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Ep 136: May 28, 2025 Part 2 - Col. Corso's reveals UFO tech links to lasers and directed energy weapons Mysterious cattle mutilations in Central Oregon Part 2: Interview with Col. Corso - “Pentagon discovery ... emitted glowing red beams” - “a surgical instrument, just like a scalpel” - May, 2020. USS Portland fires DEW, Direct Energy Weapon, downing unmanned drone. - German Scientist, Hermann Oberth, brought up time travel in the 1950s - Black lenses on aliens eyes were night vision - “why did the aliens have a cutting device?.. Used by the aliens on our livestock” - “we had to be very careful with the DEW weapon” - “It came from the laser family” - “we discussed time travel.. Oberth…believed it was possible” - “we've developed less than 5%”…of the technology - “the extraterrestrial blends with the capacitor” - “image intensifiers, fiber optics, super tenacity fabrics, lasers, alloys, micro miniaturization, particle beams, energy weapons…” - “there were hand imprinted panels”…”the entire vehicle functioned just like a giant capacitor” - “gravity was being folded”…”the pilots became part of the electrical circuitry of the vehicle..an extension of their own body” - William J Birnes - “a civilian agency…for funnelling military missions into a civilian organized program” - “NASA was a way for the CIA to take control of the space program” Another revelation from U. S. Army Lt. Col. Philip J. Corso about UFO/E. T. technology from 1940s UFO crashes in New Mexico that were kept in General Arthur Trudeau's Pentagon file drawers — red light lasers! By 1963, Col. Corso had delivered UFO lasers to the Army's Electronic Warfare Laboratory in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. That Army UFO research would evolve to one of the most powerful military technologies on Earth today: Directed Energy Weapons (DEW). Tune In LIVE - Earthfiles YouTube Channel broadcast on Wednesday, April 21st, 2021, at 6:30 PM Pacific / 9:30 PM Eastern — and all other time zones around the world — for Part 2 of Lt. Col. Philip J. Corso's interview with Earthfiles Reporter and Editor Linda Moulton Howe and Dreamland radio host, Art Bell, from Roswell, New Mexico on July 7, 1997, the 50th anniversary of wedge-shaped UFOs in the Roswell and Magdalena regions of New Mexico. ==== Books mentioned: The Day After Roswell By. Col. Philip J. Corso Glimpses of Other Realities, Volume 1 & 2 By Linda Moulton Howe https://www.earthfiles.com/earthfiles-shop/ ==== NEW PRINTINGS NOW AVAILABLE: Glimpses of Other Realities, Vol. 1: Fact & Eye Witnesses Now available on Amazon: https://earthfiles.com/glimpses1 Glimpses of Other Realities, Vol. 2: High Strangeness Now available on Amazon: https://earthfiles.com/glimpses2 An Alien Harvest: Further Evidence Linking Animal Mutilations and Human Abductions to Alien Life Forms Now available on Amazon: https://earthfiles.com/aah ==== — For more incredible science stories, Real X-Files, environmental stories and so much more. Please visit my site https://www.earthfiles.com — Be sure to subscribe to this Earthfiles Channel the official channel for Linda Moulton Howe https://www.youtube.com/user/Earthfiles — To stay up to date on everything Earthfiles, follow me on FaceBook@EarthfilesNews and Twitter @Earthfiles. To purchase books and merchandise from Linda Moulton Howe, be sure to only shop at my official Earthfiles store at https://www.earthfiles.com/earthfiles-shop/ — Countdown Clock Piano Music: Ashot Danielyan, Composer: https://www.pond5.com/stock-music/100990900/emotional-piano-melancholic-drama.html
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Der Stern als Fixpunkt für die Sehnsucht und Unruhe des Herzens: die Morgenandacht mit Günter Oberthür.
Mit Tränen und Lachen die Liebe vor Gott feiern: die Morgenandacht mit Günter Oberthür.
Jede Wende, jeder Übergang hat einen Zwischenmoment, der Chancen bietet: die Morgenandacht mit Günter Oberthür.
Das alte Jahr verabschieden, das neue begrüßen: die Morgenandacht mit Günter Oberthür.
Seite an Seite vereint in der Klage an Gott: die Morgenandacht mit Günter Oberthür.
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: An Actually Intuitive Explanation of the Oberth Effect, published by Isaac King on January 12, 2024 on LessWrong. This is a linkpost for An Actually Intuitive Explanation of the Oberth Effect. Like anyone with a passing interest in Kerbal Space Program physics and spaceflight, I eventually came across the Oberth Effect. It's a very important effect, crucial to designing efficient trajectories for any rocket ship. And yet, I couldn't understand it. Wikipedia's explanation focuses on how kinetic energy is proportional to the square of the speed, and therefore more energy is gained from a change in speed at a higher speed. I'm sure this is true, but it's not particularly helpful; simply memorizing formulae is not what leads to understanding of a phenomenon. You have to know what the numbers mean, how they correspond to the actual atoms moving around in the real universe. This explanation was particularly galling as it seemed to violate relativity; how could a rocket's behavior change depending on its speed? What does that even mean; its speed relative to what? Whether a rocket is traveling at 1 m/s or 10000000 m/s relative to the Earth, the people on board the rocket should observe the exact same behavior when they fire their engine, right? So I turned to the internet; Stack Overflow, Quora, Reddit, random physicists' blogs. But they all had the same problem. Every single resource I could find would "explain" the effect with a bunch of math, either focusing on the quadratic nature of kinetic energy, or some even more confusing derivation in terms of work. A few at least tried to link the math up to the real world. Accelerating the rocket stores kinetic energy in the propellant, and this energy is then "reclaimed" when it's burned, leading to more energy coming out of the propellant at higher speeds. But this seemed unphysical; kinetic energy is not a property of the propellant itself, it depends on the reference frame of the observer! So this explanation still didn't provide me with an intuition for why it worked this way, and still seemed to violate relativity. It took me years to find someone who could explain it to me in better terms. Asymmetric gravitational effects Say your spacecraft starts 1 AU away from a planet, on an inertial trajectory that will bring it close to the planet but not hit it. It takes a year to reach periapsis going faster and faster the whole way. Then it takes another year to reach 1 AU again, slowing down the whole time. Two things to note here: The coordinate acceleration experienced by the spacecraft (relative to the planet) is higher the closer it gets, because that's where gravity is strongest. Way out at 1AU, the gravitational field is very weak, and there's barely any effect on the ship. Secondly, note that the trajectory is symmetric, because orbital mechanics is time-reversible. That's how we know that if it takes 1 year to fall in it will also take 1 year to get back out, and you'll be traveling at the same speed as you were at the beginning. Now imagine that you burn prograde at periapsis. Now you'll be traveling faster as you leave than you were as you came in. This means that gravity has less time to act on you on the way out than it did on the way in. Of course the gravitational field extends all the way out to 1 AU, but if we take just a subregion of it, like the region within which the acceleration is at least 1 m/s2, you'll spend less time subject to that level of acceleration. So the Oberth effect is just a consequence of you maximizing the amount of time gravity works on you in the desired direction, and minimizing it in the other direction. (And of course you'd get the inverse effect if you burned retrograde; a more efficient way to slow down.) This has nothing to do with propellant. Maybe instead of thrusters, there's a gi...
Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: An Actually Intuitive Explanation of the Oberth Effect, published by Isaac King on January 12, 2024 on LessWrong. This is a linkpost for An Actually Intuitive Explanation of the Oberth Effect. Like anyone with a passing interest in Kerbal Space Program physics and spaceflight, I eventually came across the Oberth Effect. It's a very important effect, crucial to designing efficient trajectories for any rocket ship. And yet, I couldn't understand it. Wikipedia's explanation focuses on how kinetic energy is proportional to the square of the speed, and therefore more energy is gained from a change in speed at a higher speed. I'm sure this is true, but it's not particularly helpful; simply memorizing formulae is not what leads to understanding of a phenomenon. You have to know what the numbers mean, how they correspond to the actual atoms moving around in the real universe. This explanation was particularly galling as it seemed to violate relativity; how could a rocket's behavior change depending on its speed? What does that even mean; its speed relative to what? Whether a rocket is traveling at 1 m/s or 10000000 m/s relative to the Earth, the people on board the rocket should observe the exact same behavior when they fire their engine, right? So I turned to the internet; Stack Overflow, Quora, Reddit, random physicists' blogs. But they all had the same problem. Every single resource I could find would "explain" the effect with a bunch of math, either focusing on the quadratic nature of kinetic energy, or some even more confusing derivation in terms of work. A few at least tried to link the math up to the real world. Accelerating the rocket stores kinetic energy in the propellant, and this energy is then "reclaimed" when it's burned, leading to more energy coming out of the propellant at higher speeds. But this seemed unphysical; kinetic energy is not a property of the propellant itself, it depends on the reference frame of the observer! So this explanation still didn't provide me with an intuition for why it worked this way, and still seemed to violate relativity. It took me years to find someone who could explain it to me in better terms. Asymmetric gravitational effects Say your spacecraft starts 1 AU away from a planet, on an inertial trajectory that will bring it close to the planet but not hit it. It takes a year to reach periapsis going faster and faster the whole way. Then it takes another year to reach 1 AU again, slowing down the whole time. Two things to note here: The coordinate acceleration experienced by the spacecraft (relative to the planet) is higher the closer it gets, because that's where gravity is strongest. Way out at 1AU, the gravitational field is very weak, and there's barely any effect on the ship. Secondly, note that the trajectory is symmetric, because orbital mechanics is time-reversible. That's how we know that if it takes 1 year to fall in it will also take 1 year to get back out, and you'll be traveling at the same speed as you were at the beginning. Now imagine that you burn prograde at periapsis. Now you'll be traveling faster as you leave than you were as you came in. This means that gravity has less time to act on you on the way out than it did on the way in. Of course the gravitational field extends all the way out to 1 AU, but if we take just a subregion of it, like the region within which the acceleration is at least 1 m/s2, you'll spend less time subject to that level of acceleration. So the Oberth effect is just a consequence of you maximizing the amount of time gravity works on you in the desired direction, and minimizing it in the other direction. (And of course you'd get the inverse effect if you burned retrograde; a more efficient way to slow down.) This has nothing to do with propellant. Maybe instead of thrusters, there's a gi...
Der Flug zu den Planeten mittels einer Rakete war in der Literatur schon angekommen, lange bevor irgendein Land ein Raumfahrtprogramm aufgesetzt hatte. Auch der Film hat einen solchen Flug bereits mehrfach dargestellt: ganz prominent Georges Méliès und seine “La voyage dans la lune” von 1902. Im Jahre 1929 drehte Fritz Lang den Klassiker “Frau im Mond”, der die meiste Zeit in der Rakete und auf dem Mond spielt. Dabei wurde Lang vom Pionier der Raumfahrttechnik Hermann Oberth beraten. Also: Wo befanden sich 1923 technisch die Ingenieure und Naturwissenschaftler auf dem Weg zur bemannten Raumfahrt? Die Antwort gibt die Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung vom 2. Dezember, die vor allem im Rückgriff auf das Werk “Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen” des bereits erwähnten Oberth künftige Möglichkeiten für Raketenflüge auslotet – und dies zu den astronomisch hohen Kosten von 250 Milliarden für die Ausgabe preisgibt. Uns informiert Frank Riede wie sich Oberth die Weltraumflüge vorstellte, nach dem heute der Oberth-Effekt für treibsstoffsparende Flugmanöver benannt ist.
USS Tracy responds to a distress call from a small team surveying an alien world. Attached to a deep space exploration task force Tracy is an Oberth-class ship refitted with an improved hull, high-resolution sensors, and rapid-fire torpedo launches. Join our friendly Discord: https://discord.gg/5AtydRUDjX Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@fluffncrunchpod Check out our crew and ship stats here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1juZygemCPwd3Tz5ff9Y3VOx_1MU4jps6?usp=sharing --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fluffncrunch/message
Hermann Oberth is one of the fathers of rocketry. He inspired some of the most successful rocket designers and builders of the 20th century. Yet his “offspring” — his pioneering ideas about rockets — almost weren't born. He first wrote those ideas in 1922, in his PhD thesis at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. His professors rejected it. “Too farfetched,” they said. Yet Oberth's conclusions were correct — and he knew it. So he published them at his own expense. His book, “The Rocket in Interplanetary Space,” was released 100 years ago this month. In it, he concluded that rockets using liquid fuels would be much more efficient than those using solid fuels. No one had yet built such a rocket, and wouldn't for a few more years. Oberth also concluded that rockets could escape Earth's gravity, and that humans could safely go along for the ride. He even came up with the idea of multiple stages — a design that's used in most modern-day boosters. Oberth's 92-page book caught the eye of several young rocketeers in Germany, who formed a famous rocket club. One of their leaders was Wernher von Braun, who would develop the V-2 terror weapon for Germany, and the Saturn 5 Moon rocket for the United States. Oberth continued to develop his ideas, and published an extended version of his book in 1929. It offered a lot more detail on how to get into space — ideas that weren't so “farfetched” after all. Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory
Oberthür c'est un nom attaché à l'histoire de Rennes ! C'est aussi une référence en matière de produits imprimés. Oberthür, c'est surtout des idées lumineuses, en phase avec les attentes des français, et ça, ce n'est pas rien ! Retour sur l'épopée de l'imprimeur qui a durablement façonné le visage de la capitale Bretonne.
Der BierTalk war mal wieder zu Gast, diesmal beim Podcast "Horch amol" und NN-Online-Chefredakteur Matthias Oberth. Wir sprechen über die fränkische Bierperspektive und die hiesige Lebensart, die das Gebiet rund um Nürnberg, Bamberg, Bayreuth & Co. so liebenswert macht...
