MERS makes first U.S. appearance, in Indiana
A coronavirus from Saudi Arabia which has so far killed about 1/3 of those who contract it.
May 022014
May 022014
Because Nobody Demanded It, here is a to-scale representation of the DC-1 SSTO with the MOL, the Zenith Star laser testbed and the operational SBL.
This is, of course, in support of my proposed book on the Strategic Defense Initiative. It would include:
Launch systems: Delta Clipper; Millenium Express; Platypus; Zenith Star Launch System; Barbarian; Shuttle-C; NASP
Space-Based weapons: Zenith Star; operational Space Based Laser; Neutral Particle Beam; Saggitar Railgun; X-Ray Laser; Brilliant Pebbles; Space Cruiser
Terrestrial systems: F-15-ASAT; HEDI; ERINT; land-mobile MX; air-mobile MX; Midgetman/HML; Airborne Laser
I *know* I’ve missed a few. Feel free to fill in the blanks.
May 022014
To 1,000 meters altitude. Yowza!
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Also of interest:
May 022014
During the trip, Raedthinn giving me the stink eye during a gas stop.
May 022014
Ukraine military: 2 die as copters downed in operation against Slavyansk militias
The Definitely Not Russian Military Forces in Ukraine took out at least two Ukrainian Mil 24 choppers with surface to air missiles. You know, like regular folks tend to have.
May 022014
May 022014
Waseca teen accused in school shooting plot had been planning for months
Lil dickens John David LaDue of Waseca, Minnesota, had plans, bombs and guns. The intent was to set off pressure cooker bombs at an elementary school and to shoot a bunch of folks. Fortunately he’s been caught in advance of carrying out his plans.
On the one hand, he had carefully planned out what he was going to do. On the other hand, he’s a fricken’ idjit (along with being a whackjob). Upon being arrested, he apparently gave a complete explanation of his plans, which included whacking his family with a .22, setting fires to draw off first responders, setting off bombs, shooting kids and then himself. He’s a big fan of the Columbine massacre.
The fact that he apparently blabbed easy indicates that he’s in it for the fame.
So, now we await for the inevitable politicization of this…
May 012014
I’m working on a CAD model of the “DC-1” SSTO follow-on to the DC-X, based on some pretty good diagrams I scored a while back from NASA. But I have a question for anyone who might know what I’m talking about: what was the deal with the cockpit being 45 degrees off-kilter? Re-entry would seem to have been a bit of a nightmare, as would what would pass for the glide afterwards.
Was the crew expected to just suck it up? Would the cockpit have been rotated internally by 45 degrees so that even though it was kinda off to the side, it would have been “right side up?” Would the diagrams simply be wrong, and the cockpit would have actually been at the “top” of the vehicle during entry?
May 012014
Whoops (stick around for the last 15 seconds).
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May 012014
So, in 2012 Oklahoma State Representative Mike Ritze paid (with his own money) to have a “Ten Commandments” graven image made. Since it was privately funded, it was decreed that, if donated, it could be plopped down on government property, specifically outside the state Capitol.
Well, shoot, thought a group of Satanists, that reasoning works for us, too!
An Indigogo campaign was set up, hoping to score 20 grand to have a statue of Baphomet made. It got almost 30 large. The statue nears completion, and will soon be cast in bronze
Ha!
Here’s the First Look at the New Satanic Monument Being Built for Oklahoma’s Statehouse
The best line in the piece? On the subject of the eventual bronze statue being physically attacked once set up on the Capitol grounds, the lead Satanist:
“wouldn’t expect these outraged and nearly insensible reactionaries to actually know how to assault a bronze monument without severely hurting themselves in the process.”
They’re making molds and getting it insured, so that, like Hydra or Sammael, if one gets destroyed, two more will rise in its place.