Recent content by MacCaulay

Benjamin Netanyahu: Something doesn't look right on that plane. What do you think, Admiral?

I just thought it'd be cool to have the guy who piloted Apollo 13 driving a Space Shuttle to the Skylab.

I've got to be honest...I'm looking at this from the point of view of someone who believes that the most realistic AH ever written about space travel was Voyage by Stephen Baxter. And it was realistic because there were always trade-offs. If we want Skylab, we dont get something else. And...

Well I don't know about everyone else, I but I think this is a very interesting idea for a story. Especially because knowing how the US government is, if we could keep Skylab up then there'd probably be no ISS since we already have a space station in orbit. AH.com: You Give Us A Hair, and...

Good lord! I gave you Skylab! What more do you want!?

Apparently one of the things they were planning was an upgrade to get more astronauts to be able to stay on it. Just thought I'd throw that out there. I'll have to look up some more stuff on it tomorrow.

...so this one got me thinking. There were a lot of cancelled Space Shuttle flights, especially in the early days. Alot of the cancellations were mostly a confluence of NASA spitballing missions it'd like to see the Space Shuttle used for, and the Space Shuttle not being able to do anything...

*steps in some sort of liquid* God...what's this all over the floor? Oh...it's your heart. *hands ANTIcarrot a mop* It's bleeding on my floor. FIX IT. I get what you're saying: like the undersecretary of economics who's in charge of making sure American companies can get through commercial...

Were these members of the Baby Boom generation who had a time machine so they could get back to the 1930s or something?

I read Ripcord: Screaming Eagles Under Siege, Vietnam, 1970 by Keith W. Nolan a few months ago and he mentioned this odd time around Firebase Ripcord where a few different patrols (who weren't in contact with each other until after the fact) spotted what they reported as a "blonde man" with the...

Yeah, dude. Seriously, according to the majority of this board, when Reagan wasn't out there killing poor people, he was taking a break so he could reload and kill more poor people. Now, of course they arrived at that opinion after completely unbiased perusal of the historical facts at their...

No. It's not plausible at all. They were operating in Zambia and Mozambique, and for a fair amount of time Mozambique was Portuguese territory (though the control was pretty tenuous). And the SADF didn't have a deliverable weapon or a worthwhile target there anyway. Honestly, though, South...

The French wanted it. Eisenhower didn't. He thought it was all pretty nuts. Operation Vulture by John Prados is a good overview.

They got me. It was a fun little while at Shilo and Kandahar.

The French don't actively recruit. They just kind of rely on the fact that everyone knows about the French Foreign Legion. The whole idea of kind of hyping the "military enlistment as the road to citizenship" is a good idea, though. I'd totally support it. I'd even support adding some extra...