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Steven Keaton (played by Michael Gross) gives fatherly advice to his son Alex (played by Michael J Fox), in the last ever episode of Family Ties, while family friend 'Skippy' looks on. #gettingbondwrong #bondwrong @bondwrong @TheTchaikovsky #FamilyTies #QoS #JamesBond

@ToonTownDano @nordweasle @calvindyson I bet they'd have lots of actors playing 'James Bond'.

@nordweasle @calvindyson I wonder what that would be like? 🤔

This is why I can’t get too worried about James Bond going public domain in a few years. Everyone acting like the IP will be suddenly worthless when all that happens is a cash-in slasher called “The Man With the Golden Chainsaw” goes direct to streaming

@papaluigi77 @calvindyson What?

@calvindyson We're still stuck with the old, silent versions that haven't been relevant for decades. Once we get the modern color versions and the voice, it will be a big deal.

Does anyone have a spare £400, so we can buy this book of incredible colour images from Hitchcock's PSYCHO 😲 nailorwills.com/products/psych…

Meet the Seamaster Diver 300M Chronograph 007 First Light, worn by a young James Bond in the new action-adventure video game. #OMEGA #Seamaster #BondWatch #EarnTheNumber #007FirstLight

Fast forward to the modern world: The tech changed, but the geometry didn't. See: Radar 📡 Modern naval architecture is still dictated by the physical curve of the Earth - and yes, that means the oceans themselves are undeniably curved. Why do you think multi-billion dollar navies jam massive, heavy radar arrays at the absolute highest point of their masts? Because radar operates on a strict line-of-sight path. If the oceans were a flat plane, a radar antenna sitting three inches above the waves could scan the entire Atlantic. You'd save billions in engineering. Instead, real-world engineers have to fight a giant hill of water. They accept massive, top-heavy engineering risks that actively threaten a ship's stability just to elevate sensors over the planetary dip blocking their view. It gets even better: atmospheric pressure actually bends radio waves downward slightly. To calculate the exact radar horizon, engineers use a "4/3 Earth radius" model, giving radar a 15% boost beyond optical sight. But even with the atmosphere literally bending physics to help us see around the corner, you still can't cheat reality. The seas are curved, the Earth is a globe, and the horizon is proof. 🌎

If the Earth were flat, the crow’s nest would have been the most pointless, high-altitude torture chamber in naval history. 🏴‍☠️ For centuries, sailors willingly climbed 75+ feet into the freezing air, enduring violent, stomach-churning sways caused by the mast's lever-arm effect. They didn't do this for the view. They did it because they understood a physical reality that flat-earthers still struggle with today: spherical geometry. If the world were a flat plane, a sailor on the deck with a telescope or “spyglass” could see an oncoming ship at the exact same distance as a lookout on the mast. But the horizon isn't an optical illusion - it’s the effect of curvature of the Earth. The surface of the waters follow the curvature of the planet below: curved. Let’s look at the undeniable nautical math (Distance in NM ≈ 1.17 × √Height in feet): • From the deck (~10 ft eye height): The horizon is only about 3.7 NM away. • From the crow’s nest (~75 ft eye height): That horizon pushes out to roughly 10.1 NM. That’s nearly triple the visibility range. In the Age of Sail, that extra 6.4 nautical miles was a decisive military advantage. At a standard cruising speed of 6 knots, spotting the enemy 6 miles earlier gave a captain an entire hour of strategic lead time! An hour to secure the weather gage. An hour to choose whether to engage, flee, maneuver, or set an ambush before the enemy even knew you were there. It was the literal difference between life and death. The "Sail Obstruction" Cop-Out: Flat Earthers might claim crow's nests were just built to see over the sails. It's an empty argument. If blocking the view was the only issue, you could solve it safely and cheaply by placing one lookout at the bowsprit and one at the stern taffrail. No dangerous, top-heavy structures required. The crow's nest existed primarily for one reason: to cheat the curvature of the Earth. Something Flerfs refuse to admit.

Some say one of these is a modern forgery but I disagree, these are clearly the same picture:

@BMelograno @Updated_Jennie Lol *someone not *dinnertime. Damn autocorrect.

@BMelograno @Updated_Jennie I reckon dinnertime used a face app to put their face on Daniel Craig's head.

Casino Royale or Skyfall?

Harrison Schmitt leaps into the Lunar Roving Vehicle at Station 9 near Van Serg Crater during the third and final EVA of Apollo 17 at the Taurus-Littrow landing site.With the energy of a true field geologist, Schmitt bounds into the rover, LRV sampler in his right hand, while the seismic charge transporter sits ready behind the seat — tools that would help unlock the Moon’s hidden subsurface secrets.Captured by Commander Gene Cernan with a Hasselblad camera, this iconic photo perfectly captures the spirit of lunar exploration: astronauts working, driving, and discovering across the rugged beauty of the Moon.As the last mission of the Apollo program, Apollo 17 represented its pinnacle — combining human mobility via the rover with serious scientific fieldwork. The crew traveled farther, explored more, and returned with a richer haul of samples and data than any previous mission. Image Credit: NASA

@BMelograno @Updated_Jennie Who is that in your gif? Is not Daniel Craig.

@Updated_Jennie SKYFALL just feels like a more complete BOND experience than CR. All the allure and style are there and if anything it’s a redemption and rediscovery story. CR is a decent origin story but some parts feel too juvenile where SKYFALL is just sophisticated.

Australian retrofuturism. That's a genre we don't see enough of.

Happy Birthday British actress and presenter Joanna Lumley. (Now 80 years old). Below, Joanna, circa the early 70's.

So, we've all now seen the IO Interactive #FirstLight game trailer. I'm excited. It looks like we have a good #JamesBond game heading our way. #earnthenumber A few thoughts: (A thread 🧵)

@culturaltutor The look of the Mystics in Jim Henson's Dark Crystal look very much like they were influenced by John Bauer, either directly or indirectly.

Cloris Leachman's final scene in "The Last Picture Show" (1971) was filmed without any rehearsal. She wanted to rehearse the scene but Peter Bogdanovich was against the idea as he thought that it would ruin the scene. Bogdanovich was so happy with the first take, he said to her, "Cut, print, you just won the Oscar.’ Leachman replied, ‘I can do it better.’ Then Bogdanovich said, ‘No, you can’t.’ Bogdanovich felt that way since the scene was so fresh and she was shaking. He knew she couldn’t possibly do it better. She could hardly breathe after filming the scene. He was proved right when she won the Oscar for her performance. P.S: Remembering Cloris Leachman on her 100th birthday! ("Remembering Cloris Leachman, an Oscar- and Emmy-Winning Actor of Stunning Range", Stuart Emmrich, Vogue, 2021 & IMDb)

About eight minutes after Artemis II lifts off, the Orion spacecraft and the astronauts aboard will be in space. But what happens after that? Check out the Artemis II daily agenda to learn about the activities of the 10-day lunar mission: go.nasa.gov/3NBxpmr

It's absolutely incredible that they managed to bring this space beast back like a motorless glider. We hurled a machine into the infinite, freezing void, then forced it to surf a 3,000-degree wave of plasma back to Earth.

Steve McQueen rocking the Benrus Series 3061 watch on the set of Bullitt. The Benrus watch was the civilian version of the wristwatches produced for the #usarmy in the mid-60s #tbt #throwbackthursday #benrus #benrusmilitary #benrusbullitt #60s #mcqueen #cool #benrus3061

Because I am over the top and like to rock climb, let's just make this post of me in a suit while rock climbing. 😜😘