In der heutigen Folge sprechen Birte und Elisabeth Oberthür von der Frauenhauskoordinierung e.V. über das Thema Gewalt gegen Frauen. Warum bleiben Frauen in Beziehungen, in denen sie geschlagen werden? Wie ist der Weg ins Frauenhaus? Wie kann man sich den Alltag in einem Frauenhaus vorstellen? Und was passiert danach? __________ Hilfetelefon Gewalt gegen Frauen: 0800 0116 016 https://www.hilfetelefon.de (anonym und kostenfrei) Frauenhaus-Suche: https://www.frauenhauskoordinierung.de/hilfe-bei-gewalt/frauenhaus-und-fachberatungsstellensuche/ __________ Instagram: @orionversand bzw. https://www.instagram.com/orionversand/ E-Mail: podcast@orion.de Zum ORION-Shop: https://www.orion.de
Letzte Stunde vor den Ferien und Achtung, Geschichte: ungenügend! macht Sommerpause bis zum 9. August. Vorher haben wir für Euch noch einen kleinen Ausflug in die Karriere von Rocket Man Elton John und widmen uns dann Rocket Man Hermann Oberth. Der junge Oberth ist fasziniert von Jule Vernes Geschichten über die Raumfahrt und noch mehr fasziniert ist er davon, diese Geschichten Realität werden zu sehen. Er gilt als einer der Begründer der modernen Raumfahrt, ist wissenschaftlicher Berater am Set von Fritz Lang und ist am Bau der deutschen Raketenwaffe V2 beteiligt. Anschnallen, Festhalten, der Countdown läuft.Quellenauswahl:Von Fakt und Fiktion in meinem Roman über Hermann Oberth – Ein Essay von Daniel Mellemhttps://blog.dtv.de/gastbeitraege/von-fakt-und-fiktion-in-meinem-roman-ueber-hermann-oberth-ein-essay-von-daniel-mellem/Oberth, Herman. Novermber 14 and 15, 1987. Interviewers: Martin Harwitand Frank Winter. https://www.si.edu/media/NASM/NASM-NASM_AudioIt-000006596DOCS-000001.pdfAnton Maegerle: "Der Raketen-Nazi mit Bundeshttps://www.kontextwochenzeitung.de/zeitgeschehen/433/raketen-nazi-mit-bundesverdienstkreuz-6062.htmlMehr musikalischen Kontext zu unseren Folgen findet Ihr hier auf Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3V4...Den aktuellen Popkultur-Kontext und viele andere Videos gibt es in dieser Playlist:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU...Ansonsten erreicht Ihr uns auf Twitter unter @ungenugend oder per E-Mail an geschichteungenuegend@gmail.comSupport the show
Savez-vous que le parc Oberthür a été conçu avant le Thabor, et par le même paysagiste ? Qu'il était à l'origine trois fois plus grand qu'aujourd'hui ? Ou encore qu'il abrite près de 375 espèces de végétaux venus du monde entier ? Partez à la découverte de ce merveilleux exemple de l'art des jardins, qui connut son âge d'or au 19e siècle.
A Józan Babák Klub a droghasználó szülők önsegítő csoportjaként alakult meg 15 évvel ezelőtt. A közösséget olyan huszonéves fiatalok, főként várandós nők hívták életre, akik hétvégente használtak kábítószert, és a terhesgondozási rendszer nem tudott nekik megfelelő segítséget nyújtani.
Musik entführt, verzaubert, entrückt, erhebt, macht hellhörig. Die Morgenandacht von Günter Oberthür.
Um der Menschen willen weitermachen, sich nicht der Resignation beugen. Die Morgenandacht von Günter Oberthür.
Wohin mit der Verzweiflung, der Ohnmacht und der Ungewissheit? Die Morgenandacht von Günter Oberthür.
Einen Raum öffnen für das Seelenleben: Das ist weit mehr, als es scheint. Die Morgenandacht von Günter Oberthür.
Leben in der kühnen Zuversicht, dass die Erwartung erfüllt wird. Die Morgenandacht von Günter Oberthür.
Ein langes Leben rückblickend würdigen - auch das ist Advent, himmlischer Trost. Die Morgenandacht von Günter Oberthür.
Jeff and Larry speak with Roundtable Trading president Rob Oberth about the upcoming holiday initiatives designed to increase awareness of numismatics and bring a cheerful spirit around the hobby through dealers, collectors and all who find joy in the ways of making the season brighter.Contact info:Jeff Starck: jstarck@amosmedia.comLarry Jewett: ljewett@amosmedia.comTo Sponsor the Coin World Podcast:Brian Hertel: bhertel@amosmedia.comor contact your Coin World sales representative.This episode of the Coin World Podcast was sponsored by Coin World+:Manage your inventory, digitally authenticate coins, create your Wantlist, buy & sell coins and much more. Learn more at CoinWorldPlus.com, or download the app now at Google Play or the App Store.Don't miss an episode! Subscribe to the Coin World Podcast on one of these directories:Apple Podcasts (iTunes)Google PodcastsSpotifyStitcherPandoraTuneInOr copy our RSS feed to subscribe through your preferred podcast platform:https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/273189.rss
Szociális vagy egészségügyi alapon tilos lenne gyerekeket kiemelni a családjukból és elhelyezni őket intézményi közreműködéssel, ez mégis máig megtörténik Magyarországon. Az egészségügyi, lakhatási, pénzügyi, párkapcsolati krízisben érintett várandós nők és anyák támogatása komplex megoldásokat igényel, amelyek nem elérhetőek az ellátórendszerben. A Józan Babák Klub szerhasználó nőknek nyújtott alacsonyküszöbű szolgáltatásokon kívül 4 éve támogatott lakhatás intézményt is működtet Budapesten, amely hiánypótló gyakorlatot alapozott meg. Az interjúban az intézmény egyik fenntartója, Oberth József mesél a kapcsolódó társadalmi és állami rendszerhibákról, az áldozatsegítés ezen speciális tudást és eszközöket igénylő szegmenséről, illetve a gyerekvédelem működési problémáiról.Hol találsz meg minket?Youtube-on: https://www.youtube.com/c/Partiz%C3%A1nm%C3%A9diaFacebookon: https://facebook.com/partizanpolitika/Facebook-csoportunkban: https://www.facebook.com/groups/partizantarsalgoInstagramon: https://www.instagram.com/partizanpolitika/Hogyan támogathatod a munkánkat?Legyél a patronálónk, hogy hozzáférj a vágatlan adásokhoz és extra tartalmainkhoz: https://www.patreon.com/partizanpolitikaPayPal-on keresztül is várjuk az adományodat, e-mail címünk: partizanalapitvany@gmail.comEgyszeri vagy rendszeres banki átutalással is segíthetsz! Ehhez a legfontosabb adatok:Név: Partizán AlapítványSzámlaszám: 16200106-11669030-00000000Közlemény: TámogatásHa külföldről utalnál, nemzetközi számlaszámunk/IBAN (International Bank Account Number): HU68 1620 0106 1166 9030 0000 0000BIC/SWIFT-kód: HBWEHUHB★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
This week, on Episode 513 of Priority One: Noah Hawley speaks out about what happened with his Star Trek project, Michelle Paradise talks about a canon wishlist, Ronald D. Moore shares some history about TNG's “Redemption” episodes; in Gaming, Star Trek Online is ready to hit the beaches of Risa with this year's summer event; lastly, Dr. Robert Hurt helps us solve the mystery of Orion's incredible dimming star. This week's Community Questions are: In the same way fans clamor for the DC Snyder-verse and Batfleck, should we rally behind Hawley to see his Star Trek project created? What canonical stories or characters do you think Discovery could explore well? Let us know on social media like Facebook, Twitter, or by visiting our website! TREK IT OUT Edited by Thomas Reynolds Who Mourns for Hawley? By Elio Lleo In a recent interview with Deadline's Pete Hammond, Noah Hawley addresses his disappointment that his vision for a Star Trek film didn't come to fruition. When asked about the project he had this to say: “In retrospect, what surprised me is not that Emma Watts came in and said ‘are you people crazy? This is an untested crew, this is an original idea, we don't know if this is going to work or not work.' It's that I got as far as I did...it was a really fun movie, and I think it would've been a great film. But you can't control these things, so you move on.” Image: FX, via Deadline. Now you might have heard Hawley name-drop Emma Watts. Watts replaced Wyck Godfrey as President of the Paramount Motion Picture Group back in June 2020. That leads us to our first community question this week: In the same way fans clamor for the DC Snyder-verse and Batfleck, should we rally behind Hawley to see his Star Trek project created? Let us know in the comment section for this episode at priorityonepodcast.com or by replying to our community question post on our social media channels like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Wishing for Season 4 By Elio Lleo While we're on the topic of interviews, The Hollywood Reporter Presents Q&A video series featured Sonequa Martin-Green, Michelle Paradise, and Olatunde Osunsanmi of Star Trek: Discovery. The conversation focused a great deal on Season 3 and repeated a lot of things we've already heard. Perhaps the one question asked that deviated from the norm was, what canonical plots or characters are on the writer's room wish list, to which Michelle Paradise replied: “at the start of any season...we have these questions about what are the awesome things in canon that we haven't touched on yet? Or where are the opportunities, like this season with the Guardian of Forever? Having sixty years of history is so much fun, to be able to bring in some of these things. And then, thanks to the time jump, we're actually a bit ahead of many of those things. We aren't trying to marry them to our current timeframe, so we can play a little bit more.” Only Grudge is better at adhering to an NDA. Image: ViacomCBS, via DenOfGeek. They went on to praise the cast and crew for their incredible work behind the scenes and in front of the camera. When asked about Season 4, Paradise's answer was incredibly vague, though---sticking to an answer that didn't give anything away. That leads us to our next community question this week: What canonical stories or characters do you think Discovery could explore well? Re-Lorca-tion Expenses By Cat Hough Do you ever find yourself wondering what it would take to get Lorca back into Star Trek? [Nope.-Ed.] Well, wonder no more---the man himself, Jason Isaacs, told comicbook.com the answer. And it's simple: have a good script. Contract negotiations, am I right? Image: ViacomCBS, via The Hollywood Reporter. But is that answer simple? One would hope so...or at least hope the right script is out there. Because Isaacs won't take just any role. He says that he “[h]ad a fantastic time on Star Trek, I loved all the people, I love being part of that universe, and Prime Lorca, the Prime Universe version of my captain, has yet to be found. But I wouldn't go back just to be in it, I'd go back if you had a great story to tell." Isaacs' latest on-screen appearance was in Creation Stories, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 16th. Moore's “Redemption” By Rosco McQueen This week marks 30 years since the cliffhanger episode “Redemption, Part 1” originally went to air. It laid a lot of the foundations for Klingon culture, thanks to writer Ronald D. Moore...but it almost didn't happen. In an interview this week with The Hollywood Reporter, Moore discusses building the character of Worf over time with episodes like “The Bonding” and “Sins of the Father”, as well as slowly building up the Klingon culture. So much so, that Moore became known as “the Klingon guy.” But there was a lot of pushback from Gene Roddenberry, who didn't see Worf as a main character. To Gene, “[TNG] was about Picard. He was the Captain. This was the first time that Next Gen---that Star Trek, really---had ever done a big war story like this. And this was going to be the series' 100th episode on top of it. So, we had to fight somewhat to get the episode going.” Some fought harder than others. Image: ViacomCBS, via DenOfGeek. Executive Producer Rick Berman and the late TNG showrunner Michael Piller helped run interference with Roddenberry, and thankfully “Redemption” made it to air. If it hadn't, there would have been no Klingon Civil War, or characters like the Duras sisters and the half-Romulan, half-human Sela---who continues to vex us in Star Trek Online to this day. Quick News Roundup Here are a few headlines that we didn't discuss but might interest you. Wilson Cruz chatted with Yahoo about the importance of representation–not just in Star Trek, but in television and film in general. He shared his own story about breaking down barriers and forging his own path in the industry throughout the 90's and early 00's. The article isn't all about Trek, but it's an important conversation. See and be seen. Image: Michael Gibson/ViacomCBS, via Yahoo! ASTROMETRICS REPORT By Dr. Robert Hurt For this week's Astrometrics Report, we examine a solution to a dark mystery of astrophysics. Here I'm talking literally about the darkening of one of the brightest stars in the night sky. Even the most casual backyard astronomer can point out the constellation Orion in the fall and winter skies. The bright red star forming Orion's upper left shoulder is known as Betelgeuse (“BEE-tel juice” or “BEH-tel juice”, if you want an alternate but equally valid pronunciation). Astronomy on the Easy difficulty setting. Image: N. Risinger/ESO. Whatever your phonetic preference, it is the 10th brightest star in the entire sky---so imagine everyone's excitement back in late 2019, when this stellar beacon began to get unexpectedly darker. This was not subtle: by early 2020, it had dipped to about a third of its usual brightness, almost fading into the background of the Orion constellation. This was a big deal for a red giant star, which is about 18 times more massive than our Sun and 760 times larger in physical size. That makes it 3.5 times larger than the Earth's orbit---which is big enough to gobble up Mars and the entire asteroid belt, falling just short of Jupiter's orbit. So what could make such a huge, massive star go dark? That question prompted a lot of speculation because of another aspect of red giant stars. They are the last evolutionary stop for huge stars, before they explode as supernovae. Stars a bit more massive than our Sun will reach a point where nuclear fusion has produced a much wider variety of elements than our Sun ever will. This ultimately leaves a growing iron core that becomes so dense that gravity will overwhelm it, causing it to collapse to form a vastly-denser neutron star or black hole. In that instant the outer layers of the star will cascade into this sudden void, heat up, and rebound with an incredible release of energy that---for a brief period---match or exceed the energy output of all the other stars in the galaxy combined. Betelgeuse is on the short list of candidate stars that could make this next big boom in this galaxy. And that would certainly be exciting! At a distance of about 600 ly, such an event would be so bright as to be visible in the daytime sky for weeks. But relax: it is more than distant enough to keep us safe from getting cooked in the process. So, was this rapid dimming the precursor to the astronomical show of a lifetime? As you might guess from the lack of sensational headlines, the star returned to its regular brightness. No boom. But the question remained: what had happened to our favorite red giant star? In a recent paper, astronomers have announced a resolution to this mystery...and the culprit is dust that came from Betelgeuse itself. The evidence was presented in a series of high-resolution images of the star, showing what seemed to be a smoky veil passing in front of its disc before moving on. Image: ESO. That evidence alone is an incredible telescopic achievement. Because even though Betelgeuse is over a hundred times farther away than our near neighbor Alpha Centauri, its incredible size makes it only one of only a handful of stars of which we've been able to resolve surface features. Those images, along with infrared light measurements that did not show any decrease in brightness, helped seal the deal for dust being the dimming agent. Fundamental changes to the structure of the star (or even Michael Bay-style alien megastructures swarming around it) would affect all wavelengths of light, while dust blocks mainly visible light but becomes largely transparent in the infrared. In the recent study, astronomers have proposed that the turbulent star had ejected a bubble of gas, cooling slightly in the process. That allowed the gas to condense into particles of dust that, while orbiting around the star, passed in front of it for a few months---causing all of the fuss. While that may not be as dramatic as an explosion to put Hollywood blockbusters to shame, it's still a pretty amazing result. This illuminates one of the many ways stars are responsible for forging so many of the elements of the universe that make up planets and people. This dust ejection is one way these elemental building blocks are blown out into the galaxy, to become the source material for new stars, planets, and maybe even lifeforms in the distant future. STAR TREK GAMING NEWS Edited by Thomas Reynolds Gamma Recruits, Prepare for Battle...Again! By Rosco McQueen As of this moment, we are all dead. We go into battle to reclaim our lives. This we do gladly, for we are Jem'Hadar. Remember, Victory is life! Seriously guys, have you considered unionizing? Image: Cryptic Studios. For the glory of the Founders, Star Trek Online's recruitment revamp continues with the Gamma Recruit event, active until July 22. If you create a new Jem'Hadar character you'll gain access to special bonuses awarded through gameplay, which also unlock rewards across your whole account. This is the third time players have been able to create a Gamma Recruit since the unveiling of the Victory is Life expansion in 2018, with Cryptic adding some new goals and altering a few to include all reputation marks. Summertime and the Livin's Easy… By Cat Hough The one time my Gorn can wear his Speedo and not get arrested. Image: Cryptic Studios. Cryptic announced more details today about the upcoming Lohlunat Festival, running concurrently on all platforms from July 1st to July 31st. The blog post announced that the event ship will be an all new Risian Luxury Cruiser Vessel [T6] with details and ship stats to be released in a separate post. All of the old favorites from previous years will be returning, including powerboard races, the biathlon, horga'hn hunting, scavenging with Sovak and, of course, the galaxy-famous dance party. Participating in any of the events will grant progress towards the Risian Luxury Cruiser Vessel! ...spoiler? Image: Cryptic Studios. There's a new baseball uniform for the Jupiter Station Stem Bolts in the Event Store and two new T-shirts to collect. You can get a DISCO shirt, or the famous Chu Chu dance shirt (woo!). There's also a new impulsive floater, powerboard and vanity shield in the Stem Bolts colors. But what about the third chu? Image: Cryptic Studios. Also making waves [ugh---Ed.] is the Tsunami Generator. This Universal Kit Module replicates a wave that rolls out from the player, smashing into everything in front of it before crashing