#Alan dod

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TODAY IS ALAN’S BIRTHDAY GO SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND THANK YOU FOR THESE PHOTOS

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girl i just spilt. cider all ober my face

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The Golden Age #1

Writer: James Robinson

Artist: Paul Smith

Colors: Richard Ory

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Alan and Jay getting solos isn't something I ever expected but I'm happy they're getting some love.

Full article here.

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HI that longjohn post got me thinking and like. how much of the queercoding in mash do u think is intentional?? i think most of it was unplanned, like hawks mpreg kink, and then. mr alda thought hed write an episode based on a sexual dynamic like u pointed out. ok. dod he know the effect it was gonna have on gay people 50 years later

I mean, I don't think most of what fans on tumblr 5 years later get excited about is queercoding per se. There is definitely some intentional subtext: a lot of moments with Frank, some of the hawnk stuff, Hawkeye acting flirty or effeminate, Hawkeye and Trapper are sometimes framed as the "other" couple with Frank and Margaret. Klinger is basically a subversion because he's always written and acted as completely straight, but the way people react to him isn't necessarily. There are more direct jokes like Hawkeye pretending to be in love with Frank or Frank's phone call with that guy who thinks he's hitting on him and is totally into it.

But I think people tend to think of queercoding as sending a specific message, as saying "this character is queer but we can't show it openly" and I don't think MASH was doing that. Even if the original ending of George had been left in and Frank was revealed to have once been attracted to a man, Frank's affair with Margaret and references to affairs with secretaries would have continued, and the man probably wouldn't have been referenced again.

Most of the subtext in MASH is played for humor, but it doesn't feel mean-spirited like a lot of gay jokes from that era. This is because MASH basically rolls the queer subtext into the anti-establishment message. Okay, society says gay people are perverted; MASH is pro-perversion. So to the extent that it's intentional, I think it's to that end, and of course to be funny.

I don't think Hawkeye was "coded" as bisexual, it's just very easy to interpret him as bisexual based on intentional choices. A lot of it is cultural context. Hawkeye sleeping with women was enough to reassure straight people in the 70s that he was one of them and his comments about Trapper and Henry's legs were just jokes. (And straight men do make jokes like this, Alan Alda saying Jamie Farr had great legs unprompted at the 30th reunion.)

The vast majority of the intentional queercoding/queer subtext is in the first few seasons. I'm not sure exactly why it dropped off, probably a combination of a changing political climate and the show getting more serious making it harder to get away with it.

I hope I didn't mislead you bringing up La Ronde. I was having fun applying it to Hawkeye and Trapper but given the rest of the episode and what he's said about it, I don't think Alan Alda was actually implying the longjohns represent sex. It's just... fun to imagine they could between Hawkeye and Trapper.

And no I don't think they had any idea what it would do to us 50 years later! Of course, The Longjohn Flap was season 1, and at that point they didn't even know they were going to get another season, let alone be beloved 50 years later! But here we all are anyway and I think they'd be glad to know people are still enjoying the show, and the ones still with us are!

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The year is 2000, the peak of technology. During November. Power outages had been hitting houses for seemingly no reason. Along with randomized murders. The first case was done on November the 11th. A young 14 year old boy named "Nick Allen" was brutally stabbed in the chest; 27 times. Doctors said that this was no act of self defense. For the boy was found with no weapons around him or any signs of struggle like he was fighting. After this one killing, the murders started to spike. There were a few leads;

Mary-Lee Hickins. A 34 year old woman, also known as Emerald High's Principal. She was known for being quiet to the parents but very friendly with the students. Maybe a little too friendly.

Marcus Brighton. 46 years old and a registered s*x offender and lived close to where the killings took place. While he seemed he had changed his ways, there was no real proof it was or wasn't him. That is, until he was murdered.

And our last lead; Hannah Garcia. While she was only 16, she had one time came out of her house, seemingly in shock and disbelief covered in blood. Her own mothers blood. Not much was known about Hannah but she was put on trial and found guilty of her mothers murder. After being sentenced to thirteen years with parole; the murders kept happening.

Each of the victims died in a different way. Each of which we're terrible and gruesome. It almost seemed as if the killer or killerS had a sadistic mind. One of the cases were disgusting.

The date was November 26th, still 2000. The body of a 6 year old girl was found in the woods near her OWN HOUSE, hanging by her limbs on a tree. They were hanging on by a layer of skin, they looked like if she stayed up there any longer, they would have fallen off. And that's not even the worst of these murders.

Time skipping 8 years in the future, The Woods Family murder had made its way to the front pages of every newspaper and news channel in all of America. Sadly, around this time another murder which would be the final murder for a while popped up. This would also be the year, the killer of 1986-2008 would be caught, but you'll know about him later.

June 2nd 2008 a 14 year old boy would be killed in one of the most gut wrenching, gag inducing killings ever. He was found wearing a black face mask and his hair was chopped off. Before you lose interest, he NEVER cut his hair. It was how people would be able to tell him from anyone else. He was found in an Alley with a scythe next to him. Police tried getting any DNA from anything near the scene but were unsuccessful.

Now onto the victim. Again, Raven Wilson. A 14 year old boy who had a passion for all things neon. His white hair, forever stained red with blood. it was said his walkman was playing my chemical romance's song Teenager was playing. His neck was slit, blood pooling around him. He was already pale, and seeing him as pale as he was now was terrifying. You wouldn't think he could get much paler, huh?

The Morgue said that his body was slashed and that it would be hard to put all of his limbs back together with the way they had been cut off, but thankfully they were. Hours before the funeral, the body went missing. No one knew where it went, leading his family into a frenzy.

Some info on Him is;

Name: Raven Wilson

DOB: June 3rd

DOD: June 2nd...

