Pretty computer graphics of their Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft concept, which is a helicopter with a pusher prop akin to the now half-century gone AH-56 Cheyenne:
Mar 032020
Mar 022020
This is a direct quote from Joe Biden:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created by the you know, you know the thing."pic.twitter.com/A0MRpMmIWk
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) March 2, 2020
This is a direct quote from Joe Biden:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created by the you know, you know the thing.”
Huh. Who knew that humanity was created by The Thing?
Mar 022020
Lourdes shrine closes healing pools as precaution against coronavirus
Wait. A place that miraculously cures illness is being closed to keep people from getting sick? It’s almost as if the people who run the place don’t have complete faith in the miraculousness of their miracles.
Wouldn’t this be a FANTASTIC opportunity to prove out the effectiveness of their “healing pools?”
Related:
Applying essential oil to anus ‘cures coronavirus’: Iranian cleric
Snerk.
There’s nothing like a worldwide media freakout over what is *probably* going to turn out to be a flash-in-the-pandemic to bring out the cranks and the crazies, selling crackpottery and woo as fake cures to assuage the fearful.
Mar 012020
This video was posted on YouTube some six-ish years ago, but remains worthy of viewing and discussion. It’s a General Dynamics film to NASA from late 1962/early 1963 discussing the study of Early Manned Interplanetary Missions (EMPIRE), NAS8-5026. It describes the future as it should have been… and as how Krafft Ehricke, the presenter of the film and one of the driving forces behind the program, saw it:
1: Manned landing on the moon by the end of the 60’s.
2: Initial manned flights to (flybys and orbits) Venus and Mars in the early 70s
3: Entire solar system explored robotically by the end of the 1980’s
4: Manned mission to Pluto by 1995
Ehricke’s view of the future of space flight from the standpoint of the mid-1960’s was previously shown HERE.
The original film included a number of bits of concept art of both manned and unmanned spacecraft. Sadly no Orion vehicles are on display (it is name-dropped), but the Mars lander/excursion module was of the kind originally proposed for Orion. This was pre-Mariner when the Martian atmosphere was *massively* over-estimated; these landers and their dinky parachutes would, with the real Martian atmosphere, have made impressive craters in the surface.
Feb 292020
Woman Brutally Attacked by Somali Refugee Says Authorities Let Him Go Free Because of His 49 IQ
A woman in St. Louis was brutalized by her 15 year old neighbor with a metal rod, after said neighbor had had numerous other run-ins with criminality. The article comes complete with quite a few fairly graphic photos of headwounds… and with this:
“On arrival, we learned from that same patient advocate that Hassan’s IQ is 49,” the post reads. “This makes him incompetent to aid in his own defense, therefore all charges were formally dismissed by the prosecutor, Sakina Ahmad.”
Let that sink in. Being a dumbass not only lets you off the hook from risking your life for your country, it also seems to let you off the hook from responsibility for attempted murder.
Ahhhhmmmm… what big-brained genius decided that it was a neato-keen idea to insert foreigners with IQs of 49 into American cities? Go peddle stupid somewhere else. We’re all stocked up here.
Actual local news coverage of the situation.
Also, Facebook link with graphic photos and very long discussion of the whole situation after the break:
Feb 292020
As of today I have 100 diagrams completed for the book project. Not cruising along quite as quickly as I’d hoped… in mid January I had a few short of 70 and had hoped to do at least one per day. But there has been about two weeks worth of work time lost of various and sundry issues, and a few of the diagrams turned out to be more of a headache than expected. Things are nonetheless progressing. The spreadsheet of planned diagrams is now just a bit short of 210 total, though I expect some of those might not come to pass… better to plan to throw in *every* damn thing than plan to run lean. If nothing else, I want this book to be the sort of thing that anyone else who might have ideas about doing the same thing would take one look at and give up in despair, knowing that there is nothing more to say on the topic.
Feb 292020
By which I mean, “let’s toss Socialism out on it’s rotten, democidal and vampirish ears and go to 40% nuclear power for our electricity.”
Below is a video made by comedians who are far, FAR more honest than those lying jackals in the Democrat party who extol the “virtues” of Scandinavian socialism success stories, without ever mentioning that socialism almost destroyed Sweden so they got rid of it. The fact that they got rid of socialism without resorting to bloodshed is, I think, what has allowed the fact that Sweden is a free market capitalist system to slip under the radar. Consider that: what makes Scandinavian socialism a “success” is that it failed to result in gulags and pogroms, and they managed to *escape* socialism.
This would seem to be a good video to share. Perhaps even with lefties who drone on and on about how great it would be to have Nordic-style socialism in the US.
Feb 292020
There’s a lesson here:
Fallout from coronavirus outbreak triggers 25% decrease in China’s carbon emissions
In short, China has locked down whole regions, stopping aircraft (13,000 fewer flights per day), cars, factories, steel plants and powerplants. As a result, China’s carbon emissions dropped by 25%. This three week drop works out to the *annual* carbon output of New York state; for these three weeks, the *world* produced about 6% less carbon. If this keeps up, the global CO2 emissions will drop this year rather than increase.
There are in fact *several* lessons here. The first and biggest is that climate activists who berate the west or the United States in particular for CO2 emissions are barking up the wrong tree… they need to be going after China. Another is that the Green New Deal would have an economic impact substantially *greater* than a pandemic that causes nations to drop the authoritarian martial law banhammer.
I look forward with great interest to reading about the inevitable rise of EVEN MORE leftie whackadoodles who advocate for the extinction of mankind via pandemic as a way to “fix the planet.”
Feb 282020
Freeman Dyson, Visionary Technologist, Is Dead at 96
One of the early leaders in the drive to design the Orion nuclear pulse vehicle.
Sigh.
Feb 282020
The BBC uses the funds they extort from the British populace through the unjustifiable “TV license fee” to produce this sort of hilariously insane twaddle:
The struggles of getting a haircut as a non-binary person. pic.twitter.com/YEdYTgCFqV
— BBC The Social (@bbcthesocial) February 4, 2020
Where some ill defined… well, let’s say “person,” drones on and on about the difficulties in getting a haircut when you decide to be a weirdo. My concern over the difficulty of your fashion choices is *always* going to be minimal, but when you present yourself with large radial bearings plunged through your earlobes, my concern drops approximately to zero. And when your ulcerate over a *haircut,* the sort of thing that can be dealt with by, oh, I dunno, how about not getting one, then… yeah, bugger off, buddy.
As for the cost differential between “mens” haircuts and “womens” haircuts, you wouldn’t think that it would need to be pointed out that there tends to be a whole lot more resources and effort expended on women than men in this regard… but here we are. Most men are satisfies spending approximately two to five minutes in a barber chair, getting no more than a trim. Women seem to like not only a more involved trimming process but also the careful application of various stinkprettys, all of which take time and presumably some sort of skill.
So, strange BBC spokesentity, if the process of getting your weird haircut is too traumatic, just get a buzz cut. Or just tell the barber “trim a little off the top” and stop wasting your damn time and effort on something as fundamentally useless as the fashionability of your hair. After all: fashion and whatnot evolved as a way to attract the opposite sex so you could reproduce. And that doesn’t really seem to be in the cards, now, does it.