You know you are old when...Y

[F-ZeroOne]

That may have been closer to the price I saw this tape for, as I say, my memory is a bit hazy.

[tufty]

My copy of "slugs" on VHS only cost £2.99.

[PFVA]

I remember watching the Muppet show on TV.

[F-ZeroOne]

Me too, though I'm not 100% sure it would have been the original broadcast run. If it was, it would have been one of the later seasons.

"Transformers" is 40. 40! I can remember a Time Before Transformers. My first one was Brawn, and I had the classic friend who had all the high-end ones you've actually heard of.

[Orava]

Watching Finnish children's Tv, take a bearded hippy playing songs about the world peace with a guitar. That is 1970s for you.

[zip accident]

and then I'll be travelling for another week at the very end of October to Scotland, then to the UK by train!

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/33600 ... -exemption

Author's note at the end.

[Dvorak]

Today at work, I quit the editor with

:q!

Man, NOTHING has changed. Well, it's called vim nowadays, not vi anymore, but... As if nothing has changed now since decades. So, not old. Not in the slighest.

[Orava]

You know how to use MS-DOS Editor.
Or the MS-DOS edit command to launch it.

[gilesgoat]

I recall seeing a VHS tape of "Empire" for sale in WH Smiths back in the day once. Now, my memory may be a bit hazy, but I recall the price sticker was something like £40. Thats forty 1980s pounds, with which you could probably buy a small yacht these days.

I knew (more knew of) someone in the '80s who bought James Bond on VHS and he thought he was getting a bargain at around £70-90 per film. He had all the ones they released but honestly I don't think I could watch them that often to justify that sort of cost then or now.

I knew someone that bought some Disney VHS tapes for his daughter they were in the realm of ( approx ) 100 pounds each .. still to date Disney stuff is the most expensive to buy.

[Orava]

Back in the late nineteens taking the train for some home time in your full military attire modelled after German 1930s style with swastikas all over with about 100 comrades in similar attrite caused some consternation of American tourists, a nazi train was heard.

[PFVA]

I heard Trump stating the Americans were going to Mars by I don't remember when and the first thing it came back to mind was George Bush (son) on his re-election campaign that the Americans were going back to the Moon.
Which they haven't.
Then it was the Moon now it's Mars.
And even though Ellon Musk wasn't mentioned in the process Bush's plan was also to be accomplished by private companies and investment.

[tufty]

I heard Trump stating the Americans were going to Mars

Yeah, it was Musk. SpaceX was supposed to have landed 2 "starships" of cargo in 2022. In 2024 they were supposed to have landed another 2 cargo ships and 2 manned ships. Each of those would require something between 10 and 15 actual launches to orbit in order to fuel the ship up, because stupid design.

Helpful reminder. SpaceX has yet to launch a starship to orbit, much less done so with any meaningful payload.

You know how Oceangate wanted to be the "SpaceX of the oceans"? Yeah, they managed it. All we need to do now is get Elon to put as much skin in the game as Rush did. Maybe he could take Zuckerberg and Bezos along with him.

[Deckard]

Musk has history with keeping his stock up by lying about stuff -

Elon has been promising his full self driving car for years with zero results and a lot on "trickery" yesterday apparently with his autonomous AI robots (they weren't)

"Elon said that the Cybercab will be ready "before 2027." Let's take a look at recent history. In 2014, Elon said that the Cybertruck would be ready in 4-5 years. 2018 came and went, but no Cybertruck. 2019, when we should have been able to start buying them, was when the first concept Cybertruck was unveiled. It wasn't until the very end of 2023 that the first Cybertrucks rolled precariously out of Tesla's showrooms."

[zip accident]

I don't think Mars is a sensible target in at least the first half of this century, and maybe not this century at all.

On the other hand, Musk got to Leo, which others sinificantly failed to do.

There's a lot of resistance to autonomous cars, but the number they have killed is small (none? I don't remember) and human drivers kill thousands of people per year.

[tufty]

On the other hand, Musk got to Leo, which others sinificantly failed to do..

My understanding was that all 4 starship tests so far have been suborbital and only one has been non-catastrophic (just)

For comparison, the 4th test of the Saturn V was the first one where it flew around the moon with people on board.