Some interesting anecdotal evidence of an early outbreak of the Commie Cough at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah this past January.
Some remarkable tales, but what’s lacking from the story are the test results showing that those who got very ill have the right antibodies.
*Some* evidence – via micro-lensing events – of a black hole massing 20 to 50 times Earth out in the Kuiper belt or Oort cloud. Take with a chunk of salt.
Given the current understanding of physics, there are currently no processes that would create a black hole much less than a couple times the mass of the sun. And there has been nowhere near the 10E68 years needed for Hawking radiation to evaporate a stellar-mass black hole down to Earth-mass. So if a planetary mass black hole is lurking out there, then it must have been created during the Big Bang. And if they’ve actually spotted one, it seems likely that the universe must be *littered* with them. Something of a hazard to navigation for starships.
And because why not, an interesting black hole calculator:
https://www.vttoth.com/CMS/physics-notes/311-hawking-radiation-calculator
1x Earth: radius =0.3492 inches, lifetime = 5.67661E50 years
20x Earth: radius = 6.984 inches, lifetime = 4.54128E54 years
50x Earth: radius = 17.46 inches, lifetime = 7.09576E55 years
Found out today that the book I’ve been slaving away at has been delayed. Thanks to CERTAIN GLOBAL PROBLEMS causing supply chain issues and shutting down distributors and wholesalers, publication of my book has been put off by One Year.
Golly gee, thanks for that pandemic, ya commie bastiches.
In a desperate effort to look on the bright side, this also gives me an extra year to finish the manuscript. As anyone who has ever had to write some big report as a school assignment only to get an extension on the due date knows, this can be both good and bad. Extra time is handy, but it tends to result in slacking off if one isn’t careful. Still and all, I expect that this will lead to an expanded version of the book, assuming I don’t get taken down by the Pinko Pox before I turn it in.
Extra sadness: I was preparing to turn in a proposal for the *next* book, and it was agreed that it would have gone straight to contract were things different.
Guys. GUYS. I know Disney done farked up Star Wars, but arresting girls dressed as Stormtroopers because you’re all askeered of their fake plastic blasters? Not the way to earn your way into Cophalla.
This little cartoon is a little heavily steeped in the crass, but that doesn’t stop it from being durned funny.
This is from more than a decade ago. But given how 2020 is shaping up, expect to see something not unlike this near you in the near future. Maybe a whole lot of somethings like this in November, if a Certain Someone wins re-election…
I believe the proper response to these numbers is akin to “Yikes.”
Knowing what we now know about RS-25 engine costs ($146 million each); using Tory’s formula below, the true cost of an SLS launch is about $3.5 billion. I would not doubt it. https://t.co/qhxCrJse1I
— Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) May 4, 2020
A single RS-25 engine – of which each SLS will expend five – costs $146 million. Ummmmmm… the SpaceX Falcon 9 Heavy costs, lemme see, $90 million. You could buy 1.61 F9H’s for the cost of one SLS *engine.* A single complete SLS launch would buy you almost 39 F9H’s.
The one where Skallagrim subjects himself to getting thwacked with a steel cable:
What we have here is a self defense tool that relies upon “pain compliance” to get the job done. it’s unlikely to break bones and unlikely to cut very deeply when used as a whip, but it seems damned likely to hurt like a ᛗᚩᛏᚻᛖᚱᚠᚪᛣᚳᛖᚱ if used properly. A hit across the face seems almost certain to bring the issue to a close… and cause permanent blindness by chucking the eyeball across the room. Also demonstrated: the fact that whips go both ways… depending on followthrough, that thing comes back and bites you.
As mentioned in the video, the legality of such a device for the purpose of self defense is likely dubious in a lot of places. And thus when you look it up on Amazon, it’s being sold as something a little different than what it *actually* is:
It’s for breaking car windows. Riiiiiiiiight.
What’s the best response to massive and blatant governmental overreach, using the Pinko Pox to acquire totalitarian powers with draconian punishments for trivial offenses? I’m not sure, but here’s a foul-mouthed Australian going on about some remarkable incidents down Oz way:
Bonus round:
Apparently it’s racist to point out that at the same time the government is forcing the native population to hunker down in fear they’re also arresting people for suggesting that maybe the borders should be closed to the importation of untold numbers of people carrying Odin knows what.
