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Book Review: The Vega Adventures by Shane Granger
Vega is a large, weighty sailing vessel with an undersized motor. It’s 125 years old, specially built by Norwegian craftsmen to haul bulky loads like cement across the . But in 2004 Shane Granger and Meggi Macoun took her on a different kind of mission that has become what Shane calls in his amazing new novel, The Vega Adventures.
The story briefly takes you through Vega’s amazing history – why she was built and by whom, how she evolved, and how she lived out her latter work years eventually dragging for glacial stones off the North Sea floor before being bought and then abandoned by a forlorn seafarer.
Then Shane and Meggi restored Vega and took her on their own amazing sea adventure across the Indian Ocean, which begins the book with a life-and-death struggle in a horrific hurricane. They lose the rudder and all control, only just managing to survive as they finally make safe harbor in the , wh
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Space Walking at Comic-Con With Adam Savage
Every year, I go to San Diego Comic-Con, the annual nerd bash where something like a mole of people converge on the town to celebrate pop culture. It’s a lot of fun, and one of the joys for me is to get together with friends I don’t get a chance to see otherwise.
I’m also privileged that all of my friends there are supremely talented, smart, and interesting people. One of them is My Close Personal Friend Adam Savage™; we’ve known each other for many years (so much so that he is starting to look like me).
As you might know, Adam is something of a celebrity, and getting around at the con can be a challenge for him; the huge crowds guarantee he’ll get stopped, and once that happens it’s all over. That’s how he got the idea of “Adam Incognito,” where he wears a full head-to-toe costume that conceals his identity. He then walks the exhibit hall of the con (where tens of thousands of fans visit exhibitors, goods dealers, artists, and more), a
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'Mythbusters' Adam Savage reveals his incognito Comic-Con 2015 costume
Adam Savage has done it igen. The Mythbusters host went incognito among the Comic-Con crowds igen this year, but this time there was a twist: He brought a partner — the first Canadian astronaut to walk in space, Chris Hadfield — and together they wore matching spacesuits based on Stanley Kubrick’s classic 2001.
Here’s photos of how it all went down with Savage and self-described Comic-Con newbie Hadfield (including the duo impressing a surprised The Martian author Andy Weir).
“This is the first year I’m doing incognito with a partner,” Savage told EW. “I’ve been building this kostym from 2001 for fem years now. It was close to completion when Chris called me up.”
Luckily, whenever Savage builds anything, he tends to build more than one of them. Yet he says he wasn’t planning on using the suits at Comic-Con all these years.
“I’m so focused on the goal and to man the research as accu