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Monty Python

What Was the SpaceX Spacecraft’s Secret Payload?

by Robert Quigley | 4:00 pm, December 9th

Yesterday, SpaceX became the first private company to successfully launch a spacecraft into orbit and then guide it back to Earth. Propelled by a Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX’s Dragon capsule circled the Earth twice and landed unharmed in the Pacific. At yesterday’s press conference following the mission’s success, CEO Elon Musk revealed that it had carried a secret payload the whole time, but he wouldn’t say what it was, only that “if you like Monty Python, you’ll love the secret.” This led some to speculate that it was Spam. But it wasn’t:

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A Facebook Game We Might Actually Play: Monty Python’s The Ministry of Silly Games

by Susana Polo | 4:29 pm, December 3rd

We can’t be the only people in the universe who ever took a crack at the computer game Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, but judging by its comically sparse Wikipedia page, we don’t have much company. To summarize: imagine that Myst took place in a setting made out of every Monty Python sketch ever. Those same puzzles based on figuring out the underlying logic of the setting are now based on the logic of the Dead Parrot sketch or similar. Now, imagine that just as you think you are completing the game by assembling all the ingredients for salmon mousse; you instead unlock the second half of the game, which takes place in a completely different setting that makes the last one look as straight forward and causal as a Dick and Jane book.

Which is why if Monty Python makes a game, even a Facebook game, we are down for that.

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How One Monty Python Producer Fought Off Censorship of The Holy Grail

by Robert Quigley | 4:37 pm, October 4th



No, not with a shrubbery. Via Letters of Note, a highly entertaining letter from Monty Python producer Mark Forstater to his fellow producer Michael White on the topic of The British Board of Film Classification‘s suggested revisions to Monty Python and the Holy Grail to allow it to attain a more family-friendly rating. As anyone who’s seen the movie knows, the profane originals survived totally intact.

Swearing-packed full letter below:

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Today in History: The First Spam Email Ever Sent

by Robert Quigley | 9:03 am, May 3rd

On May 3, 1978, the Internet witnessed a glorious and not particularly welcome birth: The first ever spam email. Gary Thuerk, a marketer for the Digital Equipment Corporation, blasted out his message to 400 of the 2600 people on ARPAnet, the DARPA-funded so-called “first Internet.” Naturally: He was selling something. (Computers, or more specifically, information about open houses where people could check out the computers.) He annoyed a lot of people. And he also had some success, with a few recipients interested in what he was pushing. And thus, spam was born.

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Test Plane Performs Vertical Landing

by Susana Polo | 12:32 pm, March 20th

STOVL (Short Take Off and Vertical Landing) planes have been in development and use since 1951, though only two planes have ever reached operational status. On Thursday, Lockheed Martin‘s F-35 Lightning II test plane made its very first vertical landing.

To quote the late, great Douglass Adams: It “hung in the air in exactly the same way that bricks don’t.”

Video after the jump.

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