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The video in the post was reportedly sent to him by military personnel. He wrote that the video was filmed in May 2025 at an altitude of 800 meters. In a previous post, he wrote:

“In 2023, I published a video from the front line in which aerial reconnaissance was observing an unidentified flying object. An hour later, I received a message… from representatives of a government agency that has been dealing with these issues in Ukraine since Soviet times,” he said.

According to the Defense Ministry advisor, since the start of the war, the study of UFOs in Ukrainian airspace has become more of a military task than a civilian one. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have even created a “special comprehensive document” on the subject, approved by the Commander-in-Chief.

“So it is not only the United States that is dealing with such issues, because what is classified as a UFO could in fact be a new weapon used by our enemy,” “Flash” emphasized.

I've got a DVD player and a whole lot of time. Taking a chance based on the cool art and the words space opera in the description.

Tron Lives!!

i.e., had Michael O’Hare not had unfortunate medical problems.

Preface this with: I like both Sheridan and Sinclair.

I’ve said before,

Sinclair has gravitas.

Sheridan has charisma.

***

Originally I liked Sheridan a lot more than Sinclair.

But.

As I got older and the late 90s got further and further away, I started to appreciate season 1 more and more.

And I found myself liking Sinclair more and more perhaps as a consequence of that, or perhaps because. His calmer demeanour, stoicism, even his relationship with Sakai has grown on me over the decades. (Having been in my own long-term on again/off again relationship helped see to that…)

Of course I can’t help wondering what we could’ve had, had he been able to stay on. But this isn’t about that.

TL;DR

What I’m curious about, is if anyone has had a similar growth or flip of the character over the years/decades?

Did he grow on you, or did you like him from the get-go; maybe just lukewarm? Or do you frankly not care for him at all?

i change shadows starship to this and used it in my online multiplayter retro game .... .. becose i love it so much... will i have problems ? game is not on now.. but soon willl go ... it inspaired me to create this game ...

JMS on X:

"The point of the tweet/article is that after proclaiming AI would displace writers, it has failed to create a single written work that rises above baseline mediocrity or they'd be shouting it in the street alongside the latest graphic achievements, and there's a reason for that."

https://x.com/straczynski/status/2053901284659302421?s=20

JMS on Substack:

The first part of this essay will explore the soft, squishy-feely reasons that have to do with artistry and perception that are no less valid for their inherent humanity. But they are not the whole of the proposition.

The second part delves directly into the hard reasons why AI can never rise to the level of even a decent writer, is the industry’s dirty little secret: something buried in the architecture of every current AI system, deliberately embedded to preclude them from acquiring the tools needed for storytelling. Which is why virtually none of the folks involved with creating AI platforms are talking about it anymore.

[...]

Writers write in three dimensional space that AI can’t access or understand. [...] Space is subtext. Space is information. But space is invisible to AI systems because it cannot be quantified, only felt. And AI doesn’t feel."

Full essay:

Silence Where a Story Might Have Been - Debunking the Myth of AI Storytelling: Part One (By J. Michael Straczynski)

https://jmichaelstraczynski.substack.com/p/silence-where-a-story-might-have

would the ball fly in a strange arc because of the Coriolis effect or is the station large enough that the Coriolis effect would be to subtle to notice?