apart. The force of the wave knocks down creatures and injures them, and has a chance to temporarily disable electronic devices, such as turrets and drones. And the new kit frame, Risian Vulcanology, provides rebreather functionality to protect you from toxic gas, and its heat sink controls grant complete immunity to fire! Don't forget this year's new pets: The pastel-colored Transcendent Caracal (Vanity Pet) and Transcendent Tribble. Petting the tribble will “grant a constant, passive small chance to resist and throw off any effect that would control you, as you refuse to be limited or constrained. If you're on a team with multiple people petting this tribble, the chances stack based on the number of people involved. This tribble is unafraid of Klingons or other species that have treated Tribbles negatively in the past.” Because again, it's important to be highly visible. Image: Cryptic Studios. Something in the Air Tonight… By Cat Hough Hey, surprise! There's a new bundle. The New Genesis Bundle will be available on PC for 7500 Zen starting on June 24th, and is on sale for the first week. This bundle features two new T6 ships: the Malachowski-class, an updated Clarke Multi-Mission Command Cruiser, and the long awaited Oberth-class, otherwise known as the Grissom Light Science Vessel. (Please note: these two ships will also be available as separate purchases outside the New Genesis Bundle.) Image: a most beautiful dream, via Cryptic Studios. The bundle will also include a number of additional account-wide items, such as the Genesis Ground Vanity Device*, Wrath of Khan outfits and a Type II Phaser Compression Pistol (C. 2285). Finally, two Experimental Starship Upgrade Tokens and two Fleet Ship Modules boost your purchasing value further. This ship bundle will also be available to players on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 at a later date. Oh and this too. Image: Cryptic Studios. *This is a different device than the one given to Foundry authors. It has similar animation and FX, but does not include the Spock-In-The-Box that appears when the Foundry thank you gift is activated. To GOOOOOOAAAALLLL Where No One Has Gone Before By Rosco McQueen Image: Scopely. In celebration of the European Football Championship, the folks at Scopely shared a guide on how to play soccer/football/whatever in Star Trek Fleet Command. It's not a minigame as such, more a suggestion from the developers on how it could be done. Put together teams of ships with your friends and alliances to get an Envoy “ball” across your imaginary goal lines in space. It's Priority One Armada's 8th Anniversary! All during the month of June, we are giving away various prizes and will have events for Armada members every Saturday with even more prizes! This Saturday, June 26th, is our final event: the Risian Triathlon. Plus, you should definitely trek out the Livestream with yours truly this week as we feature our new intro video produced by Anthony! This is a great time to join Priority One Armada with more than 5 billion in EC in prizes being given away this month.
This week, on Episode 513 of Priority One: Noah Hawley speaks out about what happened with his Star Trek project, Michelle Paradise talks about a canon wishlist, Ronald D. Moore shares some history about TNG's “Redemption” episodes; in Gaming, Star Trek Online is ready to hit the beaches of Risa with this year's summer event; lastly, Dr. Robert Hurt helps us solve the mystery of Orion's incredible dimming star. This week's Community Questions are: In the same way fans clamor for the DC Snyder-verse and Batfleck, should we rally behind Hawley to see his Star Trek project created? What canonical stories or characters do you think Discovery could explore well? Let us know on social media like Facebook, Twitter, or by visiting our website! TREK IT OUT Edited by Thomas Reynolds Who Mourns for Hawley? By Elio Lleo In a recent interview with Deadline's Pete Hammond, Noah Hawley addresses his disappointment that his vision for a Star Trek film didn't come to fruition. When asked about the project he had this to say: “In retrospect, what surprised me is not that Emma Watts came in and said ‘are you people crazy? This is an untested crew, this is an original idea, we don't know if this is going to work or not work.' It's that I got as far as I did...it was a really fun movie, and I think it would've been a great film. But you can't control these things, so you move on.” Image: FX, via Deadline. Now you might have heard Hawley name-drop Emma Watts. Watts replaced Wyck Godfrey as President of the Paramount Motion Picture Group back in June 2020. That leads us to our first community question this week: In the same way fans clamor for the DC Snyder-verse and Batfleck, should we rally behind Hawley to see his Star Trek project created? Let us know in the comment section for this episode at priorityonepodcast.com or by replying to our community question post on our social media channels like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Wishing for Season 4 By Elio Lleo While we're on the topic of interviews, The Hollywood Reporter Presents Q&A video series featured Sonequa Martin-Green, Michelle Paradise, and Olatunde Osunsanmi of Star Trek: Discovery. The conversation focused a great deal on Season 3 and repeated a lot of things we've already heard. Perhaps the one question asked that deviated from the norm was, what canonical plots or characters are on the writer's room wish list, to which Michelle Paradise replied: “at the start of any season...we have these questions about what are the awesome things in canon that we haven't touched on yet? Or where are the opportunities, like this season with the Guardian of Forever? Having sixty years of history is so much fun, to be able to bring in some of these things. And then, thanks to the time jump, we're actually a bit ahead of many of those things. We aren't trying to marry them to our current timeframe, so we can play a little bit more.” Only Grudge is better at adhering to an NDA. Image: ViacomCBS, via DenOfGeek. They went on to praise the cast and crew for their incredible work behind the scenes and in front of the camera. When asked about Season 4, Paradise's answer was incredibly vague, though---sticking to an answer that didn't give anything away. That leads us to our next community question this week: What canonical stories or characters do you think Discovery could explore well? Re-Lorca-tion Expenses By Cat Hough Do you ever find yourself wondering what it would take to get Lorca back into Star Trek? [Nope.-Ed.] Well, wonder no more---the man himself, Jason Isaacs, told comicbook.com the answer. And it's simple: have a good script. Contract negotiations, am I right? Image: ViacomCBS, via The Hollywood Reporter. But is that answer simple? One would hope so...or at least hope the right script is out there. Because Isaacs won't take just any role. He says that he “[h]ad a fantastic time on Star Trek, I loved all the people, I love being part of that universe, and Prime Lorca, the Prime Universe version of my captain, has yet to be found. But I wouldn't go back just to be in it, I'd go back if you had a great story to tell." Isaacs' latest on-screen appearance was in Creation Stories, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 16th. Moore's “Redemption” By Rosco McQueen This week marks 30 years since the cliffhanger episode “Redemption, Part 1” originally went to air. It laid a lot of the foundations for Klingon culture, thanks to writer Ronald D. Moore...but it almost didn't happen. In an interview this week with The Hollywood Reporter, Moore discusses building the character of Worf over time with episodes like “The Bonding” and “Sins of the Father”, as well as slowly building up the Klingon culture. So much so, that Moore became known as “the Klingon guy.” But there was a lot of pushback from Gene Roddenberry, who didn't see Worf as a main character. To Gene, “[TNG] was about Picard. He was the Captain. This was the first time that Next Gen---that Star Trek, really---had ever done a big war story like this. And this was going to be the series' 100th episode on top of it. So, we had to fight somewhat to get the episode going.” Some fought harder than others. Image: ViacomCBS, via DenOfGeek. Executive Producer Rick Berman and the late TNG showrunner Michael Piller helped run interference with Roddenberry, and thankfully “Redemption” made it to air. If it hadn't, there would have been no Klingon Civil War, or characters like the Duras sisters and the half-Romulan, half-human Sela---who continues to vex us in Star Trek Online to this day. Quick News Roundup Here are a few headlines that we didn't discuss but might interest you. Wilson Cruz chatted with Yahoo about the importance of representation–not just in Star Trek, but in television and film in general. He shared his own story about breaking down barriers and forging his own path in the industry throughout the 90's and early 00's. The article isn't all about Trek, but it's an important conversation. See and be seen. Image: Michael Gibson/ViacomCBS, via Yahoo! ASTROMETRICS REPORT By Dr. Robert Hurt For this week's Astrometrics Report, we examine a solution to a dark mystery of astrophysics. Here I'm talking literally about the darkening of one of the brightest stars in the night sky. Even the most casual backyard astronomer can point out the constellation Orion in the fall and winter skies. The bright red star forming Orion's upper left shoulder is known as Betelgeuse (“BEE-tel juice” or “BEH-tel juice”, if you want an alternate but equally valid pronunciation). Astronomy on the Easy difficulty setting. Image: N. Risinger/ESO. Whatever your phonetic preference, it is the 10th brightest star in the entire sky---so imagine everyone's excitement back in late 2019, when this stellar beacon began to get unexpectedly darker. This was not subtle: by early 2020, it had dipped to about a third of its usual brightness, almost fading into the background of the Orion constellation. This was a big deal for a red giant star, which is about 18 times more massive than our Sun and 760 times larger in physical size. That makes it 3.5 times larger than the Earth's orbit---which is big enough to gobble up Mars and the entire asteroid belt, falling just short of Jupiter's orbit. So what could make such a huge, massive star go dark? That question prompted a lot of speculation because of another aspect of red giant stars. They are the last evolutionary stop for huge stars, before they explode as supernovae. Stars a bit more massive than our Sun will reach a point where nuclear fusion has produced a much wider variety of elements than our Sun ever will. This ultimately leaves a growing iron core that becomes so dense that gravity will overwhelm it, causing it to collapse to form a vastly-denser neutron star or black hole. In that instant the outer layers of the star will cascade into this sudden void, heat up, and rebound with an incredible release of energy that---for a brief period---match or exceed the energy output of all the other stars in the galaxy combined. Betelgeuse is on the short list of candidate stars that could make this next big boom in this galaxy. And that would certainly be exciting! At a distance of about 600 ly, such an event would be so bright as to be visible in the daytime sky for weeks. But relax: it is more than distant enough to keep us safe from getting cooked in the process. So, was this rapid dimming the precursor to the astronomical show of a lifetime? As you might guess from the lack of sensational headlines, the star returned to its regular brightness. No boom. But the question remained: what had happened to our favorite red giant star? In a recent paper, astronomers have announced a resolution to this mystery...and the culprit is dust that came from Betelgeuse itself. The evidence was presented in a series of high-resolution images of the star, showing what seemed to be a smoky veil passing in front of its disc before moving on. Image: ESO. That evidence alone is an incredible telescopic achievement. Because even though Betelgeuse is over a hundred times farther away than our near neighbor Alpha Centauri, its incredible size makes it only one of only a handful of stars of which we've been able to resolve surface features. Those images, along with infrared light measurements that did not show any decrease in brightness, helped seal the deal for dust being the dimming agent. Fundamental changes to the structure of the star (or even Michael Bay-style alien megastructures swarming around it) would affect all wavelengths of light, while dust blocks mainly visible light but becomes largely transparent in the infrared. In the recent study, astronomers have proposed that the turbulent star had ejected a bubble of gas, cooling slightly in the process. That allowed the gas to condense into particles of dust that, while orbiting around the star, passed in front of it for a few months---causing all of the fuss. While that may not be as dramatic as an explosion to put Hollywood blockbusters to shame, it's still a pretty amazing result. This illuminates one of the many ways stars are responsible for forging so many of the elements of the universe that make up planets and people. This dust ejection is one way these elemental building blocks are blown out into the galaxy, to become the source material for new stars, planets, and maybe even lifeforms in the distant future. STAR TREK GAMING NEWS Edited by Thomas Reynolds Gamma Recruits, Prepare for Battle...Again! By Rosco McQueen As of this moment, we are all dead. We go into battle to reclaim our lives. This we do gladly, for we are Jem'Hadar. Remember, Victory is life! Seriously guys, have you considered unionizing? Image: Cryptic Studios. For the glory of the Founders, Star Trek Online's recruitment revamp continues with the Gamma Recruit event, active until July 22. If you create a new Jem'Hadar character you'll gain access to special bonuses awarded through gameplay, which also unlock rewards across your whole account. This is the third time players have been able to create a Gamma Recruit since the unveiling of the Victory is Life expansion in 2018, with Cryptic adding some new goals and altering a few to include all reputation marks. Summertime and the Livin's Easy… By Cat Hough The one time my Gorn can wear his Speedo and not get arrested. Image: Cryptic Studios. Cryptic announced more details today about the upcoming Lohlunat Festival, running concurrently on all platforms from July 1st to July 31st. The blog post announced that the event ship will be an all new Risian Luxury Cruiser Vessel [T6] with details and ship stats to be released in a separate post. All of the old favorites from previous years will be returning, including powerboard races, the biathlon, horga'hn hunting, scavenging with Sovak and, of course, the galaxy-famous dance party. Participating in any of the events will grant progress towards the Risian Luxury Cruiser Vessel! ...spoiler? Image: Cryptic Studios. There's a new baseball uniform for the Jupiter Station Stem Bolts in the Event Store and two new T-shirts to collect. You can get a DISCO shirt, or the famous Chu Chu dance shirt (woo!). There's also a new impulsive floater, powerboard and vanity shield in the Stem Bolts colors. But what about the third chu? Image: Cryptic Studios. Also making waves [ugh---Ed.] is the Tsunami Generator. This Universal Kit Module replicates a wave that rolls out from the player, smashing into everything in front of it before crashing apart. The force of the wave knocks down creatures and injures them, and has a chance to temporarily disable electronic devices, such as turrets and drones. And the new kit frame, Risian Vulcanology, provides rebreather functionality to protect you from toxic gas, and its heat sink controls grant complete immunity to fire! Don't forget this year's new pets: The pastel-colored Transcendent Caracal (Vanity Pet) and Transcendent Tribble. Petting the tribble will “grant a constant, passive small chance to resist and throw off any effect that would control you, as you refuse to be limited or constrained. If you're on a team with multiple people petting this tribble, the chances stack based on the number of people involved. This tribble is unafraid of Klingons or other species that have treated Tribbles negatively in the past.” Because again, it's important to be highly visible. Image: Cryptic Studios. Something in the Air Tonight… By Cat Hough Hey, surprise! There's a new bundle. The New Genesis Bundle will be available on PC for 7500 Zen starting on June 24th, and is on sale for the first week. This bundle features two new T6 ships: the Malachowski-class, an updated Clarke Multi-Mission Command Cruiser, and the long awaited Oberth-class, otherwise known as the Grissom Light Science Vessel. (Please note: these two ships will also be available as separate purchases outside the New Genesis Bundle.) Image: a most beautiful dream, via Cryptic Studios. The bundle will also include a number of additional account-wide items, such as the Genesis Ground Vanity Device*, Wrath of Khan outfits and a Type II Phaser Compression Pistol (C. 2285). Finally, two Experimental Starship Upgrade Tokens and two Fleet Ship Modules boost your purchasing value further. This ship bundle will also be available to players on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 at a later date. Oh and this too. Image: Cryptic Studios. *This is a different device than the one given to Foundry authors. It has similar animation and FX, but does not include the Spock-In-The-Box that appears when the Foundry thank you gift is activated. To GOOOOOOAAAALLLL Where No One Has Gone Before By Rosco McQueen Image: Scopely. In celebration of the European Football Championship, the folks at Scopely shared a guide on how to play soccer/football/whatever in Star Trek Fleet Command. It's not a minigame as such, more a suggestion from the developers on how it could be done. Put together teams of ships with your friends and alliances to get an Envoy “ball” across your imaginary goal lines in space. It's Priority One Armada's 8th Anniversary! All during the month of June, we are giving away various prizes and will have events for Armada members every Saturday with even more prizes! This Saturday, June 26th, is our final event: the Risian Triathlon. Plus, you should definitely trek out the Livestream with yours truly this week as we feature our new intro video produced by Anthony! This is a great time to join Priority One Armada with more than 5 billion in EC in prizes being given away this month.
