We Found Ford’s Incredible Turbine-Powered Semi-Truck ‘Big Red’ That’s Been Lost for Decades
Woo. The turbine-powered cars and trucks were a glorious but failed experiment from back when The Future was real.
Mar 292021
Mar 292021
Feeling good? Feeling happy? Faith in humanity at an all-time high? Well, reality is here to take a giant steamer on your delusions:
Note just how helpful the bystanders are.
Mar 272021
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay. Dad must be *so* proud.
You know… you be you, so long as you’re not hurting anyone else. But… if you’re not helping anyone, including yourself, nobody else has any obligation to do or say anything in support of your choices. If you go out of your way to not only look far outside the mainstream, but actually devote a sizable fraction of your entire existence to making a spectacle of yourself… meh.
Once again, I suspect an interesting sci-fi story could be written base don this idea that this sort of thing is the visible manifestation of an alien “worldwrecker” attack on humanity, some sort of mind controlling/distorting field that is trying to make humanity self destructive and/or non-reproductive.
Mar 272021
Cats are awesome.
I like to think of Oliver here as a role model for the modern American faced with government over-regulation.
Mar 262021
Our futures are secure.
A new bill would defund new ICBMs to pay for coronavirus vaccine research
This new Congress wants to not only disarm the populace but the military as well… at least as far as strategic deterrence. I’m sure the Chinese are quaking in their boots.
If there is anyone in the FBI who’s actually interested in defending the US, I’d recommend they use the list of sponsors and supporters of this bill as the basis for an investigation into foreign influence in the US government:
The Investing in Cures Before Missiles Act, offered by Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif….
The proposed legislation has amassed some early support in the House and Senate. Co-sponsors include Sens. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.; and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.; as well as Reps. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore.; Steve Cohen, D-Tenn.; Jesus Garcia, D-Ill.; Raul M. Grijalva, D-Ariz.; Jared Huffman, D-Calif.; Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas; Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash.; Barbara Lee, D-Calif.; James McGovern, D-Mass.; Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C.; Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.; Mark Pocan, D-Wis.; and Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.
Note that there are some of the *dumbest* members of Congress listed there.
Mar 262021
In the long, long ago, Lockheed tried to sell the F-22 to the US Navy. In order to accommodate the needs of Naval aviation, the aircraft would have had to have been massively modified… most obviously by giving the aircraft variable geometry wings like the F-14’s. Clearly the Navy didn’t go for it: the cost of the program would have been immense, as would have been the risks. The F-22 ended up being troubled enough with materials and maintenance nightmares; add to that the rigors of slamming into carrier decks, constant humidity and salt air, all the other bothersome details of operating from ships at sea; and add to THAT the fact that while the NATF (Naval Advanced Tactical Fighter)*looked* like the F-22, it would have shared very few structures in common with its Air Force cousin and would have been basically a new aircraft… it would undoubtedly have been massively expensive to a degree that even the F-35 would have been hard pressed to match.
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Mar 262021
With luck, today:
Mar 252021
City of Oakland Mayor is branded racist for giving families of color $500 a month if they earn under $59,000 with no rules on how they spend it – but offering poor white families nothing
Doling out cash to people based on their race seems like it would slam up against “equal protection” and “nondiscrimination” laws.
Another article:
Oakland launches guaranteed pay plan for low-income people
The mayor of Oakland, California, on Tuesday announced a privately funded program that will give low-income families of color $500 per month with no rules on how they can spend it.
“Of Color” means “everyone but white people.” Or at least it used to: recently Asians have been declared by the Woke to be white due to their “privilege” (which seems to come from rather enthusiastically embracing this thing called a “work ethic”). It should be interesting to see how Oakland goes about deciding who is sufficiently non-white, how fast the lawsuits come out, how big the army of attack lawyers will be, and how soaked the taxpayers of Oakland will end up. If I was paying property taxes in Oakland, I’d consider *not* being taxable in Oakland just as fast as possible.
Mar 252021
Mar 252021
Lighting the candles on a birthday cake by overlighting the candles:
I assume that this was nowhere near a full thrust test, likely just a low-power ignition test. Otherwise it would have vaporized the cake and the stand it was on. And then… oy. Imagine the environmental impact statements.