There's also Brin's 1999 commentary on the topic at http://www.salon.com/1999/06/15/brin_main/ .

While an interesting challenge, they quote conspiracy theorists as saying "documentation of the Apollo missions is only available through NASA". This is incorrect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_evidence_for_Apollo_Moon_landings lists third-party evidence for Apollo Moon landings, including by a radio ham in Kentucky, http://legacy.jefferson.kctcs.edu/observatory/apollo11/ . Also, the theorists are at odds. A different set of theorists say the Apollo 11 astronauts saw alien spacecraft, and while that report was suppressed in the official transmission, they say it was picked up by hams.

I recognize that! In Swedish it's called a plugghäst - https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluggh%C3%A4st with build instructions at http://www.plugghasten.se/english/about/history-2413139. It's translated as a "study chair", but the term is more like "a horse for people who study hard". Linnaeus made it popular here in the 1740s among the academic set.

And then they discovered wind shear. Did you see the speed? "10 miles a minute" or 600mph. That tower's going to be in the next town over!

Looks like the link is busted. It should be http://moneyinc.com/teslas-gigafactory/

It references an episode of "West Wing". That's the one where the Cartographers for Social Equality promote the Peter's Projection, - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH1bZ0F3zVU .

Their laughter is infectious. It put a big smile on my face watching their fun.

Car makers did not invent the term horsepower (at 1:07). James Watt coined the term in the late 1700s.

Nimoy was also influence from his experience in Mission: Impossible, where members of the team each do their part so the mission comes off as a success.

I've been in La Fonda hotel in Santa Fe. I didn't know about this earlier history. Thanks!

In "Bloom County", Steve gets his hair burned off during the filming of a Tess Turbo MTV promo video gone wrong. He shouldn't have "brushed that flammable mascara all over [his] chest", said Opus. The psychological counselor who came by mistake, thinking he was a quadruple amputee, learns of his mishap. "How should I deal with this?" he asks her. "Ya got me. Smooth-chested men leave me clammy." [In 'Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things (1985).]

When I think of bottle checkers, I think of Lavern and Shirley: https://youtu.be/bJzF8_df1R8?t=69 .