Thought this was kinda neat. Taken near Collinston, Utah.
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May 202011
Utah has three seasons: Brown, White and Green. We are currently in Green. It’s the shortest of the seasons… soon to be replaced with Brown when the temperature goes up and the rain stops falling. Below are four photos of this current Green phase, taken up near Collinston.
May 202011
No, really.
Emergency Preparedness and Response: Zombie Apocalypse
If zombies did start roaming the streets, CDC would conduct an investigation much like any other disease outbreak. CDC would provide technical assistance to cities, states, or international partners dealing with a zombie infestation. This assistance might include consultation, lab testing and analysis, patient management and care, tracking of contacts, and infection control (including isolation and quarantine). It’s likely that an investigation of this scenario would seek to accomplish several goals: determine the cause of the illness, the source of the infection/virus/toxin, learn how it is transmitted and how readily it is spread, how to break the cycle of transmission and thus prevent further cases, and how patients can best be treated. Not only would scientists be working to identify the cause and cure of the zombie outbreak, but CDC and other federal agencies would send medical teams and first responders to help those in affected areas (I will be volunteering the young nameless disease detectives for the field work).
Gives useful tips about preparedness, such as planning evacuation routes, meeting places for families, what sort of supplies to have on hand. Mostly, though, the page serves as a lead-in to how to respond to other types of disasters such as earthquakes and floods.
Pfff. Yeah, like those could happen.
May 202011
Here’s the other high-rez piece of artwork from the Ira G. Ross Aerospace Museum archive showing the Bell “Remora” space work-pod concept. The first piece was HERE. The original posting with crap-quality versions of the images is HERE.
I have posted other “space pods.” For example:
Cleveland Pneumatics Industries, Inc.
Hmm. Thought I’d posted a Lockheed space pod, but seems like not. It’s around here somewhere…
I’ve no idea if the spaceplane in the background was a real design or not. Given the era (circa 1960), it certainly looks like the sort of simple lifting body designs aerospace companies were producing; but the plethora of windows along the sides argues in favor of it being simply artistic license.
May 202011
OK, back to contests with actual VALUABLE PRIZES. Specifically: $20 in downloadables for whoever can identify the vehicle that this was a part of.
The contest will run until either sometime Sunday, or until someone posts the correct answer.
I’m really not sure if this one will be universally tricky or not. I suspect that few have seen this drawing… but many have seen similar.
May 202011
Seems Barry just had himself a “teachable moment.” Sadly, it falls to a foreign politician to be the one to tell Obama not just “no,” but, in effect, “hell no, give it up, it ain’t gonna happen.” This in response to Obama’s insane statements that the wants Israel to return to its indefensible borders and give up its capitol city.
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Oh, to be able to read Obama’s mind while he was getting schooled…
May 202011
For the most part, I find the religious whackadoodles who are convinced that the world is going to end tomorrow (remember, kids! May 21! Save the date!) to be entertaining, and I shed not a tear for their messed-up lives and their crushed souls come Sunday. But what *does* disturb me is that, unfortunately, some of these blithering idiots somehow managed to figure out how to breed, and their offspring are suffering the consequences of their idiocy.
Kids hope to attend party — but parents say world’s going to end
Where we read that the three Haddad kids have parents who have squandered the college fund and have told ’em that they aren’t getting into Heaven. While the latter is almost certainly true, it’s at the very least poor form to tell your kids that while you are going to Heaven, they aren’t. And while, libertarian as I am, a person has the right to blow their savings on any damnfool thing they like… if you’ve taken it upon yourself to make a family, you now have responsibilities that go beyond your selfish and incomprehensible desires to see the world end.
There is an obvious upside to this whole thing. As the ads say… “The Bible guarantees it!” So when it doesn;t happen, the Bible’s “guarantee” is shown to be bullcrap. And if the Bible can’t be trusted on a matter as important as the end of the world, then it can’t be trusted on the whole.
Granted, this is not especially valid logic. The Bible does *not* say that the world is going to end at 6PM on May 21, 2011; some guy pulled some numbers out of his backside and claims that the Bible supports him… when it doesn’t. Nevertheless, the forthcoming utter failure of the prediction will sow further distrust in the Bible. And perhaps, just perhaps, some of that distrust will lead to people thinking for themselves and applying a bit of skepticism where they once relied upon blind faith. Huzzah!
And on that note, I highly recommend: