Captain Krishna of the USS Normandy reporting for duty! Ecstatic that the issue of Star Trek: The Dog of War that writer Mike Chen put me in is now out, with incredible art by Angel Hernandez.
Going to finally teach myself to knit socks. I’ve got the yarn, I am READY. (I’ve made socks twice before and have hated every second of it, plus I didn’t use the right kind of yarn. I’m going to try crazy sock lady’s tutorials. #knotting@knitting
Context for the Starship explosion, if anyone wants it:
It’s not actually a failure. It would be better if it hadn’t exploded, of course, but most of us expected it to explode. Rocketry is just a controlled explosion.
@mjf_pro@Mark_W_White@skrishna There are existing engineering ethics considerations here, at minimum - something that is often violated in Musk's companies (Tesla, in particular).
And SpaceX staff owns that.
To your second point, I think that pretext that SpaceX was going to be an environmentally responsible neighbor to a sensitive habitat was abandoned long ago by the FAA.
There was a considerable brush fire (a year ago?) that burned away much of the area due to SpaceX's sloppy activities.
@adamjcook@mjf_pro@Mark_W_White break stuff, build fast or whatever his motto is, does not play well with environmental factors and I do hope there are consequences for that
I interviewed Michelle Yeoh a few years ago about #StarTrekDiscovery and I mentioned offhand that I'd written an article about what seeing her use her accent on the bridge of a starship meant to me.
She stopped and said "Wait, that was YOU?"
And then proceeded to talk about how much that article had meant to HER and how it contributed to the success of the show.
@skrishna Nice article! I'm happy Strange New Worlds has continued the trend of leaving in authentic accents, particularly with Dr. M'Benga. It really makes Starfleet feel like an genuine global alliance as opposed to an Americans-only club.
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