Today marks an amazing 28 years since the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, one of the premier tools in our study of the origins of the universe. Orbiting the Earth well above the light altering effects of the bulk of the atmosphere, Hubble was placed in a unique position to spend days, weeks, months, …
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Disc Manufacturing, Inc. Compact Disc Production Plant Tour – Circa 1995
Here’s a pretty awesome video I found a little while back and just now am getting to covering – a tour of the Disc Manufacturing Inc. compact disc production plant, showing the process by which CD’s were actually made in their facilities per customer requests. The video is of course a promotional one designed to …
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May 2018 Xbox Live Games With Gold
In a strange mistake by Microsoft, this video was released slightly early, back around the 18th or 19th. It’s since been unlisted, which doesn’t stop me from showing it to you now, so, here we are! Not to give away the ending too early, but this is one of the best months in a very …
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Mind The Gaps – An Update
As you can tell, my previous statements about getting back to normal article writing rates on Xadara haven’t fully come to pass as I hoped they would. Thankfully much of this has actually been intentional, if the root cause hasn’t been something I expected or planned for. Just about a month ago, coinciding with a …
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The Beginning Of The End Of 32 Bit Application Support In MacOS
A few days ago, users of MacOS High Sierra version 10.13.4 (the current release version as of this writing) have started being met with a message upon running a 32 bit application, explaining that the application “is not optimized for your Mac” and states that the developer should update the application to improve compatibility. This …
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There Are Now Game Console Setup Services. Wait, What?
This isn’t something that actually surprises me, given the nature of capitalism and the ability for marketing to make people pay for damn near anything, but seeing that it’s actually a thing now amazes me. There are now services you can pay for that will set up video game consoles. Yes, seriously. And yes, they …
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Bits And Bytes – Program 11: Computers At Work
Since their inception computers have been business tools, machines designed to assist their user in efficiently doing work. It’s not a foreign concept to most of us – we all certainly use computers in some form in our day to day lives, some of us more in-depth than others. While the same was true in …
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Kennedy Space Center: “Bridge to Space” 1968 NASA Film
In keeping up with the recent anniversary of the launch of Apollo 6, I’m sharing this film from 1968 going over general operations at Kennedy Space Center, specifically in preparation for the Apollo 6 launch. It’s produced more like a proper film than many of the other NASA films from the 60’s I’ve shown here. …
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I’m Quite Certain YouTube Is Re-Subbing Me To Channels I’ve Unsubscribed To!
So, we all know how YouTube has been, apparently, stealthily unsubscribing people from various channels over the past few years. This is a pretty well documented trend that is quite the annoyance for most users of the site, especially when compounded with how the site now no longer seems to wish to show people some, or …
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Apollo 6 Preflight Briefing – 1968 NASA Film
We have a quick one for you here today – a 1968 film in preparation for the mission of Apollo 6 covering the details on the planned mission. As mentioned before, Apollo 6 was intended to be basically a repeat of Apollo 4, the first test of the Saturn V rocket. That plan didn’t pan …
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Martin Luther King Jr., Memphis, And My Thoughts…
Today, April 4th, 2018 marked 50 years since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. here in my home city of Memphis, Tennessee. Worldwide, it’s one of two things the city is really known for – the other being Elvis Presley. Much like Elvis, the assassination of MLK is one of those things that unless …
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50 Years Ago: The Launch Of Apollo 6
Early in the morning of April 4th, 1968, on launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center, the second Saturn V rocket to fly was launched. This mission was Apollo 6 – another unmanned test of the Saturn V and the Apollo Command-Service module, much the same as the Apollo 4 mission in November of …
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Addressing Some Of The Reactions To Tiangong-1
The past week, before its demise in the atmosphere over the South Pacific Ocean, Tiangong-1 was, naturally, the subject of quite a bit of news coverage. Of course, that meant commentary from the peanut gallery, as they say – everyone decided to toss out a comment, or a question. While some were intelligent, many just …
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The (Pointless) Demolition Of The Yekaterinburg TV Tower
It’s amazing what a one-off sports event will make a city do that it had never done before. When a city gets to host the Olympics, they build an entire complex to host said games, usually demolishing a decently sized area to even get the land together for this new facility – one that is …
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Tiangong-1 Is Gone
Something I like about the Internet is how quickly people will update you when information is out of date or incorrect. In this case, I have been following what sources I could on Tiangong-1 when someone on twitter alerted me that it had already been confirmed to have re-entered, in this case, at 5:16PM Pacific …
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