I sealed it last night, and got the news about Mr. Neil this morning.
My heart is full, now that it is complete.
This box is mine and personal, but I may make more in the future 💜 #samneil#jurassicpark#doctoralangrant
The version of Star Wars returning to theaters on February 19, 2027 is the one George Lucas spent nearly thirty years insisting could never be shown again.
This is the genuine 1977 theatrical cut, newly restored. Han shoots first. There is no CGI Jabba slithering around Mos Eisley. None of the Special Edition additions Lucas folded in starting in 1997 are present. It is the first proper theatrical run of the original film in over forty years, confirmed on the official Star Wars site.
What makes that remarkable is how hard Lucas worked to bury it. After the 1997 Special Editions, he said repeatedly that the altered versions were the only ones he recognized. He compared his right to keep changing the film to Michelangelo deciding to repaint part of the Sistine Chapel.
His stated reason it could never come back was technical. He said the original camera negative had been physically cut apart to assemble the Special Edition, which made a true restoration of the 1977 version impossible.
So for almost three decades, every official release carried Special Edition material. The one time the original cut appeared on DVD, in 2006, it was a low-resolution transfer pulled from an old laserdisc master, slipped out as a bonus disc with no restoration at all.
The best way to watch the real 1977 Star Wars became a fan project. One team tracked down an actual 35mm theatrical print through a seller in Spain and scanned it frame by frame, cleaning every speck of dirt by hand over several years, because the studio that owned the film would not.
The 2027 restoration quietly proves it was always possible with the technology that existed the whole time. What had been standing in the way was ownership. Lucas controlled the film and did not want this version seen, and that only changed when he sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012 for four billion dollars.
The 50th anniversary celebration everyone is sharing is, underneath the nostalgia, a studio releasing the exact version the film's creator spent his life trying to paint over, now that he is no longer the one holding the brush.
🚨 GREAT NEWS: Trump NASA chief Jared Isaacman just CONFIRMED his goal is to CLOBBER China in the space race
“We want to be ON the moon — not above the moon looking down on the Chinese!" 🔥
Isaacman is moving to ensure a MOON BASE is waiting for our astronauts in 2028
"When you have competition, you do NOT wanna lose."
"We face a Chinese rival...we want infrastructure on the surface. We want AMERICAN STANDARDS on the Moon."
"For power, for communication, mobility, logistics, rovers...surface improvements, and habitation."
The man is committed, I like it! BEAT CHINA TO MOON DOMINANCE! 🇺🇸 @NASAAdmin
❤️✨🦖Ram Head Pachycephalosaurus🦖✨❤️
Today's artwork is the Pachycephalosaurus card from the Jurassic Park TCG EX-01 "Raptor Strike" set, based on the toy from Jurassic Park Series 2! 💜
#jurassicpark#dinosaurs#TCG#jurassicparktcg#jurassicworld
“Why didn’t Artemis II photograph the Apollo landing sites?”
Because there was no reason to. We already have the images - high-resolution, crystal-clear proof sitting right there for anyone who isn’t terminally online and allergic to facts.
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has photographed all six Apollo landing sites in exquisite detail.
They’ve also been independently imaged by Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter (India), Kaguya (SELENE) (Japan), and Chang’e 2 (China).
Those missions were in proper low lunar orbit, about 50 km above the surface, packed with dedicated narrow-angle cameras built exactly for surface mapping.
Artemis II? High-speed flyby at 8,000–10,000 km out, one quick pass, zero orbital insertion, and zero surface-mapping gear on board. Just crew snapping pictures through windows with off-the-shelf cameras. Trying to resolve car-sized hardware from that distance would be like reading license plates from the International Space Station - utterly pointless.
More importantly, there was zero mission value in pandering to the denial crowd. NASA designs flights around engineering, science, and crew safety, not around humoring conspiracy theorists who treat evidence like it’s optional.
The data already exists. It’s been confirmed, cross-checked, and independently verified by multiple nations for years.
And let’s be honest: even if Artemis II had beamed back 8K footage of the lunar modules with little American flags still standing, the same deniers would instantly scream “FAKE!” while furiously refreshing their flat-Earth forums.
No one cares what deniers want - they exist for our amusement only. Zombies in clown makeup.
🚨 BREAKING: Incredible moment as Artemis II pilot Victor Glover shares the Gospel mere MOMENTS before reaching the back side of the Moon, losing communication with Earth
"Christ said, in response to what was the greatest command, that it was to love God with all that you are." 🙏🏻
"And he also, being a great teacher, said the second is equal to it, and that is to love your neighbor as yourself."
"And so, as we prepare to go out of radio communication, we're still going to feel your love from Earth, and to all of you down there on earth and around earth, we love you from the moon." ❤️
Apollo HD - Upscaled 16mm Apollo footage to music (Extended March 2026 Version)
As #ArtemisII goes behind the Moon, heres a look back to the glorious Apollo missions in newly upscaled HD quality. This short film is a compilation of stunning Apollo film footage upscaled using modern techniques set to a beautiful music score.
The film is a compilation of several missions from the unmanned Apollo 4 test flight thru to the incredibly successful Apollo 17 which saw the last men on the moon
Made by Mike Constantine @Moonpans using footage from the NASA Johnson Space Center and The Apollo Flight Journal.
In a world that feels like it's coming apart, America once again lit a fire. Then, millions looked up, perhaps simply to remember: The future is still there. And it begins again.
We have some VERY exciting news to share with you all! After all of your overwhelming support, our first major content release funded by the Players' Choice Kickstarter is officially launching on April 20th! 🥳 Which includes of course, our long awaited Spinosaurus 🦖💫
Tomorrow, we launch.
At sunset tonight, Artemis II waits on the pad, ready to carry astronauts potentially farther than any humans have traveled in more than half a century.
The next era of exploration begins.