So, reports are that the long-standing definitive first person shooter series Call of Duty will be returning to its roots: World War 2. This comes following the abismal reaction to last years release Infinite Warfare which was in the eyes of many Call of Duty players, more like Halo than Call of Duty. Infinite Warfare …
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Soyuz MS-04 Launch Replays
As I mentioned yesterday, here we have the launch replays of the Soyuz MS-04 Mission. The mission successfully docked to the ISS 6 hours after launch on April 20th, delivering its 2 person crew to the space station. Not much commentary for this one – It’s just some good views of a very nice Soyuz …
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Apollo 16 Lunar Landing – From PDI To Touchdown
It was about 7PM Central time on April 20th, 1972 that Apollo 16 crew members John Young and Charlie Duke landed in the Descartes plains as part of the Apollo 16 mission. This video explains the general process of the Apollo Lunar Module actually landing on the moon, and contains video and audio of the …
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Cygnus CRS OA-7 360 Degree Launch Video
This is the NASA live video of the 360 degree launch of Cygnus CRS OA-7 on Atlas V. Now, this was touted as “the words first 360 degree filmed launch” but that’s not entirely true. United Launch Alliance, the company that produces Atlas V and conducted this launch, has filmed some of their launches using …
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Soyuz MS-04 Successfully Launches And Docks To The ISS
Yet another rocket launch to cover is the early morning (local time) launch of the Soyuz MS-04 behicle to the International Space Station. After a 6 hour flight, the 2 person crew of Fyodor Yurchikhin, and (on his first space flight) Jack D. Fischer successfully docked to the International Space Station. This mission has a …
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Cygnus CRS OA-7 Mission Launched Successfully On An Atlas V
Yesterday morning an Atlas V rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a mission to resupply the International Space Station. The Cygnus Resupply Vehicle, named the SS John Glenn, is carrying over 3,000 kilograms of cargo to the Space Station as part of Orbital Sciences contract with NASA to provide commercial cargo transportation …
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Bits And Bytes – Program 4: The Computer As A Filing System
One thing that all computers do in some form is store data, be it programs we install on them, or data we generate ourselves using these programs. This is, of course, by design – computers are tools to help us do work (or at least, that’s why they are made, whether or not we use …
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45 Years Ago: The Launch Of Apollo 16
45 years ago today, on April 16th, 1972, Apollo 16, the penultimate mission of the Apollo Lunar Program, launched, carrying John Young, Ken Mattingly, and Charles Duke on a mission to land at Descartes Highlands and learn more about the geology of the lunar highlands, a part of the Moons lithograph that had not been …
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The Commercial Appeal To No Longer Be Printed In Memphis
Memphis’s primary local newspaper, the Commercial Appeal, will no longer be printed here in Memphis, Tennessee, starting with the April 18th edition. This marks the first time since the Civil War that the paper hasn’t been printed in its home city. This means the end of jobs for 19 people who work at the production …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 8: Wally Bear and the NO! Gang – Episode Review
Anti-Drug video games were a bit of a thing in the late 80’s and early 90’s, and here the Nerd takes a look at the unlicensed “classic” that is Wally Bear and the NO! Gang on NES.
It’s Over For The NES Classic Edition (Seriously This Time!)
I swear I’ve written 3 separate times about this subject, but this really does look to be it – the NES Classic Edition is over and done. That’s it. Game over. This last batch is the end. It’s been reported to IGN, and of course being shared via every gaming news outlet imaginable, that Nintendo …
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Windows Vista Reaches End Of Support
Windows Vista, the Microsoft operating system that everyone loved to hate, has finally died – it reached end-of-support status back on April 11th. This comes just a little over 10 years since the operating systems release. Now, this would be the part where every other blogger would talk about how terrible Vista was, and tear …
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56 Years Ago, Vostok 1
Amazingly, I don’t have much to share today on Vostok 1. I covered most everything I could possibly need to cover on the mission last year, and, suffice it to say, there amazingly isn’t that much video or special content out there on this mission – at least, nothing I’m quite feeling like sharing at …
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36 Years Ago – The Launch Of Columbia On STS-1
Last year I covered the launch of STS-1, the first flight of the Space Shuttle Program, with a more in-depth article which you can find in the link below. Today, I thought it would be better to share just a fragment of that historic, albeit somewhat forgotten mission, by focusing on the launch of the …
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Game Player’s Gametape Vol.1 No. 2
It’s time for another Game Players magazine Gametape, the circa 1990 video tape series that told you, well, quite a bit about how to best play many NES games. Corny as ever, this tape covers Ninja Gaiden (pronounced correctly, to boot!), Mega Man 2, Bad Dudes, Amagon, and lastly Air Wolf. The video skips some …
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