Seventy years ago, a Spitfire crashed into an Irish bog. It was recently dug up and found to be ina remarkable state of preservation; one of the main wheels was still inflated. Impressively, one of the Browning machine guns was cleaned up… and proved perfectly capable of firing.
Neat!
Spitfire redux: The WWII guns firing after 70 years buried in peat
The upside-down glare:
One orbiter with two booster options: a flyback booster and an interim Titan III L4 booster
A preview of the next APR, showing the planforms of four F-23-related designs overlaid to scale.
If you guessed “White House Internal Memo,” or “NASA Future Planning Committee,” or “NORAD Planetary Defense Emergency Meeting,” you’re wrong (I’m assuming). If you guessed “website for biggest left-wing magazine in the US,” you are correct.
Russian Mars Moon Probe Suffers Big Failure After Launch
The Phobos-Grunt spacecraft launched at 3:16 p.m. EST (2016 GMT) Tuesday and was supposed to be on its way to Phobos by now. The probe separated from its Zenit rocket properly, but its own thrusters then failed to fire in order to send the spacecraft streaking toward Mars, Russian officials said.
Russia has a long, long record of Mars probes that have failed. They’ve had lots of good luck with Venus missions, but *terrible* luck with Mars. It’s a damned shame… Phobos-Grunt would not only have gone to Mars, it would have landed on Phobos, taken a sample, and returned it to Earth. This would have been the first sample return mission from anywhere beyond the moon (not counting space-dust capture missions). It seems the Great Galactic Ghoul has struck again.
Or maybe Al Gore:
For being a bunch of commies, the Chinese sure know how to make money. Especially off of touchy-feely environmentalist do-gooders. And, as it turns out, the DoD:
German TV boldly shows ‘Nazi’ Star Trek episode
State broadcaster ZDFneo has evidently decided that German viewers are now ready for the episode “Patterns of Force,” 43 years after it was first broadcast in the United States in 1968.
The “Occupiers” have taken down some more major corporations. Stick it to the man, comrades!
SoCal Street Cart Vendors Hurting After ‘Occupy’ Group Splatters Blood, Urine
A hot dog cart and a coffee cart provided free food to protestors in San Diego. But when the freebies stopped, the fleabaggers vandalized the carts (with blood and urine, no less) and threatened death upon the cart owners.
Remember this next time you see a politician agree with them or express solidarity with their cause.
