Sep 302019
 

Apropos of nothing, I just found this meme of the Grand Jormungand of the Kids Klimate Kult losing her mind to be modestly entertaining:

“Me, trying to figure out why a screaming 16-year-old is a qualified global policy expert.”

Something that should not be forgotten: Greta Thunberg is the daughter of an actor and the grand-daughter of a director. Consider this: there is a criminal trial. An actor is brought in to give testimony, for either prosecution or defense. Their whole purpose in life is to LIE CONVINCINGLY. As a member of the jury… do you trust the emotional testimony that they give?

Also interesting to note: a polite smile merits hate and rage out of the media; hate and rage merits glowing praise from the media. Hmm.

 

 Posted by at 4:41 pm
Sep 302019
 

Have I got a deal for you. Shown here is a rather eclectic collection of 36 military manuals. Some are big, some are small. Some might interest you; some might be incredibly dullsville for you. I’ve no idea what each one is worth, but I’d guesstimate that the average would go for something like five bucks each, or $180 for all of them. But if anyone would like the whole pile all at once… $125 plus shipping and they’re yours. Send me an email, first come, first served.

SOLD.

 

 

 

 Posted by at 3:44 pm
Sep 292019
 

I have two books for sale. Interestingly, I have a few copies of each book. The two books:

1: “Space Planners Guide,” put out by the USAF, Air Force System Command, 1 July 1965. This large format hardcover book is intended to help someone plan pretty much every aspect of a space mission, at least to first order, including the design of space vehicles. Today this would of course all be done on a computer. This books comes with a big pile of transparencies in pockets inside both the front and back covers that include many graphs for use in working out the whichness of the why of all aspects of space planning. The book itself is not classified, but there is a warning inside it telling users to not scribble their findings in the margins because the book can be used to *design* classified vehicles and missions. These are hard to come by; there weren’t that many in the first place. Most of my copies are in very good condition, but one has some damage to the front cover (though none to the interior of the book itself). All come with the transparencies.

Intact copies: $150 each plus postage SOLD OUT

The slightly damaged copy: $135 plus postage SOLD

2: “Handbook of Astronautical Engineering” a massive tome published in 1961, edited by H. H. Koelle, director of the Future Projects Office at NASA-Marshall. This also covers nearly all aspects of space mission and vehicle design, but in much greater detail. It’s a classic.

The Handbooks are $150 each plus postage. I have more of those than the Planners Guides. TWO LEFT

As always, if you are interested, send me an email letting me know which book(s) you want and what your mailing address is. These can be sent via low-cost media mail, but if you want something fast, let me know in the email. As always, it’s first come, first served, but people who want a copy of *both* books go to the head of the line.

 

A big mess of photos of these books have been uploaded to Dropbox here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wdhstvjbgaxk527/AAAFBubce_AtrmvVyR5BhREMa?dl=0

 

 Posted by at 11:17 pm
Sep 282019
 

And here. We. Go.

Anti-racism event hosted by Edinburgh University bans white people from asking questions

Even better, there will be race-segregated places where white people will not be allowed to go. And what is the title of this “anti-racism” event? “Resisting Whiteness.” It’s being held in Scotland. ᚠᛖᛣᚳᛁᚾᚷ ᚷᚩᛏᛞᚪᛗᚾᛖᛞ Scotland.

Jane McColl, an anti-racism campaigner, said the event itself was “blatantly racist”, adding… “Imagine if this event was called ‘Resisting Blackness’ and non-white people were told they could not ask questions, nor access a room because they were the ‘wrong’ colour.”

Quiet, you.

 Posted by at 3:59 pm
Sep 282019
 

Homina.

The Starship program will be updated during a livestream later today:

 

Forget about the design specifics; the thing that will impress me the most *if* the Starship prototypes work is the fact they were built not in a robotic factory in cleanroom conditions, but basically on a beach.

 Posted by at 3:16 pm
Sep 282019
 

It’s my understanding that criminal trials pretty much grind to a halt if, right up front, the defendant pleads guilty. I’m not a lawyer and nor do I play one on TV so I may be wrong but that’s how I understand it.

So a thought occurs: what if the defendants at the Nuremburg and Tokyo war crimes trials had all pleaded guilty right up front? Would the trials have just kept trucking along, or would they have more or less ended, going straight to sentencing? Given the historic nature of the trials and how important they were in setting legal precedent, having the trials short circuited could have played merry hell with future international relations. One might even consider that future war crimes trials might have been torpedoed, since if the WWI-trials had all gone differently it could be argued that the whole process was not valid.

 Posted by at 1:16 pm