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• Modular space station July 28, 2014
  A 1963 Douglas concept for a space station. This one appears to have everything… to the right, the (Douglas-built) S-IV stage; to the left the (Douglas built) S-IVb stage; docked and coming in to dock, the (Douglas designed) ASTRO spaceplane. All mounted to a core space station that appears to be based on the S-II […]
• One of those nights… July 27, 2014
  A few nights back, somewhere well after midnight, I was getting ready to go to bed when I heard something outside my bedroom window. It was a semi-regular soft tapping, like when a gentle breeze causes a tree branch to tap against a windowpane. This can be disturbing enough just on its own. But there […]
• The Phrase That Pays July 27, 2014
  I don’t think this video shows what it’s being described as. The claim is that it’s the funeral for a suicide bomber, where they forgot to take his explosive vest off and it blows up during the procession; but at one point you can see what looks like the original dead guy on the ground, […]
• An unlikely Shuttle design July 26, 2014
  A lithograph found on eBay presents a rather unlikely design for a Space Shuttle: Dating from 1970, the craft shown here in a NASA PR glossy appears to be wholly fanciful. […]
• Prices cut on aerospace cyanotype blueprints July 26, 2014
  I’ve cut the prices on all my cyanotypes by at least 25%, up to 40%. I’ve also gotten rid of the watercolor versions; it’s all vellum paper now (not only is it more historically accurate, it’s also a lot easier to process and ship). So… take a look. Cyanotype Blueprints […]
• Delta July 26, 2014
  An early1960′s illustration of the Delta launch vehicle. While the quality here is middlin’ at best, due to being scanned from an old magazine, it’s a safe bet that the original piece of (non-computer-generated) art was a thing of beauty. […]
• Christianity and the aliens pt. 2 July 26, 2014
  Ken Ham. Granted, I suspect most halfway intelligent Christians are as embarrassed to claim Ham as one of their own as I, a human being, am embarrassed to admit that he is, apparently, also a human being. But still, this purveyor of religious idiocy and anti-science gibberish is relevant to the discussion of religion and […]
• Well, this can only end happily. July 26, 2014
  A woman with deadly Ebola virus escapes quarantine, now loose in a city of 1 million A 32-year-old woman in Freetown, Sierra Leone, tested positive for Ebola and was under quarantine in the hospital when her family forcibly removed her. Good plan, folks. […]
• Terminator 2 Hunter-Killer July 26, 2014
  Pegasus Models recently (not quite sure when) came out with a 1/32 model kit of the Hunter-Killer tank from the first two Terminator movies. A bit on the pricy side, but that’s model kits these days… Had this come out a quarter century ago, I would have been *all* over it. Sigh.   ——– A […]
• A Moment In Time July 26, 2014
  In the midst of a slapfight, Buttons and Speedbump take a second to glare at me for interrupting. […]