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Ah, the wonders of modern day life... Fuss being caused by Top Gun.. because it's been noticed that Maverick's jacket patches have been "changed". Now the Japanese and Taiwan flags have been switched to other pictures that have the same colour scheme.... Of course, it might be a coincidence that half the finance comes from a Chinese production company...

Well, I see nothing can go wrong with this...

The perspective of things...

In the continuation of my 3d Printing project... After about 70 hours total time printing, I have the four main pieces of the chest piece looking fairly decent. With a lot more time printing, I also have one thigh piece in 4 different parts to put together, a couple of forearm bracers, and a few assorted greeblies. Still debating whether to wait until I've got more pieces put together before starting to paint them in fibreglass resin and sanding or to do it in itty bitty pieces here and there....

With the rumours saying that the new film starts with Bond retired, living in Jaimaica, and you then get the shift to M's office in London calling in 007, only for the door to open with this new Actor.. I kind of wonder if it's just the setup for that brief moment to cause some pre-release hype and "news" before Bond gets pulled back into the action.

Rocketman. Definitely slides into the "musical fantasy" slice more than the biopic. If you enjoy the music, you'll probably enjoy the film. Taron Egerton does a good job, but given the fantastical way it's all told, doesn't quite inhabit it. They pretty much push the "not a factually correct biopic" so they can run with the music.

NPR - US Army is discharging immigrant recruits who were promised citizenship

BBC - Manta Ray in distress helped by divers

Ai Weiei: Can Hong Kong's resistance win?

One giant...lie? Why so many people still think the moon landings were faked

Continuing my long term project... printing out Sith Acolyte armour pieces. That.. is the eventual goal. Probably going to take 200-300 hours of printing to get everything done. Then fix pieces together, paint it with epoxy resin, some spot putty, sand it down, prime it, sand it, repeat a few times, then paint it all and fix up webbing and such to hold the armour together when worn. However, in the middle of printing out one piece from the thigh set of armor, 19 hours in , about 10 minutes before it finishes...the piece tips over and the final few layers get printed in midair spool. I'm pondering on whether I can just tidy that edge up, and play it off as battle damage once everything is painted...

The 8 surviving Apollo astronauts for the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing They are from left to right: Charlie Duke (Apollo 16), Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11), Walter Cunningham (Apollo 7), Al Worden (Apollo 15), Rusty Schweickart (Apollo 9), Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17), Michael Collins (Apollo 11) and Fred Haise (Apollo 13).