Lockheed’s basic plan for a ferry aircraft of the Orbiter was, unsurprisingly, a C-5 Galaxy. This would have been a lot simpler aircraft to develop than the twin-fuselage Galaxy, though it would require more infrastructure at any landing site in order to pick up the orbiter and put it on the C-5’s back.
For the first time in quite a long while, I have new space drawings available (sets 13 through 17). I have finished up five new sets of drawings and have them uploaded, but have not yet tinkered with the webpages to reflect that. So until the website is adjusted, I’m selling all five sets as a single block. Separately, they will total up to $29, but right now you can get ’em for $25 as downloadable ZIP files containing JPGs and GIFs.
The hitch: I ain’t tellin’ what they are. Four are 1960’s, one is earlier. One is of a well-known vehicle. Another is of a modestly well-known unmanned vehicle. And one set shows designs for vehicles you may well never have thought anybody would have saw a need for at the time.
Sotomayor Issues Challenge to a Century of Corporate Law
During arguments in a campaign-finance case, the court’s majority conservatives seemed persuaded that corporations have broad First Amendment rights and that recent precedents upholding limits on corporate political spending should be overruled.
But Justice Sotomayor suggested the majority might have it all wrong — and that instead the court should reconsider the 19th century rulings that first afforded corporations the same rights flesh-and-blood people have.
Judges “created corporations as persons, gave birth to corporations as persons,” she said. “There could be an argument made that that was the court’s error to start with…[imbuing] a creature of state law with human characteristics.”
The end result of her line of thinking would be:
1) People lose rights when they band together
2) If corporations lose the rights of citizens but not the responsibilities of citizens, then you get taxation without representation
Charles Krauthammer knocks another one out of the park:
You lie? No. Barack Obama doesn’t lie. He’s too subtle for that. He . . . well, you judge.
… you might as well flub it in a way that makes your co-anchors eyes bug out.
I can’t tell you how hard I laughed at that.
Another Department of Edumacation success story!
http://www.news9.com/global/story.asp?s=11141949
Only one in four Oklahoma public high school students can name the first President of the United States, according to a survey released today.
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A thousand students were given 10 questions drawn from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services item bank. Candidates for U.S. citizenship must answer six questions correctly in order to become citizens.
About 92 percent of the people who take the citizenship test pass on their first try, according to immigration service data. However, Oklahoma students did not fare as well. Only about 3 percent of the students surveyed would have passed the citizenship test.
See this here photograph?
See it? SEE IT???
It’s not a photo. It’s a fricken’ painting. As in goopy oil on canvas with a brush, done by Alyssa Monks.
The Telegraph has a picture gallery.
Here’s her website.
All you “modern/conceptual/abstract artists” out there take a look at what *real* talent is. Hang your talentless hack heads in shame, peasants.
A day or two back the mail dropped off the 3-D “printed” version of the 1/288 Orion Battleship. Since then I’ve been busily sanding, filling and polishing. The engineering of it turns out to have *largely* been spot-on, although I did model a few small areas that when printed were just too thin. Not to worry, revising these blips won’t take too long.
The turret turned out surprisingly well. I’m have photos in a day or two.
If you want the details on jsut what the Orion Battleship was, see HERE.