Now THIS is some quality trolling

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Jun 052019
 

Super Happy Fun America

These people are *clearly* trolling the SJWs with their call for a “Straight pride Parade” in Boston. Additionally they’re calling for raising the “Straight Pride Flag” over city hall, a flag that “has represented our community for over 0.4 years.” Even the most casual examination of the website makes it pretty clear that this is a gag. But predictably the SJWs, having no sense of humor nor the ability to even process the concept, have lost their tiny little Twitter-addled minds.

The event is free and open to the public. All are welcome. Antifa (short for Anti-Fun) is not welcome because they oppose happiness and fun.

Snerk. Well, they’re not wrong.

 

 

 

 Posted by at 1:13 pm

Ad Astra

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Jun 052019
 

This looks…interesting. There seems to be a whole lot in here, and a lot of it doesn’t seem to make sense. It’s clearly set a good deal of time in the future, but a lot of the engineering looks like it’s from the 60’s. The “space station” at the beginning is either hanging at the end of a space elevator at the upper reaches of the atmosphere or it’s violating the laws of physics.

 Posted by at 12:03 pm

I’m thinking someone didn’t do their job right…

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Jun 042019
 

If you’re a 74 year old woman who gets injured hiking on an Arizona mountain in 100-degree heat, you might think twice before calling up this helicopter rescue crew. Yikes.

 

Wooooooowoooooowoooowooowoowoowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowooooooooooooooooo…….

 Posted by at 8:16 pm

Poe’s Law? or Clown World?

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Jun 042019
 

I just can’t tell no mo.

That’s just… I dunno, man.

With luck this is not only real… but she’ll be met with a barrage of appropriate and relevant questions by people who aren’t buying her BS.

 

 Posted by at 6:54 pm

“For All Mankind”

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Jun 032019
 

Ron Moore, he of “Deep Space Nine” and “Battlestar Gallactica” fame, is coming out with another new series that looks pretty fantastic:  “For All Mankind.” It’s an alternate history show where the Soviets make it to the Moon before Apollo… and as a result, the US doubles-down and, seemingly, goes for the “let’s conquer the whole damn universe” approach.

Downside: it’ll be on Apple TV+, yet another streaming service I ain’t gonna pay for.

I have often wondered if the Soviets succeeding would have led to the US either expanding Saturn/Apollo, or just giving up.For Apollo to have gone on to greater things, I suspect history would have required a different, better President than LBJ who squandered Apollo in favor of micromanaging Viet Nam and in bloating the budget with the Great Society programs.

 Posted by at 3:37 pm

May 2019 Monthly Historical Documents

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Jun 022019
 

On May 31st, APR Patrons and Monthly Historical Documents program subscribers were sent emails containing links to the May, 2019, rewards. This months set of documents and diagrams included high-rez copies of:

Document: “Manned Lunar Vehicle Design,” a General Electric paper from 1962 describing a direct-landing Apollo concept

Document: “AP-76 Project 1226,” a highly illustrated Republic Aviation report from May 1955 describing their design for the X-15

Diagram: “DNI-27C, VFX Design Study Fixed Wing/Buried Engine,” September 1968 North American Aviation fighter design

CAD Diagram: three-view of the Dandridge Cole/Martin Aircraft “Aldebaran” giant nuclear powered launch vehicle notional concept

 

If this sort of thing is of interest and you’d like to get in on it and make sure you don’t miss any of the forthcoming releases, sign up either for the APR Patreon or the APR Monthly Historical Documents Program.

 

 



All prior “back issues” are available for purchase by subscribers. Recent months rewards have included:

 Posted by at 11:49 pm

Now, I’m no boatamatician…

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Jun 022019
 

… but this doesn’t seem quite right.

Venice, Italy, isn’t exactly at the top of my news feed, but I’ve heard numerous times that the city is full to overflowing with tourists, and the locals are sick of it. I have to imagine that this sort of thing will only raise the visibility of the issue.

I’ve virtually no interest in going to DisneyWorld, in no small part due to the fact that everything I’ve seen or heard suggests that the place is massively overcrowded. from Disney’s perspective, this is fine…the more people they can cram in, the more dollars they can get from them. But Disneyworld is a place *designed* for that specific purpose. Venice, on the other hand, is a city. People live there. If Disneyworld wanted to thin out the numbers, they could easily do so, since they control the entrances. They could limit the number of people allowed in. They could jack up the entrance fee even higher until people self-select for exclusion. But how would a city like Venice reduce the number of tourists? I suppose they could do something to stifle the flow of cruise ships, but tourists as a whole? When Europe cannot even seem to figure out how – or even if –  to stop the flow of millions of colonizing invaders, it’s hard to see how a single city could legally keep people out.

 

 

 Posted by at 3:10 pm
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