This week on Episode 503 of Priority One: We Trek Out some of the big announcements from First Contact Day, with teasers for new seasons of Discovery, Picard and Lower Decks, while Prodigy asks, “Please state the nature of the coffee emergency,” Oberth April Fools perhaps in Star Trek Online, a new study into the nature of lootboxes, and a quick look at Star Trek: Legends! This week's Community Questions are: CQ: With all the new Star Trek updates, what was the biggest surprise for you? Was there anything you were hoping they were going to announce? CQ: Would a T6 Oberth be the greatest starship in the game, or the GREATEST starship in the game? What would be a fitting trait for such a fine ship? Let us know on social media like Facebook, Twitter, or by visiting our website! TREK IT OUT Star Trek: Discovery Reveals First Look at Season Four! By Rosko McQueen “We're all living in uncertainty”. They are the first words from Discovery's Captain Michael Burnham in the teaser trailer for season four. And as is often the case with the series, it looks at the world now and works to provide a reflection back to us through a sci-fi mirror. The first noticeable difference is the uniforms have a new splash of colour. The grey Starfleet uniforms of the 32nd century have been upgraded. We now have tops of command red, science blue and engineering gold along with medical white, offset with a black vertical stripe. So now there is no mistaking which department is which. Image: StarTrek.com In the trailer we hear about, potentially, this season's universe-threatening problem: a gravitational anomaly five light-years across. Where is it? We don't know. Where could it turn up? Not a clue. Who can save us all? We'll find out later this year, as season four is set to premiere in 2021. Star Trek: Picard Returns for Season 2 in 2022 By Elio Lleo While Discovery focuses on the large-scale event to tie the story together, season two of Star Trek: Picard, coming in 2022, is all the more personal. The camera moves slowly towards Château Picard, and we then transition inside the home of the retired Admiral, weaving our way through his study. On a table in the centre of the room is a Bajoran tablet, cracked and broken, possibly from the lost city of B'Hala. A painting of the Enterprise-D overhangs the mantle where a bronze sculpture of a farmer and horse-drawn plough rests in the centre. Picard's chair sits behind a desk, draped in a Mintakan tapestry. On the desk we see a model of the USS Stargazer, a teacup and saucer–decaf perhaps?–and a small Kurlan naiskos perched on the edge of the table. We pass over a combadge, a Dixon Hill novel and a copy of Paradise Lost. When Picard's voiceover talks of “what we wish we had done in a crisis,” the shot sits squarely on the hull of the Stargazer. We then cut to a gaming table upon which sits a deck of cards and a solitary queen of hearts. The card dissolves before our eyes until all that is left is one corner, and the letter that tells us so much–Q. Q-ed Up For The Big Reveal Patrick Stewart spoke with Wil Wheaton about the second season of Picard, teasing the different “times” that we will see that have never been seen onscreen before. John de Lancie then beams in from his boat, expressing his delight at the opportunity to return to the role and his amazing ability to age himself up for the part. Sir Patrick also hints at the critical moment Q returns and teases the trauma surrounding it. While De Lancie remarks on the apparent ease he can slip back into character, describing Q as annoying and self-involved. Lower Decks Season 2 Teaser By Rosko McQueen Paramount+ also announced season two of Star Trek: Lower Decks will premiere later this year, and like any episode of Lower Decks, there's a lot of detail in a short amount of time. Image: StarTrek.com We see the Cerritos, with Mariner, Tendi and Rutherford hanging out. We cut to a Miranda class starship, the USS Macduff, activating evasive maneuvers. Then out of nowhere, a mugato! Mariner shows off her sweet anbo-jyutsu moves, red suit and all. Commander Ransom seems to have god-like powers, then–cut to a Pakled phaser party. A group of Cardassians get their butts kicked by Mariner wearing 80's workout gear–THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!!! All hell breaks loose when snakes grow arms and attack Tendi, then we relax with the Lower Deckers in the comfort of the brig. But where is Boimler, you ask? He's staring into the void and screaming for all to hear. Captain Riker throws out some more jazz references, but sadly Boimler didn't get the joke as the Titan moves into some sort of wormhole or spatial distortion while under fire from multiple craft. Season two of Lower Decks will premiere on Thursday, August 12, 2021. Star Trek: Prodigy: More Info! By Cat Hough And finally, we received a brief synopsis about the other animated series coming out, Star Trek: Prodigy. Co-creator Dan Hageman confirmed the series is set in the Delta Quadrant in the year 2383. It features a group of young aliens who find a lost Starfleet vessel that happens to be equipped with an EJH–Emergency Janeway Hologram. This training hologram was designed to assist a crew that may have strayed too far off course and is probably programmed to locate coffee in any nearby nebulae. Image: TrekMovie.com The animation for the Janeway hologram was also revealed during First Contact Day, with Kate Mulgrew noting that the Hageman brothers insisted on “...making the character so beautiful.” CQ: With all the new Star Trek updates, what was the biggest surprise for you? Was there anything you were hoping they were going to announce? STAR TREK GAMING NEWS April Fools...But Maybe Not? By Cat Hough It was a quiet Friday morning at Ambassador Kael's house. Coffee had been achieved. The toast was buttered. Star Trek Online's dutiful Community Manager opened up his Twitter feed and spit coffee all over his keyboard. At least, if his post from April 2nd is any indication that's what happened. “Morning folks! Did anything interesting happen while I was WHAT THE F…” https://twitter.com/AmbassadorKael/status/1378010255716622336?s=20 What was all the fuss? Well, it was an 11:59pm April Fool's Day post to the official STO Twitter account. If it's not just an April Fool's prank, then it might spell doom for Kael's jokingly vocal anti-T6 Oberth crusade. The post in question sported two images of what can only be a 2411 treatment of the Oberth-class. The images were captioned “Kael's asleep! Post it post it POST IT!“ https://twitter.com/trekonlinegame/status/1377878220712914945?s=20 Yes, it was still April Fools. But, consider… someone clearly spent the time to model this 2411 Oberth to what looks like at least late-stage Work-In-Progress. It's worth remembering that on a recent live stream of his work, Thomas Marrone pointed out that they sometimes have the ship art done well before the systems designers have the ship built. So, perhaps that's the case here. But in any case, it's hope for those Oberth fans among you, Captains. CQ: Would a T6 Oberth be the greatest starship in the game or the GREATEST starship in the game? What would be a fitting trait for such a fine ship? Delta Recruitment Returns! By Cat Hough Announced earlier today, and starting April 15th on PC and May 13th on Xbox and PS4, you can create a new Delta Recruit character. However, this Delta Recruit event has been slightly modified. You'll still earn extra rewards, and gain special account unlocks, but the devs have removed some out-of-date missions and added new goals with new rewards. For example, reputation mark reward boxes have been updated so that you can claim all of the reputation mark options, not just the ones that were around during the first launch of Delta Recruitment. And, there's now a reward for reaching level 60, which gives you even more marks, Reputation dilithium, as well as salvage. Plus, there's new rewards for completing your faction's Admiralty campaign, which features a very special Admiralty card: the U.S.S. Voyager! Existing Delta Recruits will be able to complete these new goals as well, and if you've already finished them, you can claim the rewards immediately. Remember, to become a Delta Recruit and gain access to the rewards, you need to make a new 2409 Starfleet character, a Klingon Defense Force character, or a Romulan Republic character during the event, then you have to complete the tutorial and receive the special Delta Recruit tesseract transceiver device. Once you receive the device, your character is a Delta Recruit and you can complete the goals any time and claim the rewards, even after the event ends. Image: Cryptic Studios. Gambling and the Future of Loot Boxes Written by Elio Lleo Lock Boxes. A recurring topic of conversation on this show since their introduction into Star Trek Online those many moons–in 2012. Nowadays, they're so ingrained into gaming ecosystems–not just STO–that most people have accepted their permanence. But does that mean we shouldn't continue to look at the relationship between STO's Lock Boxes–and every other video game's respective lootbox–and gambling? No, because as the mechanic continues to become part of the mainstream, it's important to understand the impact it can have. Even if we have been told it's not gambling because you get a “reward in every box.” Image: Cryptic Studios. In an April 2nd article on Ars Technica, writer Sam Machkovech spotlights new research from four British Universities, commissioned by the gambling-protection advocacy group BeGambleAware. What does the research suggest? “[T]he authors determine that loot box purchasing has a statistically significant tie to problem gambling behaviors.” So… how can we mitigate the problem? The suggestion is to go cold turkey. “The report leans toward starting with outright bans of paid loot boxes in software—as in, the easily defined practice of ‘any game-related purchase with a chance-based outcome'—or at least requiring more fully transparent ‘odds' statements about the likelihood of specific in-game items in those loot boxes.” Image: BeGambleAware, University of Plymouth, and University of Wolverhampton, via Ars Technica. The report itself says particular circles of gamers are more susceptible to the lure of loot boxes, stating there are groups which are particularly at risk. ”Those particularly affected include males and younger gamers, with our survey screen of over 14k gamers also suggesting that those with lower educational attainment and lower levels of employment may be disproportionately affected. These factors, however, are unlikely to be limited to loot boxes.” Fleet Command Charts Its Next Course By Thomas Reynolds It's bedtime for those old scientists in Fleet Command, but Scopely's already sharing where the rest of 2021 will go. Players have a number of developments to look forward to, including an entirely new Officer Away Teams system. Send your unused characters out on errands–sorry, special assignments, and receive goods should they succeed in their tasks. And if they can't handle even that, well, you can always send them to Starbase 80. https://startrekfleetcommand.scopely.com/2021/03/30/roadmap-update-march-2021/ Cetacean Citation in Timelines By Thomas Reynolds George and Gracie are now crew members in Timelines. If this sounds like an April Fool's prank, I assure you, it isn't. George and Gracie are now crew members. Complete the three temporary achievement tiers before April 15th, and you can finally staff your ship's Cetacean Ops facility. Assuming you have the transparent aluminum on hand, of course. Image: Disruptor Beam. It's Time to Re-enter the Nexus with Star Trek: Legends By Rosko McQueen Load up your favourite Personal Access Display Device and get set to enter the Nexus. Star Trek: Legends has launched on Apple Arcade this week and we've had a brief look at the turn-based game. You are the captain of the U.S.S. Artemis, a ship designed to enter the Nexus and draw on the unique properties of the ethereal energy ribbon. Over the course of the game you build a crew of Trek favourites from across timelines and universes to take on missions, collect resources, and power up your characters. The developers explain in a blog post on StarTrek.com their decision to base the premise of the game around the Nexus, as opposed to other ways of putting characters in a blender like the holodeck, or using Q or the Talosians. Instead they take the largely unexplored idea of the Nexus and expand upon it, incorporating the idea that it was made by design. In a familiar Ready Player One-type premise, each character has their own utopian reality sphere, which is also infinite. So, there's lots of room to grow. But How Does It Play? Image: StarTrek.com The gameplay is straightforward, tap the bad guy to target them. You can use Worf's battle cry to lower morale (it's super effective!), and there are your typical character class types; engineering, medical, security, etc. I've only played a few early missions as it guides you through how to assemble your team, battle the bad guys and power up your crew using latinum, protomatter and bio-mimetic gels as some of the in-game currency. But it's also a brand new game on the platform, and it shows. I had to force quit a couple of times after the game froze at the same point. The artwork and the attention to detail is excellent. The Cardassians look menacing and there are a few costume callbacks to Voyager and Deep Space Nine standalone episodes. So far so good, and I'm looking forward to seeing how the game grows over time.
