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A SpaceX mission where 9 people will fly way around the moon on a Starship rocket was announced years ago. A Japanese man bought all 9 seats and selections were made as to who would join him. The crew was announced 4 days ago and Tim Dodd was one of those selected. That's super cool...

I saw The Batman over the weekend and loved it! It's very long, right at 3 hours, but I didn't ever feel like it was dragging on. This Batman is much more of a detective like in the video games. Even though he does fight the bat guys he just less of a "go beat up the bad guys" and more "go...

I need someone to print a part for me from a crude drawing please. I'm willing to pay for it, not asking for a freebie, we can discuss that in a PM. What I'm looking for is a mount for a 3rd party rear camera on my Jeep. I'd installed the camera on top of my 3rd brake light only to find that...

So my GF and I are going to NYC for a few days next week and I want to make sure I stay warm. I have the coat, hat, gloves, covered but a friend suggested that wearing good socks to keep your feet warm is key to staying comfortable. Living in the south I’m not sure that the “thick” socks...

This year I'm rocking a Gene Simmons costume, from the cover of their Dressed To Kill album, where the band all wore suits instead of their usual leather and spikes. If you're in costume this year, share a picture!

So my GF and I are planning a trip to NYC in Dec and will try and catch Lion King on Broadway while we're there. The tickets are wide open right now so I want to know which would be a better seat, close to the stage on the floor, or on the front row of the balcony for a higher view? I know...

So last Christmas I was given a Ring doorbell which is a doorbell that has a camera and speaker on it. If someone walks up to the door I get a notification on my phone before they even ring the doorbell because it has a motion sensor. I can "answer the door" from my phone anywhere and talk to...

I have a Synology NAS and recently started learning a few things, trying to learn a few things, such as Home Assistant to do some home automation and utilizing Docker to run it. I'm having an issue with the Home Assistant program doing something that is obviously not right. After I installed...

A decade in the making, NASA and SpaceX have set May 27 as the target launch date for the first crewed space mission to launch into orbit from U.S. soil since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011. NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, two veterans of the shuttle program, will ride...

Years ago I downloaded and spent quite a lot of time teaching myself to use Google Sketchup and I LOVED that program!!! Way easier to use for 3D than AutoCAD for sure. But then Google sold it off and the new versions were changed enough that I didn't like it as much so I kept the old version I...

I'm not sure which forum is the best to ask about this, so I just picked this one. If I want to build a kit that I do have instructions for, but don't have any parts, is there a website that keeps a list of part for kits? I'd like to find out things like, tube size and tube length, balsa...

A few nights ago I watched the movie Apollo 13 and near the end when they separated the Service Module and Lovell was commenting that "one whole side of the spacecraft is missing" I wondered about the timing of the separation. Why didn't they separate the SM sooner, before mid-course...

Does anyone have any recommendations for the best way / best software to backup some computer files? And when I say "some", I mean "a metric freak ton". I have about 2.5 terabytes (and growing) of video files on a 5.0 TB NAS hard drive. For Xmas my wife gave me a 7.5 TB drive to use as a...

On the day after Xmas this year we'll have a "near miss" as a 2,000 foot asteroid zips by Earth. The closest it will come is 19 times further away than the moon is, so not so near as to be a risk. On a global scale it's not close at all, on a solar system scale it's damn close...

Two lightning strikes hit Apollo 12 shortly after launch and knocked out the electrical system on the CSM. Steely-eyed missile man John Aaron probably prevented an abort by knowing what switch to suggest they change to fix it, and Alan Bean helped by knowing where that switch was...

As much as I dislike this movie, this scene would really have fit in with all the internal inconsistencies and mistakes they made. Plus, the end of this clip actually made me laugh out loud.

... the 21st night of September?

At the end of the month I'm going to spend a couple of days working near LA, and my first day there will be a half day free and a rental car. My plan is to ride out to the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne and see the first booster to return safely and land, which they have on display outside...

So Geddy Lee - the lead singer, bass player, and keyboardist of the band Rush - wrote a coffee table book called The Big Beautiful Book of Bass and is doing book signings all over the country. He did Europe before this I believe. About a month ago he added the Atlanta date and I decided to...

Back when I was a kid I was taught about centrifugal force. I could swing a bucket of water up over my head and back down in a circle fast enough, and the water would stay in the bucket. I was told that centrifugal force held the water in the bucket. Later, I think it was in college, I found...