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The Starlost

Metafilter takes a look at the forgotten and reviled 1973 generation-ship SF series The Starlost, which I have never heard of. Sounds totally fascinating, combining elements also seen in Silent Running, Space: 1999, Logan’s Run, Roddenberry’s Genesis II, and of course the original Battlestar Galactica.

Boy, mainstream TV SF sure had a hardon for the apocalypse, didn’t it?

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Back to the skies

And a successful test sortie in Rise of Flight after a catastrophic machine failure about six months ago. Still need to twiddle with this and that controller driver setting but on the whole satisfactory.