This week on Episode 503 of Priority One: We Trek Out some of the big announcements from First Contact Day, with teasers for new seasons of Discovery, Picard and Lower Decks, while Prodigy asks, “Please state the nature of the coffee emergency,” Oberth April Fools perhaps in Star Trek Online, a new study into the nature of lootboxes, and a quick look at Star Trek: Legends! This week’s Community Questions are: CQ: With all the new Star Trek updates, what was the biggest surprise for you? Was there anything you were hoping they were going to announce? CQ: Would a T6 Oberth be the greatest starship in the game, or the GREATEST starship in the game? What would be a fitting trait for such a fine ship? Let us know on social media like Facebook, Twitter, or by visiting our website! TREK IT OUT Star Trek: Discovery Reveals First Look at Season Four! By Rosko McQueen “We’re all living in uncertainty”. They are the first words from Discovery’s Captain Michael Burnham in the teaser trailer for season four. And as is often the case with the series, it looks at the world now and works to provide a reflection back to us through a sci-fi mirror. The first noticeable difference is the uniforms have a new splash of colour. The grey Starfleet uniforms of the 32nd century have been upgraded. We now have tops of command red, science blue and engineering gold along with medical white, offset with a black vertical stripe. So now there is no mistaking which department is which. Image: StarTrek.com In the trailer we hear about, potentially, this season’s universe-threatening problem: a gravitational anomaly five light-years across. Where is it? We don’t know. Where could it turn up? Not a clue. Who can save us all? We’ll find out later this year, as season four is set to premiere in 2021. Star Trek: Picard Returns for Season 2 in 2022 By Elio Lleo While Discovery focuses on the large-scale event to tie the story together, season two of Star Trek: Picard, coming in 2022, is all the more personal. The camera moves slowly towards Château Picard, and we then transition inside the home of the retired Admiral, weaving our way through his study. On a table in the centre of the room is a Bajoran tablet, cracked and broken, possibly from the lost city of B’Hala. A painting of the Enterprise-D overhangs the mantle where a bronze sculpture of a farmer and horse-drawn plough rests in the centre. Picard’s chair sits behind a desk, draped in a Mintakan tapestry. On the desk we see a model of the USS Stargazer, a teacup and saucer–decaf perhaps?–and a small Kurlan naiskos perched on the edge of the table. We pass over a combadge, a Dixon Hill novel and a copy of Paradise Lost. When Picard’s voiceover talks of “what we wish we had done in a crisis,” the shot sits squarely on the hull of the Stargazer. We then cut to a gaming table upon which sits a deck of cards and a solitary queen of hearts. The card dissolves before our eyes until all that is left is one corner, and the letter that tells us so much–Q. Q-ed Up For The Big Reveal Patrick Stewart spoke with Wil Wheaton about the second season of Picard, teasing the different “times” that we will see that have never been seen onscreen before. John de Lancie then beams in from his boat, expressing his delight at the opportunity to return to the role and his amazing ability to age himself up for the part. Sir Patrick also hints at the critical moment Q returns and teases the trauma surrounding it. While De Lancie remarks on the apparent ease he can slip back into character, describing Q as annoying and self-involved. Lower Decks Season 2 Teaser By Rosko McQueen Paramount+ also announced season two of Star Trek: Lower Decks will premiere later this year, and like any episode of Lower Decks, there's a lot of detail in a short amount of time. Image: StarTrek.com We see the Cerritos, with Mariner, Tendi and Rutherford hanging out. We cut to a Miranda class starship, the USS Macduff, activating evasive maneuvers. Then out of nowhere, a mugato! Mariner shows off her sweet anbo-jyutsu moves, red suit and all. Commander Ransom seems to have god-like powers, then–cut to a Pakled phaser party. A group of Cardassians get their butts kicked by Mariner wearing 80’s workout gear–THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!!! All hell breaks loose when snakes grow arms and attack Tendi, then we relax with the Lower Deckers in the comfort of the brig. But where is Boimler, you ask? He’s staring into the void and screaming for all to hear. Captain Riker throws out some more jazz references, but sadly Boimler didn’t get the joke as the Titan moves into some sort of wormhole or spatial distortion while under fire from multiple craft. Season two of Lower Decks will premiere on Thursday, August 12, 2021. Star Trek: Prodigy: More Info! By Cat Hough And finally, we received a brief synopsis about the other animated series coming out, Star Trek: Prodigy. Co-creator Dan Hageman confirmed the series is set in the Delta Quadrant in the year 2383. It features a group of young aliens who find a lost Starfleet vessel that happens to be equipped with an EJH–Emergency Janeway Hologram. This training hologram was designed to assist a crew that may have strayed too far off course and is probably programmed to locate coffee in any nearby nebulae. Image: TrekMovie.com The animation for the Janeway hologram was also revealed during First Contact Day, with Kate Mulgrew noting that the Hageman brothers insisted on “...making the character so beautiful.” CQ: With all the new Star Trek updates, what was the biggest surprise for you? Was there anything you were hoping they were going to announce? STAR TREK GAMING NEWS April Fools...But Maybe Not? By Cat Hough It was a quiet Friday morning at Ambassador Kael’s house. Coffee had been achieved. The toast was buttered. Star Trek Online’s dutiful Community Manager opened up his Twitter feed and spit coffee all over his keyboard. At least, if his post from April 2nd is any indication that’s what happened. “Morning folks! Did anything interesting happen while I was WHAT THE F…” https://twitter.com/AmbassadorKael/status/1378010255716622336?s=20 What was all the fuss? Well, it was an 11:59pm April Fool’s Day post to the official STO Twitter account. If it’s not just an April Fool’s prank, then it might spell doom for Kael’s jokingly vocal anti-T6 Oberth crusade. The post in question sported two images of what can only be a 2411 treatment of the Oberth-class. The images were captioned “Kael’s asleep! Post it post it POST IT!“ https://twitter.com/trekonlinegame/status/1377878220712914945?s=20 Yes, it was still April Fools. But, consider… someone clearly spent the time to model this 2411 Oberth to what looks like at least late-stage Work-In-Progress. It’s worth remembering that on a recent live stream of his work, Thomas Marrone pointed out that they sometimes have the ship art done well before the systems designers have the ship built. So, perhaps that’s the case here. But in any case, it’s hope for those Oberth fans among you, Captains. CQ: Would a T6 Oberth be the greatest starship in the game or the GREATEST starship in the game? What would be a fitting trait for such a fine ship? Delta Recruitment Returns! By Cat Hough Announced earlier today, and starting April 15th on PC and May 13th on Xbox and PS4, you can create a new Delta Recruit character. However, this Delta Recruit event has been slightly modified. You’ll still earn extra rewards, and gain special account unlocks, but the devs have removed some out-of-date missions and added new goals with new rewards. For example, reputation mark reward boxes have been updated so that you can claim all of the reputation mark options, not just the ones that were around during the first launch of Delta Recruitment. And, there’s now a reward for reaching level 60, which gives you even more marks, Reputation dilithium, as well as salvage. Plus, there’s new rewards for completing your faction’s Admiralty campaign, which features a very special Admiralty card: the U.S.S. Voyager! Existing Delta Recruits will be able to complete these new goals as well, and if you’ve already finished them, you can claim the rewards immediately. Remember, to become a Delta Recruit and gain access to the rewards, you need to make a new 2409 Starfleet character, a Klingon Defense Force character, or a Romulan Republic character during the event, then you have to complete the tutorial and receive the special Delta Recruit tesseract transceiver device. Once you receive the device, your character is a Delta Recruit and you can complete the goals any time and claim the rewards, even after the event ends. Image: Cryptic Studios. Gambling and the Future of Loot Boxes Written by Elio Lleo Lock Boxes. A recurring topic of conversation on this show since their introduction into Star Trek Online those many moons–in 2012. Nowadays, they’re so ingrained into gaming ecosystems–not just STO–that most people have accepted their permanence. But does that mean we shouldn’t continue to look at the relationship between STO’s Lock Boxes–and every other video game’s respective lootbox–and gambling? No, because as the mechanic continues to become part of the mainstream, it’s important to understand the impact it can have. Even if we have been told it’s not gambling because you get a “reward in every box.” Image: Cryptic Studios. In an April 2nd article on Ars Technica, writer Sam Machkovech spotlights new research from four British Universities, commissioned by the gambling-protection advocacy group BeGambleAware. What does the research suggest? “[T]he authors determine that loot box purchasing has a statistically significant tie to problem gambling behaviors.” So… how can we mitigate the problem? The suggestion is to go cold turkey. “The report leans toward starting with outright bans of paid loot boxes in software—as in, the easily defined practice of ‘any game-related purchase with a chance-based outcome’—or at least requiring more fully transparent ‘odds’ statements about the likelihood of specific in-game items in those loot boxes.” Image: BeGambleAware, University of Plymouth, and University of Wolverhampton, via Ars Technica. The report itself says particular circles of gamers are more susceptible to the lure of loot boxes, stating there are groups which are particularly at risk. ”Those particularly affected include males and younger gamers, with our survey screen of over 14k gamers also suggesting that those with lower educational attainment and lower levels of employment may be disproportionately affected. These factors, however, are unlikely to be limited to loot boxes.” Fleet Command Charts Its Next Course By Thomas Reynolds It’s bedtime for those old scientists in Fleet Command, but Scopely’s already sharing where the rest of 2021 will go. Players have a number of developments to look forward to, including an entirely new Officer Away Teams system. Send your unused characters out on errands–sorry, special assignments, and receive goods should they succeed in their tasks. And if they can’t handle even that, well, you can always send them to Starbase 80. https://startrekfleetcommand.scopely.com/2021/03/30/roadmap-update-march-2021/ Cetacean Citation in Timelines By Thomas Reynolds George and Gracie are now crew members in Timelines. If this sounds like an April Fool’s prank, I assure you, it isn’t. George and Gracie are now crew members. Complete the three temporary achievement tiers before April 15th, and you can finally staff your ship’s Cetacean Ops facility. Assuming you have the transparent aluminum on hand, of course. Image: Disruptor Beam. It’s Time to Re-enter the Nexus with Star Trek: Legends By Rosko McQueen Load up your favourite Personal Access Display Device and get set to enter the Nexus. Star Trek: Legends has launched on Apple Arcade this week and we’ve had a brief look at the turn-based game. You are the captain of the U.S.S. Artemis, a ship designed to enter the Nexus and draw on the unique properties of the ethereal energy ribbon. Over the course of the game you build a crew of Trek favourites from across timelines and universes to take on missions, collect resources, and power up your characters. The developers explain in a blog post on StarTrek.com their decision to base the premise of the game around the Nexus, as opposed to other ways of putting characters in a blender like the holodeck, or using Q or the Talosians. Instead they take the largely unexplored idea of the Nexus and expand upon it, incorporating the idea that it was made by design. In a familiar Ready Player One-type premise, each character has their own utopian reality sphere, which is also infinite. So, there’s lots of room to grow. But How Does It Play? Image: StarTrek.com The gameplay is straightforward, tap the bad guy to target them. You can use Worf’s battle cry to lower morale (it’s super effective!), and there are your typical character class types; engineering, medical, security, etc. I’ve only played a few early missions as it guides you through how to assemble your team, battle the bad guys and power up your crew using latinum, protomatter and bio-mimetic gels as some of the in-game currency. But it’s also a brand new game on the platform, and it shows. I had to force quit a couple of times after the game froze at the same point. The artwork and the attention to detail is excellent. The Cardassians look menacing and there are a few costume callbacks to Voyager and Deep Space Nine standalone episodes. So far so good, and I’m looking forward to seeing how the game grows over time.
Wegziehen und an einem anderen Ort das Glück suchen – darum geht es in den aktuellen Romanen von Ulrike Draesner, Daniel Mellem und Sandra Gugic. Sie alle erzählen Geschichten von Menschen, die in der Fremde Erfüllung suchen oder suchen müssen – und dabei auf neue Schwierigkeiten treffen. Felix Münger bringt den Debütroman des deutschen Autors Daniel Mellem «Die Erfindung des Countdowns» an den Literatur-Stammtisch. Das Buch erzählt die wahre Geschichte des 1894 geborenen Physikers Hermann Oberth aus Siebenbürgen, einem Pionier der Raketentechnik. Lange für seine visionären Ideen als Fantast verspottet, stiess Oberth schliesslich bei den Nazis auf Interesse und arbeitete an der Entwicklung der V2-Raketen mit. Das Buch arbeitet die Ambivalenz dieses Wissenschafter-Lebens trefflich heraus. Fabienne Nägeli gefällt der Roman «Schwitters» von Ulrike Draesner. Das Buch folgt dem Schriftsteller und bildenden Künstler Kurt Schwitters ins Exil nach Norwegen, London und den Lake District. Das Buch mischt Fakten und Fiktion zu einem Panorama der Zeit und erzählt von einem Mann, der unter schwierigen Umständen auf seine Kunst vertraut. «Zorn und Stille» ist der Titel des zweiten Romans der 1976 in Wien geborenen und in Berlin lebenden Autorin Sandra Gugic. Das Buch erzählt von einer Familie in Wien mit serbischen Wurzeln. Die Eltern haben in Österreich ein besseres Leben gesucht. Doch die Kinder finden keine Heimat, weder in sich selbst noch in der Welt - ein Buch über eine unscheinbare, aber umso quälendere Entfremdung. Franziska Hirsbrunner stellt den Roman vor. Buchhinweise: Daniel Mellem. Die Erfindung des Countdowns. dtv, 2020. (Das Hörbuch ist im Audio-Verlag erschienen.) Sandra Gugic. Zorn und Stille. Hoffmann und Campe, 2020. Ulrike Draesner. Schwitters. Penguin, 2020.
