It’s more likely than you think! However, the ethnic/religious target may surprise you. Guess who’s being being bullied in Germany these days. Go on, guess.
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One way or another, I suspect Germany is in for some ugliness.
After being reminded of a particular crackpot-type-person, I suddenly remembered a webpage that was a personal favorite, about a decade ago: Crank.net. This was an encyclopedia of the lunacy and whackjobbery that floods the internet. In the late 1990’s and early 2000’s I was a minor target of crackpots, cranks and loons due to a company I was associated with, and my excessive posting to various newsgroups and discussion fora and the like, and was really pretty sick and damned tired of ’em. (Since then I have fallen into obscurity, which is generally for the best.)
Crank.net even linked to at least one web-nut that I submitted, some guy who was convinced that the US had operational SSTO spaceplanes. No, that wasn’t why he was a nut. He believed the XB-70 was a SSTO spaceplane. No, that wasn’t why he was a nut. He believe that the piston-engined Convair B-36 was capable of attaining orbit, and in fact did so. Yeah, THAT was why he was a nut. Sadly, it appears that Crank.net hasn’t been updated since 2005. Sad, given the vast amount of looney crap that has flooded the web since then. I’ve no idea why it ground to a halt.
A surprisingly even article (given that it’s NPR) about work being done on standardized miniature nuclear powerplants. Ten years away at a minimum, sadly.
This here’s the fall-down-funniest response I’ve seen yet to the video of the rather excitable Atlanta woman getting electroenzapulated. The language is seriously NSFW. It goes on for 12+ minutes, but the first minute or so is jam-packed with memorable quotables.
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It seems that if you want a verbose and entertaining verbal smackdown of a black woman behaving badly, you go to a religious gay black man.
“The Slap-A-B*tch Coalition”
“I don’t care about that man zappin’ the sh*t out of that damn woman in front of her children”
“I don’t have kids, cuz I’m afraid they’re gonna look like that, and they gonna act like that”
“Slug with a wig on”
“They look like they was on a commercial, asking for five cent a day”
“Electricity will change your life”
A brief look at part of what will be in the next issue of APR… diagrams for the Douglas C-132 article.
After my little run-in with the norovirus a little while back, I can attest to the truth of this:
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ADULT actress Coco Brown is training to be the first porn star in space. … has paid £64,000 to be part of a private Dutch mission due to blast off in spring 2014.
American Coco has already undergone anti-gravity training and can’t wait to journey 62 miles above the surface of the earth on the SXC rocket.
First off, the reporter for The Sun is clearly kinda stoopid regarding “anti-gravity.” Second… Dutch? SXC? Perhaps I’ve fallen out of the loop, I hadn’t heard of ’em. But it turns out that “SXC” stands for “Space Xperience Curacao,” and they’re going to use the XCOR Lynx spaceplane.
Fresh off their “Space Monkey” bait-and-switch, the Iranians are publicizing a supposed stealth fighter they’ve built. Video here:
The thing looks like a rather sloppily assembled plywood mockup. The comments in that article are spectacular.
I can think of worse places to put the inlet, but not many. Along the trailing edges, perhaps. Inside the cockpit.
More photos here:
And a whole scad of photos collected here (you might need to sign up to see ’em, not sure):
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,18332.0.html
Video:
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I think the most telling photo is this one:
When the pilot doesn’t even fit in the cockpit, you something’s up. Bonus: the canopy. Either they don’t want the pilots to look out and realize just how bad Iranian theocracy is, or they don’t want photographers to look in and see how embarrassed the pilots are.