Rocket videos worth watching

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Sep 292022
 

Say what you will about United Launch Alliance and the fact that it is far, FAR behind the times when compared with SpaceX, they’ve recently been issuing some damned impressive videos.

And they’re retweeting some good vids of their Delta IV launch:

 

 

Some great launch videos. Now, to release some equally impressive landing videos, demonstrating that ULA is in the business of recovering and reusing rockets to not only lower launch cost (and compete with SpaceX) but also to ramp up launch rates in order to save western civilization off-world, because it’s going to hell on *this* one.

 

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“Culture”

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Sep 292022
 

Lots to contemplate here:

Lizzo Twerks on Stage with James Madison’s 1813 Crystal Flute

On top of everything else, the Library of Congress deemed it proper to hand over a priceless (and doubtless fragile) historic artifact to be used as a prop or a toy on stage by someone with demonstrated and clearly obvious impulse control issues.

“B****! I just twerked and played James Madison’s crystal flute from 1800’s!” she said, after handing the flute back to a representative from the Library of Congress.

Indeed.

 

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/desecration

desecration

[ des-i-krey-shuhn ]

Definition of desecration

noun
the act of treating something sacred or solemn in a sacrilegious or disrespectful way: Many locals opposed the use of their former church building as a courthouse, feeling that conducting civil matters there would be a desecration of a holy place.
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London seems nice

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Sep 282022
 

Huh.

 

When I was a kid, the British Army patrolled cities in Northern Ireland. Why are they not now patrolling the cities of England? They could be kept busy for *weeks* grabbing riotous foreigners and tossing them onto deportation flights.

 

 

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DART impact from a distance

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Sep 282022
 

The images coming in of the DART impact are absolutely remarkable.

Dude. DUDE.

 

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The madness of crowds

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Sep 272022
 

A fitness class out for a jog goes by an outdoor cafe… and the people having their lunch think that the class are running *from * something, panic, and take off running with them. On one hand.. ha ha, very funny. On the other hand, this was in Brazil. I’ve seen the videos. The many, many, MANY videos. It’s not insane to keep your head on a swivel in Brazil, and be ready at the drop of a hat to bolt. That whole country seems like Chicago writ large.

 

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How could this have possibly been prevented?

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Sep 272022
 

Homeless man arrested for vicious beating in NYC train station

How could this crime have been prevented? Were there any warning signs? Any possible hints of what was coming? Any chances to go ina  different direction?

In 1995, Foster was arrested as a 14-year-old for killing his own 82-year-old grandmother in Flatbush, Brooklyn. He apparently got into a dispute about money and started punching her. She died on the couch shortly after the attack. …

In 2010, police arrested him for stabbing a 50-year-old woman at a psychiatric center in Queens Village. The woman was left permanently disfigured in the attack.

Foster was paroled last year for that incident.

New York City Police arrested him in August for Petty Larceny. The next day he was arrested again for criminal mischief.

Nope. Nothing at all that could have been done. There were no chances to have nipped this in the bud.

 Posted by at 3:54 pm

Interesting if true

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Sep 272022
 

“IF” being the operative word. Assume this is as accurate as a random anonymous comment usually is.

…or Maybe the Trans Shop Teacher Is the Hero We Need Right Now

This dude is gaming the system. An anon here yesterday was in this dude’s class. This teacher was almost fired for ‘toxic masculinity’ last year, as well as not embracing woke culture. He’d drop redpills to his class, such as how silly gender neutral bathrooms are. The school board hates him.

He’s now upping the ante to exploit the very clown world the school and society itself created. His long game is most likely to get fired, and then sue for discrimination. There is no other explanation.. No better way to troll clown world than to become an over-the-top caricature of a woman.

Don’t trust this to be true. But if it is… suddenly this ridiculous story is elevated to hilarious troll. On the one hand, this is a long way to go to make a point. on the other hand, it’s a longer way to actually *be.*

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The 2022-2023 Reality TV season promises to be interesting

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Sep 262022
 

Never mind vacuous celebrities, the show to watch in coming months will be “Europe in the Cold.”

You really don’t understand how bad it could get in Europe this year

Europe bailed on nuclear power and decided to rely instead on natural gas from Putin. Good plan, geniuses.

Another genius move that will come back to bite them: importing whole armies of military-age males from third-world antagonistic cultures. Now they’re going to turn the lights off at night. Yeah… the combo of reduced lights and increased criminality? BRILLIANT! The women of Europe had best be ready to lock themselves into their chilly little apartments all through the winter, lest they become one more in an increasing statistic.

I guess one possible benefit might be that the price of gas goes so high the colonizers won’t be able to afford Molotov cocktails.

 Posted by at 11:51 pm
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