Diary (July 29, 2020)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Wednesday July 29, 2020.

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The Thin Red Line

Oh, my God, The Thin Red Line stands tall among war epics.

It's like Das Boot for ground combat.

I don't know Thin Red Line's reputation, but how can it be anything other than a timeless classic?

I remember scenes from it fairly often ... maybe every other month or so, say five or six times a year, some scene will come to mind for some reason. This is a film I watched twice, some twenty years ago. And yet I think of it five or six times a year, for years and years.

Now I want to watch it again.

• Trailer @ YouTube

Source: Comment @ Facebook

Tardigrade spacecraft

[[File:|thumb|Tardigrade spacecraft, aft berth. Scan-view shows tardigrade passenger in "cabbage pod".]] Tardigrade spacecraft

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Karl Jones (nonfiction)