Point the first: it’ll be a bit lax on the blogging for the next little while. Got stuff to handle. Not, not coronavirus… not yet, anyway.
Point the second: color me stunned, Boeing done failed another aerospace project.
Jan 272020
Jan 252020
Spacedock lays out one of the clearest examples of why the latest (last?) Star Wars movie was so disappointing:
A whole lot of very different concept art was created not only for “Rise of Skywalker” but also for “The Force Awakens” that could have been *easily* modeled. Hell, there are boatload of amateur Star Wars modelers who have produced their own Star Destroyer models who could have been contacted and bought off. The fact that the art department simply took an existing and inappropriate model, photocopied it about 50% bigger and tacked on a Big Space Gun and called it a day indicates that the art department had a possibly terminal case of senioritis. they just wanted to be done with Star Wars so they could move on to something else.
Jan 252020
In 1985 Rockwell thought that there might be a business case for a small unmanned spaceplane for recon purposes. At the time, the answer was apparently no… but within a few years Rockwell developed the “REFLY” spaceplane which, over a span of a couple decades, transmorgified into the X-37B which has flown a handful of top secret long duration missions.
Jan 252020
The dumbth overfloweth.
Meet the Woman Bringing Social Justice to Astrology
Nicholas, in her 40s, is transforming horoscopes from generalizations about finding true love and stumbling into financial good fortune to pointed calls to action with a left-leaning, social-justice agenda.
Is this stupid? You betcha. Do I support it? You betcha. I want all the lefties and SJWs to put more and more of their faith into patent bullshit.
This is of course nothing new. The left wing war on science, on rationality, on not being a freakin’ loon continues.
Jan 252020
… but I’ma use it as evidence anyway:
Schiff just lost Collins and Murkowski for this lie. pic.twitter.com/Lc0k5Hoe0z
— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) January 25, 2020
This whole thing has been a farce since day one. This basically confirms it.
Jan 252020
Sometime in 2007 or 2008 my neighbors gave me a cat they’d found wandering the streets and in a bad way, her paws all tore up. Tak The Hideous New Girl went with me when I briefly moved from Utah to Maryland and back in 2008, but sometime around 2010 she moved on to a new home, finding a place of comfort with my Mom and, later, Bruce the cat. This morning, after an extended illness, Tak died on the way to the vet.
Some photos from when Tak was a Utah cat, living with Koshka and Raedthinn. All three are gone now, and far, far too soon.
Tak was a good cat.
Jan 242020
After consultation with our Great Military Leaders, designers, and others, I am pleased to present the new logo for the United States Space Force, the Sixth Branch of our Magnificent Military! pic.twitter.com/TC8pT4yHFT
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 24, 2020
Looks not unlike a Starfleet logo, which isn’t a bad thing. It’s also not much more than a modest modification of the Space Command logo:
So anyone yapping about Trump ripping off Star Trek and there needing to be a copyright infringement lawsuit? Yeah, not so much.
Jan 242020
Infected people seen dead in streets’ of quarantined China Coronavirus city Wuhan
Video shows dead bodies in halls of Chinese hospital…
10 cases of Wuhan Virus now in California…
Coronavirus: hunt for 2,000 travellers who flew from Wuhan to Britain in last fortnight
China Building A Hospital To Treat Virus, Expands Lockdowns To 10 Cities
Jan 242020
Well, this looks potentially disturbing in a Twilight Zone/ Black Mirror sort of way…
Jan 232020
I bet you that a reasonable fraction of the people who hyperventilate about “racism” and “homo/trans/Islamo/whateverphobia” have their own screamingly insane hatreds. Ladies and gentlemen, behold the blithering bigotry of your betters:
“No Capricorns Allowed”: A Deep Dive Into Zodiac Hate
As if belief in astrology in the era past Galileo and Newton and Einstein and von braun and Goddard wasn;t stupid enough, there are a substantial number of people who use astrological “signs” as a way to hate and discriminate.
Gah.
