Jul. 16th, 2019

thewayne: (Default)
The King's Man, featuring Lawrence of Arabia, Rasputin, and Mata Hari. Starring, among others, Ralph Riennes, Liam Niesson, and Stanley Tucci. Apparently they filmed the 4th Kingsman movie back to back with this one, so I expect we may see it late 2020 or early '21.

I quite enjoyed the first two, broadly-speaking. There were parts I did not like, but I thought they were fun takes on the spy genre. This one looks quite interesting for a WW I spy film.



https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/07/lawrence-of-arabia-takes-on-rasputin-in-first-trailer-for-the-kings-man/
thewayne: (Default)
Well, they have a lot of problems, but this is a new one.

They're building a new crew module, and they have a BIG problem with its escape system in case of a launch phase abort. The design will result in it splashing down in the equatorial Pacific Ocean - OK, so far, so good. It's supposed to do something like that.

The problem is that the Russian Navy is so massively screwed up and under-funded that THEY DON'T HAVE ANY HIGH-SPEED SHIPS! It could take them FIVE DAYS to reach the capsule, which means everybody's dead.

Not much of a rescue system.

Of course, the U.S. Navy could easily rescue them if arrangements could be made, but the costs to have the USN on stand-by would be tremendous, and frankly, the Russians couldn't afford it.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/theres-a-slight-problem-with-russias-proposed-federation-spacecraft/

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