Apr 192020
Apr 182020
Ladies and gentlemen, the next President of the, you know, the place where FDR had the whatchamacallit with Corn Pop and the sniffing little girls hair and I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time, they didn’t have white onions because of the war, the only thing you could get was those big yellow ones oh look a butterfly, United States:
BIDEN: "Um, you know, there's a, uh, during World War II, uh, you know, where Roosevelt came up with a thing, uh, that, uh, you know, was totally different than a- than the- it's called, he called it, the, you know, the World War II, he had the war- the the War Production Board." pic.twitter.com/CwFSW2UITD
— Eddie Zipperer (@EddieZipperer) April 17, 2020
What’s really interesting is watching the XiNN talking heads doing their best to not react to BidenBot suddenly slipping a gear and engaging his Gibberish Generator. When Trump says something goofy, the press is all over it like white on rice. Hell, Trump made an obvious joke during the 2016 campaign and the Dems and the media (but then, I repeat myself) spent *years* in a vain attempt to impeach him over it.
Apr 182020
Ruh-roh… now it’s gonna get serious.
US Running out of Frozen Pizzas Amid Ongoing Coronavirus Pandemic
Plus…
Beer may lose its fizz as CO2 supplies go flat during pandemic
Apr 182020
A date has apparently been set to put US astronauts on a US launch vehicle to send them to the ISS.
BREAKING: On May 27, @NASA will once again launch American astronauts on American rockets from American soil! With our @SpaceX partners, @Astro_Doug and @AstroBehnken will launch to the @Space_Station on the #CrewDragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket. Let's #LaunchAmerica 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/RINb3mfRWI
— Jim Bridenstine (@JimBridenstine) April 17, 2020
More about the mission HERE:
https://www.nasa.gov/specials/dm2/
Seems a safe bet those fellers are taking quarantining *real* serious.
Apr 182020
Foamy says what needs sayin’.
Apr 182020
Sold on ebay a while back, a piece of NASA color art depicting a Shuttle orbiter dropping off a satellite (more likely a deep-space probe given the bizarrely-located RTGs). The orbiter, however, does not seem to be closely based on an actual design. It has some similarity to a North American Rockwell concept, but I’d wager that it’s mostly artistic license.
Apr 162020
The Saturn V burned through propellant *fast.* How fast? Well, visualize it in terms of elephants…
Apr 162020
I think they might well be *trying* to start a war.
U.S. says China may have conducted low-level nuclear test blasts
Actual evidence of such tests seems lean, at least as reported in the Reuters article. But if they *are* popping off nukes, it is a pretty substantial provocation, especially after their recent bad behavior.
Apr 162020
Every few years people rediscover the Zeppelin and decide that it’s the future of aviation. And then… not much happens. Shown below is a mid-1970’s piece of NASA artwork depicting a heavy lift cargo dirigible that uses four CH-54 Skycranes for added lift and control. It’s shown here transporting an M-60 main battle tank to or from a cargo ship. Such an arrangement *could* work and has been tried, though it was hardly an unqualified success.
The full-rez scan of this cutaway has been made available to all $4 and up APR Patreons and Monthly Historical Document Program subscribers. It was uploaded to the 2019-12 APR Extras folder on Dropbox for Patreons and subscribers. If interested in this piece or if you are interested in helping to fund the preservation of this sort of thing, please consider becoming a patron, either through the APR Patreon or the Monthly Historical Document Program.
Apr 162020
… you’re going to shell out even more to fund your own invasion:
California’s Newsom announces $125M fund to give coronavirus stimulus checks to immigrants in state illegally
At a time when there is building chaos, when food might start to become scarce, when unemployment is skyrocketing, the California government wants to take taxpayer money to incentivize even more illegal aliens to come in and fill out the food banks, the jails, the hospitals, the low-end jobs. Here’s a better idea: use that $125 million to fund a program to help rid your state of illegal aliens. Sure, deportation is a job for the Feds. But a $125 million program to fund a reward system, where Californians can call to turn in employers who knowingly hire illegals? Heck, how big of a Trebuchet could California build for even $1.25 million, right along the border?
$125 million would fund a pretty substantial program to use drones to drop multi-lingual flyers warning illegals to head south.