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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #70 on: August 16, 2025, 12:42:59 PM »
Not now but last Tuesday on 12-AUG-25 we saw the Arianne 6 booster in polar orbit performing a propellant vent preparing for it's deorbit burn.  Here in Arkansas local time it started the vent at 21:33ish.  The thing looked like a regular satellite and then it flashed and quickly took on an hour glass appearance.  Diffuse at the ends and a bright spot in the middle and was orange tinted. When it went behind the tree line it was as wide as three thumb widths on an outstretched hand.
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #71 on: August 16, 2025, 02:07:09 PM »
Quote from: Rastus on August 16, 2025, 12:42:59 PM
Not now but last Tuesday on 12-AUG-25 we saw the Arianne 6 booster in polar orbit performing a propellant vent preparing for it's deorbit burn.  Here in Arkansas local time it started the vent at 21:33ish.  The thing looked like a regular satellite and then it flashed and quickly took on an hour glass appearance.  Diffuse at the ends and a bright spot in the middle and was orange tinted. When it went behind the tree line it was as wide as three thumb widths on an outstretched hand.

Wow! That's Yuge. All I saw in the sky was a moon so full last weekend that it was casting shadows on the ground where we stood. When my friend and I stood there and saw our shadows, I asked him if that meant we were going to have 6 more weeks of summer. :D  It makes sense that if a rodent can predict a long winter, maybe we could predict a long summer. BTW, it's 88 degrees but feels like 90 right now.
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #72 on: August 16, 2025, 06:39:03 PM »
If I can stay awake I'm going to watch the first episode or two of the new TV series Alien: Earth(7.9/10 stars) on FX and Hulu. When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's greatest threat. It's the first television series in the Alien franchise and is set two years before the events of the 1979 film Alien. Xenomorph XX121, the alien, is just one of 5 invasive alien species on the ship, and maybe not even the worst. :o  Mother Earth is expecting.

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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #73 on: August 17, 2025, 01:04:09 AM »
If Alien: Earth is any indication of reality, in the year 2120 the handle and blade of a guillotine trimmer for cutting paper will look EXACTLY like a Wakizashi sword. ::) That's a sword that's shorter than a Katana, but longer than a Tanto, with a blade approximately 1'-2' long. I've seen movies before where these were torn off the base of the paper trimmer and used like a machete, but to have one look like it came out of a sword factory is 10X more ridiculous.
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #74 on: August 21, 2025, 11:39:28 PM »
I just finished watching season 4 of Resident Alien. I didn't know it was the last show ever. Then I watched the first episode of Archives at Vet TV.

Hard drives die. Memories fade. And one day, the only record of our service will be government-funded history books. But those books won’t capture the best parts. The truth of what really happened in war, on ship, in the barracks, on the flight line, etc. We realized countless veterans are sitting on hard drives full of footage that will eventually fail, never to be seen by their kids or shared with the veteran community. That history will be lost. Our history. The way we remember it. So we dig it up, watch it with the veteran, and make sure their story outlives the busted laptop it’s trapped in.

I saw Escape Room a day or two ago, and Fantasy Island the day before that.

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Re: What are you watching?
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #75 on: August 22, 2025, 08:05:04 AM »
New Helen Mirren series on Netflix starts 8/31.  The Thursday Murder Club.
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #76 on: August 22, 2025, 08:31:39 PM »
A couple of episodes of Twisted Metal. I think I'll finish the season of Grimsburg before I return to Twisted Metal. There have been 26 episodes of Grimsburg so far, and it's coming back for a 3rd season.

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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #77 on: August 26, 2025, 05:41:15 AM »
I just finished Season 1 of Peacemaker (8.3/10 stars). Picking up where The Suicide Squad (2021) left off, Peacemaker returns home after recovering from his encounter with Bloodsport - only to discover that his freedom comes at a price. It ran from January to February 2022, and Season 2 finally started last Thursday. I saw Episode 1 before, but I was able to watch the whole season now, because it's on TNT now too, not just HBO Max.

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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #78 on: August 26, 2025, 09:26:30 PM »
Six or seven deer in the pasture that think they are invincible in the dark.  Thermal is the bomb...
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #79 on: August 26, 2025, 10:57:26 PM »
I saw the first of a 4 part series on MGM+, Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein, including the only known recording of his voice, when he was interviewed after being arrested. Known as the Butcher of Plainfield, his story has had a lasting effect on American popular culture as evidenced by its numerous appearances in film, music and literature. The tale first came to widespread public attention in the fictionalized version presented by Robert Bloch in his 1959 suspense novel, Psycho. In addition to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film of Bloch's novel, Psycho, his story was loosely adapted into numerous films, including Deranged (1974), In the Light of the Moon (2000) (released in the United States and Australia as Ed Gein (2001)), Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield (2007), Ed Gein, the Musical (2010), and the Rob Zombie film, House of 1000 Corpses, and its sequel, The Devil's Rejects. He served as the inspiration for myriad fictional serial killers, most notably Norman Bates (Psycho), Leatherface (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), Buffalo Bill (The Silence of the Lambs), Garland Greene (Con Air), and the character of Dr. Oliver Thredson in the TV series American Horror Story: Asylum.

Besides being a murderer and grave robber, he was suspected of being a serial killer, cannibal, and necrophiliac. A sheriff's deputy discovered Plainfield hardware store owner Bernice Worden's decapitated body in a shed on Gein's property, hung upside down by her legs with a crossbar at her ankles and ropes at her wrists. The torso was "dressed out like a deer" and her vulva was removed. She had been shot with a .22-caliber rifle, and the mutilations were made after her death. Searching the house, authorities found:

    Whole human bones and fragments
    A wastebasket made of human skin
    Human skin covering several chairs
    Skulls on his bedposts
    Female skulls, some with the tops sawn off
    Bowls made from human skulls, which he ate from 
    A corset made from a female torso skinned from shoulders to waist
    Leggings made from human leg skin
    Masks made from the skin of female heads
    Mary Hogan's face mask in a paper bag
    Mary Hogan's skull in a box
    Bernice Worden's entire head in a burlap sack
    Bernice Worden's heart "in a plastic bag in front of Gein's potbelly stove"
    Nine vulvas in a shoe box
    A young girl's dress and "the vulvas of two females judged to have been about fifteen years old"
    A belt made from female human nipples
    Four noses
    A pair of lips on a window shade drawstring
    A lampshade made from the skin of a human face
    Fingernails from female fingers
    And a human heart cooking in a frying pan.
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THE RIGHT TO BUY WEAPONS IS THE RIGHT TO BE FREE - A. E. van Vogt, The Weapon Shops of Isher
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