Hmmm…
May 182021
May 182021
Supreme Court sides with man who said police illegally seized firearms from his home without a warrant
In short, the guy used sarcasm and as a result the cops tossed him into a looney bin, ransacked his house and took his property… in this case, firearms. The Supreme Court decided that going into a home to seize firearms without a warrant violates the 4th Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure. What’s really interesting is that the ruling was unanimous, both conservative and liberal judges agreeing. Whether this sort of thing will reign in some future law regarding the appropriation of firearms and magazines (the “mandatory buybucks” of modern sporting rifles and standard capacity magazines that the current crop of totalitarian dimwits support) remains to be seen, but it’s a useful start.
May 172021
Did they learn *nothing* from Tacoma Narrows?
Nopenopenopenopenopenopenopenopenopenopenopenopenopenopenopenopenopenopenope.
Nope.
May 172021
Switch around a few details in this story, and cities would go up in flames and the Federal government would bend over backwards to enforce new policies. As it is? It’s essentially non-news.
Teen, 18, in an ankle monitor ‘snatches four-year-old boy from his bed, stabs him to death and dumps his body on Dallas street in random attack’
“Random” my shiny metal ass.
May 162021
In 2015, Allen Pan made a “real burning lightsaber” that worked by using butane to pressurize methanol, squirting it like a tiny supersoaker and setting the stream alight. The concept was… well, “insanely dangerous” is probably fair. Still, it worked:
But then…
The cheap knockoff took an idea that was insanely dangerous and said “meh, let’s make it as awful as possible” and scored a hundred grand .
I’m in the wrong damn business.
May 142021
Another strange piece of 1970’s/early 1980’s Boeing art, this time depicting an “Intercity Transport.” What’s going on with that circular “inlet” on the rear upper fuselage? Damnfino. Just visible under the wing root is a low-set inlet, so that would seem to provide what’s needed for the propulsion system. If there was a vertical thrust system in the nose, and good low-speed control systems on the outer wings, then that circular inlet would be fore a VTOL system. But on its own? Hmmm.
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May 142021
From the fine folks who brought you a hydraulic press crushing everything imaginable, here is a massive steel box with a small hole with a grenade-sized explosive in it. The demonstration you didn’t know you needed to see until you saw it.
Note that this demonstrates how a near-instantaneous explosive can be turned into an actual rocket. Just not a good one.
May 132021
The observant observer will note that something seems to be missing from the front view here. However… it’s accurate as depicted.
May 122021
May 122021
Haven’t we?