Family:

Mother: Maria Fier

Biological Father: N/A

Step Father: Nick Fier

Older sister: Sarah Wilson

Younger Brother: Daniel Fier

His younger brother belonged to his step father but he never cared. His biological father died in a car accident when he was only 4. His mother waited 5 years before getting married to Mr.Fier. Raven was fine with the decision and he didn't mind it. He and Mr.Fier had a great relationship with each other. They acted like a real father and son but still had their small quarrels.

Friends:

Closest Friend: Jeffery Alan Woods (yes.)

Main friend circle: Jack Nyras and Jeffrey Woods. Others are.. unknown.

Romantic Partner: NONE (that we know of)

Appearance:

5'7 (very tall for his age...). 137 lbs. White hair (naturally?..) Blue eyes, skinny frame. He had a "scene" style. Usually black under clothes with pops of neon.

Voice:

It was about what you'd think a 14 year old boy would sound like. It had a rasp to it that never seemed to go away, but other than his hair, thats what also made him stand out.

Personality:

He was happy, a little edgy and always stuck in his own world. His my space page was a little worrying with links to gore and creepy imagery. But overall, he was a good kid. Average c-A grades in school. With the occasional A- but he wasn't so smart when it came to his decisions.

His friends described his personality as out going and never shy about his opinion. They also said that he was never mean to anyone who didn't deserve it. But he had a small drinking problem. Which now makes sense that there was a beer bottle found next to his body where he died.

Blackout

Another time jump to 2010. Two years after the murder of Raven Wilson and all of a sudden there were multiple reports of murders once more. After Raven died, the murders had stopped completely but the after those two years of his body being missing, they spiked up again. Bodies of local residents were found scattered around the city and communities they lived in. It was a terrible sight to behold. The first example of these murders was 10 year old Max Cunningham. He was found in his back yard strung up in a tree. His blood dripping down like rain on the first night and day he was found. He was reported missing at around 8:57 pm the night before. He was not found until 9:39 am the next day.

As the murders began again, there was also an unusual amoont of reports of seeing someone with white hair and stitches around the arms and neck. They also reported the person was sighted near the areas of EVERY killing.

(Im not done, I'll upload a little more soon)

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Fun facts - well, very-slightly-to-mildly-to-not-at-all interesting facts - related to comedians’ names:

- One time on No More Jockeys, Mark Watson, Tim Key, and Alex Horne spent a minute or so discussing the fact that Angela Barnes has the most Christmassy name out of all the comedians, because Angels are in the nativity story, and Jesus was born in a barn. They were so pleased with themselves for working this out, until they remembered Jarred Christmas. And Noel Fielding.

- When I Google the name “Joe Thomas” from Canada with no VPN on, most of the top results are about an American football player by that name. When I Google the same thing with a VPN making my computer think it’s in England, most of the top results are about the comedian and actor.

- In the absolutely terrible show – truly my biggest guilty pleasure, the worst show I’ve ever enjoyed – Roast Battle, Johnny Vegas goes on with Phil Ellis, a guy who’s never been on TV before or since. This guy went really hard, saying something about his wife leaving which had apparently actually happened recently, and none of that bothered Johnny Vegas at all. Until the guy brought up the fact that his name is actually Michael Pennington, at which point Johnny told him to shut up and sounded like he genuinely meant it. Like a kid at school who doesn’t want their embarrassing middle name said out loud.

- I assumed for ages that Rhod Gilbert’s full name was Roderick or Rodney, and only learned fairly recently that it’s Rhodri. That’ll teach me to make Anglicized assumptions. On the subject of Celtic names being Anglicized, David O’Doherty has a bit on one of his albums about how forms that don’t let you put punctuation in a name leave out a lot of Irish people, and I noticed he always signs his own posts “do’d” even though I called him “DOD” because that’s what everyone called him in Never Mind the Buzzcocks’ YouTube comments. That’s why I started calling him DO’D; I figure that whether he does it as some sort of statement about not wanting the Irish apostrophe erased, or whether it’s just for no reason, may as well call people what they want to be called. I do not, however, extend that to finding the special character every time I want to write Dara Ó Briain’s name.

- Alan Coren, the guy who used to be on The News Quiz a lot, was the father of Victoria Coren Mitchell. That’s not really a fact about names, it’s just that their shared name should have made me realize it a lot sooner. For someone who collects Britcom-related facts for no reason, I learned that one way too recently.

- Russell Joseph Howard and Jon Joel Richardson both have middle names that can be shortened to Joe. Which is not particularly interesting, but they discovered it, I think, four separate times on their radio show. One of their middle names would come up in passing, and then the other would say, “Oh that’s almost like my middle name”, and then they’d discuss it. I can believe they genuinely forgot that until the next time it came up, because it’s not that interesting a fact, and for them ages had passed, while for me it had only been a week since I went through the 126 hours of that radio show ridiculously quickly. After the first time, every time middle names were mentioned I’d tell my phone, “Yes, your middle names are slightly similar, now work that out and get on with it.” The fourth time it happened, Jon said, “Have we had this conversation before?” and Russell said, “I don’t think so.”

- On a slightly similar note of two comedians who were close friends having middle names overlap, Daniel Kitson’s middle name is John. This would only be a slightly interesting fact if John Oliver’s middle name were Daniel, which it isn’t, it’s William. However, Daniel Kitson did name himself William in several different shows, including one that had two separate versions of himself, both named William. Clearly he feels that his name was meant to be William, subconsciously understanding that we were meant to have the mildly interesting fact of his and John Oliver’s names overlapping.