When you're Gowron, Chancellor of the Klingon Empire, you can't just fly around in any old junky bird-of-prey. No, you need the new hotness that is a Vor'cha-class cruiser like the IKS Bortas. Which, despite its new hotness, seems to be all steel and cement inside with no windows. Is that a good thing? Well, it does help when Duras loyalists are pounding you! Will Gowron survive the Klingon Civil War? Will Kyle survive Deathtrap? What does "Pistachio Nine Blue" even mean? Tune in to answer at least one of those questions!
Never look at a solar eclipse. Unless you're wearing badass solar eclipse glasses and taking cool photos. Night Sky Pix sent us an article about photographing the upcoming solar eclipse, and it's so in depth we'll need to get it back from the Challenger Deep. So, if you live in the right places, get your camera and your solar filters and get snapping.SimRefinery is the least well known Sim game of all time. That's because Maxis never actually finished it and it's been sitting in a box for decades. But now it's been temporarily released on Archive.org and around 20 000 people have downloaded it. SimRefinery was a training simulation commissioned by Chevron and designed to help introduce refinery workers and company staff learn about the operations of their facilities.DJ is cautiously excited about Promised Neverland, an Amazon live action remake of the anime with the same name. A knock off version of the Eloi from The Time Machine find out what they're being kept for and try to escape. Don't get your hopes up though, what are the chances someone will actually make a good live action anime adaptation?This week, Professor tries to drive across America in Overland and DJ takes a time machine to a medieval battle royale.Upcoming annual Solar eclipse and how to take photos of it- https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2020-june-21- https://nightskypix.com/how-to-photograph-a-solar-eclipse/Unreleased SimRefinery prototype from the shadows of history-https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/06/a-lost-maxis-sim-game-has-been-discovered-by-an-ars-reader-uploaded-for-all/- https://obscuritory.com/sim/when-simcity-got-serious/Promised Neverland now a live action series on Amazon-https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/promised-neverland-live-action-series-in-development-at-amazon-1234629626/Games PlayedProfessor– Overland – https://store.steampowered.com/app/355680/Overland/Rating: 3.5/5DJ– Shadow Arena – https://store.steampowered.com/app/1226470/Shadow_Arena/Rating: 3/5Other topics discussedSimpsons Solar Eclipse!! from the episode Gone Maggie Gone (Marge takes a peek at the solar eclipse, which blinds her)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sE0haQuvp0Pinhole Camera (A pinhole camera is a simple camera without a lens but with a tiny aperture (the so-called pinhole) – effectively a light-proof box with a small hole in one side.Light from a scene passes through the aperture and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box, which is known as the camera obscura effect.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinhole_cameraCamera Obscura (Camera obscura (plural camerae obscurae or camera obscuras, from Latin camera obscūra, “dark chamber”), also referred to as pinhole image, is the natural optical phenomenon that occurs when an image of a scene at the other side of a screen (or, for instance, a wall) is projected through a small hole in that screen as a reversed and inverted image (left to right and upside down) on a surface opposite to the opening.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscuraDisposable Camera (A disposable or single-use camera is a simple box camera meant to be used once. Most use fixed-focus lenses. Some are equipped with an integrated flash unit, and there are even waterproof versions for underwater photography.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_camera4–5 July 2020 Penumbral Lunar Eclipse (The Moon may turn slightly darker than a usual Full Moon for those in much of North and South America, and Africa during the maximum phase of this penumbral lunar eclipse.)- https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2020-july-5SimRefinery (SimRefinery was a computer management simulation game designed to simulate Chevron's Richmond refinery operation. It was developed by the Maxis Business Simulations division of Maxis in 1993.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimRefineryInternet Archive (The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of books. In addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating a free and open Internet.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_ArchiveOpenTTD (OpenTTD is a business simulation game in which players try to earn money via transporting passengers and freight by road, rail, water and air. It is an open-source remake and expansion of the 1994 Chris Sawyer video game Transport Tycoon Deluxe.- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenTTD- https://www.openttd.org/Days of Thunder (Days of Thunder is a 1990NASCAR racing simulation video game loosely based on the 1990 movie Days of Thunder. Oberth's version was recovered from floppy discs in 2020 after his death by the Video Game History Foundation and its source code was made available in June 2020 with permission of Oberth's estate.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Thunder_(1990_video_game)- https://gamehistory.org/days-of-thunder-nes-unreleased/A Super Mario 64 decompilation- https://github.com/n64decomp/sm64Maxis (Maxis is an American video game developer and a division of Electronic Arts (EA). The studio was founded in 1987 by Will Wright and Jeff Braun, and acquired by EA in 1997. Maxis is best known for its simulation games, including The Sims, Spore and SimCity.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaxisSpore (Spore is a 2008 life simulation real-time strategy God game developed by Maxis, published by Electronic Arts and designed by Will Wright, and was released for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore_(2008_video_game)The Office (American TV Series) (The Office is an American mockumentary sitcom television series that depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania, branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. It is an adaptation of the 2001-2003 BBC series of the same name, being adapted for American television by Greg Daniels, a veteran writer for Saturday Night Live, King of the Hill, and The Simpsons.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office_(American_TV_series)Red Dwarf (American version) (a pilot episode for an American version (known as Red Dwarf USA) was produced through Universal Studios with the intention of broadcasting on NBC in 1992.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dwarf#U.S._versionThe I.T. Crowd (American version) (An American version of The IT Crowd was almost aired by NBC in 2007–08. It starred Richard Ayoade reprising his role as Moss, with Joel McHale as Roy, Jessica St. Clair as Jen and Rocky Carroll as Denholm. A third attempt at an NBC remake was confirmed in January 2018.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_IT_Crowd#American_versionsNetflix’s live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop will tone down Faye’s revealing costume from the anime.-https://screenrant.com/live-action-cowboy-bebop-show-faye-costume-changes/A Quiet Place (A Quiet Place is a 2018 American post-apocalypticscience fiction horror film co-written, directed by and starring John Krasinski. Written by Bryan Woods, Scott Beck and Krasinski, the plot revolves around a father (Krasinski) and a mother (Emily Blunt) who struggle to survive and raise their children in apost-apocalyptic world inhabited by blind extraterrestrial creatures with an acute sense of hearing.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Quiet_Place_(film)Arachnids (Starship Troopers monster) (The Arachnids (more commonly known as Bugs, and Archies) are a hostile alien species that have conquered many planets across space.)- https://starshiptroopers.fandom.com/wiki/ArachnidNicholas Cage (Nicolas Kim Coppola, known professionally as Nicolas Cage, is an American actor and filmmaker. To avoid the appearance of nepotism as Coppola's nephew, he changed his name early in his career to Nicolas Cage, inspired in part by the Marvel Comics superhero Luke Cage.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_CageLuna Park Sydney (Luna Park Sydney is a heritage-listed amusement park located at 1 Olympic Drive, Milsons Point, North Sydney Council, New South Wales, Australia, on the northern shore of Sydney Harbour. The amusement park is owned by the Luna Park Reserve Trust, an agency of the Government of New South Wales, and was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 5 March 2010.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_Park_SydneyLuna Park Ghost Train and the legend of the Devil-Horned Man-https://cdn.mamamia.com.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/19135844/luna-park-feature.jpg- https://www.mamamia.com.au/luna-park-ghost-train/XR SEQ Podcast (TNC Podcast)- https://thatsnotcanon.com/xrseqpodcastShout Outs9 June 1909 – Alice Huyler Ramsey, 22-year-old housewife from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the 1st woman to drive across the US, in a Maxwell 30, drives 3,800 miles from Manhattan to San Francisco in 59 days - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Huyler_Ramsey#Transcontinental_driveOn June 9, 1909, Alice Huyler Ramsey 22-year-old housewife and mother began a 3,800-mile journey from Hell Gate in Manhattan, New York, to San Francisco, California, in a green, four-cylinder, 30-horsepower Maxwell DA. On her 59-day trek she was accompanied by two older sisters-in-law and 19 year-old friend Hermine Jahns, none of whom could drive a car. They arrived amid great fanfare on August 7, although about three weeks later than originally planned. The group of women used maps from the American Automobile Association to make the journey. Only 152 of the 3,600 miles (244 of the 5,767 kilometers) that the group traveled were paved. Over the course of the drive, Ramsey changed 11 tires, cleaned the spark plugs, repaired a broken brake pedal and had to sleep in the car when it was stuck in mud. The women mostly navigated by using telephone poles, following the poles with more wires in hopes that they would lead to a town. Along the way, they crossed the trail of a manhunt for a killer in Nebraska, Ramsey received a case of bedbugs from a Wyoming hotel, and in Nevada they were surrounded by a Native American hunting party with bows and arrows drawn. Ramsey was named the "Woman Motorist of the Century" by AAA in 1960.9 June 2020 – Kathy Sullivan first American woman to walk in space has become the first woman to reach the deepest known spot in the ocean - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/science/challenger-deep-kathy-sullivan-astronaut.htmlOn Sunday, Kathy Sullivan, 68, an astronaut and oceanographer, emerged from her 35,810-foot dive to the Challenger Deep, according to EYOS Expeditions, a company coordinating the logistics of the mission. This also makes Dr. Sullivan the first person to both walk in space and to descend to the deepest point in the ocean. The Challenger Deep is the lowest of the many seabed recesses that crisscross the globe. Dr. Sullivan and Victor L. Vescovo, an explorer funding the mission, spent about an hour and a half at their destination, nearly seven miles down in a muddy depression in the Mariana Trench, which is about 200 miles southwest of Guam. “As a hybrid oceanographer and astronaut this was an extraordinary day, a once in a lifetime day, seeing the moonscape of the Challenger Deep and then comparing notes with my colleagues on the ISS about our remarkable reusable inner-space outer-spacecraft,” Dr. Sullivan said in a statement released by EYOS Expeditions on Monday.11 June 2020 – Mel Winkler passes away at 78 - https://deadline.com/2020/06/mel-winkler-dead-obituary-oswald-new-batman-adventures-actor-doc-hollywood-1202956911/Mel Winkler, a character actor with numerous TV, film and stage credits as well as being a recognizable voice behind characters on the animated series. Winkler appeared in such films as Doc Hollywood and Devil in a Blue Dress . After a 1969 stint on daytime’s The Doctors, he appeared steadily in episodic TV roles from the 1970s through the early 2000s, including such series as The Cosby Show, The Young Riders, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Star Trek: Voyager, Touched by an Angel, NYPD Blue and The Shield. As a voice actor, he was best known as the voice of the guardian mask Aku Aku in the Crash Bandicoot series, Lucius Fox in The New Batman Adventures and Johnny Snowman in the TV seriesOswald. He passed away in his sleep at his home in Los Angeles, California.11 June 2020 – Queen Elizabeth dials in to first official video call to chat to UK’s carers - https://metro.co.uk/2020/06/11/queen-dials-first-official-video-call-chat-uks-carers-12837809/The Queen has become the latest person to get into the lockdown trend of group video chats, after she made her first official public-facing conference call. Sat comfortably from the Oak Room in Windsor Castle, the 94-year-old monarch dialled in to chat to four carers about the difficulties they have faced during the coronavirus pandemic. The monarch – dressed in a floral dress and pearls – was also joined by her daughter Princess Anne, in the call on June 4 to mark Carers Week. In a video shared by the Royal Family’s Twitter account, the Queen praises the carers and chief executive of the Carers Trust, Gareth Howells, for their ‘extraordinary’ efforts. She can be heard saying: ‘I’m very impressed by what you have achieved already. I’m very glad to have been able to join you today.’ It was a first for the Queen’s long reign and she was the last to join the call and first to leave – a formal etiquette of royal engagements that Buckingham Palace decided to preserve. One carer on the call said it was ‘surreal’ to be sitting in her bedroom while talking to two Royals on a video call.Remembrances9 June 68 AD – Nero - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeroNero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus was Roman emperor from 54 to 68, the last ruler of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. He was adopted by his great-uncle Claudius and became Claudius' heir and successor. Like Claudius, Nero became emperor with the consent of the Praetorian Guard. Nero's mother, Agrippina the Younger, dominated Nero's early life and decisions until he cast her off and had her killed five years into his reign. Nero's rule is usually associated with tyranny and extravagance. Most Roman sources, such as Suetonius and Cassius Dio, offer overwhelmingly negative assessments of his personality and reign; Tacitus claims that the Roman people thought him compulsive and corrupt. Suetonius tells that many Romans believed that the Great Fire of Rome was instigated by Nero to clear the way for his planned palatial complex, the Domus Aurea. According to Tacitus he was said to have seized Christians as scapegoats for the fire and burned them alive, seemingly motivated not by public justice but by personal cruelty. There is evidence of his popularity among the Roman commoners, especially in the eastern provinces of the Empire, where a popular legend arose that Nero had not died and would return. At least three leaders of short-lived, failed rebellions presented themselves as "Nero reborn" to enlist popular support. He died from suicide outside Rome at the age of 30 with his final words “Too late! This is fidelity!”9 June 1959 – Adolf Windaus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_WindausAdolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928 for his work on sterols and their relation to vitamins. He was the doctoral advisor of Adolf Butenandt who also won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939. Throughout his life, Windaus won many awards including the Goethe Medal, the Pasteur Medal, and the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. In addition to his many accomplishments and discoveries in science, Windaus was also one of the very few German chemists who did not work with the Nazis and openly opposed their regime. As the head of the chemical institute at the University of Göttingen, Windaus personally defended one of his Jewish graduate students from dismissal. Windaus believed that while every man had a moral code, his science was motivated by curiosity, and was not driven by politics, ethics, and applications of his discoveries. This viewpoint caused Windaus to decline to research poison gas during World War I. He was involved in the discovery of the transformation of