If you said “overpriced impractical skivvies for hot chicks, non-hot chicks who think they’re hot chicks, and exceedingly creepy dudes,” then step up and collect your prize!
Featuring everyones favorite new form of social justice warrior idiocy, “cultural appropriation.”
Sadly, the original Cosmo article…
… seems to have been dumped down the memory hole.
Here’s an interesting, if brief, piece on how various religions might handle intelligent aliens showing up:
For each of the rather few religions described, two reactions are described:
The Buddhists, for example, are presumed to be perfectly cool with the idea of ETs, and will not be overly interested in converting them. Jews will accept aliens just fine, and have no interest in converting them. Muslims will accept aliens, but *will* want to convert them. Creationists will have some serious difficulty in accepting aliens. Catholics seem to be a mishmash.
Not listed: Mormons, Hindus, Shinto, standard Protestants, various pagans. And then there are the newage religions, the modern UFO cults, the Scientologists.
Feel free to speculate away!
Two fellers and a dog (or perhaps more accurately, a dawg) evacuate from the recent fire that devastated Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Or perhaps more accurately, evacuate *through* the fire. Some situationally-appropriate language is used.
Includes the always relevant “What the F is wrong with you? GO!”
One of the odder aircraft to see combat was the Twin Mustang. It originally began its life as a design for a long range escort made from two P-51 Mustangs joined by a common wing section, but by the time it flew a number of other major changes were made so that its, strictly speaking, not *exactly* two Mustangs joined together. It served well enough in Korea, but it was a piston plane in the era of jets, and was obsolete almost immediately.
Fortunately, one of the XP-82 prototypes is being refurbished with the goal of making it flight worthy. Unclear if they would actually fly it; I’d be a nervous wreck if I was involved in the project and someone decided to take it into the air. Still, if they do so it’d be a hell of a sight to see.
Mythbusters without Adam and Jamie. But it *does* have Kari, rockets and firearms…
https://www.facebook.com/aigkenham/posts/1327716147258738
So much sculpting/modeling talent being squandered on utter bilge.
Two caveats:
1) It’s from the Daily Mail
2) It’s from Russia
So accuracy is not assured.
The notion of cloning special dogs for certain roles is interesting, but it’s very likely to be of dubious practical value. The utility of a dog for sniffing out drugs or explosives comes down to their breed and training, and cloning does frak-all to pass on training for anything more advanced than a flatworm. And if you happen to like a particular breed, there are easier ways than cloning to get more of ’em. A male and a female, some mood lighting and Barry White playing over the kennels PA system would not only be sufficient, it might be argued as being a bit excessive for the goal of getting more of that breed.
And cloning is still a sufficiently new practice that it’s not at all clear than the clones will be as healthy or long-lived as the original.
Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag – if they do, there must be consequences – perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 29, 2016
Sigh.
Flag burning is a Supreme Court Ruling Protected form of free expression. It may be rude, it may be dumb, it may be offensive… but that’s what the 1st Amendment is *for.*
I’ve not devoted much cogitation to the EM drive, mostly because it just strikes me as bunk. There has recently been some renewed interest due to the appearance of a peer reviewed paper that seems to back up some of the claims… but when the thrust level for 100 watts is measured in *micro* newtons, I just can’t scrape up much interest. Especially when the guy behind the idea was claiming that it would be able to power flying cars (capable of VTOL) and space launch boosters, requiring an improvement in T/W on the order of ten to a hundred MILLION times. And, oh yeah, overturning the laws of thermodynamics. Whenever something claims to do that, I tend to tune out.
If the EM drive actually works (and it seems more likely that it works like a radiometer), then it’s kinda like everything else that has ever been touted as actual functioning magic. Yeah, sure, great, you can bend that spoon with your mind. But look at the effort required; using magic, you’re doing it the hard way.
Here is a good if lengthy explanation of why the EM drive most likely doesn’t work, and even if it did, why it sucks:
Yesterday evening was, of course, bad. But today the region got whacked by the first winter snowstorm… providing a dandy opportunity to *not* go anywhere. Under the circumstances, that seemed just fine. So, without further ado, here’s some bad lip reading from “Empire Strikes Back:”