- Jon Richardson and Richard Osman’s names being Richard and Richard’s son – something Alex Horne pointed out once on Taskmaster season 2 but I think it was good enough so he could have got away with it at least a couple more times since it was a joke about both their names and their heights – means the time they were a Catsdown team and Jimmy did his shitty autocue put-downs of Jon and Richard told him to stop, it looked like:

- Charlie Brooker is not a stage name; it’s a shortened version of his actual first name. And that actual first name is Charleton.

- Similarly, Al is a shortened version of Al Murray’s real first name, which is Alastair.

- Barratt’s his middle name. His full name is Julian Barratt Pettifer. I see why he doesn’t go by that.

- It is absolutely ridiculous that the fan-agreed portmanteau for The Mighty Boosh is Noelian, when FieldRat is right there.

- On the subject of portmanteaus, season 12 is the Taskmaster season in which both teams can have their names put together easily: Victorialan and Morguziree. No other season has teams that can be referenced by one name that easily, and I should know, as I’ve written summaries of episodes from a bunch of seasons and it’s a lot easier when there’s an easy team name like that, instead of writing out “the team of two” or “Josh, Roisin, and Romesh” every time. I mean, I guess “Josh, Roisin, and Romesh” is a bad example because their season does have one that works: Frankey. But season 12 is the only one where you can do that really easily with both teams.

- I assumed for ages that Jo Brand’s first name was short for Joanne, but it isn’t, it’s Josephine. Which I thought was cool, because that name was outdated even by the time Jo Brand was born, you don’t hear it often, and it reminds me of my favourite character from a book I loved as a kid: Jo March (it was a plot point that she went by this instead of Josephine, to sound like more of a tomboy, which I of course liked) from Little Women. I found this even cooler when I read Jo Brand’s book, and learned that her parents actually named her Josephine after Jo March. She has an outdated name because she’s named after a character in a book from 1868.

- Frank Skinner’s real first name is Chris. Christopher Graham Collins, in fact, meaning the name “Frank Skinner” bears no relation to the name of the man who briefly married the 17-year-old girl who was his student when he lectured at her college. Not all the facts are fun.

- You know that annoying thing where whenever you write the name David Walliams, you have to make sure you didn’t accidentally write “David Williams”, since “Williams” is an actual name and Walliams is not? Well it turns out that “David Williams” is his real name, and “Walliams” is a stage name. So that annoying thing where it’s hard to spell his name right didn’t even have to be the case! This is the 578th most significant way in which David Walliams did not have to be as annoying as he actually is.

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A Jeremy Adams Jay Garrick mini is the best news I could have gotten. Also Alan Scott solo 👀.

