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This was unexpected. Probably also what the guy who found the can said. The article is not behind a paywall at the moment, but let me know if it becomes inaccessible. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/nyregion/willy-ley-rocket-ashes.html

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/apr/02/val-kilmer-death-age-65-pneumonia

This old movie has some chilling echoes today https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future_Part_II

In the mould of Colin Chapman, Bruce McLaren, Sir Frank Williams etc but the last of his kind we shall see in F1. Always outspoken and never short of an opinion I think he polarised with F1 fans but tbh, always managed to be a fine Irishman, pundit and genuine human being. RIP to that great...

Beloved singer and unparalleled French aerospace historian/writer died yesterday, the 2nd of March 2025, at 80 after a long battle with cancer: For those that are unfamiliar with his top selling history of Soviet and German aircraft, might you find in the below titles a glimpse of what was his...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gxk6V50xx8 View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uLAi-Y1XrI

An appropriate subject for the night that is in it, methinks. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVlnER8SxfQ View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRjmQXDhyps

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ISSBaXSyc

Sunday, October 27, 2024 marked the 70th Anniversary of the theatrical premiere of Gojira or Godzilla in Nagoya, Japan on October 27, 1954.

Yet again, another great actor passed away a few days ago, somehow I missed it at the time: https://apnews.com/article/john-ashton-taggart-beverly-hills-cop-obit-7cf9cabad9d315a303fa01a0eecb2a94...

The "Thingy", a flying sub-tank from "The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962)". Just funny.- (https://clip.cafe/the-three-stooges-in-orbit-1962/oh-no-not-disneyland/)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/robocop-tv-series-amazon-james-wan-1236011902/

The voice of Parker has passed on. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj463gx8gyo

The American actor James Earl Jones has passed away at the age of 93.:( Sources: View: https://x.com/MarkHamill/status/1833246565168803985?t=LueMXnGSz9YOgdYQm5MREw&s=19 View: https://x.com/NavalInstitute/status/1833252640303812795?t=JDH7l0xIMSO8egcIt5_x_g&s=19

While visiting the Fireball XL5 thread on Facebook I have the BBC Radio news trying to explain what is happening to get two astronauts down from the International Space Station. Flipping to an old episode of Stargate SG1 I listen to the USAF heroes explaining to a bemusec Extra Terrestrial ally...

A detail look on piece of film history View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NojWAMpHHPs

There is a new project underway to publish the book, I just received two cover designs by Harry Edwood

Martin Bayer, he did say of a painting of an alien that looked like a baby elephant: Clinically, it's called intellectual laziness. Yes, and the bumps-on-their-foreheads kind who talk about honour/logic/profit/petunias are even worse. So then, what are the genuinely interesting and deeply...

Since we have some fans of Gerry Anderson and Derek Meddings and his Team Here some Tribute to them View: https://youtu.be/zOdjmWw2a5g

It has been a long established staple of Sci Fi films and TV series that aliens and monsters are resistant to the best weapons humankind can throw at them. View: https://youtu.be/aNJGpUTdmi4?si=O_8QWxIb9oZ6nJS8 The Bomb whether A (1950s War of the Worlds) or H (1990s Independence Day) is...