One can't help but giggle every time Geoffrey Rush appears as the hammy sun god Ra, hanging out
on a
space sailboat designed like a Cable Ace Awards set and shooting lasers at a giant sandworm.
Sailboats cruise by in the harbor alongside the track and even the
Space - X Falcon 9 was on display, fresh from its trip to space only days be
Space - X Falcon 9 was
on display, fresh from its trip to
space only days be
space only days before.
He was an optical engineer who repaired aircraft instruments in Alaska in WWII, a mountain man who could turn a canoe into a
sailboat with a folding machete, bed sheets and a few sticks, who taught me diffraction, color theory and relativity
on paper when other kids were learning multiplication tables, who designed a potentiometer that went to the Moon by pointing the world's fastest camera at the world's fastest oscilloscope, who designed those traffic lights which only appear bright when you are in the appropriate lane, who didn't have to help me at all when I built my own Heathkit dual - channel scope in grade school, nor had to help me program my Apple II in machine language, who quit Honeywell to work for 3M when the
Space Program turned into the nuclear missile program, who studied mining geology in college after growing up in a mining town in Utah, it was he who taught me, early
on: make sure your contraption works!