They’ve been tinkering with this little low-budget flick for some years now, and they’re finally done. And it looks like goofyawesomehorriblecoolness.
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Feb 082012
Feb 082012
From US Patent 5,897,078, structural diagrams of the Boeing X-32. Can’t claim that they are entirely accurate, but they look good.
Feb 082012
One of the twice-a-year-or-so sheep migrations wandered by the house yesterday, shepherded by a number of rather businesslike dogs and Peruvians.
Feb 082012
Another CAD model I’ve been tinkering with is a Convair “Triamese” space shuttle concept. If it were to be turned into a kit, the parts would include the wings either retracted or deployed… due to the difficulty in making the numerous little hinged doors actually work in practice, making a truly VG model would be impractical.
Feb 072012
Neat!
In a first, woman receives titanium jaw made by 3-D printer
Looks like something from a Cyberdyne Systems T-600 series terminator, but still… neat!
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Feb 072012
Go on, guess. I’ll give you two guesses as to who apparently wants to ban the ownership of pet dogs in the Hague (Netherlands). And here’s a hint: it’s *not* the whackadoodle animal rights goobers. It’s another pack of goobers.
As I’ve previously mentioned, I’m not a dog person. But the fact that I prefer the clearly superior cat to the low-brow dog does not mean that I don’t recognize that not only do a whole lot of people love their dogs, but that dogs are a net positive good in society. Dogs do a lot of actual jobs, from rescue to guide to laying a bitey can of whoopass on trespassers and other criminals. Dogs, like cats and horses, are on Team Humanity, and they’ve been there for a while:
Domesticated dogs may date back 30,000 years
There are those who think that dogs should be done away with, due to screwed-up cultural nonsense. Well, sorry, Skippy… dogs and their link to humanity are far, far older than these anti-dog cults, and I’d far rather share my planet with the scruffiest junkyard mutts than the jackasses who think that dogs are “unclean” and should be removed from human society.
And lest anyone think that cats are in the clear… while there is not apparently a specifically anti-cat impulse among these morons, I for one will never forget the story of Marjan.
Feb 072012
When Newt Gingrich suggested that an American moon base could be established by 2021, I expected that the lefties in the press would point and laugh. And they have done so, right on cue. What I’ve found disturbing, though, is that the mere *mention* on an American moon base causes the audience to erupt in laughter. Fifty years ago, when our technological and scientific base was much poorer than it is today, an equivalent suggestion was met with applause and hundreds of thousands of people rolling up their sleeves. Today, that suggestion is met with derision and apathy.
The future belongs to the bold. Apparently, a substantial fraction of the American public has rejected even the basic notion of being bold.
We’re doomed.
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Feb 072012
A fully reusable booster with a fully reusable orbiter with fully expendable external tanks. Essentially the best and worst of all worlds.
Feb 072012
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Feb 072012
This seems unwise, but is undeniably impressive:
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It’s a 300 year old Chinese new years festival practice of hurling molten iron against a brick wall, creating this shower of sparks. The blacksmith doing this wears only a sheepskin coat and a straw hat for protection