A lot of scumbags in this video are pretty clearly visible, and should be recognizable and catchable. Unfortunately, if they are caught the legal repercussions are very likely to be minimal. When they should be loaded onto ships with a few million illegal aliens and deported to… wherever, just not here. These people are not any kind of American. They should be ex-Americans, however that might be achieved.
Shrug.
There is a new “Delorean Motor Company.” It’s not the same company that made the original DeLorean, but I guess they’ve got the rights to the brand. They say they’re working on a new car, the “Alpha V,” which is to be an electric vehicle. The actual links to the original DMC-12 seem tenuous at best… gull wing doors seem to be about it. New car doesn’t look like the old, doesn’t seem to be made out of stainless steel. I hate the wheels: trendy gigantic hubs with tires that seem about as thick as rubber bands. Probably runs great on really smooth roads; hit your first pothole and you’ll know it.
I don’t know if this is really for real, but they want a hundred and seventy five grand a pop. The website annoys me: lots of trendy babble, not so much technical information or photos of hardware.
He was reportedly fond of hurting cats. People knew this… friends, family, others.
So, sure. Blame the inanimate object.
First up: “President” Joe Biden says that a 9mm bullet from a pistol is “high caliber” and will blow a lung out of your body.Consequently, there’s “no rational basis” for having something as “high caliber” as a 9mm for “self protection” or hunting
He lies and says you couldn’t buy a cannon when the 2nd Amendment was written, when the government was also handing out letters of Marque and Reprisal, allowing private ship owners to work as armed privateers. He also says “you couldn’t go out and purchase a lot of weapons” when the 2nd Amendment was written (“citation needed”).
The man who fled from Afghanistan goes on to say that in order to take on the government you need an F-15 or an Abrams tank. Which is why the Ukrainians, lacking F-15s and Abrams tanks, were conquered overnight by the Russians, I guess?? Then he goes on to say that “everybody’s getting more rational” about gun-grabbing.
And then Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau goes ahead and gives a damn fine reason for Quebec to declare independence, opening the door for the western provinces to go their own way. A semi-autonomous region from from Alaska through BC and Alberta and Saskatchewan and Yukon down through Montana, the Dakotas to Texas through Iowa and Nebraska and New Mexico is looking better and better. Persuade Cook County to secede from Illinois and boy, do we have a deal.
To all those who would have citizens surrender their right to self defense to the same party that supports defunding the police, collective punishment for grievances from generations ago and wiping out vast swathes of their own offspring… how about “no.”
Daredevil and Spider-Man can rest easy tonight…
AHHHHH!!!! My eyes!!!!
HA! Found ’em. Well, there’s the better part of a day’s theoretical productivity flushed down the obsession s-hole. I’d *swear* I’d shared these before, but I can’t find evidence of that. Either I imagined it or I did so elsewhere. It *may* have been in support of “Man Conquers Space,” many long years ago, an exercise as dead and buried as the dreams of manned missions to Neptune by 2000. Anyway…
Pages from a Convair report on Post-Nova launch vehicles, 1963. This was for a contract to NASA-Marshall, and explains what the future of space launches looked like from this golden age, before Viet Nam and especially the “Great Society” program spending brought NASA budget and its dreams of an actual future post-Apollo crashing down.
This particular report does not have the authors listed… but other related reports do. This has Krafft Ehricke all over it. It’s the sort of space optimism that he excelled at, and that a better world would have gotten.
Three models are examined… Conservative, Intermediate and Ambitious. Even the Conservative model has manned missions to Jupiter before 2000 (the thinking behind “2001” was not so far off… for the time), while the Ambitious model has long term Jovian bases by 1996 (followed by annual supply flights), manned missions to Titan bases by 1999 or so and manned flybys of Uranus and Neptune by the early/mid 1990s. A permanently manned Mars base by 1987 or so.
Instead we got… hmmm. What’d we get? Facebook? Twitter? Weirdos and vanity and decay?
Along the same lines, two charts shown by Ehricke a few years later, showing what the future of spaceflight held:
The likes of Ehricke had a much higher opinion of Mankind than history has borne out.
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There’s just entirely too much mockable hand-wringing authoritarian panic-mongery gibberish in here to really pick from. It’s *all* just the worst, from some of the worst people on Earth:
This is what gun nuts are doing to their kidspic.twitter.com/csu1Al29Yl
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) May 24, 2022
Basically it boils down to “Oh Noes! A child is being taught how to use a mechanical object that I’m afeared of!”
Imagine being offended by Autumn’s Armory. Getting outraged by a little girl possibly being able to fend for herself? Buzz off, groomer.
A 34-inch long, 1/350 scale DIE CAST METAL USS Enterprise, all for the low, low price of $599…
https://startrek-registration.tomy.com/register
They want 5,000 backers before going ahead. It will be available to order only through July 8.
Anybody want to buy me one? Or two?
What’s more depressing is that their estimates may well be optimistic.
Researchers analyzed NASA’s budget since the 1960s to gauge how likely a mission to the asteroid belt is within the next century.
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The researchers concluded that a crewed mission to the asteroid could take place as early as 2073, while astronauts may land on Jupiter by 2103 and on Saturn by 2132.
FFS.
Remember when NASA had some fricken’ *vision?* At least now there are vastly faster options than NASA.
I don’t, because it was before I was born. But just a few years before I came on the scene, NASA really did plan for an adventurous future, on an optimistic timescale. For instance, this from 1966:
“Research station on Titan” by 2000 or so.
*Somewhere* around here (I thought on this blog) I’ve got a chart I believe by Krafft Ehricke that lays out a more detailed vision of the future, along the lines of the crude graph above. Familiar to anyone?
Getting rid of gasoline from your vehicle and replacing it with batteries has some benefits. One of those is *not* that a fire in your energy storage system is less of a worry with a battery vehicle than an internal combustion vehicle. Because lithium *loves* oxygen with an all consuming passion.