Here's a better animation of the full Orion mission to the Moon than the one I saw years ago...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac5DCgqKRoE

I still don't like the design of the Altair lander, though: Dinky little tin can of an Ascent stage sitting on top of an effin' HUGE Descent stage!
Quite disproportionate, methinks. Looks like it'd be awfully cramped in there.

I wonder how soon it's going to be used as a filming location.

Awww, c'mon! I had one of those almost 40 years ago when I was in Cub Scouts... and it leaked like a sieve!

What a coincidence! Just the other day, I had an urge to seek out slow-motion hummingbird videos on YouTube, and I stumbled across this little "nest documentary"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG59PaCiiDg

See, this is why I think the advent of Matchmove technology is the single most defining moment in the development of CGI!

All previous CGI composited shots had to have footage captured from a locked-down camera, with any pan/tilt movements precisely controlled and smooth. Always looked artificial.

Match moving ended all that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_moving

I've been obsessed with the Nostromo's corridors (well, and its airlock, too!) since the movie opened at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, where they had bits of the set, including the access corridor to "Mother" that we walked through.
Of course, Giger's "Space Jockey" was also on display.
So glad I got to see it before those religious zealots set it on fire (thinking that it was the work of the devil)!

This is kinda weird timing.
Just yesterday I started watching "Journeyman" on Hulu, and in the second episode our hero is transported to an in-flight airliner in the 70s to help deliver a baby.
I thought, "Okay, I flew quite a bit on airliners as a kid in the 70s, and I never saw flight attendants dress like that!" They always wore nice white blouses (with that little tie) and skirts... and never a hat!

This morning I come here and see this post... and now I stand corrected!

Okay, you'd expend far more energy strapping that thing on than you would by just bending down and picking up the crap the usual way.

I'm so jealous! When I was a kid, and my parents sent me off to summer camp, they left explicit instructions that I not be allowed anywhere near the shooting range (or the archery range, for that matter)!

12/12 here!

In Joe Haldeman's classic Sci-Fi novel "The Forever War", the soldiers do their training on a fictional planetoid far beyond the orbit of Pluto.
Really amazing description of the effects on hardware and people at about 2ºK.

As for cooking with Liquid Nitrogen: Why isn't the chef wearing gloves?
And if the alcohol in the sorbet remains supercold, how does somebody eat it without getting frostbite on the lips and tongue?

"Stop or My Mom Will Shoot"? That movie should never be on a "Best" list of ANY sort!

I'd have replaced that with Dolph Lundgren's "I Come In Peace"!

Oh, this was perfect! Beagles seem to be experts at playing dead!
Anybody remember Robert Zemeckis' first movie, "Used Cars" (1980) starring Kurt Russell? One of the salesmen, played by Gerritt Graham, had a beagle, Tobey the WonderDog, who was quite helpful in making sales...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REa2DDzChGM
Perhaps Bailey assists his guardian in a similar fashion? ;o)

Hey, cool! This reminds me of Larry Niven's character, Gil 'the Arm' Hamilton!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Hamilton

Woohoo, 70% here!
Don't know from hockey, and that "MacGyver knife" question was truly bogus, like Jasper said.