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This summer, experts in fields ranging from astronomy anSymposiumysics to astrobiology, astrogeology, and cosmology all convened at the University of McGill for the 8th Interstellar Symposium: In Light of Other Suns. In partnership with McGill, this event was hosted the Interstellar Research Group (IRG), the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), and Breakthrough Initiatives. Between July 10th and 13th, students, press, and space enthusiasts attended presentations and outreach events that addressed the big questions on interstellar spaceflight exploration. To learn more, Universe Today sat down with NASA technologist, author, and engineer Les Johnson who attended the event and hosted many of its panel discussions. This included the public outreach event “Interstellar Travel: Are We Ready?” where he and a panel of experts (including Alan Stern, AJ Link, Prof. Philip Lubin, Erika Nesvold, Trevor Kjorlien) discussed the technological, social, and ethical dimensions of travelling nearby stars. He was also a featured guest for the Science Fiction Author Panel where he was joined by fellow SF authors Karl Schroeder, Eric Choi, and Sylvain Neuvel. We covered some interesting topics in a relatively short amount of time. Among them was the rently-released anthology of short stories and essays, The Ross 248 Project, published by Baen Books in May 2023. This volume was the latest in a series edited by Les Johnson and professional engineer Ken Roy (inventor of the Shell worlds concept), to which I had the honor of contributing the essay titled, “”. The following is the transcript of the interview between Mr. Johnson and myself Symposiumliams), hereafter denoted as LJ and M. The 8th Interstellar Symposium was held from July 10th to 13th at McGill University. Credit: Interstellar Research Group (IRG) Matt: Can you give us a sense of the structure of the Symposium? How did things kick-off? Les Johnson: A tradition of the Interstellar Research Group symposia is that we try to have classes before the meeting begins. These three-hour seminars taught by experts in their field are intended for the literate audience, but not necessarily a heavily-technical audience, because we offer continuing ed credits for teachers. So this year, we had three seminars, and they were a fairly good turnout. There was one provided by Laura Montgomery, who used to be a space law person with FAA regulating spaceflight launches. And now she teaches space law. And she did a class all about space law: overview, past, present, and future. And so everything about the Outer Space Treaty, the Moon Treaty, and the new recently passed legislation in the U.S. that lets companies profit from asteroid mining and all that was part of her discussion. And Alex Ellery, who is a professor of aerospace engineering, did a talk on self-replicating technology and how that might lead to space industrialization. So the whole idea of programmable von Neumann machines, though not as microscopic. And then, Brent Ziarnick, who is a teacher at the Air University, that thy have for up and coming air force officers and space force officers, he teaches at that. He’s in the DOD. And he gave a seminar called the “Role of National Space Forces, and Security, Safety, and Prosperity through Space Exploration.” Which was all about how we’re going to evolve the Coast Guard-like aspects of the Space Force to protect the space lanes. So anyway, we had those three seminars that people attended before the symposium actually began. “[I]n space, we run the very real risk that whoever gets there first, that they might set the rules of engagement that other people have to play.” M: Now, in terms of what Brent was talking about, what do you see as the likely threats and scenarios, the things that we need to be discussing today to be ready for tomorrow? LJ: I’ve had a lot of discussions with him about this. And he also wrote an essay for the anthology you and I are in. And he’s also writing a paper on this for a technical anthology that Ken and I are editing for Elsevier. So he’s given a lot of thought to this. And I think the big issue is, if you look at history on Earth, the nation states that are the first to do something set the rules for how the game will be played. So right now, there’s a big issue in the Taiwan Strait about freedom of navigation and what we consider to be international waters, whereas China doesn’t consider it to be international waters. The norm is what the rest of the world currently does, which assumes it’s a free passage in international waters because they were the first to get there. And in space, we run the very real risk that whoever gets there first – wherever there is, whether it be to a certain asteroid to a certain part of the Moon or otherwise – that they might set the rules of engagement that other people have to play by. And so I think one of the things we have to be careful of is making sure that the principles that we tend to hold dear – which are free travel, free expression, equal access to resources – that kind of thing is upheld by law. And part of how you do that is you set the precedent in space. So I think that’s what a lot of his talk probably was about who’s going to be the one to set the norms for how things are done. Artist’s impression of the orbital debris problem. Credit: UC3M M: Yeah, I can see a lot of overlap with what Montgomery was talking about there and from what I’ve learned about space law from the Space Court Foundation and Space Generation Advisory Council. We need to set the precedents and establish rules ahead of time so that we don’t end up trying to figure this out as we go along and having a “Wild West” -type scenario. LJ: Well, plus, from a national security point of view, right now, our Space Forces have a really good handle of what everybody in the world is doing in LEO, MEO, and GEO because we have spacecraft there that are watching everybody, and we have the capability from the ground to look up and watch everybody. And we know what everybody’s doing. Right now, in cislunar space, that capability doesn’t exist. And there is a Chinese lander on the lunar farside right now that we don’t have a clue what it’s doing. And I’m sure that’s causing great consternation somewhere, not that it’s necessarily anything more than just a science mission, and they’re just doing science. But that’s not the point. The point is, there’s no way to confirm that’s what’s happening. And nobody really knows that that’s what’s happening. So you have to ask the question, “Hmm, how are we going to fix that problem?” And I’m sure that’s something that’s high on the list for the Space Force people. M: Alex Ellery and I have actually talked when I did an article on his work, and I immediately tried to rope him into doing a podcast on Von Neumann Probes. And he agreed. It helps that he’s a professor at my alma mater, Carleton University. I saw that Frank Tipler was there too. LJ: Oh, that was great. I had a great time talking to him. I have some of his books that he autographed. I was a fanboy. His talk was a great way to start the symposium because he thinks big. Right. And his claim to fame, the whole Omega Point thing, and the fact that he believes that he has shown through the fundamental laws of nature that there will be a point in the future when we’ll be able to simulate the Universe and recreate everyone whose ever lived and ever will live and can live for eternity in that future. And the fact that we exist now, he has a mathematical way of showing that that’s proof that we’re going to be successful in the future. And I have to admit, I didn’t really fully understand all of it. But he is really big on basically not just anti-matter, but this whole notion of how we understand the Universe and what that tells us about how the future clock of the Universe is going to unfold. And it was a really upbeat, optimistic, but incredibly technically detailed presentation. So I can’t do it justice in explaining it because I think there’s only one Frank Tipler. It was really a nice optimistic way to kick things off. The next talk was given by another person you probably should talk to, Joseph Gottlieb, who gave a really nice humanities paper on the ethics and morality of, “Should we explore space?” And he really delved down into the questions of, “Do we as a species have a right to export our species elsewhere? What’s the basis by which we’re going to make the decisions regarding that? And what are the philosophical presuppositions that go into that whole discussion?” And his bottom line was “yes.” But he also made a point that there are other people out there that are of the belief “maybe” and some that are “no,” right? So there are different [opinions]. I’m not surprised there’s disagreement, but he makes a pretty compelling case in his presentation and in his paper that there is a good philosophical basis for space exploration and the expansion of the human species into space. So pretty cool stuff. It was very down to Earth after Tipler. (laughs) Artist’s impression of the proposed Solar Gravity Lens telescope. Credit: The Aerospace Corporation M: (laughs) Yeah, “let’s get back to things that are a little more… now!” LJ: Yeah. Well, even stuff that was far out [like Claudio Maccone]. I’ve known Claudio Maccone for 20 years now. He’s the one who really – he and Greg Matloff are the ones that really got me sucked into the interstellar community. And Claudio is a mathematical savant. I mean, he’s just amazing. But his whole thing now is this whole gravitational lensing for communications and for looking at exoplanets. Now, you may have heard of the work that Slava Turyshev is doing at JPL on the exoplanet imager at the Solar Gravity Lens. Do you know anything about that? M: Yeah. It was a little while ago, but I do remember that – basically, using the Sun as a gravitational lens to image exoplanets that would provide insane resolution? LJ: Right. Yeah, there were two people at the conference who talked about that. One was Claudio, and the other was Victor Toth, who is actually a part of Slava’s [research]. He gave a talk in the afternoon, “Look before you leap: using the solar gravitational lens to explore exoplanets.” That’s where he really delved into the whole exoplanet imaging kind of