May 252011
May 252011
Thought some of y’all might find this interesting…
Via Mark Nankivil.
May 252011
Wherever I am, Raedthinn is. Wherever Raedthinn is, Fingers is. Wherever something’s getting knocked over, Buttons is.
May 252011
… about a woman Leftie. Or Don Imus. Yikes!
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May 242011
Immediately after WWII, the American aeronautical industry became interested in applying nuclear power to anything that could fly. In 1947, North American Aviation published a groundbreaking report on the use of atomic power in rockets and ramjets, concluding that both were possible. They designed the clear and obvious predecessors to both NERVA and Project Pluto. The NAA D44-100 nuclear ramjet vehicle was, like Pluto, a two stage intercontinental cruise missile, with the first stage being a rocket booster to get the nuclear ramjet up to speed. Unlike Pluto, the nuclear ramjet was an axially symmetric design with the payload (a single nuclear weapon) kept within the long inlet spike.
This, along with a nuclear rocket ICBM that clearly used V-2 aerodynamics, were the first serious engineering design studies of nuclear powered vehicles of which I’m aware. After more than sixty years, there’s nothing about the designs that screams “wrong.” Just a few aspect that scream “obsolete.” And, of course, some that scream “Ha Ha! Your civilization never got around to building anything nearly as cool as this!!!”
See more on these by checking out issue V2N2 of Aerospace Projects Review.
May 242011
You bet there is. Sure, the Left as it’s generally constituted today is built on a framework of crazy (“weakness is strength” being just about chief among their platforms), but this doesn’t mean there’s not complete nuttery to be had on the Right. It’s sad and inexplicable, but religious extremism – at least, Christian extremism – is firmly fixed in the public mind as a feature of the Right. And some on the Christian Right are just plain crazy. Take, for example, this thread on Free Republic:
Humanity, Doomed to Extinction. And ABOUT DAMNED TIME.
When someone hears about people wanting humanity to be wiped out, it’s generally some far-leftist human extinction movement based on the wacky notion that mankind is bad for the environment. But above we have an example of what I ranted about just a few days ago… humanity-haters who want mankind to be wiped out and for they themselves to go directly to paradise.
There have been lots of things that taken on their own would be perfectly fine, but which have been tainted by association with evil. For example, the swastika. A simple, visually striking symbol used by cultures all over the planet. Unfortunately, one *particular* far-leftist culture appropriated the symbol, and now nobody can use it. Well, with respect to those on the Left and Right who want humanity wiped out, there is a simple descriptive phrase that would be perfectly accurate, but which has been tainted by association with evil: “race traitors.” In this case, the “race” is not “white” or “caucasian” or “Anglo-Saxon,” but rather “human.” These (let’s face it, evil) people are part of the human race but want it erased from existence.
For humanity to thrive long-term, a lot of the basic concepts of the Right will have to be allowed to reach full flower. Personal freedom of self defense and to make a buck with minimal regualtion and taxation are probably right up there near the top; a free, wealthy people can develop the technology and the will to leave the planet and spread to the stars. Once that occurs, the species – and those other Terrestrial species we take with us – will be in essense immortal. But for these precepts of the Right to be allowed to continue and grow, the crazier elements of the Right will need to be rebuked and denied. Anyone who wants mankind to be made extict is a detriment to any political movement, but particularly to a political movement based on the liberation of the individual.
May 242011
The question everyone has been asking has been answered: it was a “spiritual judgement day.”
Preacher says world will actually end in October
So… something mysterious or other happened on May 21, but trust him, the world will really come to a crashing end on October 21.
May 242011
A recent Zogby poll puts Herman Cain at the front of the pack of GOP Presidential hopefuls.
Cain: 19%; Christie: 16%; Romney: 11%; Ron Paul: 9%; Palin: 6%
The Democrat spin machine is gonna have to work overtime on figuring out how to run with the “Republicans/Conservatives/Tea Partiers are racist” meme if Cain continues to make advances.
May 242011
Snerk.
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More awesome “thinking things through” by this administration.
May 232011
National Geographic has an article about Göbekli Tepe (which I’ve previously posted about HERE)
In short, it’s a monumental ceremonial site in Turkey, built approximately 11,600 years ago. In contrast, the pyramids of Giza were built about 4570 years ago. A millenia before the pyramids were built, Göbekli Tepe was already older than recorded civilization is *today.*
The arguement being made at the Nat Geo article (and it’s not a new one) is that Göbekli Tepe was built before agriculture had been invented. It was a purely religious site with no signs of it being any sort of urban center. So people with no written language, no use of metals, probably no domesticated animals built this site *miles* away from a water source. Entirely irrational, and entirely human.