Megalodon babies ate their unhatched siblings in the womb
And on top of the cannibalism, scientists estimate the cute lil’ buggers were more than six feet long at birth.
Jan 112021
Jan 102021
… showing the unruly, *terrifying* Domestic Terrorist Armed Insurrectionists Storming through the Capitol building. Just watch this, especially with the wise words of Our Betters in the media describing the truly horrific sight of people calmly walking between the ropes, and *brazenly,* *wantonly* and *fascistically* waving the US flag while in a US government building. The horror!
“See stunning video of rioters inside Capitol”
Sigh.
Once more, for those too dense to figure it out: yes, anyone who broke stuff or hurt/killed people needs to have the full force of law dropped on them. But once again I defy you to compare and contrast what we see and hear here, with masses of people who seem utterly uninterested in causing damage – and it’s not like they couldn’t have, had they wanted to – with the tens of thousands who swarmed our cities all this year burning cop cars and businesses, vandalizing memorials and pulling down statues. *THOSE* people were proclaimed as everything form someone with a valid point, to outright heroes. The folks in D.C.? they got the full Sandmann treatment.
I challenge you to imagine what this place would have looked like if these Dangerous Trumpists had had the same respect for law, order, history, property that your average Mostly Peaceful Protester had. I see a looooooooot of statues there that Antifa/BLM would have loved to have toppled.
Jan 102021
This “Star Trek: Enterprise”/”Babylon 5” crossover is more than a dozen years old. YouTube finally got around to recommending it to me today. It goes pretty much as it aught to.
Jan 102021
NASA will soon fire up the most powerful rocket ever built
So NASA is planning on a static fire of the core of the Space Launch System. OK, fine, if about a decade-plus behind schedule and maybe a couple dozen billion dollars over budget. But the article goes into WokeMath in order to ramp up the excitement:
UMMMMM….
The core of the SLS has four RS-25 engines, thrust 418 klbf each, totaling 1,672,000 lbf. The Saturn V had five F-1 engines, each with a thrust of 1,522 klbf each for a total of 7,610,000 lbf.
I’m not sure I agree with LiveScience’s math. But then, 2+2=4 is racist, so maybe 1.672 is greater than 7.610 these days.
Jan 102021
A few seemingly random (because they are) photos. First: a display model of an early General Dynamics concept for what would become the F-111.
And then… two photos of the Convair XB-46 in flight.
I’ve uploaded the full-rez versions of these to the APR Dropbox, into the 2021-01 APR Extras folder. This is available to any APR Patron or Subscriber at the $4 level and above.
Jan 092021
Amazon is cutting off Parler’s servers
Unless it can migrate to its own servers as Gab did late last year, Parler will go offline tomorrow.
Say what you will about predatory Big Tech censorship and anti-competitive practices, the more this sort of thing happens, the more resilient the alternatives will get.
Jan 092021
Huh.
Parler jumps to No. 1 on App Store after Facebook and Twitter ban Trump
Parler saw approximately 210,000 installs globally on Friday 1/8, up 281% from approximately 55,000 on 1/7, according to data from the analytics service Sensor Tower. “In the U.S., the app saw approximately 182,000 first-time downloads on 1/8, up 355% from about 40,000 installs on 1/7. Since Wednesday, the app has seen approximately 268,000 installs from across U.S. app stores,” a press rep from Sensor Tower wrote in an email.
I have avoided all social media chatterbox applications like the freakin’ plague, so I’m unclear on how a lot of this works. It has been removed from Googles Play Store and will likely soon be removed from Apples app store. Will this make it unavailable to existing Parler users? Or can they still access it through normal web browsers? I dunno. But it seems to me the most likely outcome is that Big Tech will find a way to either stomp Parler out of existence or force it to adopt terms of service that turn it bland, uninteresting and exclusionary, which would just as effectively kill it. I’ve little doubt that Parler can be taken down by big tech by any of a number of means from throttling access to threatening payment processors and banks and the like.
Conservatives, others claim Twitter removed thousands of followers
It *seems* that tens or even hundreds of thousands of conservative Twitter users have vanished. Hard to tell how much of that comes from a mass banning of people on the right by the left-leaning leadership of Twitter, and how much of it comes from right-leaning Twitter users deciding to bail. In either event, Twitter will now become even more of a left-wing echo chamber, continuing to further radicalize its leftist users. Whether there will be an equivalent right-wing echo chamber in terms of scope and permissiveness remains to be seen.
Jan 092021
Well, kinda. Turns out that HBO Max will carry Babylon 5 starting January 26. No information is given on what format it will be in, whether the 4:3 aspect ratio that apparently looks best, or the DVD-widescreen version.
Not long ago I wandered over to Amazon Prime Video to watch the series and, lo and behold, it was gone. This is why I prefer physical media… it stays around, while streaming shows come and go.
Jan 082021
An interesting video of events in D.C. showing people dressed like Antifa and acting like Antifa, doing things that further Antifa’s goals of discrediting and damaging the right. Walk, quack, duck.
I don’t know that these were Antifa infiltrators… but it would be completely unsurprising. If anyone is deserving of getting arrested, it’s the two shown here doing actual damage, and those around them who held back the crowd from stopping them. Find them, arrest them, publicize them.
Jan 082021
Marketing and successful self promotion are not in my skill set (BUY MY STUFF!). Clearly I’ve been doing it wrong. Maybe this ad for Big Bill Hell’s would be a useful template?
Note that is juuuuuuuuuuuuuuust a little NSFW.
I suppose this approach might work too: