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j5kDM3akVnhv515 karma

Is your live feed offline?

I want to watch you work. You dirty, dirty wheel.

j5kDM3akVnhv128 karma

Mr. Cantwell -

First thanks much for doing this. I'm a huge fan of your designs. I recently visited the Udvar-Hazy location of the US National Air and Space Museum in Dulles, Virginia and saw the original model for the mothership from Close Encounters of the Third Kind there. I noticed quite a few easter eggs hidden in it (I think there was a small R2D2?).

Being a Cold War kid, the movie War Games had a tremendous impact on me growing up. Still one of my favorites. What were your primary responsibilities with that film?

Bonus question: what was it like working with Walter Cronkite?

j5kDM3akVnhv108 karma

Wait... You created all graphics for the final NORAD scenes in War Games the night before the shot? Am I understanding that correctly? That's incredible.

Not sure if you are aware but those graphics are so iconic that someone actually created a working game of "Global Thermonuclear War" mirroring them. The game is called DEFCON - Everybody Dies. Here's a video of a 6 person game being played.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCpVpIBqaJg&t=6m09s

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I've always heard there is a tremendously small airspeed window once you guys get to mission altitude. Too slow - stall - bend or break the aircraft recovering. Too fast - bend or break the aircraft from stress.

Is this still a factor with the latest variants or was it more of a concern for the older models? Can you elaborate on "small window"?

Thanks for your service.

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Could you give an estimate in terms of percentage on the amount of money that actually went to any type of charitable endeavor vs the amount of money used to benefit Trump personally?