Oct 252020
Oct 252020
An artists impression of the “DC-3” Space Shuttle concept. This was a two-stage system using two manned flyback vehicles with straight wings and turbofan engines. It was intended to be a low-cost approach, disdaining high performance for simple design and – theoretically – easy maintenance. The orbiter here had two jet engines in the nose for landing and flyback range extension; aerodynamic fairing would cover the inlets until after re-entry, jettisoned once the vehicles had decelerated to below Mach 1. The straight wings would be easy to build and low in weight compared to large delta wings, but of course they wouldn’t provide the same amount of lift. Consequently, the orbiter would less “glide” during the initial re-entry than “belly flop.”
I’ve uploaded the full-rez version of that to the APR Dropbox, into the 2020-10 APR Extras folder. This is available to any APR Patron or Subscriber at the $4 level and above.
Oct 252020
Looking to save some serious money? Here’s a potentially easy way!
Play it right, and you’ll not only save money this Christmas, but every Christmas to come *and* a whole bunch of birthdays.
Oct 252020
This video, apparently from Ontario, fills me with bafflement on several levels.
If Doug Ford’s OPP won’t even arrest masked men smashing their police cars — the cops won’t even say the words “stop!” — why would you think they’d help mere citizens who are terrorized this way? pic.twitter.com/dlGZpOBqvD
— Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) October 25, 2020
Oct 252020
Yikes.
So I haven’t seen any of season 3 of STD. But when they made CBS All Access free for a month a while back I caught the first two seasons. And those two didn’t make me salivate for more. This little clip doesn’t change that. Not only is the show apparently flat out ugly (there is a place for that sort of thing… that place is “Not Star Trek”), the *characters* are ugly as well. Never mind appearance… just terrible people. And these are the *heroes.*
Oct 252020
The dawn of the space age is upon us🚀 pic.twitter.com/BfAVRzbwdL
— Austin Barnard🚀 (@austinbarnard45) October 23, 2020
Oct 242020
At last, the US doesn’t seem to suck so bad at the whole “dealing with the Pinko Pox” thing when compared to our European Betters:
ZOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!
(Note for those dense enough to think that 2+2=5 is a valid proposition: this post is less “ha-ha look at them” and more “holy crap, look at that”)
Oct 242020
That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.
Gay male penguins steal lesbian couple’s eggs at Dutch Zoo
A pair of two male African penguins at a Dutch zoo, who made international headlines last year when they stole an egg from a heterosexual couple, have now stolen the nest of a lesbian duo … the gay couple is taking turns sitting on the eggs to keep them warm. But, Drost said, the eggs are likely unfertilized and will not hatch because they were laid by a lesbian penguin couple.
Oct 232020
Just what does Gropey Joe mean here?
Joe Biden: "As president, I'll mandate mask-wearing in all federal buildings and all interstate transportation" pic.twitter.com/NX6t6spI20
— BNO Newsroom (@BNODesk) October 23, 2020
What “interstate transportation” does he mean? Doe he mean that if you drive across state lines you will need to be masked up while alone in your car? Sounds stupid, but it also sounds like the sort of governmental overreach we’ve come to expect.
Oct 232020
I suppose they can. And they get to vote.
Wait until they find out about drug mules, snakeheads and the Navy SEALs.
Tonight on blue checkmark twitter, they don’t know what coyotes are.
(This isn’t even half of all I found 🥴) pic.twitter.com/Jsh57jSBb1
— Sophia Narwitz (@SophNar0747) October 23, 2020
