I don’t think he likes Beto

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Sep 142019
 

I get a subtle hint here that Tim Pool is not a fan of Beto O’Rourke:

Yeah, O’Rourke defeats the lie that “nobody wants to take your guns.” He is quite open about the fact that he wants to make sure that the ability to commit violence is restricted solely to the government and to the criminals; the vast majority of the citizenry is, in his view, to be rendered defenseless.

Yes, Beto is a terrible human being, an example of the worst form of power-mad wannabe tyrant that genetics and upbringing can produce. But he is also a has-been nobody, with no chance of getting the Dem nomination. Like Swalwell, he’s a little more than a jumped -up streetcorner sign-waver, desperately trying to get people to pay attention to him.

The bigger issue here is that the Democratic party and the other candidates are not denouncing him and his proposed policies. At most they are annoyed that he has produced a readily repeated sound bite that will doubtless be used by people who do *NOT* want to disarm and neuter the populace. The Dems aren’t shouting their support for the Constitution or the people’s rights. They are not calling for O’Roarke and Swalwell to be run out of the party on a rail. This is important. The likes of O’Roarke and Swalwell are *gleeful* in their desire to enact laws that they know full well are not only unConstitutional, but which will set the people against the government and *will* lead to bloodshed. The likes of O’Roarke and Swalwell and Warren and Breadline are pushing for or accepting of policies that will, for no good purpose, push the US towards another Civil War. And the likes of Swalwell have already “joked” about using weapons of mass destruction against American population centers in order to terrorize the remaining beaten populace into kowtowing to the will of a totalitarian government. As much as the media likes to scream about how Trump caters to racists via dog whistles, the Dems actually support, defend and protect the genocidal anti-Semites in their midst and the civil-warmongering democidal monsters like O’Roarke. Note not just the nonsensical fear-mongering blather that idiot-child Beto spews forth here, but also listen to the crowd: when he says “Hell yes we’re going to take your AR-15,” the crowd of Dem whackjobs in attendance goes nuts with joyful applause at the notion of a government that sweeps across the land kicking in doors and shooting homeowners, leading to the worst democide this side of the Soviet era.

Never forget that.

 

 

 Posted by at 6:43 pm

Aerospace/military books for sale

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Sep 062019
 

I’m selling off a chunk of my library. Below is a link to a PDF catalog with thirty books, all of which I’m selling for five dollars ($5) each plus postage. If you are interested, just send me an email letting me know which one(s) you want and what your mailing address is. First responder for any book gets it.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/s3oc8d2tdup687f/books%20for%20sale%209-6-2019.pdf?dl=0

Also available is a multi-volume report on the Space Station as envisioned in 1984. This is available to the first responder for $60 plus postage.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ev8cdujenszxu99/stationdocs.pdf?dl=0

If interested, send an email to

I’m also pondering selling off a whole bunch of sci-fi paperbacks in lots.

 Posted by at 3:09 pm

It’s easier to buy a gun than…

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Aug 232019
 

It’s a common refrain among politicians and celebrities who want to disarm the public that it is too easy for  regular people to buy mundane firearms with which to defend themselves. Every now a journalist will actually put that to the test… mostly to prove the claim correct and feed the narrative that America needs to make sure that civilians are disarmed in the face of the criminal element. But sometimes it doesn’t go according to plan:

I tried to buy a gun at Walmart twice, and roadblocks left me empty-handed both times

The short form of the story here is “gee whiz, WalMart *doesn’t* make buying a gun as simple as just picking one up off the shelf.”

There’s lots to chuckle at here for anyone who actually knows anything about the process of legally buying a firearm. but the thing that caught me off guard right up front: the journalist started the process by trying to find a nearby WalMart that sells firarms. Fair enough. But when she finally finds one, a mere thirty minutes drive away, she makes a point of discussing how she put the destination into her nav system in order to get there. Ummm… WalMarts aren’t that hard to find. It comes across like “I’ve never been to WalMart before,” which smacks of the sort of snootiness that makes regular folk laugh at these goobers who are ignorant about how the bulk of the nation actually lives.

 

 Posted by at 3:25 pm

Cesium 137

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Aug 162019
 

Hmmm.

