Feh.
SpaceX’s Starship SN3 prototype collapses in pressure tank test
This does *not* help push forward my plans of evacuating this miserable rock.
Apr 032020
Apr 022020
HAVE YOU THE BRAIN WORMS?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQEhuVS7Wj8
Huh. Another YouTube vid that won’t auto-embed. Well, if’n yer interested in some high-quality crazysauce, take a look at the link. Suggestion: turn down the audio. Or, heck, turn it up and see if, like here, your critters come running to see what the hubbub is about.
Apr 022020
So, the German-owned, Portuguese-flagged cruise ship RCGS Resolute was drifting, engine off, in the Caribbean doing some engine maintenance on March 30. No passengers on board. Then the Venezuelan patrol vessel ANBV Naiguatá decided to try to board and likely sieze the ship. Orders were made for the Resolute to surrender and sail to a Venezuelan port, orders the crew wisely refused. The Naiguatá then repeatedly rammed the Resolute. End result? The Naiguatá capsized and sank, the Resolute sailed on.
The Resolute, as it turns out, was built with an incredibly tough hull for the specific purposed of plowing through ice-packed Antarctic seas. It was built like a tank, essentially. *Why* the Venezuelans decided to take the cruise ship is a bit unclear, but “piracy” seems a good bet. Venezuela, being a socialist paradise, is all about stealing other peoples stuff. Most likely the goal was to ransom the cruise ship, and quite likely the crew as well.
This Venezuelan Patrol Ship Sunk Itself After Ramming A Cruise Liner With A Reinforced Hull
A glimpse into the future of the USS Bernie Sanders…
Apr 022020
Granted I not only do not believe in demons, I actively believe such things don’t exist. But whatever brain dysfunction that causes “demonic possession” seems to have been on display in Congress…
That’s not the only example. There is also the Surt-worshipping Ilhan Omar who had this to say:
Subhanallah! https://t.co/MysfOONOw4
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) April 1, 2020
Trump says that the next two weeks will be “very painful,” as in thousands – very likely tens of thousands – of Americans will die from the Kung Flu. And Omars response is “Subhanallah!” which translates to roughly to “Glory to Allah.” According to HERE:
“By saying “Subhanallah,” Muslims glorify Allah above any imperfection or deficiency; they declare his transcendence.”
For those of you unaware, that phrase is said when you’re happy. She is praising Allah. She is praising Allah that Americans will be going through a very painful time.
If she were commiserating, she’d say Allah yahmeena (Allah protect us) or Autho billah (I seek refuge w Allah)
— Yasmine Mohammed ياسمين محمد 🦋 (@YasMohammedxx) April 1, 2020
Apr 022020
Cutaway artwork of the UH-46A transport helicopter, mid sixties.
Apr 012020
First Bush Derangement Syndrome, then Trump Derangement Syndrome, and now this:
Prosecutors: Engineer deliberately ran train off tracks in attempt to smash the USNS Mercy
The train’s engineer, one Eduardo Moreno, believed that the hospital ship recently docked in the Port of Los Angeles, is part of some dark conspiracy. And so he tried to sink a ship with a train, missing it by some 250 yards.
As this crisis drags on and, presumably, gets worse, expect to see a whole lot of downright craziness. We’re in the early days of the whackaloonery, I’d bet.
Bonus: apparently train engineers get to wear *really* *cool* outfits these days…
Apr 012020
A page from a 1962 North American presentation on the X-15, showing a preliminary design 0f an underslung rocket-boosted scramjet test vehicle. It was expected to get to a blisteringly fast 17,000 feet per second (about Mach 15), but it doubtless would not have much of a burn time. The ABLX-259 rocket booster was a solid rocket used as the “Antares II” third stage of the Scout space launcher. Note that the X-15 had an extended nozzle.
Mar 312020
The movie “Greenland” looks like a fun lighthearted time, due for a June 12 release. Anyones guess when it’ll actually be released, and whether it’ll actually hit theaters or go straight to streaming.
UPDATE: The trailer keeps getting yanked from YouTube for some reason.
Mar 312020
A physics simulator that allows you to drive, and smash cars up, on other planets. With gravity levels ranging from “Pluto” to “Sun.”
I don;t have the game, and what with the difficulty I’ve had with Steam in the past (basically you have to play the game on the machine you download the game on, which doesn’t work for me since I use a low-end pawn shop chromebook for the internet and my actually capable machines are perpetually unconnected tot he internet) I won’t be getting it, but BeamNG Drive does indeed look like a hoot. Seem that racing other players on the surface of Mars would be quite a novel experience.
Mar 302020
As described here, this HC-130H was configured for rescue operations using the Fulton Skyhook. More information, including links to videos, can be found here.
