Alshain Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweeker Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 My life's persistence file has a line that reads "smart = true?".Sorry, I know it's off topic, but I couldn't resist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alshain Posted September 21, 2015 Author Share Posted September 21, 2015 My life's persistence file has a line that reads "smart = true?".Sorry, I know it's off topic, but I couldn't resist.SmartS. You know, Jedediah is a BadS, I'm a SmartS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweeker Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Yes, I'm making a self-deprecating joke.Hope I don't offend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rocketeer Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Yes, I'm making a self-deprecating joke.Hope I don't offendYou tell me! (?!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavven Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 ... and the parachute failed. Next launch! Aaand the parachute failed. Next!Oh man, I would NOT have been enthusiastic about becoming a test pilot / astronaut in those days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxman Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Who is Amy and what is so special about her playing KSP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDJ Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Who is Amy and what is so special about her playing KSP?Apart from being relatively easy on the eyes to look at, I have no idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogoob Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Who is Amy and what is so special about her playing KSP?It seems as though she has a channel called "Vintage Space". I'll have to check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuky Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Who is Amy and what is so special about her playing KSP?she runs a youtube channel where she talks about history of space exploration in few minutes long videos. Usually some interesting bits and bobs from early NASA programs like Gemini and Apollo that are not that known in the public as those that are mentioned everywhere. She also mentions KSP in few of her videos and lots of comments asked for her to play KSP so she made the video where she plays it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtoro Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 She didn't really play it, she just used it to show an example. Other than her using it as a tool, the video subject was 99% Albert Monkeys and 1% KSP. I thumbs downed it bcs monkeys don't interest me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xyphos Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 (edited) This woman is a History buff, a Gamer, and not a clueless liberal blonde.as a moderately sapiosexual human, I think I'm in love. Edited September 21, 2015 by Xyphos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfds Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 This woman is a History buff[..].It did sound a lot like she said that the Soviet Union was an axis power... And von Braun did not go into the US because it was "less likely that his rockets would be used as weapons" but because it was less likely that he would be hanged as a SS officer (after he build his rockets)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plume & Akakak Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 She didn't really play it, she just used it to show an example. Other than her using it as a tool, the video subject was 99% Albert Monkeys and 1% KSP. I thumbs downed it bcs monkeys don't interest me Why people "thumb down" videos for such reasons is beyond me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtoro Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Why people "thumb down" videos for such reasons is beyond me.Because freedom of opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alshain Posted September 21, 2015 Author Share Posted September 21, 2015 It did sound a lot like she said that the Soviet Union was an axis powerAnd von Braun did not go into the US because it was "less likely that his rockets would be used as weapons" but because it was less likely that he would be hanged as a SS officer (after he build his rockets)...Amy is more of a space history buff, than a war historian.You are correct though, von Braun feared Soviets known brutality against their PoWs above all. It isn't uncommon to mistake the Soviet Union for an Axis power because they were allied with Germany until 1941, but they were in fact allies of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegarrison Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Amy is more of a space history buff, than a war historian.You are correct though, von Braun feared Soviets known brutality against their PoWs above all. It isn't uncommon to mistake the Soviet Union for an Axis power because they were allied with Germany until 1941, but they were in fact allies of course.They were not members of the tripartite pact, so technically they were never in the Axis. Just a minor misstatement.Toward the end of the war, the supposed "allies" already knew that they were going to be rivals after the war, and were eager to grab as much German science data as they could before the other side did. The space race was pretty openly perceived as being about whether "our Nazis" were better than "their Nazis". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Wishbone Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Amy is more of a space history buff, than a war historian....She also has a history of plagiarism:http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2394/1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plume & Akakak Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 She didn't really play it, she just used it to show an example. Other than her using it as a tool, the video subject was 99% Albert Monkeys and 1% KSP. I thumbs downed it bcs monkeys don't interest me Why people "thumb down" videos for such reasons is beyond me.Because freedom of opinion.Wrong way up, friend. This very idea of freedom should precisely help you not to use a sign of condemnation for the sole reason that something "doesn't interest you".Anyway, I am not going to argue any further.Cheers ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rocketeer Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Well, that was pretty boring and lame.But 8:35 made it totally worth it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpacedCowboy Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Alshain, Thanks for presenting this video to the forum. For me it was a breath of fresh air. (Not your typical KSP vid) Regardless of her tainted past, I appreciated the history lesson. If she were to stream KSP on twitch, I would SO watch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtoro Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Wrong way up, friend. This very idea of freedom should precisely help you not to use a sign of condemnation for the sole reason that something "doesn't interest you".Anyway, I am not going to argue any further.Cheers !I probably thumbs up most videos I watch, including others she does. The whole purpose of the thumbs up/down is to get a feel of what people like and don't like. A videos doesn't have to be completely useless if you don't like it, regardless of how good the content is. That's the whole point of having a thumbs down option, otherwise they would only have a thumbs up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alshain Posted September 21, 2015 Author Share Posted September 21, 2015 She also has a history of plagiarism:http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2394/1Ok? What is your point? How does that matter to the video? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtoro Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 (edited) She also has a history of plagiarism:http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2394/1Ok? What is your point? How does that matter to the video?Because she made the video, and it's a huge punch in her credibility's face to be outed on 4 plagiarized articles/blogs of hers. Reading into the link's comments and on other sites, there are many many more articles that she plagiarized. Yet she doesn't respond properly or even apologize, she just keeps doing it and removes posts/articles when she gets busted.Time passes and her peers and fans may forget. But anyone who is someone in that field is looking down on her. Fake it till you make it right? Not always... Things have a tendency to come back to haunt people just when things are getting good for them. Edited September 21, 2015 by xtoro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CloudlessEchoes Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 (edited) She also has a history of plagiarism:http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2394/1I thought I recognized her from somewhere. Yes she ripped off professional highly researched articles that took years for people to put together. She's easy on the eyes so she gets attention still. This is a big deal in the space history circles, of which I'm guessing there are more than a few in the ksp community. Edited September 21, 2015 by CloudlessEchoes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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