The Best Cthulhu

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Aug 042020
 

I’ve been on a book buying spree these past 8 months or so. I’ve plunked down a *lot* for books on the two aerospace subjects I’m working on my own books of. But in among the piles of aerospace books from Abebooks and Amazon and eBay, there have been a few others that serve no practical purpose beyond “I want it and, what the hell, I’m already throwing this much money away, sooo…..”

One such book that I can heartily recommend is H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu.” The thing here is that I bought an illustrated hardback. the illustrator is a French feller name of François Baranger, and I can unironically say that his take on Cthulhu is spectacular and wholeheartedly recommended. The book is available in both English and French translations, and it looks like there is a French language version of “At The Mountains Of Madness,” (a Volume 1 at least, with mentions on his Twitter of a Volume 2 in the works) so it makes sense to assume that an English version will pop up sooner or later. And when it does, I’m’a buy that one too.

You can get the English version HERE.

The French version HERE.
The French version of “At The Mountains of Madness” HERE.

EDIT: Ah, here we go…

 

 

 Posted by at 10:47 pm

Starship flew!

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Aug 042020
 

After a bunch of failures, a Starship test article flew on up to around 150 meters, translated, popped out some dinky little landing legs, and then (apparently) safely landed itself, though seemingly at a bit of an angle. Woo!

And an official SpaceX video with some more enlightening angles:

 Posted by at 6:20 pm

Shakedown

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Aug 042020
 

Louisville style:

Demand Letter From BLM Activists To Louisville Businesses Lists 5 ‘Repercussions Of Non-Compliance’

The whole multi-page list of demands, including “consequences of failing to bend the knee, are posted HERE.

It’s terribly Orwellian and fascistic with substantial socialist overtones, which should surprise precisely nobody. It will be interesting to see:

1) What percent of businesses in the area bend the knee

2) What happens to those that ignore this

3) What happens to those who post “FU” in their windows.

There is already some forward motion on this. Some Cuban business owners, people who have already experienced the magic and mystery of socialism, have stood up to the bullies.

Cuban Community Rallies Behind NuLu Restaurant After Controversy Over BLM Demands

 Posted by at 5:15 pm

The silent majority is losing patience

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Aug 042020
 

And it’s about time.

 

 Posted by at 3:39 pm

Beirut Kerplodes

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Aug 042020
 

A city in the middle east suffers an explosion? That’s unpossible! Whatever the source… great googaly moogaly, this one was impressive.

It was a port facility that exploded, so there are any number of possibilities. but I’m sure experts will be able to say pretty quickly what the prime suspects are; that red dust/smoke seems like it aught to be a major clue. It *looks* like a nitrogen tetroxide or red fuming nitric acid cloud, but it seems like that quantity of rocket fuel would be an unusual thing to have in a port like that. of course, if someone was illicitly shipping storable rocket propellants through the port, it’s not surprising that something unfortunate just happened to happen to it.

 

More vids after the break…

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And here comes another SST startup

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Aug 032020
 

Virgin Galactic Unveils Mach 3 Aircraft Design for High Speed Travel, and Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Rolls-Royce

Similar in layout to Concorde. Doubtless similar issues in making it make any sort of economic sense.

Not much in the way of details (Mach 3 cruise above 60,000 feet), and the artwork is very likely essentially speculative. Passenger count is a meager 9 to 19, putting it squarely in the “business jet” category.

 

 Posted by at 1:06 pm

This is the best thing I’ve seen all week!

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Aug 022020
 

So in Maine it is legal to have and use marijuana… but it’s not legal to sell it. So how does a company legally make money in Maine off weed? Quite simple: if you have *lost* your weed, their incredible team of psychics will, for a fee, find it for you.

F’ing BRILIANT.

At Incredibles.me we pride ourselves in being able to recover your lost cannabis and return it to you in minutes, not hours.

Capitalism: solving the worlds problems and making a buck doing it.

LEGALITY OF RECREATIONAL WEED IN MAINE

Cannabis Delivery Services are illegal in Maine.  Gifting Cannabis is illegal in Maine.  Don’t worry though! It is still legal for an Adult age 21/+ to carry 2.5oz of Cannabis Flower and up to 5 grams of concentrates!

So under your scenario you are in Maine vacationing, living, etc… and you lost your weed.  OH NO!  Who do you call? The INCREDIBLES.ME Psychic Service!  We have Psychics roaming all over Portland communicating with their deity, their spirit guides, and having religious moments of clarity. We can guarantee to find your LOST WEED!! (For a small, but very worth while fee!).

Just login to this site, and select the cannabis or cannabis products you lost, and give us your address.  We will find YOUR weed and get it back to you ASAP.  Fees vary based on the time it takes us to find your weed, the quantity of weed we have to locate, and the distance in which we have to travel to get YOUR LOST weed back to you.

I get it… it sounds like crazy crackpot stuff right? Well it is effective, and more importantly it is (in our opinion) LEGAL! (It also is out of respect for law enforcement, we are not scoff laws, we respect the men and women in blue who protect this State.) Maine is going through some cannabis growing pains. While these growing pains are happening, why not avail yourself of our services? We are not a delivery service, we are not furnishing you weed.  We are simply returning YOUR property!  If you have LOST your weed, please feel free to reach out to us! Your word is good enough for us. If you say you LOST IT, we will FIND IT, GUARANTEED or you pay nothing.

I don;t smoke weed. Do you? I DON’T CARE. So any dodge, hustle, scam someone can come up with to find loopholes in dumbass laws and exploit them, making a profit while providing a product people actually want… wonderful.

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