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Yes, there is something kind of sad about a satellite intended to help us monitor global warming plunging nose-first into the ocean, but there’s been worse, botched space launch-wise.
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After the satellite collision a couple of weeks ago there was a marked glut of articles predicting the dawn of an era of crashes in the satellite-saturated skies and raining space debris. And of course there was the raining space debris captured on camera in Austin.
But aside from that, we think this might all be [...]

Last time our weekly psychoanalysticle ended on a video of an airplane flying suggestively through a monument. Though the video served to help illustrate the idea that some monuments derive symbolic power from their yonic shape, it turns out to have been uncannily prophetic. That Freudian slip foreshadowed this week’s installment of Freudian Fridays, which [...]

Though all the news and listicles of late has been about green transportation alternatives, high-speed trains and fuel-efficient cars, there remains something to be said for a big-budget collision between gas- or diesel-guzzling behemoths. No, we’re not talking about NASCAR, but about movie car crashes, whose alternations between realism, excess and stylizing often make for [...]