Dec 272020
Unnecessary conspiracy theorizing
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Dec 272020
The Nashville bombing is likely the result of whackadoodlism, rather than religion or politics (let’s put aside for a moment the fact that most politics and religion are fundamentally whackadoodlism… they’re just *commonly* *accepted* whackadoodlism). But even nutjobs need to have some sort of reason why they target this place rather than that. And the link below suggests why the AT&T facility might have been targeted:
Photos After The Explosion Reveal That The Bombing Target The AT&T Building In Nashville Is Reinforced NSA Style Building
Gee whiz, an important communications hub was built rugged, designed to withstand the likes of tornadoes and Russian nuclear strikes? Why on earth would AT&friggenT *possibly* be considered, oh, I dunno, some sort of important national communications asset? Must be a conspiracy! Booga Booga!
The article then wonders why the AT&T facility had a warning sign mounted outside listing “flammability,” “health” and “instability – reactivity” concerns. The author ponders explanations like: “Potential secret chemical? Maybe quantum computing-related?”
Somehow, “loaded with lithium ion backup batteries and diesel generators” apparently didn’t occur to said author.
Bah.
There are lots of good reasons why a major communications corporation would ruggedize their facilities, especially the ones so clearly easily accessed by the public. People cranking out looney theories about normal communications buildings being NSA facilities, or remote airfields being UFO landing grounds, or nuclear power plants being stargate terminals, or abandoned WalMarts being concentration camps are just as nutty *and* bad for society as those who crank out conspiracy theories about a wage gap, or white privilege, or faked moon landings, or Russian collusion, or the CIA created AIDS, or the Proud Boys being white supremacists, or Holocaust-was-a-hoax BS, or Creationist claptrap, or Flat Eartherism, or 2+4=4 being anything other than flat reality.
Dec 272020
Anthony Quinn Warner Named as Nashville Bombing Person of Interest
“FBI agents spent the days at another location today besides searching the home of Anthony Warner, pursuing tips that he was paranoid about 5g spying on Americans.” Since the pandemic hit, conspiracy theories have raged that 5G cell phone towers spread COVID-19…
Yep.
Well, I guess the good news here if this is accurate is that this means that it was not political in any rational or traditional sense. Not pro/anti-Trump, not BLM, not Antifa, not commies or Jihadis, just good old fashioned whackadoodlery.
Dec 262020
When there’s a space heater on, you can rest assured that Banshee will park herself in front of it.
Dec 262020
Man Music.
The original seems to be HERE.
Ain’t nuthin’ like dwarf-singin’ to give a feller the feels.
Another version with slightly higher production value:
Dec 262020
Well, Burj al Babas in Turkey is just goofy:
The idea of a housing development of more than 700 identical and closely packed miniature “castles” is weird enough, but the execution seems to have been particularly cheap.
Dec 252020
UPS guy’s got himself some work ethic.
Dec 252020
Heh.
Dec 252020
Explosion in Nashville that damaged dozens of buildings is believed to be an intentional act
‘Evacuate now. There is a bomb’: Witness recalls chilling warning before explosion in Nashville that damages 20 buildings, injures 3
The story right now *seems* to be:
1: Around 4:30 AM, residents heard what sounded like rapid gunfire coming from an RV.
2: Cops were called.
3: RV starts loudly blatting out a recorded warning.
4: residents evacualt, bomb squad called.
5: RV explodes at 6:30 AM, causing significant damage.
This doesn’t sound like your traditional Jihadi terrorist… it seems that the explosion was set off when they were assured of there *not* being a lot of people around. So far no reports of deaths. Some jackhole simply PO’ed at the world? Someone with a specific grudge against a business the RV was parked in front of? Someone simply looped directly out of their gourd? Someone simply try to send 2020 out with a bang?
Oh my god! This video from downtown #Nashville of the explosion!!!
This is from Buck McCoy on Facebook! pic.twitter.com/xA1J8AgyGc
— Ryan Graney👩🏻🦰 (@RyanEGraney) December 25, 2020
Dec 252020
In 1985, Rockwell International considered the possibility that there might be profit in clustering the External Tank from the Space Shuttle in Earth orbit. There the tanks could be filled with propellant to serve as orbital “gas stations,” or rebuilt into space habitats or other structures, or simple reprocessed for the raw structural materials. In order to do this the Shuttle would have to shed a noticeable fraction of total payload. Something not given a whole lot of thought was what to do about the insulating foam applied to the tanks; ultraviolet sunlight, thermal cycling and a harsh vacuum would cause the foam to break down ans turn each orbiting tank into a little comet, the nucleus of a cloud of foam bits.
Still, it would have been nice if the tanks had been used rather than simply dumped into the Indian Ocean.
