Mark Hions

Husband, father, grandfather, friend. Board game player, cancer survivor, pun appreciator, tea drinker, laughter lover. Happy to be here.

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@silverlock It’s time to reread this one.

I read Eon every year. There’s a scene near the beginning that gets me every time.

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@RetroNewsNow This is the algorithm I memorized back in the early 80s, and still use. It’s not particularly efficient, and my best time is one minute 14 seconds. Thanks, Mr Nourse.

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@StaterJm @inglorioustrek That’s a lot of work and well appreciated. Some of these are memory taxing.

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@repeat_the_past @_MikeMcCartney_ He scared the willies out of me too, again for no good reason. What is the song?

Ken Dodd freaked me as well, probably because of the hair.

But I love Milton Jones.

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@rob_brown8 @RealTimVine @NASA If this were true, how would you explain the phases of the moon?

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@BrianTHart The coverage was shambolic. From the launch camera operator who suddenly thought it would be a good idea to tilt the camera up to follow the rocket after it had left the frame, to the cut to the crowd you mention, to the unstabilized zoom, to the unnecessary crosshairs…

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@erikkuna @Astropartigirl @SuperclusterHQ @MiopsTrigger @CanonUSA @NASAArtemis That is a spectacular shot. Got any more?

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@AdamBrimson @oldtoons_ I noticed this as well. If it had been unintentional then their path would be the same as their actual entrance. Also, the male dancer usually faces forward so this was flipped intentionally.

However, the point about not messing with main characters is well taken.

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@OnlyACartwright While most of this model is from the film, the two counter-rotating modules have been added. They resemble the space station in Earth orbit, but were not part of the spaceship Discovery.

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@ProfBrianCox Good to know. Thank you.

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@ProfBrianCox One show in Canada that’s more than 4,000 km from me.

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@joeydanna @BrianRoemmele My Dad brought one of these home in the mid-70s, rescuing it from the landfill. I never did any useful work on it, but entered a lot of multiplication tasks just for fun. I lost track of it, and would pay good money to have it (or one like it) back again. Ah, the sound!

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@jim34420 @Hoang_HQ Close. Victor Borge.

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@BuddyWut @fasc1nate No, the is a real magic trick you can learn yourself. I’ve been doing it for years. Takes practice.

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@natehale @Hoang_HQ I remember Mason Williams playing Classical Gas on one of those shows. The guitar was clear plastic, partially filled with water, and had a goldfish swimming in it.

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@mahovolich @SubcommanderT I thought so too. That means this would have aired on CBC (in the 70s?)

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@Johnnypapa64 I see Ronnie Barker but not Ronnie Corbett. And Tom Baker and Liz Sladen aren’t near each other?

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@ThatEricAlper I remember it as “Sit Ubu sit, good boy”

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@thejaysnation “Boy, would a base hit be huge right here.”

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@Leafgirl93 @thejaysnation It would be hard to argue with these as the top three. Perhaps not in this order, though.