Exclusive: Russian Doctors Say They Weren’t Warned Patients Were Nuclear Accident Victims

As more information dribbles out about the recent Russian missile explosion that released radiation of an undefined sort, this story is kinda interesting. There is some hey-didn’t-I-see-that-sort-of-thing-on-that-Chernobyl-show level paranoid bureaucracy skullduggery going on with doctors not being given all the facts, but one of the more interesting bits is that one of the doctors who treated the incident victims was found to have cesium 137 in his muscle tissue. There are a whole lot of useful bits of data left out here, such as how *much* cesium 137 and whether he could have picked it up elsewhere or whether any of the many other doctors and nurses involved were also contaminated with cesium 137. Given how often cesium 137 shows up in lower left nuclear incidents, such as industrial radioactive sources being simply lost or misplaced, it’s entirely possible that that one doctor came across it somewhere else. But if the doctor was contaminated internally to an important degree by a victim flown in from hundreds of mils from the incident site, it would indicate that there must be a *lot* of cesium 137 floating about. because cesium 137 would be an odd substance here. It’s a byproduct of the fission of U-235, but you’d imagine that uranium would be the bigger story if that was the source. It’s not seemingly terribly useful for military applications.

Cesium 137 is a beta emitter; it’s pretty much useless in a reactor, though I imagine someone clever might be able to find a way to harness the beta emissions somehow. It won;t make a bomb, though you might turn very fine powder into a cladding for a dirty bomb. Cesium salts are water soluble and play hell with biological systems since it infiltrates easily. But it’s actual practical uses in industry all seem kinda pointless for a missile:

Caesium-137 has a number of practical uses. In small amounts, it is used to calibrate radiation-detection equipment.[5] In medicine, it is used in radiation therapy.[5] In industry, it is used in flow meters, thickness gauges,[5] moisture-density gauges (for density readings, with americium-241/beryllium providing the moisture reading),[6] and in gamma ray well logging devices.[6]

I *suppose* it might have been used in a propellant flow meter for a rocket engine? Maybe?

I’m no nuclear expert, but for the life of me I can’t come up with a good use for the stuff.

 Posted by at 8:42 pm

BLAMMO goes Russia

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Aug 092019
 

There seems to be something wrong with our bloody Russians this week.

A Russian military ammo depot that blew up earlier this week just exploded again

But wait! There’s more!

‘Brief radiation spike’ after rocket engine blast in northern Russia

Ummmm…

Radiation levels peaked between 11:50 and 12:30 (08:50-09:30 GMT) before falling and normalising by 14:00, the city administration in Severodvinsk said on its website, without reporting how significant the spike had been.

…

“They advise everyone to close their windows and drink iodine, 44 drops per glass of water.”

And…

Is Putin covering up a nuclear disaster? Ambulances covered in protective film transport six Russians who suffered severe radiation poisoning in mystery explosion during ‘test of new hypersonic missile’

UMMMMM…..

The Daily Mail article suggests that this was a “Zircon” hypersonic missile that exploded. The 3M22 Zircon is an experimental scramjet-powered anti-ship/land target missile with  range of about a thousand miles, with the capability of carrying a 600 kiloton thermonuclear warhead. If there was a radiation release, that would indicate that the missile was carrying an actual nuclear warhead… something that seems *really* unwise for a peacetime test flight. it’s unlikely that the warhead actually detonated; that would be Big News virtually impossible to hide. Instead I guess the warhead must have either been blown apart by the chemical explosives, or trashed on impact. in either case, it seems a little odd that the radiation spike would go back down.  You’d think there’d need to be a substantial cleanup. Unless, I suppose, the plutonium actually caught fire and burned and the smoke rifted downrange…

There is also speculation that this wasn’t a Zircon, but a Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile. The existence of a truly nuclear powered Burevestnik is by no means certain, but who knows. In the unlikely case that this what what crashed, then perhaps the burst of radiation came from the engine melting down in flight or on impact; the drop in radiation coming as the reactor sank into mud or a pond or even just the dirt. Shrug.

 Posted by at 5:31 pm

Supercavitating bullets

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Jul 022019
 

A lot of movies have a scene with Someone being chased by enemies; Someone jumps into a body of water to escape, swims deep, and catches a bunch of bullets fired from above. This is patent nonsense; water will stop most bullets in just a foot or three, if not a matter of inches. But it seems that if you design your bullets properly, you can get meaningful travel through water measured in *dozens* of feet. Supercavitation forms a thin layer of gas around the projectile so that the projectile seems to be traveling through a gas rather than a liquid, massively dropping drag. In some high speed torpedoes this gas sheath is created by ejecting gas from the nose. But bullets do this by carefully shaping the nose; the shaping causes the water to boil into a vapor.

Just the thing for the Navy to use to take out incoming torpedoes, nearby mines and pesky scuba divers. Now you can use your AR-15 for fishing. Neato.

 Posted by at 11:31 pm
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