Back on the 7th of June (the 8th of June in Russia) the legendary Proton-M rocket made its first launch of 2017. This powerful booster hasn’t been launched in just shy of a year thanks to some manufacturing issues which would have put a launch into jeopardy; it looks like those issues have been solved. …
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An Update On XadaraCast
So, you may recall that Podcast I was working on late last year, titled XadaraCast (yeah, not the most original name, sure). Well, as it stands, I’ve taken down the only 3 episodes that were produced and am putting the project on Hiatus, for now, for a general reboot. The reasons are varied, but it …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 17: Bible Games – Episode Review
It’s holiday time around the Nerd room, and in this legendary episode the Nerd takes a look at unlicensed Bible-Themed games for the Nintendo Entertainment System!
GSLV MK3 – India’s Most Powerful Rocket Yet
On June 5th, 2017, The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully launched a payload on their most powerful rocket booster ever, the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle MK3. As the name suggessts, this is a booster designed to launch satellites into Geosynchronous orbits (orbit’s that stay in position over a particular spot of the planet) or, …
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Aerial Bombs: Method of Loading Bombs – 1941 US Army Air Corps Training Film
Considering today is June 6th, the 73rd Anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Nazi Occupied Europe, I think it would be a fine day to share a few World War 2 related informational videos; in this case, a film showing the process of how bombs are loaded onto a B-17 bomber. I never thought there …
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No, I’m Not Excited For E3 2017
The yearly Electronics Entertainment Expo, known as “E3” will be taking place from June 13th through the 15th, 2017. As usual, the gaming community, both average gamers and the games media, are getting excited to see what Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, and the dozens of major 3rd party game publishers will be showing off. As the …
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SpaceX CRS-11 Successfully Launches And Docks With The International Space Station
On June 3rd, 2017, yet another Falcon 9 booster launched from LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center, this time carrying the 11th SpaceX Commercial Resupply mission to the International Space Station. This mission is noteworthy for 2 reasons: This is the 100th launch from LC-39A, which was first used for the Apollo 4 Saturn V launch …
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Game Player’s Gametape Vol. 1 No. 4: Sports Games
Well, no one said that all of these tapes would be exciting. Tape 4 in volume 1 of the Game Player’s Magazine tips tapes series is all about sports games. Now, to be fair, many of the sports titles on the NES are quite solid games, they play well enough, they are genuinely fun and …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 16: Rocky – Episode Review
Back to a game review, we have the newly rebranded Angry Video Game Nerd taking a look at Rocky for the Sega Master System! That’s right, it’s not an NES game this time!
Expedition 51 Returns From The International Space Station
While I’m quite apt to cover launches of missions to the International Space Station, I often times don’t address the fact that 6 months later the Space Station crews return home in the Soyuz craft that took them up there to begin with. Today, the crew of Expedition 51, Peggy Whitson, Oleg Novitskiy and Thomas …
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The One Big Problem In Using A YouTube Video As An Article Subject
As anyone who follows this site will notice, many of the article subjects on this site are videos that are usually, if not pretty much always hosted on YouTube. This isn’t normally a problem, and the worst I’ve had before is maybe a one-off video being deleted, or something that isn’t allowed to be embedded …
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Scamming An IRS Scammer
Stumbling across this today it looks like last night one of the YouTubers I like and have featured before, Carey Holzman, got a very odd voicemail from what is obviously an IRS scammer. As a response, he set up a quick (20 minute) live stream to discuss who the scammers might be, why they are …
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Bits And Bytes – Program 6: Computer Languages
Computers, explained in their most simplest form, perform tasks they are told to do – namely, calculations. Put enough calculations together, and you can do some interesting things. Telling the machine to do these various tasks one element at a time, though, would be an intense process. Instead, we use various programming languages to write …
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The Bird Watchers – 1966 USAF Film On Rocket Photography
Getting back to the grind, we might as well start with this video, uploaded today , which is a digital conversion of a 1966 film about the process of filming and photographing rocket launches at Vandernberg Air Force Base. Launches from VAFB were more common than launches from the Eastern Test Range and Cape Canaveral …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 15: Chronologically Confused About Bad Movie and Video Game Sequel Titles – Episode Review
Welcome to the first “odd” episode of the series, and technically the first Angry Video Game Nerd Episode. In this case, the Nerd takes a look at bad game and film sequel titles.