This time on Momentum And Inertia Theater…
Feb 172015
Feb 172015
Nationally, it’s been one of the warmest winters on record
If you watch the national news, you might get the sense that this has been a horribly cold and snowy winter. And for a geographically limited region, it has been. Sadly, that region is the region around New York City, which controls much of the news media, and thus the narrative. But the reality is that for much of the US, this winter has been astonishingly un-winterlike.
The U.S. is having its sixth-warmest winter on record, according to data from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), which has records back to 1895. … So far this month, there have been 4,074 records set for warm temperatures —- mostly in the West — and only 236 records for cold temperatures, the NCDC reported.
Feb 162015
Feb 162015
Feb 162015
This car shall not be stolen.
Feb 142015
What we have here is the ATV cargo vehicle using it’s thrusters to separate from the ISS in preparation for re-entry. Interesting vid in general; in particular for showing what rocket plumes look like in space. Take note, Hollywood.
Feb 142015
Feb 142015
There are times when telling people that a message might save their life. And then there’s this, which is basically using the threat of death to make kids pay attention during what is about the most deathly dull and non-important meeting imaginable:
This recent episode of “The Amazing World of Gumball” has new relevance:
Feb 132015
Dude know how to be comfortable, I’ll give him that.
Feb 132015
Saw this trundling up the road between Brigham City and Tremonton this afternoon…
