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Minoxidil has a very narrow efficacy.

P&G’s project was aimed primarily to cure baldness in… Women and not men. Surprising I know, but back in those days baldness in women was viewed as a more lucrative target market. They were also going for much stronger and broader results than what Minoxidil generally provides in order to compete with it. Minoxidil was developed by Upjohn in the 50’s.

Funny enough, I’m good friends with the woman who was the lead researcher of Proctor and Gambles’ program for a hair growth product back in the 90’s. Ultimately, P&G was forced to abandon the effort after many many years.

My friend stated she could grow hair on a cue ball. The only issue was the cue ball wouldn’t survive the process.

Short story long… It is possible to cure male and female baldness. The only problem is the patient would not survive the toxic cocktail that growing hair requires.

That’s awesome.

Just got the notification of the one I ordered for my youngest just shipped. It’s his big Christmas present this year.

We’ve had his Saturn V on the coffee table for the past couple of years. My wife and I plan on moving it and putting the Enterprise in its place.

That would be a lot of unsprung weight.

Handling and ride quality are dramatically and negatively impacted by every bit of weight that is not held up by the suspension. That’s why higher performance cars will have lightweight wheels. Rather than steel wheels you see on lower performance cars.

It’s better to just put all the heavy drive components inboard on the chassis and run drive shafts to the wheels.

You see motors in the hubs of bicycles, because they really don’t go that fast. So even if the bike has a suspension, it’s not that big of a deal. Motorcycles on the other hand would need to keep any heavy parts inboard.

But but Bezos has to pay for another rocket and yacht and he just got married!!! Think about his quarterly statement! My god are you heartless!!!

/s

(just in case it’s not obvious)

For some reason, when Cibola Burns came out, Jefferson Mays was unavailable, so another person narrated it. I think it was Erik Davies, but cannot remember, the book has since been redone by Jefferson.

I stopped and returned the book when the narrator pronounced “cumin” as something a teenager does into a Kleenex. Which, to be fair, is actually an appropriate pronunciation of the word, per Webster’s dictionary, I’ve never heard anyone else pronounce it that way before. There were A LOT of other issues with the guy’s narration. His cadence, voicing, along with pronunciation was absolutely atrocious. By far the worst narrator I have personally encountered.

Jefferson Mays needs to have someone go through and coach him on pronunciation. Otherwise, his cadence, pacing, voicing are all pretty good. Certainly not an S tier narrator, but pretty solid and he gives “The Expanse” books the tone that they need.

Large ships that ply the stars at super luminal speeds. These ships are equipped with massive energy weapons capable of pulverizing planets. Powered by systems that use anti-matter, or ultra exotic inter-dimensional matter.

Yet, for some reason the ship is constrained on energy and is unable to keep all the lights on, or the crew has to conform to “energy conservation protocols” (ST TOS), or there isn’t enough power available to keep the ship at a habitable temperature (BSG).

Life support would not even be a rounding error on the power output of some of the systems described in Sci fi.

Not just circuit breakers, but why are high powered circuits being used in the habitable parts of the ship?

Even modern cars no longer run high amperage circuits to the driver’s controls. Back in the old days, you turn on the lights, the light switch carried a full 12v and a lot of current to control relays. Today, the light switch and turn signal stalk use a signal circuit to tell a body control module what to do.

The bridge of a Star Trek ship should have control panels running on the future equivalent of 5 volt signal circuits that tells a distant and well shielded control module to switch the ultra high powered circuits.

That leads me to the one thing that has always bothered me about Star Trek and its transporters and replicators. E=MC^2… When a replicator creates food or an object, it would take at least the same amount of energy to make, as it would if the same amount of mass were destroyed in a nuclear reaction. That DOES mean in areas where those devices are installed there ARE ultra high powered circuits (EPS conduits) in the wall. So high powered that they have the equivalent of multiple nuclear explosions flowing through them every second… YIKES.

Maui: Pixel 8 Pro

Guy who runs Plex on a Ubuntu container on Proxmox.

Here’s an exchange between my wife and I, while she was in urgent care after severely spraining her ankle and breaking the 5th metatarsal in her right foot. She has danced ballet since the age of 4. We’re in our middle-50’s now. This was a couple of years ago and she’s fully healed and back to dancing now.

Wife: Getting old sucks.

Me: It beats the alternative.

Wife, after a moment of reflection: Not by much.

But that really was Ricardo’s actual chest.

Apparently he worked out… A LOT.

That’s awesome.

You mean when it becamse “Fargate” or “Starscape”?

I really liked Ben Browder and Claudia Black in Stargate, however it was really jarring and took a while to get used to.

LOL… I don’t think I’ve seen that scene…aaaannnd not sure I want to.

Thank you for the update though.

You have to watch a LOT more than that!

Some other references:

2001 A Space Odyssey

Looney Tunes (An entire episode was dedicated to the Coyote and Road Runner). That show had numerous other references too, including an appearance of the Enterprise itself.

Dr Strangelove or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb. (Dear John and Hi There for instance)

Dark Crystal

Dracula

Star Wars

There are many many more. The entire show was one big reference to something else.

One of the more esoteric Star Trek references was the aliens urinating. In Star Trek, no one pees. The only time any time of shower/rest room is shown in the entire franchise is in ST:TMP when the Ilia drone appears on the Enterprise. There might be a scene in ST:TOS where Kirk comes out of a door with wet hair and a towel around his shoulders, but that’s it.

About the only franchise/movie that I cannot think of a reference in Farscape is Stargate.

My kids made a better choice:

File a police report, then file an insurance claim and send the insurance company after the dumbass that removed the driveway.

The scam is the Gofuckme part of it. If her homeowners insurance doesn’t cover this, then that is an insurance company to never deal with.

Joe Rogan has never suffered from Imposter Syndrome.

Because that is EXACTLY how he should feel about himself at all times.

A reptile dysfunction