thing. Claudio actually talked about using it as a communication system, kind of the Galactic Internet. He says that what we need to do if we’re going to send a colony or a settlement ship to Alpha Centauri, and we want to have high-bandwidth communication from there to home, you can’t do anything about the speed of light with the lag time. But you can sure do something about getting the communication strength up. So you have high bandwidth because bandwidth is determined by the size of your antenna and the size of your receiver, and the power of your transmitter. And it turns out that not only does the Sun act as a gravity lens for light, but it also acts as a gravity lens for radio. We shouldn’t be surprised because both are photons, right? They’re just different energy. So if you take a spacecraft with an existing transmitter that’s not gigawatts but might be hundreds of watts, and you put it at the Sun’s gravity lens point that aligns with Alpha Centauri. And you put another one in the Alpha Centauri system so that it’s at the point where it looks back at Sol (our star). You have two nodes. And then you send whatever data at Alpha Centauri that you want to send back to Earth to the Solar Gravity Lens satellite that they have. And then they use this very modest transmitter to send it back or back to Earth, and the Solar Gravity Lens focuses all that energy back onto our receiver. So you no longer need a gigawatt transmitter to get high bandwidth. You can do it with just a conventional few 100-watt spacecraft transmitters. So it’s sort of the equivalent of imaging, but you’re doing it with radio, and you have a communications network. And Claudio postulates that, given the amount of time that the Universe has existed and how long it takes spacecraft to travel these distances, even if we have cultures that are spreading throughout the galaxy at some small fraction of the speed of light, they’ve had a long time to do it. The reason why we may not be picking anything up on SETI is because these different civilizations are all talking to each other from the gravity lens point. And there’s no leakage. And in order to join the network, you have to get one of them to recognize that you’re there and beam something to your surrogate Solar Gravity Lens region. So it’s potential that we could send a probe to the Solar Gravity Lens with a radio tuned to SETI frequencies and suddenly find out there’s somebody else out there. And Claudio really developed that mathematically and did a very, very nice job. Showing that it’s not only possible but how it could change our paradigm of doing SETI and how there might actually be a galactic internet that we just haven’t got a cell phone to tap into yet. So that was one of the more mind-expanding lectures of the morning. The 8th Interstellar Symposium was held from July 10th to 13th at McGill University. Credit: Interstellar Research Group (IRG) M: The event you were part of, “Interstellar travel, are we ready?” There was a lot of “who’s who” there. Right off the top, Alan Stern and Phillip Lubin were both there and bringing quite a bit to the table. And you yourself, you were hosting? LJ: Yeah, I introduced all the panelists: AJ, Allen, Phillip, and Erica. And then Trevor was like the MC. He’s apparently a popular host in Canada, and he does this kind of thing all the time. He’s witty and personable, so he interacted with the audience and had a list of questions. And we on the panel kind of batted around the answers. Some were specific to us, and some were general. And it all centered around this notion of – “How do we plan for something that’s far out?” “Why are we doing it?” “Can we really afford to do it?” And, “What’s the scale that it will be?” And there were differences of opinion. We had a few points of disagreement, notably between most of us and Philip Lubin. Phil had just done a recent cost analysis, just in energy costs, of how much it would cost to send an interstellar ship. And that caused quite a discussion. Because I personally, I think it’s an irrelevant number because by the time we do this, what is the energy price going to be? And what is money going to be? So there are some definite differences. Erica and AJ really brought the perspective of “Who’s going to go?” and “How do we decide who goes?” and “How do we make this community less ‘pale, male, and stale’?” which I thought was very valuable. Erica [is] a successful social media podcaster kind of person, and AJ is really big on working to get diversity into space, and the space thinking, and space workforce. So it was, it was really a nice interplay between technical, social, and political kinds of discussions, and it was the most well-attended public outreach event we’ve ever had. The audience had over 400 people in it. So it was really awesome. Yeah. M: Was there any consensus when it came to this event? Was there any sense of, “Yeah, we think we are,” or “We’re gonna have to wait and see,” or…? LJ: No, we’re not ready (laughs), and it’s technology that’s the prohibitor. We’re really not ready technologically. But we did conclude that being ready, at least for small robotic missions, is within reach. With the work that Breakthrough Starshot is doing and the spin-offs that might come from that, we all kind of envisioned that it might be possible to send a robotic probe within the next 100 years, give or take. So we’re not as far away from being able to do that as I thought we were when I began my career and looked at interstellar stuff like 20 years ago. I was thinking it was 200 to 300 years. We might actually be within 100 years of our first robotic probe, which is amazing. So the answer is, “Technically, we’re ready.” I think AJ and Erica might take issue with us being socioeconomically, sociologically, and psychologically ready. But that’s an important question, “Are we as a culture ready to do this?” And I think there’s some legitimate debate to be had here. Project Starshot, an initiative sponsored by the Breakthrough Foundation, is intended to be humanity’s first interstellar voyage. Credit: breakthroughinitiatives.org M: I was wondering about that very thing. I would assume the psychological and sociological impacts that such a mission would have had to have come up. So, did they [say] we’re ready that way, or they do they not believe [we are]? LJ: They believe we’re on a path to being ready and that we should try to do it. They were not negative. They were questioning our readiness today but not doubting that we will if that makes sense. M: Perfect sense. And so, the thing that we’re not ready for, I take it then, is we cannot foresee crewed interstellar missions within our lifetime. There’s like a lot to work out there? LJ: Well, here’s where you have to be real careful. There were a lot of students in the audience who are 40 years younger than me. So when we say our lifetime, whose lifetime are we talking about? In my lifetime? No way. Robotic missions in my lifetime? No way. Robotic missions in the lifetime of a baby born today? Maybe. I don’t think a 40-year-old is gonna see it. I think a two year old might. M: Well, that counts me out. LJ: Sorry (laughs) M: I should point out that they’re doing a lot of good work in longevity cures these days. So, I wanted to definitely get into the science fiction panel. And it was you, Karl Schroeder, Eric Choi, Sylvain Neuvel? LJ: They’re all Canadian science fiction writers except me. And Karl Schroeder has written quite a few. He’s written a lot more stuff than I knew about. And I saw it, I really, I’m going to read some of his stuff. Now. We had side discussions because he and I have a common interest in developing planetary sunshades to mitigate climate change, and he and I’ve been talking about that offline. But this panel is centered a lot in a direction that I kind of inadvertently, well, probably not inadvertently. I did steer it that way, a bit, maybe a bit too much. And that is how science fiction has changed. It used to be optimistic. And today, it’s very pessimistic and dystopian. And why? What does that mean? And is that a good thing or a bad thing? And or is it something we ought to try to change? And we had a lot of audience interaction with the younger people. And there are quite a few younger people at this meeting, more younger people than we’ve ever had, who were explaining why they think dystopian. And then me and Carl and the others telling them, “Well, your generation has challenges like every other did. Roll up your sleeves and get busy, right?” And we all agreed that the tone of the literature can set the tone of the culture and that it’s been negative for too long. The pendulum needs to swing back to people writing about futures where we can actually solve our problems. And so we had a lot of discussion about that, not a lot about the writing process or what it means to be a writer. We did talk about some of our works, but it was primarily the philosophy of directions of where we are in science fiction. The Ross 248 Project, by Les Johnson and Ken Roy (eds.) Credit: Baen Books M: Well, that certainly sounds interesting. So was that sort of the main subject, the tone of science fiction today versus [the past]? LJ: That’s how it ended up being. There were other questions asked, but most of them centered around that, and that’s what got the most audience interaction. M: During your panel and also the public outreach event, did The Ross 248 Project come up? LJ: Oh, yeah. I made sure it came up. It came up in the science fiction panel, and they had 10 copies of the book for sale in the room. And they sold out. I wish they’d had more. I think they could have sold twice that many. So yeah, I did. And a lot of people who said they couldn’t get it told me they were going to order it. So I think they will. Yeah, came up. Are you kidding? I had a copy up there with me! (laughs) M: I wish I could have been there. I’d have brought my copies too. LJ: Well, our next meeting will be in Houston. And June of 2025. M: I think my schedule is clear. (laughs) LJ: Believe it or not, I had to put it on mine to make sure it stays clear. M: Les Johnson, thank you so much for joining us, and best of luck with your future endeavors. The post Universe Today Interviews NASA’s Les Johnson About the 8th Interstellar Symposium appeared first on Universe Today.

