Not sure this ad makes me want to fly to Britain and go shopping at “John Lewis” (apparently some sort of department store) , but it’s sure effective at the feels-hitting.
It’s a beautiful piece of work, with bonus points for showing a little kid interested in astronomy. But why, why, WHY is space (and space exploration) so often depicted as a metaphor for sadness?
So I read this:
And I guess the point is “wow, only 440 copies sold? That’s an unmitigated disaster!” But the first thing that came to my mind was “Wow! I wish *my* stuff sold one fifth that well!”
Maybe I need to run for President or something.
… just don’t bother trying to afford taters in the socialist success story that is modern day Venezuela.
The good news: the minimum wage in Venezuela is $12. Per month.
Viva la revolución!
Sneaking bombs in the luggage? That’s the obsolete approach.
Note: you can bet your keister that you’ll see just this sort of thing used in an Action Movie in the very near future to plant a bomb on a plane, or remove a passenger from a plane, or sneak onto the plane, or something, even though the jetliner here could easily quickly outpace the jetpacks… and anybody in a jetpack who tried to get close enough to the jetliner to touch it would almost certainly be tumbled into oblivion by the wake turbulence.
All that aside: can you imagine the ruckus that would ensue from an A380 smacking into downtown Dubai, perhaps taking down the Burj? Just wait till ISIS gets it into their pointy little heads that the UAE is too cozy with infidels.
NASA has posted some new photos of the Antares launch vehicle explosion to their Flickr account. Some of them are *really* impressive.
Gentlemen… BEHOLD:
Be sure to check out the remarkably high-rez versions at the link.
Saw this today on the road to Logan. Only got one dismal photo with the camera phone.
If you can’t make out what it is… on far left is a cat. At far right, atop the hay bale, is a very large hawk. The cat was trying to sneak up on the hawk. As it happened, the hawk flew off just after this photo was taken; the cat immediately dashed for the tall grass. But no good could have possibly come from a cat taking on a raptor that size.
Thrill to the adventures of a Mother Of The Year candidate who subjected her three young children to whooping cough sans medical treatment. Instead: homeopathy.
Words cannot express just how awful and stupid this dimwit is. Although a good effort is made here:
Seems that the whole “Pamir” setup will require four sizable truck-pulled trailers:
No info on the power output, but it’s claimed that it’ll be up and running around 2020.
Sure, kinda hard to really necessarily trust Russian (or, let’s face it, pretty much anybodies) claims about developing anything interesting and nuclear anytime soon. But if they were able to pull it off, and go from “hey, I’ve got an idea” to “hey, look, an operational nuclear power station on wheels” inside half a decade, then the US will have no excuses from not being able to crank out it’s own even better nukes. The only possible excuse will be politics and bureaucrats.
Found this online a while back, thought it was a sadly entertainingly little metaphor for the US space program. Even more sadly, it would seem to apply to the last *40* years of the American space program.
Now available… a new additions to the US Aerospace Projects series.
USBP #17 includes:
M.C.D. 392: A wartime design for a global-range bomber
Martin Model 194: A strategic bomber somewhat larger than the B-29
Lockheed CL-285-815: A supersonic nuclear powered concept with five engines
Consolidated Model 36: An early design for the B-36 with twin tails
Boeing Model 701-290: A supersonic bomber on the road to the B-59
Thiokol 260-inch ICBM: An unreasonably large ICBM concept
AFRL ESAV: A recent concept for a stealthy supersonic bomber
Convair GEBO II: An ancestor of the B-58, carried aloft under a B-60
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