Nerds Amalgamated
Nerds Amalgamated
That's Not Canon Productions
NASA Ingenuity, Single Use Gaming & Comic Book NFTs
1 hour 15 minutes Posted Apr 28, 2021 at 3:10 pm.
0:00
1:15:08
Download MP3
Show notes
We blame our recording bot for our late release. The bot has been taken out and shot.
Ingenuity has finally lifted off and begun proving that heavier than air flight is possible on Mars. Also Perseverance is creating oxygen. Very soon, the Martian Colonies will be open for business!
Sony don't want you being able to play games you've bought, or using the PlayStation you paid for once they say enough is enough. This is a Very Bad Thing and Professor is very upset. This flies in the face of everything we should be working towards as a society in terms of reducing our waste and preserving our culture.
Marvel and DC are cracking down on former illustrators who have taken to selling original art based on characters they drew as NFT. Big Comics have decided that even though they could sell their art at conventions. So what's the difference? Why do Marvel and DC care?
This week DJ read the mediocre RWBY/Justice League crossover and Professor Urbexed his way through crumbling powerplants in Infra.
The Flight Of The Ingenuity
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-04-19/nasa-ingenuity-helicopter-makes-historic-first-flight-on-mars/100056708
Single Use Gaming
- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QOVj9cZJr7OKHqGmp7RAM3nuHZIVYgJ3/view
Old Man Makes Millions Selling Comic Book NFTs
- https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-04-14/nfts-intellectual-property-marvel-dc-comics-who-gets-to-make-millions%20%20
Nerdful things
DJ
- RWBY/Justice League - https://www.comixology.com/RWBY-Justice-League-2021-1/digital-comic/924702
Rating: 3.5/5
Professor
- INFRA - https://store.steampowered.com/app/251110/INFRA/
Rating: 3/5
Other topics discussed
Full Video of Mars Helicopter Ingenuity First Flight Showing Ascending & Landing in HD
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfHfQamhimE
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter completed 2nd flight to 5 meters altitude
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9HHH_H5KoU
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory - NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Successfully Completes First Flight
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia6S1jZmwWc
Solar Flare (a sudden flash of increased brightness on the Sun, usually observed near its surface and in close proximity to a sunspot group.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_flare
Ingenuity (a small robotic helicopter operating on Mars as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission. On 19 April 2021, it successfully completed the first powered controlled flight by an aircraft on a planet besides Earth, taking off vertically, hovering and landing.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter)
Wright Flyer ((the Kitty Hawk, often retrospectively referred to as Flyer I or 1903 Flyer) was the first successful heavier-than-air powered aircraft. Designed and built by the Wright brothers, they flew it four times on December 17, 1903, near Kill Devil Hills, about four miles (six kilometers) south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Flyer
SpaceX Dragon 2 (a class of reusable spacecraft developed and manufactured by American aerospace manufacturer SpaceX as the successor to Dragon 1, a reusable cargo spacecraft.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Dragon_2
Crew Dragon Demo-2 ((officially Crew Demo-2, SpaceX Demo-2, or Demonstration Mission-2) was the first crewed test flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_Dragon_Demo-2
Rendezvous with Rama (a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke first published in 1973. Set in the 2130s, the story involves a 50-by-20-kilometre (31 by 12 mi) cylindrical alien starship that enters the Solar System.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama
Sony Isn’t Closing Down The PS3 And PS Vita Stores After All—For Now
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2021/04/20/sony-isnt-closing-down-the-ps3-and-ps-vita-stores-after-all-for-now/?sh=2c9f8eee6f82
Does it play? - @DoesItPlay1 - “Preservation Activists” - working ...