Gentlemen: this h’yar is thinking bigly:
When you absolutely, positively have to use Kardashev Level 2 tech to move an entire solar system elsewhere.
Sources used in the video are HERE.
Dec 232019
Dec 212019
Where, when, why are not apparent here, but boy, someone sure seems likely to need a new pair of shorts.
Dec 212019
This made me happier than Danish National Symphony Orchestra videos would normally seem likely to:
Bonus rounds:
And this. Friggen’ this. The best thing about this is just how into it the conductor clearly is:
From the YouTube comments:
Dec 212019
I’m shocked that it took this long for a “Transformers vs The Terminator” crossover to emerge…
‘Transformers vs. The Terminator’ Crossover Comic Launching in 2020 (Exclusive)
Four part miniseries starting in March.
Comic books have done just about every crossover you can imagine, from the inane “Star Trek vs the X-Men”) to some that worked remarkably well (“RoboCop vs The Terminator,” which, to my decades-old memory of it, had a really rather inspired idea behind it). Recently there was a “Transformers vs Star Trek” crossover that was based on an amusing idea… rather than, say, the Michael Bay-movie Transformers in the JJ Abrams Star Trek universe, it was the 1980’s animated Transformers in the 1970’s animated series Trek universe.
Just based on that image, this seems to have more promise than “Dark Fate” did…
Dec 212019
Just a minor FYI: after several months of being out of the drafting business entirely due to moving, and a year or more of a serious slowdown, I’m getting back into it pretty well, averaging one new diagram a day. At the same time I am completely reworking a lot of old ones, greatly improving them and bringing them up to new standards. All in all, going pretty well so far. Obviously I’m being perhaps annoyingly cagey about the subject and the publisher; I’ll keep those under my vest until papers are signed and official announcements and whatnot made.
Dec 212019
With a signature, Trump brings Space Force into being
Around 16,000 active duty Air Force personnel will be temporarily assigned to the Space Force, but only five to six thousand of them will actually become members of the USSF. Eventually the ranks should grow to 15,000… compared to the USAF’s 300,000. The USSF budget for 2020 is a whopping $40 million.
It’s a start, I suppose. But the USSF won’t really come into its own until it starts contracting for the construction of its very own 4,000-ton Orion space battleships.
Dec 212019
It turns out that the feller who took on the London Bridge Stabby Stabby Cultural Enrichment Expert with a narhwal tusk wasn’t a Polish national as originally reported, but actually a South African-born Brit:
London Bridge attack: Darryn Frost on using a narwhal tusk to stop knifeman
The originally reported Polish national named Lukasz is apparently a real person, and tried to take on the terrorist with, ironically, a pole. But he wound up getting stabbed five times in the process. Still: actively taking on a terrorist? The Polish feller might not be Captain Narwhal, but he’s still a hero.
The cartoon still remains cromulent:
.@Telegraph cartoon#LondonBridgeAttack #narwhaltusk #FireExtinguisherMan #EverydayHeroes pic.twitter.com/Mmqtb2gFLH
— Bob Moran (@bobscartoons) November 30, 2019
Got conflicted thoughts about “Xtinguisher,” though. The actual guy is a convicted murderer. Sure, he did the right thing here, but he’s still – and forever – a murderer.
Dec 212019
I’ve been looking for diagrams of the Vulcan for decades. Anybody?
UPDATE: Stumbled across this…
https://www.germanmanuals.com/images/TheMGunV5.pdf
Not the *perfect* diagrams for my M61 Vulcan needs, but adequate… and with buckets of other stuff. The first is one volume of five on machine guns… “The Machine Gun” by USMC Colonel George Chinn. I’d rather have the actual book itself than an indifferent scan… but on Abebooks, the only complete set of volumes 1-5 runs a modest $850. So oddly enough, I suddenly find myself satisfied with the scan.
And to a lesser degree this:
http://www.check-six.com/lib/NavEdTra-14313.pdf
Put together…. a *vast* supply of diagrams for guns, bombs and missiles. Handy for model makers and such.
Dec 212019
This is pretty durned spiffy:
In other news… it seems strange that after more than 40 years of being a Star Wars fan, a major Star Wars movie has come out and, rather than seeing it on day one, my response to it so far has been “Eh, I’ll probably get around to it eventually.”
I’ve read the spoilers for “Rise of Skywalker,” and… wow. It sounds terrible.
Dec 202019
Ummm…
NASA admin: Starliner burn for rendezvous with space station ‘did not happen’
Rocket Science Are Hard. Perhaps they need to translanguage the issue…