Re: [scifinoir2] For Fans of Marvel Comics Art from the 60s and 70s
Kewl! I've read two of the three featured on the home page: The Thing and the Aquarian (wasn't he the Jesus-like hippie New Age dude with a natural forcefield that stopped all high-energy attacks?), and the Thing and Jocasta. It was a great intro for me--reading these in the early '80s after years of snubbing Marvel in favor of DC--to get quick intros to the characters. He's right about another thing: though extremely simplistic and often contrived, the comics were fun! Especially fun when the heroes started whaling away on each other! I used to love nothing better than to pick up a comic with, say, The Thing and Quasar or somebody, watch them bump into each other, have a minor disagreement, and two pages later start throwing cars and energy blasts back and forth. That was great! You always knew the fights were illogical, and you knew in the real world heroes couldn't act so irresponsibly with their powers and tempers, but who cared? They'd bash and bang and destroy, and then at the end of the book, misunderstanding corrected, they're off to share a cup o' java together. The villains too were fun. Though I celebrate comics written with deep insight and social commentary, again, the simple I just want to rule the world 'cause i'm a mad genius tact was great escapism. Basically the baddie was usually taunted as a child for being awkward, or scorned by his colleagues for a crazy theory, or physically unappealing (like the diminuitive Mole Man), or something else that caused a mad-on for humanity in general. Typically this resulted in I'll show you all! speeches and world-ending plots. Or sometimes the dude was just a meglomaniac who simply thought he was destined to be a god on Earth. Whatever the cause, whatever the devious energy machine or droid army, it always came down to the heroes pounding the snot out of the evil one and his minions. Pages and pages of mindless fights, of preposterous speeches and posturing during battles (monologuing as they say in The Incredibles) led to great fun! The over-the-top villains were great! Does anyone else miss the days when the evil ones said Bah! all the time, or when phrases like You dare pit your puny abilities against me were actually used? Man you've taken me back now! Speaking of team ups, have you been reading the recently revived Marvel Team-Up? It's been pretty good so far. -- Original message -- http://www.twoinone76.com/ If you grew up on the great Marvel comics of the sixties and seventies like I did this is the site for you! Check out the commissioned art. ~rave! ___ The Black Prince. The Black Church. A State of Mind. http://www.theworldebon.com YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group scifinoir2 on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- font face=arial size=-1a href=http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12h7h2oi7/M=362335.6886444.7839734.2575449/D=groups/S=1705034827:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1122647078/A=2894362/R=0/SIG=138c78jl6/*http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/arts_culture/?source=YAHOOcmpgn=GRPRTP=http://groups.yahoo.com/;What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater?Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good/a./font ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Re: NASA Says Discovery Looks OK to Fly Home
IMHO, it's about time for NASA to move to the next technology and stop flying 25+ year-old technology, which is the current shuttle and booster rocket design. I don't use a 25-year-old computer at home. Why insist on using old technology for spae flight? Yeah, I know, the current design was supposed to be recycleable shuttle. But when shuttles blow up, they don't recycle very well. YEs, I am a NASA supporter. George Captain The USS Ronald E. McNair (Boston) --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Brent Wodehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050728/ap_on_sc/space_shuttle_6;_ylt=Aqg cenIex192.34kRtMZPkQYAjMB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl NASA Says Discovery Looks OK to Fly Home By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer SPACE CENTER, Houston - Space shuttle Discovery escaped any serious damage from the potentially deadly piece of foam that broke off from the fuel tank during liftoff and looks safe to fly home in a week, NASA said Thursday. The welcome news came after Mission Control received stunningly detailed photographs of Discovery taken by the crew aboard the international space station. The shuttle executed an unprecedented backflip to bare its belly to the cameras before docking with the space station. NASA wanted to make sure Discovery did not suffer the kind of mortal wound that brought down Columbia in 2003. The initial report was that it looks extremely good and we don't have anything to worry about on Discovery, said flight operations manager John Shannon. He stressed that it will be another few days before the space agency can conclusively give the shuttle a clean bill of health. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said on ABC: Everything that we see at this point says that the orbiter is in fact a clean bird. On Wednesday, NASA suspended all further shuttle flights after learning that a big piece of foam insulation weighing just short of a pound came flying off Discovery's external fuel tank in an alarming repeat of the problem that doomed Columbia. However, neither that piece nor other, smaller chunks struck Discovery, Shannon said. snip Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] New world found in outer solar system
