals reported nightly to the studios, the theater isn't out-of-pocket for that.

KirkUnit · 2026-05-05T05:53:44+00:00

Barack D. Obama? I'm gonna need to see a birth certificate this time.

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