“Willy Wonderland” looks absolutely ridiculous… and it also looks like a blast.
Almost certain to be far more entertaining than all of STD and STP put together.
Jan 152021
Jan 152021
A year and a bit ago some info came out about the then- forthcoming zero-gravity first person shooter “Boundary.” There have been updates since then, including release of the game. The animation, especially in the trailer, is *fantastic*, included slo-mo scenes of a space-modded AK-47 not only firing but flexing in the way actual guns do. This game was produced by the Chinese, so feel free to auto-fill what that might mean. Buy it, your money goes to Hunter Biden’s paymasters. Play it online, Beijing gets to watch. Is there subtle (or not so subtle) pro-CCP propaganda embedded within it? Who knows. but it looks freakin’ *gorgeous.* The USSF should tear the code apart, strip out the doubtless abundant Chinese naughtiness, rework it into rah-rah pro-USSF propaganda. “Fight the ChiComs in space!” “Defend US space assets from space pirates!” Add in things like Dragon and Starship. For extra awesomeness, a USSF Orion. No, not that overpriced capsule… the *real* Orion.
Almost makes me want to try to get back into Pax Orionis… now *that* might make a dandy video game.
Jan 152021
Early yesterday Buttons was ill in a way that made me think that his pancreatitis might be back, so I spent a great deal of time observing him. In the end, it just seemed to be One Of Those Things, and by the end of the day he seemed perfectly normal again.
Jan 152021
I’ve long said that what police need more than anything is a truly practical stun-setting phaser. The Taser kinda gets there, but has some limitations such as being single shot, short range and fairly easily defeated. The ability to just hit a “sit your ass down” button and bring a confrontation to a harmless end would be *fantastic* for many encounters. And not just police: it’d be great for home defense as well. But sticking with police, imagine how much less trouble there would be if violent and/or crazed weirdos (such as make a few appearances in the video below) could be simply shut down for a minute or two with minimal risk of harm. It’s people like the guy in the video below that lead to Bad Cops: having to deal with such aggressive, loud, obnoxious and downright evil scumbugs on a daily basis would make *anyone* into a misanthrope in no time flat.
As an alternative to phasers: truly practical “robocops” like “Chappie.” Run by AI with open-source programming that can be downloaded on command (but not uploaded without a complete physical overhaul), given super-human strength, super human ability to not give a damn and super human ability to simply stuff a looney into a crazy bucket, such robots would be *fantastic* backups.
Bonus Round: phasering the CNN crews and left-wing extremists who were leading the “insurrection” would have been handy as well.
BLM activist, Antifa, anarchist or FBI asset? What we know so far about John Sullivan, who was spotted instigating mobs at Capitol Hill
Jan 142021
He gave an interview on Fox News. Note the artwork.
Saw a tweet that says that he’s just renting the place. OK, sure. Now imagine someone on the right rented a place with Hitler on the wall.
Jan 142021
News media, House, Senate, White House, universities, social media platforms, internet infrastructure, most HR departments. Soon banking and payment processing.
Jan 142021
Otherwise this sort of thing might spook some people.
Everything We Know About The Mysterious Dark Helicopters That Have Been Circling Los Angeles
Mysterious helicopters have been circling Los Angeleshttps://t.co/EPtC47TrsV
— James Lu (@someone10987507) January 14, 2021
Jan 142021
A piece of concept art depicting the AMROC Industrial Launch Vehicle 1, circa 1987. AMROC specialized in hybrid launch vehicles, and the privately funded and developed ILV was no different. What the vehicle looks like is a liquid propellant core vehicle with a bunch of solid rocket strap-on boosters… but what it actually is is a core made up of liquid oxygen tanks, surrounded by clusters of solid fuel motors. The motors were fed LOX from the core, firings together to create a sort of plug nozzle using the aft end of the propellant tank to react against (though it appears the bulk of the expansion took place within individual nozzles). When the first stage motors burned out, the whole thing fell off as a single stage. The vehicle had four stages; stages 2,3 and 4 were made of different solid motors around a common liquid tank core. The whole stack was 82 feet long. It was supposed to have been able to deliver 1800 kilograms to a 200 km orbit from KSC, or 1350 kg to 200 km polar orbit from Vandenberg; a little over 1400 kg to a 1000 km KSC orbit or about 1050 kg to a 1000 km polar orbit. First launch attempt was to be in the latter half of 1988… that didn’t happen.
Jan 142021
The domestic terrorists in Antifa are trying to end the First Amendment. They are trying to prevent you from buying books they don’t like. they want to control the debate to control speech and control thought. Compare them to the group of larpers who went to the Capital, wandered around for a little bit, took a bunch of selfies and didn’t set fire to *anything.*
Feel free to stick it to Antifa and buy what they don’t want you to buy (it *really* wouldn’t bother me if ya bought it – or anything else – through the following link, since I’d score a pittance of a commission in the process):
Jan 132021
NASA TV to Air Hot Fire Test of Rocket Core Stage for Artemis Moon Missions
Snerk. NASA actually thinks there will be Artemis moon missions.
NASA is targeting a two-hour test window that opens at 5 p.m. EST Saturday, Jan. 16, for the hot fire test of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core stage at the agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Live coverage will begin at 4:20 p.m. on NASA Television and the agency’s website, followed by a post-test briefing approximately two hours after the test concludes.