http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn7751 New world found in outer solar system 29 July 2005 NewScientist.com news service Maggie McKee Updated: 1749 BST Astronomical detective work led to the stunning discovery of a large new world beyond Pluto and hiding in plain sight. The object could be the biggest in the Kuiper belt of rocky objects that orbit the outer reaches of the solar system. The first data made public about the object suggested the object could be up to twice the size of Pluto, but newly revealed observations indicate the object is about 70% Pluto's diameter. The find suggests more such objects are waiting to be discovered and is likely to reignite the fierce debate about what constitutes a planet. On Thursday, an email with the subject, Big TNO discovery, urgent was sent to a popular astronomy mailing list. The message described the discovery of a very bright object that was creeping along slowly beyond the orbit of Neptune - making it a Trans-Neptunian Object, or TNO. If the reflectivity is as dim as most other distant, rocky objects that have been studied, the object would be larger than Pluto, Jose-Luis Ortiz, an astronomer at the Sierra Nevada Observatory in Spain, wrote in the email. Pluto is about 2300 kilometres across. Sleepless night Ortiz and colleagues discovered the object when they re-analysed observations they had made in 2003. Then, they scoured older archives and found the object in images dating back to 1955. Based on these so-called precoveries, they calculated the object's orbit and sent urgent emails asking people around the globe to observe the new find. Amateur observers Salvador Sanchez, Reiner Stoss, and Jaime Nomen found it on Thursday using a 30-centimetre telescope in Mallorca, Spain. I am not going to sleep tonight, said Stoss, a mechanical engineering student in Darmstadt, Germany. To find an object bigger than Pluto - it's like the X Prize, he said, referring to the $10 million prize for private spaceflight won in 2004. The observations were then verified by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center (MPC) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, which designated the object 2003 EL61. Estimates of the object's brightness posted by the MPC on Friday at 0027 GMT suggested the object could be as large as twice Pluto's diameter if it was relatively non-reflective object. In the hours since, another team of astronomers revealed independent data on the object taken with some of the world's most powerful telescopes. They give the object's size at about 70% Pluto's diameter, in line with estimates for a relatively reflective object in the first MPC notice. They say also say the object is orbited by a tiny moon. Time to move The MPC reports the object is about 51 Astronomical Units from the Sun - 1 AU is the distance between the Earth and the Sun. Its orbit brings it comes as close to the Sun as 35 AU, while Pluto maintains an average distance of about 39 AU. Someone should have found this before, Brian Marsden, director of the MPC, told New Scientist. One reason they did not is the object's speed, suggests Stoss. Many surveys of Near Earth Objects take a trio of images spaced 20 minutes apart to search for telltale movement in relation to background stars. But 2003 EL61 is too far away to detect its progress in that time. Ortiz's survey compares images taken a day apart. They give the object time to move, Stoss says. Another reason may be the plane of the object's orbit, says Tommy Grav, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii in Manoa, US. That plane is tilted by 28° with respect to the orbital plane of most planets, where surveys tend to scan the skies for Near Earth Objects. Off kilter 2003 EL61 is even more off-kilter than Pluto, which orbits in a plane tilted by 17°. Pluto was pushed out of the plane of the solar system when Neptune moved outwards soon after the solar system formed, Grav told New Scientist. It's possible this object has suffered something similar. The discovery, coupled with other recent finds such as Sedna and Quaoar, suggests other large objects may lurk in the murky region beyond Neptune. Some people have claimed we'd never find something as bright as this out there, says Grav. But there may be something even further out that's moving so slowly we haven't seen it yet. And the discovery is likely to revive previous fierce debates about what constitutes a planet and even how astronomical objects are named. But don't even start that discussion, Stoss jokes. He says future observations of the object's colour and brightness could reveal its true size, shape and rotation period. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- font face=arial size=-1a
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: NASA Says Discovery Looks OK to Fly Home
In a message dated 7/29/05 12:28:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IMHO, it's about time for NASA to move to the next technology and stop flying 25+ year-old technology, which is the current shuttle and booster rocket design. I don't use a 25-year-old computer at home. Why insist on using old technology for spae flight? Yeah, I know, the current design was supposed to be recycleable shuttle. But when shuttles blow up, they don't recycle very well. YEs, I am a NASA supporter. George Captain The USS Ronald E. McNair (Boston) Actually NASA already had the next spaceshuttle in the pipeline, the X-34. The wedge-shaped aerospace craft which avoids many of the problems the current spaceshuttle had now. Includeing the need for a solid rocket booster unit. It can boost itself into orbit thanks to it's aerospike engines. Or the tile problem for it used a special coating tough heat resistant coating that needed to be replaced after a hundred flights. and the full production version could carry the same payload as the current shuttle. But they canciled it. Go figure. Maybe now it's time to uncancil it. Hmmm. -GTW [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Prinze Slays Buffy Dreams
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/eo/20050728/112260138003.html Prinze Slays Buffy Dreams Thursday July 28 By Sarah Hall According to Freddie Prinze Jr., his wife's days as a vampire-hunting slayer chick are through. Pounding a stake through the dreams of Buffy fans everywhere, Prinze said that chances were slim that Sarah Michelle Gellar would one day star in a film version of her hit series, either for television or on the big screen. Not with Sarah, Prinze said during an appearance at the Television Critics Association press tour where he was promoting his new ABC sitcom, Freddie. I've never heard of it coming back whatsoever. Prinze said that Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon is on the movie train right now, and it hasn't stopped yet. So I think he'll be on that for a while. As for remaking the series as a feature film, Prinze pointed out that the original 1992 Buffy movie, starring Kristy Swanson and Luke Perry, tanked at the box office. It didn't work. That's why [they] made the TV series. It worked much, much better as a TV series, Prinze said. It worked so well as a TV show, I don't think Sarah would want to invest in something that's already