WandaVision is going to take a deeper look at its titular characters, Wanda Maximoff and The Vision, than the Marvel Cinematic Universe has done to this point. They characters have appeared in Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, and one went on for [.]
The grandkids spent Christmas with us, and during the grand times that we had celebrating together, there were moments where we needed to find some kid-friendly television shows.
Our cable package includes a network that broadcasts TV programs that first aired when I was a little kid. While granddaughters Samantha and Abigail were momentarily entertained by programs that today are a blast from the past, like, for example, âThe Andy Griffith Show,â I got to thinking of others shows of that era, particularly those of the genre that defied reality.
I remember âMy Mother The Car,â which tried to ignore the real world every week. Among the main characters was a talking car. The show only lasted one season.
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YouTube channel to host it. At the link is his impressive list of sources.
I’ve spent several weekends working on a presentation of twentieth-century science fiction set in the year 2021, and here is the fruit of my labours, a 21-minute video.
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BEEP BEEP, BEEP BEEP. Phil Plait, in a “Bad Astronomy” entry at
…A standard radio astronomy technique to make sure that what you see is coming from the object you’re observing is to move the telescope back and forth a bit to point to a different part of the sky and see if the signal persists (perhaps leaking into the dish from a source nearby); this is called “nodding” because it’s like a head nodding. When they did this, the signal went away, then came back when they repointed at Proxima.