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  1. Tiki Tom

    Star Trek

    I suppose we shouldn’t take this too seriously. Apparently William Shatner is in some very early discussions about playing Captain Kirk again. https://screenrant.com/star-trek-william-shatner-kirk-return-paramount-plus-series-in-talks/ I would be happy if the Star Trek franchise gets rebooted...
  2. Tiki Tom

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    A footnote to the Cold War: in 1972 American Bobby Fischer beat Russian Boris Spassky in the global chess championship. At the time, it was viewed as kind of a proxy for the Cold War rivalry between the two countries. It was called “the match of the century.” Spassky has died at age 88...
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    Easy German lessons ;-)

  4. Tiki Tom

    Steven Spielberg to release new UFO movie in 2026

    Filming has started. https://filmstories.co.uk/news/steven-spielbergs-mystery-ufo-movie-has-begun-filming-in-new-jersey/
  5. Tiki Tom

    Anyone else interested in the ancient world?

    And now it happens that a book written 2,000 years ago is on the bestseller list. Et tu, Brute? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/24/book-sex-scandals-roman-emperors-bestseller-charts-the-lives-of-the-caesars-tom-holland
  7. Tiki Tom

    The "Phenomenons in daily life" thread

    In our family they are called “upscalators” and “downscalators”. Airports even have “flatscalators”. :)
  8. Tiki Tom

    Explain the 3-Sphere to me.

    More theorizing that time (and space?) might not be fundamental. “ This theory suggests that time emerges not as an independent entity but through quantum entanglement between two systems: a clock and the evolving system it measures.” (!!!). “In a system without entanglement, time ceases to...
  9. Tiki Tom

    Oumuamua

    Odds continue to drop. Now a 1 in 32 chance. https://thehill.com/homenews/5152487-asteroid-hurtling-toward-earth-odds-2032/
  10. Tiki Tom

    Easy German lessons ;-)

    I have a set of Roemer glasses that I inherited from my mother. Unfortunately the only time we use them is when we make Apricot Dumplings about once a year. I’m of the school that Apricot Dumplings can be a main course. In Austria our friends insisted that they are purely a dessert item. Of...
  11. Tiki Tom

    Easy German lessons ;-)

    Rheinromantik
  13. Tiki Tom

    Oumuamua

    Updated to 1 in 38 chance. This is not heading in the right direction! https://www.independent.co.uk/space/asteroid-2024-yr4-nasa-earth-chances-b2700006.html Risk corridor is apparently south of North America and Europe. (But I note that Hawaii seems to be on/near the path!). As you can...
  14. Tiki Tom

    Oumuamua

    The odds for that asteroid strike have now gone up. It is now a 1 in 48 chance. https://www.the-sun.com/tech/13562947/chilling-new-telescope-photos-city-killer-asteroid/
  15. Tiki Tom

    Berets, Anyone?

    Went to Vienna for Christmas. I did not feel like subjecting a fedora to that grueling plane flight, so I wore my trusty beret. Temp in Vienna was hovering at the freezing mark, but my head never got cold. And a beret looks so much better than a ski cap.
  16. Tiki Tom

    Easy German lessons ;-)

    After the Napolionic wars, the German Confederation was made up of 39 independent German speaking states that were only loosely associated with each other. Prior to that, the Holy Roman Empire (in roughly the same geographic territory) had something like 300 duchies, principalities, free...
  17. Tiki Tom

    Easy German lessons ;-)

    Bavaria, the Texas of Germany! (Sorry, didn’t mean to be insulting.) Is this a dialect or something??? :) :)
  19. Tiki Tom

    Favorite WWII song? Lili Marleen.

    Ummm. Not particularly authentic. But got my attention…
  20. Tiki Tom

    Easy German lessons ;-)

    Says it all…
  21. Tiki Tom

    Oumuamua

    Holy smokes. Those are some pretty clear photos of a flying saucer. Taken by a tourist this month near Ushuaia, Argentina. Article follows...
  22. Tiki Tom

    Oumuamua

    https://oversight.house.gov/release/chairman-comer-rep-luna-to-hold-press-conference-on-new-oversight-committee-task-force/
  23. Tiki Tom

    Under-Reported Good News

    Revolutionary new cancer treatment gets rid of tumors in days… https://www.thebrighterside.news/innovations/revolutionary-new-cancer-treatment-destroys-tumors-in-less-than-6-days/

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