failed once. Gellar's next project is the futuristic thriller Southland Tales, written and directed by Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko.) However, according to her husband, the actress is also eager to make a guest appearance on Freddie, which is loosely based on Prinze's own experience of growing up in a household of women. She's asking me more than I'm asking her, Prinze said. But the actor's not looking to bring his real-life sweetie on board too quickly. Not in season one, he said, proving for once and for all that he's a glass half full type. Frankly, we're not sure what he's waiting for - it's not as if the twosome haven't shared camera time before. Gellar and Prinze met and began dating on the set of 1997's teen slasher pic, I Know What You Did Last Summer and went on to make a pair of Scooby-Doo pictures together. All that time spent working together apparently only fanned the flames of their romantic attachment. The couple announced their engagement in April 2001 and wed in Mexico in September 2002. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Don't forget Firefly tonight
The two-hour premiere airs from 6 - 8 pm EST on Sci Fi Channel tonight. See it and see what all the fuss was about. I started out really disliking the show, and three episodes in was a believer, and when it was cancelled, was disappointed. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- font face=arial size=-1a href=http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hbet9gu/M=362335.6886444.7839734.2575449/D=groups/S=1705034827:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1122679989/A=2894362/R=0/SIG=138c78jl6/*http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/arts_culture/?source=YAHOOcmpgn=GRPRTP=http://groups.yahoo.com/;What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater?Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good/a./font ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Re: For Fans of Marvel Comics Art from the 60s and 70s
An added bonus from the site: (most of the artists featured have websites) links! Here's something for you DC lovers: http://www.bobhall.com/framesetpages/1artwork/comicsportfolioframeset.html --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kewl! _ The Black Prince. The Black Church. A State of Mind. http://www.theworldebon.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- font face=arial size=-1a href=http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hg2a9gq/M=362335.6886444.7839734.2575449/D=groups/S=1705034827:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1122694830/A=2894362/R=0/SIG=138c78jl6/*http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/arts_culture/?source=YAHOOcmpgn=GRPRTP=http://groups.yahoo.com/;What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater?Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good/a./font ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: NASA Says Discovery Looks OK to Fly Home
I hear you, Captain George! When I looked at the pictures of the shuttl through all of those cameras, I cringed. The thing looks old and beat up! I only have 2 questions... Why tiles? Heck, they fall off? Why foam? Nasa is so quick to use its technology to create marketable products for us. .or so the products claim... They need to focus on their OWN technology! An unfusion from the private sector might help...There are a lot of smart people willing to get involved. . Maurice ---Original Message--- From: g123curious Date: 07/29/05 12:28:01 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: NASA Says Discovery Looks OK to Fly Home IMHO, it's about time for NASA to move to the next technology and stop flying 25+ year-old technology, which is the current shuttle and booster rocket design. I don't use a 25-year-old computer at home. Why insist on using old technology for spae flight? Yeah, I know, the current design was supposed to be recycleable shuttle. But when shuttles blow up, they don't recycle very well. YEs, I am a NASA supporter. George Captain The USS Ronald E. McNair (Boston) --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Brent Wodehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050728/ap_on_sc/space_shuttle_6;_ylt=Aqg cenIex192.34kRtMZPkQYAjMB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl NASA Says Discovery Looks OK to Fly Home By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer SPACE CENTER, Houston - Space shuttle Discovery escaped any serious damage from the potentially deadly piece of foam that broke off from the fuel tank during liftoff and looks safe to fly home in a week, NASA said Thursday. The welcome news came after Mission Control received stunningly detailed photographs of Discovery taken by the crew aboard the international space station. The shuttle executed an unprecedented backflip to bare its belly to the cameras before docking with the space station. NASA wanted to make sure Discovery did not suffer the kind of mortal wound that brought down Columbia in 2003. The initial report was that it looks extremely good and we don't have anything to worry about on Discovery, said flight operations manager John Shannon. He stressed that it will be another few days before the space agency can conclusively give the shuttle a clean bill of health. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said on ABC: Everything that we see at this point says that the orbiter is in fact a clean bird. On Wednesday, NASA suspended all further shuttle flights after learning that a big piece of foam insulation weighing just short of a pound came flying off Discovery's external fuel tank in an alarming repeat of the problem that doomed Columbia. However, neither that piece nor other, smaller chunks struck Discovery, Shannon said. snip YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group scifinoir2 on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- font face=arial size=-1a href=http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hvd5g7a/M=362335.6886444.7839734.2575449/D=groups/S=1705034827:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1122703598/A=2894362/R=0/SIG=138c78jl6/*http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/arts_culture/?source=YAHOOcmpgn=GRPRTP=http://groups.yahoo.com/;What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater?Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good/a./font ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