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wes!! alan!!! jay!!!!

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Awesome!❤️😂

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Denizli’de otizmli çocuklar için hemsball çalışmaları başladı

Otizme Doğan Güneş: Hemsball (HERSA) Erasmus+Spor KA2 projesi öğrenci değerlendirme, tanıtım ve bilgilendirme toplantıları Merkezefendi Belediyesi Engelsiz Yaşam Akademisi’nde yapıldı. Aydın Gençlik ve Spor İl Müdürlüğü tarafından yürütülen uluslararası projede Türkiye’den Denizli Otizm Derneği’nin yanı sıra İtalya’dan ve Portekiz’den de ortaklar yer alıyor. Hemsball’un otistik çocuklar üzerindeki yararlı etkilerini göstermek ve Avrupa’da hemsball’u tanıtmak amacıyla 2022 yılında hayata geçirilen ve bu yıl da devam eden HERSA projesinin Denizli etabı etkinlikleri 9-10 Ocak tarihleri arasında gerçekleştirildi.  Aydın Gençlik Spor İl Müdürlüğü ekibi tarafından, Denizli Otizm Derneği ortaklığında 9-10 Ocak tarihlerinde hemsball çalışacak otizmli çocuklara yönelik ölçüm ve değerlendirmeler Merkezefendi Belediyesi Engelsiz Yaşam Akademisi’nde yapıldı. Otizmli öğrencilerin değerlendirmeleri Aydın Gençlik Spor İl Müdürlüğü antrenörleri İpek Ulusan ve Sevcan Tetik tarafından yapıldı. 10 Ocak’ta da öğle saatlerine kadar süren değerendirmelerin ardından Denizli kamuoyuna projenin tanıtımı yapıldı.  DOD Başkanı Burcu Bilik’in otizmle son güncel gelişmeleri aktardığı açılış konuşmasıyla başlayan toplantıda HERSA Proje Koordinatörü Berna Ayna proje ile bilgileri ve yurtdışı ziyaretlerindeki deneyimlerini aktardı. Toplantıya katılanlar arasında yer alan Denizli Gençlik Spor İl Müdürü Ömer İlhan da kısa bir konuşma yaparak Hemsball ve otizmli bireylerin spor eğitiminin desteklenmesi konusunda her zaman destek vermeye hazır olduklarını ifade etti. Antrenörler Firdevs Türkeli ve Burak Öztürk, Türkler tarafından bulunan bir spor olan hemsball’un özellikleri ve otizmli bireylere etkileri konusunda bilgiler verdiler.  Bütün çalışmaların çok verimli geçtiğini ifade eden DOD Başkanı Burcu Bilik şunları söyledi: ‘’Proje kapsamında uluslararası ilk buluşma Ekim ayında Kuşadası’nda düzenlenerek eğitimcilerin eğitimi yapıldı. Kasım ayında da Türkiye ekibi İtalya ve Portekiz���i ziyaret ederek hem Hersa Projesi’nin bu ülkelerdeki tanıtım toplantılarını hem de hemsball öğrenecek otistik çocuklara yönelik ölçümlemeleri tamamladı.   Aydın Gençlik Spor İl Müdürlüğü ekibini 9-10 Ocak tarihleri arasında Denizli’de ağırladık. Hem onlara hem de bize kapılarını açan Merkezefedefendi Belediye Başkanı Şeniz Doğan’a ve Engelsiz Yaşam Akademisi yetkililerine ve ekibine ne kadar teşekkür etsek az. Ayrıca tanıtım toplantısına katılan otizmli çocuklarımıza ve ailelerimize, gönüllü eğitmenlerimize, uzmanlara, akademisyenlere, kamu ve yerel yönetim temsilcilerine de çok teşekkür ederiz. Uluslararası bir projesinin parçası olduğumuz için mutluyuz. Hep birlikte otizmli çocuklarımızın yararına güzel işler yapacağımıza inanıyoruz.’’ Read the full article

