A photo montage of Boeing display models showing a range of launch vehicles intended to put the early (1959) Dyna Soar into orbit. The three at left are clusters of Minuteman ICBM boosters; the next two are larger solid rocket motor clusters. The next is a Saturn I booster, followed by an all-new recoverable liquid rocket booster, the Titan II and the Atlas/Centaur. The Titan II design was chosen, though it could not actually get the Dyna Soar into a true orbit. To do that, solid rocket boosters needed to be strapped to the sides of the Titan II… leading to the creation of the Titan III.
— March for Science (@MarchForScience) June 8, 2020
Here’s a thought: measure performance of STEM organizations and labs and companies and such on June 10. See if things such as productivity or morale take a downward turn or not as the woke “scientists” leave on the 10th. If things don’t get worse or in fact get better… then lay off those who left because clearly they’re just not that handy on the job anyway. It certainly seems like a day free of wokescolds and their lackeys would be an improved day on the job.
I went to the “shut down STEM” website to see what all line of they’re running. And this warning popped up.
The slide, which ran more than 2,000 feet along the shore and nearly 500 feet inland, was the largest the area had ever seen. A dog was carried out to sea but swam to safety.
Shocking, not once in the New York Times article do they blame Trump for this incident. Must be slipping (ba-dum-tiss).
So here’s some good news for those oldster sci-fi nerds who were/are fans of the original Battlestar Galactica, who wanted spaceships to go along with their toy figures, and who currently have buckets of money:
That’s cool and all, but I have two current concerns, apart from the cost:
1: The 3D printed nature of the things is still really obvious. Of course as printing tech improves, the surfaces will also improve. Eventually these sort of prints will be indistinguishable from injection molded parts. Not there yet, though.
2: Some corporate suit will doubtless fire up the Legion Of Doom Lawyers to drop a ban hammer. “Someone is making a nickel selling something we couldn’t be bothered to sell even though there’s clearly been a market for close to half a century? OUTRAGE!”
So, a bit of games theorizing needed here. Do you shell out big bucks now for things that are – to the right person – pretty cool, yet still rather imperfect… or do you wait for quality to improve and cost to decrease, while risking a Cease and Decist making them vanish altogether?
I am busy at work on US VTOL Projects #3 to be released at the same time as US Fighter Projects #4. USVP#3 is not as far along, but it’s getting there. Here’s a first glimpse:
The argument in the piece is that the woke fascists are *approaching* the stage of book burning, due in part to pieces like this blog post on taxpayer-funded NPR:
Where white people are castigated for having book shelves filled with authors who wrote, you know, actually *good* books. Why have Shakespeare, when you could have Maya Angelou? Why have books you like when you could instead have books that tell you how evil you and your family members are for being the race you are?
While mr. Kruiser has a point that those who hector others over not having a sufficiently woke reading list are on the road to being book burners, he makes a fundamental factual error at the end:
Obviously, people aren’t literally burning books just yet. The spirit of book burning is upon us, though. With what we have seen in the past ten days from the rage mob, expecting the leftist worst from them really isn’t a stretch.
Ummm… “people aren’t literally burning books just yet?” Allow me to introduce you to the pile of ashes that is Uncle Hugo’s Science Fiction Bookstore. Or DreamHaven Books & Comics, which was ransacked and saved from being burned down solely due to the incompetence of the arsonists. Seven other comic book shops across the country (Illinois and California) ransacked. Hell, even “progressive” newspapers get an entrashening. And of course there’s the winnowing of western literature from universities, social media censoring wrongthink and Amazon withdrawing books for political reasons.
Mobs are generally indiscriminate in their reckless hate, only avoiding those businesses that have Roof Koreans or which display, with adequate clarity, symbols of supplication. But those pushing the chaos often have goals… and wiping out wrongthink and the paper its printed on certainly seems to be at the top of their wishlist.
I saw a bit of video a little earlier that was top-of-the-line cringe. It was so awful that I wanted to immediately post and mock it… but it was *SO* awful that it transcended mockability into patheticness. Fortunately, Bearing is on the job:
These people are self-hating clowns. They are not to be hated, they are not to be debated, they are not even to be mocked; they are to be noted, remembered and used as object lessons in what happens when someone allows themselves to be browbeaten into hating themselves. This is sufficiently bizarre that it can be assumed to be a bug, not a feature, and is outside of normal human nature and logic. That it now assumes the trappings of a religion should thus not be surprising.
So some new handrails were installed on the Golden Gate Bridge. They were designed to lower drag on high wind days. Not a bad idea, right? Well… the new railings sing, and apparently sing loudly.
Anthony J.: “Engineers designed new sides for the sidewalk to help with wind resistance but didn’t take into account the EXTREME sound it creates when wind passes through it. The bridge sings crazy songs now it’s so trippy. It hurts the ears and unbearable it’s that loud.” pic.twitter.com/GWdVia1GNS
It is apparently *painfully* loud on high wind days, and can at times be heard some miles away. Not only are there no plans to replace these, there are plans to add *more* of these guardrails. So… if you live in the area and are very disturbed by the noise what are your options?
1: Claim that minorities and the alphabet community are disproportionately negatively affected by the noise.
2: Claim that the “singing,” since there is no actual artistic merit to it or talent/skill required for its creation, is cultural appropriation.
3: Claim that your shaman confirms that the singing is actually the audible wailing of the spirits of alt-right white supremacist demons.
4: Claim that the railings are the result of western civilization and/or engineering rigor.
5: Claim that the noise is inherently pro-Trump.
Any one of these, if disseminated widely enough, *should* be adequate to assure either that the San Francisco city government will leap into action *or* that a sufficiency of Peaceful Protestors will arrive and set upon the bridge with fire and bricks. Soon the Golden Gate Bridge can look as gloriously woke as Minneapolis!
I thought sure I’d posted this before but… shrug. If’n yer interested in the manned Orbiting Laboratory program of the mid-1960’s, you’ll want to take a gander at the website for the National Reconnaissance Office, which has 825 documents with a total of 20,861 pages on the MOL project:
