Kirk Sealls

[Kirk Sealls @KirkSealls]

@historyinmemes Quite clearly the Mattel toy of an M16, not a real rifle

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@farley682 @fasc1nate Your understanding is correct, in fact he’s generally considered to be the most decorated US soldier of all time, although that distinction is technically more ambiguous as there is no formal definition of “decorated” across the duration of our nation’s history

[Kirk Sealls @KirkSealls]

@BeschlossDC Technically the last Mercury astronaut in space was Deke Slayton, although Slayton never flew a Mercury mission. Grounded due to a heart murmur until 1972, Slayton was part of the crew for Apollo-Soyuz in 1973

[Kirk Sealls @KirkSealls]

@For_Film_Fans Thanks for prompting us to remember Harryhausen, too few do know of his work today. I try to raise awareness of the contributions by the likes of Willis O’Brien, Ray Harryhausen, and Phil Tippett in the art of stop motion animation every chance I get

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@airandspace This event was dramatized in the HBO miniseries “From the Earth to the Moon”

[Kirk Sealls @KirkSealls]

@TheCinesthetic It depends on what you call a “camera trick.” It was captured in camera (nothing done in post), that’s certainly true

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@xiphos480 @simongerman600 It spans from North America to Asia, but not North America to Europe, I think? Right?

[Kirk Sealls @KirkSealls]

@engineers_feed Here’s what I heard:

They stacked random books in the room for the photo op. Was it all code? Probably. Was it hand written? No. Was it comprehensive? No. Was there duplication? Likely. Was it all Hamilton’s code? Certainly not

[Kirk Sealls @KirkSealls]

@ATRightMovies Kastel also created the paperback cover for “Jaws,” which he refined for the movie poster. The concept of the shark coming from the deep to attack the swimmer came from the first edition dust wrapper, as designed by Paul Bacon, but that first edition artwork frankly looks silly

[Kirk Sealls @KirkSealls]

@fasc1nate He was THE most decorated American soldier of WWII, and generally regarded as the most decorated American soldier of all time

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@amazing_physics Look at this size of this guy’s hand compared to the sun!

[Kirk Sealls @KirkSealls]

@engineers_feed

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@CommandoBond @Guns_com That’s awesome! You might be interested in this project, too. I’m having somebody else make replicas of the stocks. LT Arms is also redoing the front sight blade for me; funny story, they only got the profile wrong because their printer cropped the image I sent them

[LT Arms @LTArms1]

Smith & Wesson Fitz Special!

Our typical "Fitz Special" is built from a Colt donor pistol, but this time around we used a Smith & Wesson Victory model revolver. We took this revolver down to bare metal and recreated all of the proof marks and manufacturer's stamps before rebluing the frame and barrel. We then nickel-plated the cylinder, giving this vintage S&W a completely new look to complete this one-of-a-kind Fitz. #revolver #fitzspecial #smithandwesson #wheelgun #wheelgunwednesday

[Kirk Sealls @KirkSealls]

@LTArms1 This is my gun, LT Arms did an amazing job of replicating Geoffrey Boothroyd’s pistol, as famously featured on the cover of Ian Fleming’s “From Russia With Love”

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@fasc1nate Madness? This is Sparta!

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@EddieP64515 @sw_holocron @WarwickADavis As far as I’m able to tell, he “…doubled Yoda in some of his ‘walking’ scenes in The Phantom Menace,” it’s a bit of a stretch to say he played the character

[Kirk Sealls @KirkSealls]

@ScienceMagazine @ScienceAdvances To add a meaningful caption to the photo:

Top: A spider in the suborder Mesothelae (the most primitive form of spiders still extant) showing primitive spinnerets.

Bottom: A vinegaroon, another extant primitive arachnid, but devoid of spinnerets

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@InsaneReality Either way, the only thing you could realistically argue as “carelessness” is that he wasn’t pointing the gun toward the target when he chambered the first round, always a good idea, to mitigate the risk of just such a malfunction

[Kirk Sealls @KirkSealls]

@InsaneReality The firing pin block is a passive safety that blocks the firing pin until the trigger is fully pressed. This gun looks like a Beretta, and while Beretta has made guns without firing pin blocks historically, I’m unaware of any that feature a squared trigger guard. A mystery