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Three individuals were arrested following a joint investigation by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) offices in Louisville, San Diego and San Francisco after a federal indictment was unsealed in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Kentucky.According to court documents, Phil Pascoe, 60, of Floyds Knobs, Indiana; Monica Pascoe, 45, of Floyds Knobs, Indiana; Scott Tubbs, 59, of Georgetown, Kentucky; and Quadrant Magnetics LLC were charged with wire fraud, violations of the Arms Export Control Act and smuggling of goods for their roles in an illegal scheme to send export-controlled defense-related technical data to China and to unlawfully supply the U.S. Department of Defense with Chinese-origin rare earth magnets for aviation systems and military items. “The HSI Counter-Proliferation Investigations Program is responsible for the enforcement of U.S. import and export laws involving military and defense-related products and sensitive dual-use technology,” said acting Special Agent in Charge Nick Nelson, HSI Nashville. “The indictment is a credit to the collaboration of multiple law enforcement partners, including our special agents in HSI San Diego, San Francisco and Louisville, Kentucky, as well as the complex investigative work involved in protecting the attempted theft of our nation’s military assets and sensitive controlled technology.” The indictment alleges that between January 2012 and December 2018, the defendants conspired to send approximately 70 drawings containing export-controlled technical data to a company located in China without a license from the U.S. government in violation of the Arms Export Control Act and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. The technical data drawings were the property of two U.S. companies and related to end-use items for aviation, submarine, radar, tank, mortars, missiles, infrared and thermal imaging targeting systems, and fire control systems for DOD. The indictment further alleges that Quadrant Magnetics imported rare earth magnets that were smelted and magnetized by a company in China. Quadrant then sold these magnets to two U.S. companies that included them in components sold to the DOD for use in F-16 Fighting Falcon and F/A-18 Hornet aircraft, as well as other defense assets in violation of the Defense Acquisition Regulations System. Under the DFARS specialty metal clause, rare earth magnets sold to the DOD must be produced and magnetized in the United States or an approved country. China is not an approved country. Arraignments will be scheduled before a U.S. Magistrate Judge in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. If convicted, Phil Pascoe, Monica Pascoe and Scott Tubbs face statutory maximum penalties of up to 20 years in prison for each count of wire fraud; 20 years in prison for each count of exporting technical data without a license; and 10 years in prison for smuggling goods from the United States. Monica Pascoe and her codefendants face a penalty of up to five years for conspiracy to defraud the United States. A federal district court judge will determine their sentences after considering the U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors. Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division, U.S. Attorney Michael A. Bennett for the Western District of Kentucky, Assistant Director Alan E. Kohler Jr. of the FBI Counterintelligence Division and Special Agent in Charge Jodi Cohen of the FBI Louisville Field Office made the announcement. The Defense Criminal Investigative Service, FBI, IRS-Criminal Investigation, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and the Department of Energy’s Office of Inspector General are also investigating the case. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Joshua Judd and Christopher Tieke for the Western District of Kentucky and Trial Attorneys David Recker and Liz Abraham with the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section are prosecuting the case.

An indictment is merely an allegation, and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

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ComProg History YOU SHOULD KNOW!!!

1843 Ada Lovelace is credited as being the first person to describe or write a computer program.

In 1843, she described an algorithm to compute Bernoulli numbers using the Analytical Engine.

1889 The Hollerith tabulating machine was invented by Herman Hollerith in 1889, allowing for data to be programmatically counted and tabulated.

1956 One of the first programming languages, FORTRAN, was introduced to the public on October 15, 1956. It was developed by John Backus and others at IBM.

1958 The second-oldest programming language, LISP was developed by John McCarthy and was first used in 1958.

1959 COBOL started being developed in 1959 by Grace Hopper and Bob Bemer.

1964 The original BASIC programming language was developed by John Kemeny, Mary Keller, and Thomas Kurtz, and was introduced to the public on May 1, 1964.

1965 Simula is considered the first ever object-oriented programming language, developed around 1965 by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard.

1966 Martin Richards developed the BCPL programming language in 1966, which became popular due to its portability.

1966 The MUMPS programming language was developed by Neil Pappalardo at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1966.

1967 Known for its graphics capabilities, Logo was created by Seymour Paper in 1967.

1971 Pascal was developed in 1971 by Niklaus Wirth.

1972 Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan developed the C programming language at Bell Labs in 1972.

1972 The Prolog programming language was developed by Alain Colmerauer and colleagues in 1972 at the University of Marseilles.

1972 Smalltalk was the second ever object-oriented programming language and the first true IDE, developed by Alan Kay and others at Xerox PARC in 1972.

1974 SQL is a database programming language and was developed by Edgar Codd in 1974 and is still important in the programming language world.

1975 A variation of LISP, the Scheme programming language was created in 1975 by Guy Steele and Gerry Sussman at MIT's Artificial Intelligence lab.

1975 The Altair BASIC programming language was developed by Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Monte Davidoff, and was made available for use on January 2, 1975. It was used to create programs for Altair computers.

1979 Development of the C++ programming language was started in 1979 by Bjarne Stroustrup. Originally called "C with classes," C++ is one of the most widelyused programming languages.

1979 Oracle released the first commercial version of SQL in 1979.

1979 The Department of Defense developed the Ada programming language, originally named DoD-1, and named it after Ada Lovelace in May 1979.

