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Me and an unexpected Chris Foss painting at the Candie Gardens Museum on Guernsey.

#chris foss #guernsey #spaceship #spacecraft #science fiction

Was a nice walk up the Rhigos and looking over Neath.

With the Willie Llewellyn memorial, I get the toys - he was five when he died up there in 1913. I get the coins - it's something you might have in your pocket, if you happen to pass it and feel like you should leave something as a votive offering.

But what's up with the fake jade statue of a pregnant woman sitting cross -legged? Is someone doing some, like, sympathetic magic and they used the statue to represent Motherhood?

Last time I was there, there were a pair of glasses - which could have been intended to be represent watching over someone but could also represent you're old and forgot your glasses. But you're not just going to happen to have a fake jade statue of pregnant woman in your rucksack on a hike, are you?

#Sympathetic Magic #probably not #true stories of horror and the supernatural #nice walk

Von Braun's 1950s round-the-moon ship

#spaceship #science fiction #moon #man will conquer space soon #colliers #space age #retrofuturism #retro futuristic

Enjoying Star City but Rhys Ifans playing Sergei Korolev with a Welsh accent is distracting. Plus he doesn't look like Korolev.

Philip Madoc, the Welsh actor who played Moonbase Alpha's Russian Commander Anton Gorski in "Breakaway", he looked a bit like Korolev.

#science fiction #star city #korolev

I seem to be in a minority in liking it, but this (by Technouveau) is my new favourite fan design

#Youtube

Another AI-generated clip of an old Bryce render

#ai slop #spaceship

"Generational loss" is when you copy a copy and the image loses quality over successive generations.

1) Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Worship", 1943, published in the Saturday Evening Post, one of his "Four Freedoms" series;

2) Rockwell's "Apollo 11 Space Team" , commisioned by Look magazine, 1969;

3) NASA Artemis publicity video.

#rockwell #norman #apollo #artemis #moon #nasa #generational loss

Guess the Somalia/Space Exploration Initiative one is a bit of a stretch.

Space disco!

#science fiction #dancing #Youtube

Vince Gilligan's definitely read Methuselah's Children by Heinlein.

#pluribus #heinlein

Space: 1999's Space Dock seems to have been based on NASA's proposed Phase B orbital refuelling depot.

Moonbase 3's lunar shuttle seems inspired by the Phase B LM-B spacecraft.

#space: 1999 #moonbase 3 #british #science fiction #1970s.

Moonbase 3 - the forgotten twin of Gerry Anderson's Space: 1999.

The Welsh commander of Moonbase 3 was played by Donald Houston. Moonbase Alpha's commander prior to the arrival of John Koenig was also played by a Welsh actor - Philip Madoc as (the presumably not Welsh) Anton Gorski.

Special effects were by Mat Irving, doing his best with a BBC budget. The lunar transport craft seem to have been based on NASA's proposed LM-B space tug.

The final episode of the six-part series saw life on Earth wiped out by a nuclear accident, leaving the Moonbase personal isolated and adrift (but metaphorically).

#space: 1999 #moonbase 3 #british #science fiction #welsh #spaceship #spacecraft #gerry anderson #bbc

#spaceship #spacecraft #space exploration #space travel #space race #space age #retrofuturism

The many lives of the Matt Jeffries-designed Leif Ericson model kit:

The OG Leif Erikson

The UFO Mystery Ship

The Pegasus from Gene Roddenberry's proposed but never made War Of The Worlds TV series

The INSS MacArthur from the Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle novel The Mote In God's Eye, as illustrated by Rick Sternbach

I reckon (with no evidence) that Chris Foss based this ship on the Leif Erikson

Bob Larkin book cover

...and I reckon the Defiant is the Leif Erikson with the wings and forward fuselage ripped off.

#leif erikson #spacecraft #spaceship #science fiction #the mote in god's eye #larry niven #jerry pournelle #matt jeffries

Pentyrch Incident Halloween costume. A multi-generational effort - my granddaughter rapid-prototyping, my daughter on CAD, and my Mam looking bored, and me in my daughters garage looking like Blair in The Thing.