cholesterol through several steps to vitamin D3 (Cholecalciferol). He gave his patents to Merck and Bayer and they brought out the medical Vigantol in 1927. He died at the age of 82 in Göttingen,West Germany.9 June 1990 – George Beadle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_BeadleGeorge Wells Beadle, American geneticist. In 1958 he shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum for their discovery of the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells. Beadle and Tatum's key experiments involved exposing the bread mold Neurospora crassa to x-rays, causing mutations. In a series of experiments, they showed that these mutations caused changes in specific enzymes involved in metabolic pathways. These experiments led them to propose a direct link between genes and enzymatic reactions, known as the One gene-one enzyme hypothesis. The one gene–one enzyme hypothesis is the idea that genes act through the production of enzymes, with each gene responsible for producing a single enzyme that in turn affects a single step in a metabolic pathway. He died from Alzheimer's disease at the age of 85 in Pomona, California.Famous Birthdays9 June 1640 – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_I,_Holy_Roman_EmperorLeopold I (full name: Leopold Ignaz Joseph Balthasar Felician), Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia. The second son of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, by his first wife, Maria Anna of Spain, Leopold became heir apparent in 1654 by the death of his elder brother Ferdinand IV. Elected in 1658, Leopold ruled the Holy Roman Empire until his death in 1705, becoming the longest-ruling Habsburg emperor (at 46 years and 9 months). Leopold's reign is known for conflicts with the Ottoman Empire in the east and rivalry with Louis XIV, a contemporary and first cousin, in the west. After more than a decade of warfare, Leopold emerged victorious from the Great Turkish War thanks to the military talents of Prince Eugene of Savoy. By the Treaty of Karlowitz, Leopold recovered almost all of the Kingdom of Hungary, which had fallen under Turkish power in the years after the 1526 Battle of Mohács. Leopold fought three wars against France: the Franco-Dutch War, the Nine Years' War, and the War of the Spanish Succession. In this last, Leopold sought to give his younger son the entire Spanish inheritance, disregarding the will of the late Charles II. Leopold started a war that soon engulfed much of Europe. When peace returned, Austria could not be said to have emerged as triumphant as it had from the war against the Turks. He was born in Vienna.9 June 1843 – Bertha von Suttner - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_von_SuttnerBertha Felicitas Sophie Freifrau von Suttner also known as Baroness Bertha von Suttner née Countess Kinsky.Austrian-Bohemian pacifist and novelist. In 1905, she became the second female Nobel laureate (after Marie Curie in 1903), the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first Austrian laureate. In 1889 Suttner became a leading figure in the peace movement with the publication of her pacifist novel, Die Waffen nieder! (Lay Down Your Arms!), which made her one of the leading figures of the Austrian peace movement. The book was published in 37 editions and translated into 12 languages. In 1897 she presented Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria with a list of signatures urging the establishment of an International Court of Justice and took part in the First Hague Convention in 1899 with the help of Theodor Herzl, who paid for her trip as a correspondent of the Zionist newspaper, Die Welt. Suttner's pacifism was influenced by the writings of Immanuel Kant, Henry Thomas Buckle, Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin and Leo Tolstoy (Tolstoy praised Die Waffen nieder!) conceiving peace as a natural state impaired by the human aberrances of war and militarism. As a result, she argued that a right to peace could be demanded under international law and was necessary in the context of an evolutionary Darwinist conception of history. Suttner was a respected journalist, with one historian describing her as "a most perceptive and adept political commentator". She was born in Prague,Kingdom of Bohemia.9 June 1961 – Michael J. Fox - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._FoxMichael Andrew Fox, known professionally as Michael J. Fox, is a Canadian-American, actor, comedian, author, film producer and activist with a film and television career spanning from the 1970s. He starred in the Back to the Future trilogy in which he portrayed Marty McFly. Other notable roles have included his portrayal of Alex P. Keaton on the American sitcom Family Ties and Mike Flaherty on the ABC sitcom Spin City . He has won five Primetime Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1991 at age 29, and disclosed his condition to the public in 1998. He semi-retired from acting in 2000 as the symptoms of the disease worsened. He has since become an advocate for research toward finding a cure, and founded the Michael J. Fox Foundation. Since 1999, Fox has mainly worked as a voice-over actor in films such as Stuart Little and Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire. On the CBS TV show The Good Wife, he earned Emmy nominations for three consecutive years for his recurring role as crafty attorney Louis Canning. He has also taken recurring guest roles and cameo appearances in Boston Legal, Scrubs,Curb Your Enthusiasm, Rescue Me, and Designated Survivor. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2010, and was also inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2000. He was born in Edmonton,Alberta.Events of Interest9 June 53 AD – The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia. - https://www.mintageworld.com/media/detail/12089-claudia-octavia-and-nero-got-married-/In 53 AD, Octavia was married to her adopted brother Nero after she was legally transferred to another clan. Apparently her stepmother Agrippina had planned this marriage even before her own marriage to Claudius. Nevertheless, Nero succeeded his adoptive father as Emperor, making Octavia Empress. It appears their marriage was loveless and also childless.9 June 68AD – Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer's Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors - https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/nero#section_3Nero failed to respond decisively to a revolt in Gaul, prompting further unrest in Africa and in Spain, where the governor Galba declared himself legate of the Senate and Roman People. Soon the Praetorian Guard declared allegiance to Galba, and the Senate followed suit, declaring Nero an enemy of the people. Nero attempted to flee, but upon learning that his arrest and execution were imminent, he took his own life. Fifty years later, the historian Suetonius reported Nero’s final lament: “What an artist dies in me!” The civil war during the year of the Four Emperors was described by ancient historians as a troubling period. According to Tacitus, this instability was rooted in the fact that emperors could no longer rely on the perceived legitimacy of the imperial bloodline, as Nero and those before him could. Galba began his short reign with the execution of many of Nero's allies. One such notable enemy included Nymphidius Sabinus, who claimed to be the son of Emperor Caligula. The social, military and political upheavals of the period had Empire-wide repercussions, which included the outbreak of the Revolt of the Batavi.9 June 1959 – The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_George_Washington_(SSBN-598)#Construction_and_launchingThe USS George Washington was launched on 9 June 1959 sponsored by Mrs. Ollie Mae Anderson (née Rawlins), wife of US Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson, and commissioned on 30 December 1959 as SSBN-598 with Commander James B. Osborn in command of the Blue crew and Commander John L. From, Jr. in command of the Gold crew. The George Washington was originally scheduled to become the USS Scorpion, but during her construction she was lengthened by the insertion of a 130-foot missile section and finished as a fleet ballistic-missile submarine. The George Washington was commissioned into service in December 1959 and the United States instantly gained the most powerful deterrent force imaginable - a stealth platform with enormous nuclear firepower. Arguably, it can be considered the submarine that has most influenced world events in the 20th Century. In the early 1980s the George Washington had her missile removed and was reclassified as an attack submarine before finally being decommissioned several years later.9 June 1979 – The Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney, Australia, kills seven. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Sydney_Ghost_Train_fireOn the night of 9 June 1979, a fire broke out inside the ride at approximately 10:15 pm. Due to a combination of low water pressure, under-staffing within the park, and inadequate coverage of the Ghost Train by the park's fire hose system, the fire was able to completely consume the ride.It took an hour to bring the fire under control, but it was extinguished before any significant damage could be done to the adjacent River Caves and Big Dipper. The fire killed six children and one adult, and destroyed the amusement park's ghost train. Inadequate fire-fighting measures and low staffing caused the fire to completely destroy the ride, which was first constructed in 1931, and had been transported from Glenelg, South Australia to Milsons Point, New South Wales during 1934 and 1935. Originally the fire was blamed on electrical faults, but arson by unknown figures has also been claimed. The exact cause of the fire could not be determined by a coronial inquiry. The coroner also ruled that, while the actions of Luna Park's management and staff before and during the fire (in particular their choosing not to follow advice on the installation of a sprinkler system in the ride) breached their duty of care, charges of criminal negligence should not be laid. The case was reopened in 1987: no new findings were made, although the police investigation and coronial inquiry were criticised. The fire forced the closure of Luna Park until 1982, when it reopened under a new name and new owners.IntroArtist – Goblins from MarsSong Title – Super Mario - Overworld Theme (GFM Trap Remix)Song Link -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GNMe6kF0j0&index=4&list=PLHmTsVREU3Ar1AJWkimkl6Pux3R5PB-QJFollow us onFacebook- Page - https://www.facebook.com/NerdsAmalgamated/- Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/440485136816406/Twitter - https://twitter.com/NAmalgamatedSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6Nux69rftdBeeEXwD8GXrSiTunes -https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/top-shelf-nerds/id1347661094RSS -http://www.thatsnotcanonproductions.com/topshelfnerdspodcast?format=rssInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/nerds_amalgamated/Email - Nerds.Amalgamated@gmail.comSupport via Podhero- https://podhero.com/podcast/449127/nerds-amalgamatedRate & Review us on Podchaser - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/nerds-amalgamated-623195
Let's take a step back to appreciate the origins of the many rocket principles we use today. Join us as we travel back in time to meet our Fathers of Rocketry! Music from filmmusic.io "Tyrant" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) License: CC BY (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Sources: “1894 In the United States.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 17 Mar. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1894_in_the_United_States. “American Civil War.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 9 May 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War. “Anti-Aircraft Warfare.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 10 May 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-aircraft_warfare. Arlazorov, Mikhail S. “Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 15 Sept. 2019, www.britannica.com/biography/Konstantin-Eduardovich-Tsiolkovsky. Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette. “Dmitri Mendeleev.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 4 Feb. 2020, www.britannica.com/biography/Dmitri-Mendeleev. Dunbar, Brian. “Hermann Oberth.” NASA, NASA, 5 June 2013, www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/rocketry/home/hermann-oberth.html. Dunbar, Brian. “Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky.” NASA, NASA, 5 June 2013, www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/rocketry/home/konstantin-tsiolkovsky.html. “Ear Trumpet.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 15 Jan. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear_trumpet. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Hermann Oberth.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 25 Dec. 2019, www.britannica.com/biography/Hermann-Julius-Oberth. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Kinetic Theory of Gases.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 5 May 2020, www.britannica.com/science/kinetic-theory-of-gases. “Esther.” Goddard Memorial Association - Esther, www.goddardmemorial.org/Goddard/esther.html. Garner, Rob. “Dr. Robert H. Goddard, American Rocketry Pioneer.” NASA, NASA, 11 Feb. 2015, www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/about/history/dr_goddard.html. Goddard, Robert H. A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes. Smithsonian Institution, 1919. Goddard, Robert. “Gyroscopic Steering Apparatus.” Digital WPI, WPI , 2020, digitalcommons.wpi.edu/patents/59/. “Hermann Oberth.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 24 Apr. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Oberth. History.com Editors. “Dred Scott Case.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 27 Oct. 2009, www.history.com/topics/black-history/dred-scott-case. Howell, Elizabeth. “90 Years Ago, the Liquid-Fueled Rocket Changed Space Travel Forever.” Space.com, Space, 18 Mar. 2016, www.space.com/32311-robert-goddard-liquid-fueled-rocket-90-anniversary.html. “International Space Hall of Fame :: New Mexico Museum of Space History :: Inductee Profile.” New Mexico Museum of Space History, www.nmspacemuseum.org/halloffame/detail.php?id=21. Redd, Nola Taylor. “Hermann Oberth: German Father of Rocketry.” Space.com, Space, 5 Mar. 2013, www.space.com/20063-hermann-oberth.html. SciShow Space, director. Great Minds: Robert Goddard, Original Rocket Scientist. YouTube, 2014, www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSIq1XsdUqA&t=73s. Simkin, John. “Hermann Oberth.” Spartacus Educational, Spartacus Educational, spartacus-educational.com/GERoberth.htm. “Solid and Liquid Fuel Rockets.” ESA, www.esa.int/Education/Solid_and_liquid_fuel_rockets4. Stange, Christiaan. “Hermann Oberth: Father of Space Travel.” KIOSEK Web Design, www.kiosek.com/oberth/. “Tatars.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 5 May 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatars. “To Make Available for Life Every Place Where Life Is... at QuoteTab.” QuoteTab, www.quotetab.com/quote/by-hermann-oberth/to-make-available-for-life-every-place-where-life-is-possible-to-make-inhabitabl. “Wernher Von Braun.” Pioneers of Flight, pioneersofflight.si.edu/content/wernher-von-braun-1.
Nicole Oberth is an 18 year old first year physics student at the Technical University of Graz and an aspiring future scientist. She has a special fascination for the way the mathematical concepts we learn are used to model real-life physics applications. Besides physics and math, her passions include traditional and digital art, music (especially playing the piano) and archery – she says that having a balance in activities is very important to her to keep up my motivation!Paul Kothgasser is a 20 year old first year physics student, philanthropist, philosophy enthusiast and artist. ~he says: Physics is my passion because it explains the universe beautifully and connects every single one of my interests. He has a podcast “Drawn To Us” that reflects his philosophical and practical physics interests.
Nog maar drie weken en dan wordt het Klimaatakkoord van Parijs van kracht. Alleen, over heel wat zaken is nog geen overeenstemming. Wereldleiders zijn in Madrid bijeengekomen om alles toch voor het nieuwe jaar rond te krijgen. Correspondent Rop Zoutberg is op de top en peilt het gevoel van urgentie. Verder vragen we Sebastian Oberthür waarom er de afgelopen kwart eeuw te weinig is gebeurd om de opwarming van de aarde te beperken. Oberthür is hoogleraar milieu en duurzaamheid aan de Vrije Universiteit Brussel en hij volgt de VN-klimaatconferenties als sinds de eerste bijeenkomst in Duitsland in maart 1995.