1984 FoxPro is a programming language for developing database applications and was released by Fox Software in 1984.

1984 Cleve Moler started developing the MATLAB programming language in the late 1970s, and it was released to the public, with the MATLAB software package, in 1984.

1987 The open source programming language Perl that was developed by Larry Wall was introduced in 1987. It is commonly used in creating CGI scripts and programming web applications.

1988 Developed in the mid-1980s by Brad Cox and Tom Love, the Objective-C programming language was officially licensed by NeXT in 1988.

1990 Tim Berners-Lee developed the HTML markup language in 1990. HTML is one of the most popular and widely-used programming languages in the world.

1990 Haskell, a general-purpose programming language, was introduced in 1990.

1990 Engineers at Apple developed the Dylan programming language in the early 1990s. Dylan was designed to resemble the syntax of the ALGOL programming language.

1991 Development of Python was started in 1989 by Guido van Rossum and released to the public in 1991.

1991 Visual Basic was developed by Alan Cooper and released in May 1991.

1993 Lua was created in 1993 by engineers at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

1993 R is a programming language created by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka and introduced in 1993.

1994 The concept of CSS was started by Håkon Wium Lie in 1994. W3C introduced the specification for CSS in 1996.

1995 Java was developed by James Gosling and other developers at Sun Microsystems, and was first introduced to the public in 1995.

1995 The object-oriented programming language Ruby developed by Yukihiro Matsumoto was first released in 1995.

1995 The experimental, multi-paradigm Curry programming language was introduced by Michael Hanus, Herbert Kuchen, and Juan Jose Moreno-Navarro in 1995.

1995 Racket is a general purpose programming language developed by Matthias Felleisen in 1995.

1995 A server-side interpreted scripting language, PHP was developed by Rasmus Lerdorf starting in 1994 and released on June 8, 1995.

1995 Originally named LiveScript when released in November 1995, JavaScript was developed by Brendan Eich and renamed as such in December 1995.

1996 Introduced in 1996, OCaml is an object-oriented version of the Caml programming language.

1998 XML is a markup language, with the specification for XML being developed by W3C and recommended on February 10, 1998.

1999 Development of the D programming language started in December 1999. D is a higher level language compared to C++.

2000 Based on C++ and Java, the C# programming language was developed by Microsoft and introduced in June 2000. C# became an ISO standard in 2003.

2003 The object-oriented programming language Scala was introduced in 2003.

2005 Don Syme developed the F# programming language and Microsoft first introduced it in 2005.

2007 The Go programming language was developed at Google starting in 2007. It was completed and introduced to the public in 2009.

2007 Rich Hickey developed the Clojure programming language and released the first version in 2007.

2008 Introduced in 2008, Nim is a programming language used to develop software requiring strict limits on how system memory is used.

2008 The object-oriented programming language Reia was introduced in 2008.

2010 The multi-paradigm CoffeeScript programming language, capable of being compiled into JavaScript, was officially released in 2010.

2011 Google developed the open source web-based Dart programming language, introducing it to the public in October 2011.

2012 Julia was developed by Jeff Bezanson, Alan Edelman, Stefan Karpinski, and Viral B. Shah and released in 2012. It is a high-level programming language used for scientific computing.

2014 Babel is a general-purpose programming language developed in 2014 and used to create programs for conserving battery life and system resources on devices.

2014 Created by Apple and released on June 2, 2014, the Swift programming language helps create programs and apps for iOS, macOS, the Apple Watch, and AppleTV.

2015 Graydon Hoare started development of the Rust programming language around 2010. After contributions from hundreds of people, it was officially released as version 1.0.0 alpha by Mozilla research on January 9, 2015.

[melikemordemjaponi]

＊The YPG has been the most successful force in the fight against ISIS and our region is a much safer area for partner forces’ troops compared to Afghanistan and Iraq, thanks to efforts by our fighters. Yet we are disappointed to see the coalition spokesman Col Wayne Marotto not taking any responsibility for the silence in the face of aggression by coalition and NATO member Turkey with NATO-supplied weapons on people and troops fighting IS, and instead referring the US-EUCOM and US-DoD to assume responsibility. Who is responsible?

via Twitter/YPG spokesperson com.Nuri Mahmoud

＊YPG Sözcüsü Nuri Mahmud : YPG, DAİŞ'e karşı mücadelede en başarılı güç oldu ve bölgemiz, savaşçılarımızın çabaları sayesinde Afganistan ve Irak'a kıyasla ortak güçlerin birlikleri için çok daha güvenli bir alan.

Koalisyon ve NATO üyesi Türkiye'nin, IŞİD'e karşı savaşan insanlara ve askerlere NATO'dan tedarik ettiği silahlarla yaptığı saldırganlık karşısında sessiz kalmanın sorumluluğunu almamak ve bunun yerine sorumluluğu ABD-EUCOM havale etmek. Sorumlu kim?

Twitter üzerinden MİLA

＊ "クルド人部隊YPGはISとの戦いで最も成功した部隊であり,我々の地域は我々の戦��員の努力のおかげで,アフガニスタンやイラクに比べ,パートナー軍の部隊にとってはるかに安全な地域となっている｡

しかし連合とNATO加盟国であるトルコがNATO支給の武器を使い,ISと戦う人々や部隊に攻撃を仕掛けているにもかかわらず,沈黙のまま何の責任も取らず,代わりにUS-EUCOM(アメリカ欧州軍)とUS-DoD(アメリカ国防総省)に責任を取るようにと,連合のスポークスマンであるウェイン･マロット大佐が言っているのを見て,我々は失望している｡責任の所在は誰にあるのか?"

YPGスポークスマン/ヌーリ･マハムード司令官