This image of a bit of script is floating around. I swear to Jeebus that I recognize the style; I may have even posted about it. Anybody?
Aug 242019
Aug 242019
My cell phone just rang. According to caller ID, the caller was… my cell phone. WTF?
Didn’t seem like a call worth answering.
Aug 242019
This story has it all:
NASA astronaut accused of stealing identity, accessing bank account of estranged wife while in space: report
What?!?! Some astronaut while on the space station committed crimes against his wife who was back on Earth? Why, That’s an outrage! Clearly part of the cis-het patriarchy! Argle bargle damned toxic masculinity! NASA needs to diversify away from alpha males! Why…
Former Air Force intelligence officer Summer Worden, from Kansas, has been involved in a bitter divorce with astronaut Anne McClain since 2018 but the battle heated up after Worden filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission and NASA’s Office of Inspector General accusing her wife of assuming her identity and gaining improper access to her private financial records while orbiting the earth
Oh.
NASA officials told the Times that they were unaware of any previous crimes committed on the space station.
Consider this: the first crimes committed on the space Station, quite likely the first crimes committed in space, were committed by a Protected Special Class. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Aug 242019
LOL wut? Clown World goes nuclear:
Russian officials blame cesium exposure on ‘Fukushima crabs’
Reactor explosion? What reactor explosion? Naw, naw, see, what happened is, the guy who tested positive for elevated levels of Cesium 137 went to Thailand recently, and ate some crabs. And clearly the crabs came from Fukushima. yeah, that’s the ticket…
Aug 232019
A few days ago I posted about a model on ebay of an “XF-108” that gave every appearance of being a modern half-assed Asian sweatshop copy of an old model kit. A few days ago I was irked that it had racked up bids over $140. The auction just ended… with a max bid of $985.
Feh. It’s enough to make a feller doubt the wisdom of his fellow man.
Aug 232019
It’s a common refrain among politicians and celebrities who want to disarm the public that it is too easy for regular people to buy mundane firearms with which to defend themselves. Every now a journalist will actually put that to the test… mostly to prove the claim correct and feed the narrative that America needs to make sure that civilians are disarmed in the face of the criminal element. But sometimes it doesn’t go according to plan:
I tried to buy a gun at Walmart twice, and roadblocks left me empty-handed both times
The short form of the story here is “gee whiz, WalMart *doesn’t* make buying a gun as simple as just picking one up off the shelf.”
There’s lots to chuckle at here for anyone who actually knows anything about the process of legally buying a firearm. but the thing that caught me off guard right up front: the journalist started the process by trying to find a nearby WalMart that sells firarms. Fair enough. But when she finally finds one, a mere thirty minutes drive away, she makes a point of discussing how she put the destination into her nav system in order to get there. Ummm… WalMarts aren’t that hard to find. It comes across like “I’ve never been to WalMart before,” which smacks of the sort of snootiness that makes regular folk laugh at these goobers who are ignorant about how the bulk of the nation actually lives.
Aug 232019
Continuing…
The notion of adding a “docking module” to the Shuttle to allow it to dock with another spacecraft. Here’s one that actually got built and used for docking to Mir and ISS.
Next time: a stretched External Tank & SRBs for increased payload.
Aug 222019
… Until now.
The neck structure needs a little additional structural support, and then they can introduce this to the Olympics.
Aug 222019
For Kerbal Space Program 2, at any rate:
A good mix of beauty, awesomeness and hilarity. Note that this seems to imply that Orion and Daedalus nuclear pulse propulsion systems will be a part of it.
I’ve never gotten into KSP. I guess I’ve missed out. When people first started telling me about it years ago I started getting interested until I found out that the planets *weren’t* earth and the rest of the solar system, modeled accurately.Turn it into a true simulation system directly applicable to real-world designs, and I might be interested in going to the bother.
Aug 212019
The domestic terrorists at Antifa and the hate group Democratic Socialists have, through hacking, lies and threats of violence, arson and death, caused a the venue for an anti-racism event in a small town in New Jersey to pull out:
South Jersey theater cancels event about race relations amid threats from anti-fascist protesters
Once again, the “anti-fascists” show that they are the modern fascists.
Interestingly, the news media is covering this story in various ways, including narratives symathetic to the actual terrorists:
Groups work together to shut down Minds New Jersey event in Pitman
The “groups” here are not once described to be the violent hateful thugs that they are, but the event certainly is.
Some relevant videos by some of the non-insane people involved:
If there is anyone reading this who wants to make a name for themselves in the world of journalism, I have a story suggestion for you. It would be a potentially difficult one to research, and if you get anywhere with it your life will be in danger… but if you succeed, you’ll have one of the biggest stories of the century. The story is this: are groups like Antifa and the Progressive Democrats and the Democratic Socialists being puppetmastered by Putin and the Kremlin? Is this a new development, or is it a continuation of a Soviet-era effort to undermine American civic values and respect for social norms and democratic principles? Or is it a revival of a Soviet-era program that was killed off by the fall of the Soviet Union, and only revived in recent years? Does it goes beyond Russian tomfoolery with social media, or is there more direct involvement, such as substantial funds being handed over? Are the people of Antifa and the DS merely f*%^ing idiots, or are they outright traitors?
Journalists: do your damn jobs and find out.