"Letzten Endes geht es im Leben nicht um´s Verstehen." Mit dieser Einstellung von Rainer Oberthür gehe ich mit Ihm ins Gespräch. Ich versuche mit Ihm, Religion und das Göttliche oder wie Schleiermacher es sagte: Den "Sinn und Geschmack für das Unendliche" ein wenig zu verstehen. Was hat es auf sich mit dem Göttlichen, der Religion? Gibt es einen Gott? Nur weil er sich nicht zeigt, ist er deswegen nicht existent? Und wo sind meine persönlichen Anfänge in der Religion? Ich spreche mit Rainer Oberthür über all diese Fragen. Er ist Autor und seit fast 30 Jahren Dozent für Religionspädagogik am Katechetischen Institut des Bistums Aachen. Außerdem arbeitet(e) er viel mit Kindern im Grundschulbereich zusammen und erhielt dabei spannende Einblicke zu den tiefen Sinn- und Gottesfragen, die sich bereits junge Menschen stellen. Gerade die Herangehensweise von Kindern, kann uns diese ungreifbare Göttlichkeit leichter machen. Und wenn ich sie für mich gefunden habe, wie vermittele ich sie meinen Kindern? "Kinder können perfekt mit einem Überschuss an Bedeutung umgehen." (Rainer Oberthür) - Könnt Ihr es auch? Viel Freude bei diesem tollen Interview, Eure Eva ✨ P.S. "the best is yet to come" (Carolin No)
The USS Bonestell does well the only thing Oberth-class starships are meant to do: mildly risky science. Anything more and it's a warp core breech if you're lucky. The Bonestell wasn't, and drew the short straw to become the token Oberth-class to be blown to smithereens at the Battle of Wolf 359. Could Volkov do better if it had been her in the Tsiolkovsky? How was Kyle's trip to Europe? How nightmarish are captain conference calls when fleets meet up? Get to the escape pods, it's another Wolf 359 episode!
Hier kommt ein weiteres Interview aus der Reihe derer, die Jeanette Im Januar beim Desy User meeting aufgenommen hat. Dominik Oberthür ist Wissenschaftler am CFEL (Center for Free-Electron Laser Science) und forscht daran, wie mit hochenergetischem Laserlicht selbst kleinste Proteinstrukturen abgebildet werden können. Alles weitere hört ihr im Podcast, viel Spaß dabei! Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com
Ist es nun bescheuert oder nicht, das Nein zum Tempolimit? Bei NN-Chefredakteur Michael Husarek und Online-Chef Matthias Oberth fällt das Votum eindeutig aus. Ein bisschen kniffliger wird´s beim Ausstieg aus der Kohle, denn 2038 ist ein Kompromiss und der Kompromiss ist bekanntermaßen "die Kunst, den Kuchen so zu teilen, dass jeder meint, er habe das größte Stück bekommen." Diese Ansicht war zumindest Ludwig Erhard, der gerne als Vater des Wirtschaftswunders bezeichnete Minister aus Fürth. Husarek & Oberth halten sich jedoch nicht lange mit Fürth auf, wenngleich der dortige Fußballverein für die Fortsetzung einer abenteuerlichen Verschwörungstheorie anbietet. Vorher gilt es aber für den Sinn oder Unsinn von Kompromissen zu philosophieren, das Dilemma der SPD in Bund und Land zu erklären und einen eleganten Übergang zur Kommunalwahl 2020 zu finden.
Fragwürdig? Glaubwürdig – Fragen, Antworten und Weiterfragen beim Sprechen über Glaube und Gott. Rainer Oberthürs Predigt aus dem Zeitfenster-Gottesdienst am 9. November 2018 in Aachen.
Intervención de Luis Dévora en el programa de radio "Otros Mundos" En esta ocasión conoceremos diferentes sistemas de propulsión que podrían utilizar las naves espaciales para viajar al espacio profundo o colonizar otros planetas. Descubre la maniobra Oberth, la propulsión por reacciones nucleares, la propulsión por motores iónicos de plasma, los Ramject o estatorreactores, los motores de antimateria, las velas solares, la propulsión eléctrica, la propulsión por energía intraatómica o la propulsión por un agujero negro artificial.
Mankind has dreamed of traveling into space for centuries, but in the twentieth century, scientific and technical capabilities converged with this dream for the first time. The potential of the rocket was realized independently by three different men, born in different countries, who never met each other in person. These men Tsiolkovski of Russia, Goddard of the U.S. and Oberth of Germany, each derived the same conclusions about the future of space travel. Their conclusions that become the basic working formulas of the space age.
Episode Links: 42 (https://www.quora.com/Why-and-how-is-42-the-answer-to-life-the-universe-and-everything) SpaceX Iridium Launch and Landing Video (http://www.spacex.com/webcast) SpaceX Launch Vehicle Core History (https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/wiki/cores) Elon Musk- Tweets about Titanium Grid Fins (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/878821062326198272) Elon Musk- Twitter Feed (https://twitter.com/elonmusk) Michael Foale Oral History (https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4225/oral-histories/foale.pdf) Michael Foale Biography (https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/foale.html) NYT- Russian Space Station Damaged In Collision With a Cargo Vessel (http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/26/world/russian-space-station-damaged-in-collision-with-a-cargo-vessel.html) Hermann Oberth Biography (https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/rocketry/home/hermann-oberth.html) Star Trek- Oberth-Class Starship (http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Oberth_class) NASA STS-50 Mission (https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-50/mission-sts-50.html)
Episode 42 - It's all about new ships today as we look at these new Excelsior, Oberth, and Krenim Weapon ships. This is the last legal wave for Worlds, so will any of them make the cut? Let's take a look! If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element
On our agenda: A new panel member! Meet Ricky (skatersforsale), one of the mods of the Netrunner subreddit, and beloved editor of TWA. Was Screambear the best or worst thing to happen to Netrunner? Jesse and Wilfy discuss their latest game night kit escapades. What does Hollis think of 1.1.1.1? Jemison and Oberth - how good are these new space-age Weyland cards? Is NEXT Wave 2 a harbinger of more NEXT goodies to come? If not, what the hell is it all about? And much more! Get in touch: Email: thewinningagenda@gmail.com Facebook: The Winning Agenda Twitter: @winningagenda Patreon: www.patreon.com/thewinningagenda
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On this exciting show we will talk about the Star Trek Attack Wing ships, Oberth Class and Time Ship, as well as new rules. Dan will also draw a winner for the USS HOOD raffle, part 2. Dis you see Avengers Age of Ultron? During our second half we will share our views on the second Avengers movie as well as V the Series. We will take a look at V the Mini-Series, V the Final Battle, V the TV series and V the Second Invasion. Resistance is Futile.
Micah “mouth of the south” Hanks is back in Grimerica. Micah is the author of “Ghost Rockets”, “UFO Singularity”, and “Magic, Mysticism, and the Molecule”. He’s the host of The Gralien Report, The Micah Hanks show on KGRA and co-host of recently revived Middle Theory podcast and The Paranormal Report. The fellas chat about why Micah is pissing off the UFO community and how he’s seeing research go underground. The Nazi resource and technology potential is discussed along with fellow Grimerican – Sasq. The question is “to kill, or not to kill” the big guy and cooperation vs competition. Check out what is new with Micah and what research is he up to now. http://gralienreport.com/ http://www.gralienreport.com/x/ http://www.kgraradio.com/portfolio-view/the-micah-hanks-program/ http://jimharold.com/category/the-paranormal-report/ http://www.middletheory.com/ https://www.facebook.com/micahhanks007 https://twitter.com/MicahHanks http://micahhanks.com/ Intro: It’s Darren and Graham in the intro chatting about the good and the bad about hot yoga, the first Oculus Rift DK2 Virtual Reality experience in Grimerica and the upcoming Paradigm Symposium 2014. They also welcome a gaggle of countries into the Compassionate Hegemony of Grimerica. If you are local to the Igloo in Grimerica check out the retreat from Joanne Bean at Asani Healing in Drumheller. Please donate to the show; as all content is completely free of charge. Value for value is our current philosophy although we are gifting back half of donations through the 50/50 MoneyBomb. http://www.grimerica.ca/moneybomb/ http://asanihealing.com/ http://www.meetup.com/Sleeping-Buffalo-Lodge/events/205223682/ http://www.paradigmsymposium.com/ MUSIC Grimerica Theme - Lock & Key X Files Dub - Dubway Beatfresh Liquid Stranger - Party Like Us Daughter - Youth (Alle Farben Remix) Santigold - Disparate Youth (Jacuzzi Remix)
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Participants from the 2012 Starfest Science Fiction Convention in Denver helped put together this special edition episode. In this vignette, go back to the last days of the USS Leone...a decommissioned Oberth-class vessel destined for salvage at Deep Space 3. Only, not is all as it appears...for the ship has a hidden secret....one that could prove deadly to the station...and its crew. The post Star Trek: Outpost – Episode 35A – What Lies Hidden appeared first on Giant Gnome Productions.
Participants from the 2012 Starfest Science Fiction Convention in Denver helped put together this special edition episode. In this vignette, go back to the last days of the USS Leone...a decommissioned Oberth-class vessel destined for salvage at Deep Space 3. Only, not is all as it appears...for the ship has a hidden secret....one that could prove deadly to the station...and its crew. The post Star Trek: Outpost – Episode 35A – What Lies Hidden appeared first on Giant Gnome Productions.
After the guys sift out the best from the latest engineering report, they dig into some of the most import aspects of building a fun Foundry Mission. Plus more details on the Duty Officer System, customizable ground kits, and a quick review of the new Oberth ship!
After the guys sift out the best from the latest engineering report, they dig into some of the most import aspects of building a fun Foundry Mission. Plus more details on the Duty Officer System, customizable ground kits, and a quick review of the new Oberth ship!
We bring on STO’s Executive Producer Daniel Stahl and get a major update on the Foundry, the Enterprise content, details on the new Oberth class ship, and many details on the Duty Officer System, including THOUSANDS of new missions! In MATH this week we’ve got the tips and tricks to get you started creating your own adventures in the Foundry! Plus - Our quick take on the new Bajoran Uniforms, and of course the latest Ask Cryptic.
We bring on STO’s Executive Producer Daniel Stahl and get a major update on the Foundry, the Enterprise content, details on the new Oberth class ship, and many details on the Duty Officer System, including THOUSANDS of new missions! In MATH this week we’ve got the tips and tricks to get you started creating your own adventures in the Foundry! Plus - Our quick take on the new Bajoran Uniforms, and of course the latest Ask Cryptic.
Ep. 6 - The Dates This episode covers a bit of the Nibiru and the Annunaki, we introduce Andromedan contactee Alex Collier, The Alien race covered in this show is the Andromedans. Also I read a few quotes by some very credible people concerning the UFO phenomena. Nibiru and Annunaki Info and links: http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/dm_report.html http://xfacts.com/ http://www.hiddencodes.com/annunaki.htm http://www.damonelkins.com http://www.strayreality.com/Lanis_Strayreality/birth_of_earth4.htm For more info google these names: Zecharia Sitchin, Jason Martell, Lloyd Pye, Damon Elkins, Jim Marrs Videos: Other Videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkv4chj47XY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82J3Ip94UyU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqxrUfc08T0 PLEASE ... DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH ... AND MAKE CONCLUSIONS BASED ON THAT. ALWAYS. It's scary, but I have a feeling that something BIG is heading our way.... I hope it's for the good of mankind. -- TJ calls in! From the13skulls podcast at www.the13skulls.com and Eerie Radio show at www.eerieradio.com -- The Quotes "I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth." --President Harry Truman, April 4, 1950 White House press conference. "For the next two or three days the saucers passed over the base daily. Sometimes they appeared in groups of four, other times as many as sixteen. They could outmaneuver and outflank us seemingly at will. They moved at varying speeds--sometimes very fast, sometimes slow--and other times they would come to a dead stop as we zoomed past underneath." --Astronaut Gordon Cooper, describing his first direct encounters with UFO's while serving as a military pilot in Germany. "These (gray aliens) were living, breathing creatures, just as mortal as you and I. They had feelings, they had families. They had a cultural society. The one thing they didn't have was hate, hostility. They had anger, from what I observed--and I don't know how to explain it better than stating--it was an intellectual anger. They could not... comprehend how a species such as us, that had such great potential to do such wonderful and marvelous things, could do such horrible and nightmarish things to one another." --Master Sgt. Clifford Stone, ret., who testified that he encountered "gray" aliens while working in a US Army unit that retrieved crashed extraterrestrial vehicles. 2001. "I suspect that we have, indeed, been contacted--perhaps even visited--by extraterrestrial beings, and the US government, in collusion with the other national powers of the earth, is determined to keep this information from the general public." --former CIA official Victor Marchetti quoted in "How the CIA Views the UFO Phenomenon," Second Look, vol. 1, no. 7. Washington, D.C. 1979. "We alone cannot take credit for our recent advancement in certain scientific fields. We have been helped." --Dr. Herman Oberth, NASA German rocket scientist. When asked to identify the helpers, Oberth replied, "The people of other worlds." === Charlie from The Paranormal Cafe Calls in! Thank you sir! Visit: http://www.paranormalcafe.podomatic.com Great podcast! === The Andromedans and Alex Collier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromedans_%28extraterrestrial%29 BOOK : http://www.exopolitics.org/collier-dsg1.pdf === Thank you Listeners! Thank you Liz, and special thanks to all Ning listeners. Especially those from Mysteriousuniverse.org and the13skulls.com === MUSIC PROVIDED BY THE IODA PROMONET AT www.iodalliance.com “Digital Done Right!” Thank you! Drifting in Silence "chameleon" (mp3) from "Chameleon" (Labile Records) Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at Napster More On This Album Sam Sparro "Sick" (mp3) from "Black & Gold" (Modus Vivendi) Buy at Napster More On This Album David Satori "Before They Came" (mp3) from "Music from the New Edge - Vol. 01" (Cyberset Music) Buy at www.cyberset.cc Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at eMusic Buy at Rhapsody Buy at Napster Stream from Rhapsody More On This Album
Sat, 1 Jan 1983 12:00:00 +0100 http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8119/ http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8119/1/8119.pdf Oberthür, W.; Wiesner, Henning; Braunitzer, G. Oberthür, W.; Wiesner, Henning und Braunitzer, G. (1983): Die Primärstruktur der α und β-Ketten der Hauptkomponente. In: Hoppe-Seyler's Zeitschrift für physiologische Chemie, Vol. 364: pp. 51-59. Tiermedizin
Fri, 1 Jan 1982 12:00:00 +0100 http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8116/ http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8116/1/8116.pdf Oberthür, W.; Godovac-Zimmermann, J.; Braunitzer, G.; Wiesner, Henning Oberthür, W.; Godovac-Zimmermann, J.; Braunitzer, G. und Wiesner, Henning (1982): The Amino Acid Sequence of Canada Goose and Mute Swan Hemoglobins. In: Hoppe-Seyler's Zeitschrift für physiologische Chemie, Vol. 363: pp. 777-787. Tiermedizin
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