Guy was heading to class. I guess he ended up failing.
May 062021
May 052021
I’m old enough to remember Ayds being advertised *all* *the* *time.* Then, mysteriously, the product seemed to disappear…
May 052021
“Once again, people who live near George Floyd Square want to know when Minneapolis police will respond to their calls for help.”
Huh. Who could have seen that coming. A place that became a no-go zone for the police has turned into a lawless hellscape… and the police have no interest in going there. And why should they? I feel sorry for the people who lived there/owned property/businesses before all this happened. But there is a simple fix: BLM and it’s leaders have made *buckets* of money. The locals should sell out to BLM at a fair market price based on the pre-riot value. Then BLM can do with the property whatever they like, safe in the knowledge that the cops won’t get involved.
Even When Residents Call For Their Help, Minneapolis Police Won’t Go Near 38th & Chicago
May 052021
It looks like SpaceX has finally succeeded with a true soft landing of a Starship. More than 10 minutes after landing, it’s still pointed straight up. There was a fire at the base for several minutes, but after some judicious venting the fire seems to have gone out. Oddly, SpaceX doesn’t seem to have covered the flight. There were numerous interruptions of the video feed from the vehicle itself; with luck it was recorded by the cameras and will be recovered.
UPDATE:
SpaceX has posted a video.
May 052021
Interesting. Tiny, low-rez, disappointing image quality, but it might be comparable to late 1960’s CGI. Wait till the holographic version of Jurassic Park comes along…
May 052021
The Bidens recently met, maskless, with former President Carter and his wife Rosalynn. The photo is… ummmm….
Ummmmmmmmmm………..
Smiling Jimmy Carter seen in photo from recent Biden visit to Georgia
UMMMMMMM……
I’d never before noticed that the Carters were Hobbits.
May 042021
The Serbu SN-50 is an odd gun: a single-shot .50 BMG that you have to kinda disassemble to reload. It’s little more than an M2 machine gun barrel with some modifications; that makes it less expensive ($1259 rather than the seven-plus grand you can expect for semi-auto .50s), but is seems like a lot of bother to go to between each shot. Still, Serbu has a good reputation and the design seems pretty rugged. Yet… one of them underwent rapid unplanned disassembly right in the shooters face, doing him a lot of bad damage. The firearms side of YouTube has taken notice and lots of people are trying to figure it out.
Yow.
This guy focuses on the rather unique ammo, as well as unfortunate design features:
Same guy revisits the issue, and is rather more explicit in his opinion that the RN 50 is not a weapon to be fired:
Forgotten Weapons covers the topic of firearms exploding:
Mark Serbu made a comment:
Serbu may, depending on the results of the analysis of the rifle, be in a spot of trouble.
May 042021
Looks like the Chauvin trial stand a fair chance of being overturned.
May 042021
Go ahead and *try* to come up with rational explanations for these:
WANTED for ASSAULT: On 5/2/21 @ 8:40 PM, in front of 411 West 42 St two victims were walking on the sidewalk when they were approached by an unknown individual who assaulted them with a hammer. @NYPD10pct Any info call us @ 800-577-TIPS or DM NYPDTips Reward up to $2500. pic.twitter.com/gNbFlI4V6y
— NYPD Crime Stoppers (@NYPDTips) May 4, 2021
May 032021
A piece of artwork (almost certainly a negative, based on the shading and the national insignia) depicting the Kaman K-16 deflected slipstream tiltwing VTOL flying boat project. The K-16 was actually built in 1959, but never flew and was cancelled in 1962.
The airframe somehow managed to survive and is on display at the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. I visited there a couple times years ago and took a number of photos, posted HERE (2001 visit) and HERE (2007 visit). The full rez scan of the artwork has been made available at 300 DPI to all $4/month patrons/subscribers in the 2021-05 APR Extras folder at Dropbox. If you would like to help fund the acquisition and preservation of such things, along with getting high quality scans for yourself, please consider signing on either for the APR Patreon or the APR Monthly Historical Documents Program.
