Three versions of the same “epilogue:”
Version 1: Ignores events of “2010”
Version 2: Incorporates events of “2010:”
Version 3: Slightly modified by another YouTuber. Much less professionally done, but… a little amusing:
Oct 222022
Oct 212022
Drone footage reveals The Line megacity under construction in Saudi Arabia
“The Line” is a planned 170-kilometer long dystopian nightmare. It will cost Saudi Arabia a *vast* amount of money and will almost certainly fail; those who invest in it will lose their shirts, those who move in will come to regret it. It’s a way to punish rich morons… including the Saudi monarchy.
The Saudis *could* use their trillions in wealth to build a space program and colonize the universe, cementing their culture as the permanently dominant form of humanity until the heat death of the universe. Instead… this.
Good.
Oct 212022
Three magazine advertisements from 1960, depicting the East German Type 152 jetliner (which would have been a *fantastic* jetliner in the late 1940’s), the Convair F-106 and the Fiat G91 T jet trainer.
The full-rez scans of these ads have been uploaded into the 2022-10 APR Extras folder on Dropbox, available to all $4 and up APR Patrons/Subscribers. If you would like to help fund the acquisition and preservation of such things, please consider signing on either for the APR Patreon or the APR Monthly Historical Documents Program.
Oct 212022
After months and years of posts about massive failures of various kinds… here’s a video about an attempt at a long-distance car jump. Guess how it turns out.
Oct 202022
Stacey Abrams, failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate trying again, has an interesting solution to the economic crisis: kill the children. They cost money, you see. If you didn’t have your kids, you could better afford gas and food and rent and such. Says so at about 4:23:
This is the person that the knavish dullards behind “Star Trek Discovery” chose to portray as the President of Earth. Ironic given that she is basically advocating for human – or at least Western – extinction. It seems more likely to me by far that she is working for outside forces – whether China, Klingons or the Chaos Gods – to depopulate at least the United States, to clear it out with minimal fuss so it can be colonized by someone else.
Oct 202022
So some European protestors – never mind what they’re protesting or why, because it hardly matters – decided that the thing to do was glue themselves to the floor of a VW dealership in Germany. The dealerships response? Close the doors, turn off the lights, turn off the furnace.
.@VW told us that they supported our right to protest, but they refused our request to provide us with a bowl to urinate and defecate in a decent manner while we are glued, and have turned off the heating. People in support can't get out of the building. 2/ pic.twitter.com/YZuuiww5Q4
— gianluca grimalda (@GGrimalda) October 19, 2022
That’s a good response. I imagine their maintenance and cleaning staff will be able to clean up the inevitable yellow and brown stains and freshen the air. Keep the doors locked. Don’t let anyone in to provide the protestors food or drink or solvents; let them peel themselves up and seek their own medical attention.
Oct 202022
Seems unlikely, but…
Deranged Putin has ALREADY tried to detonate nuclear bomb but was scuppered in last-minute ‘sabotage’, insider claims
The article seems distinctly lean on actual details and evidence. Claim is made that *two* attempts to test nuclear weapons – including an underwater test in the Barents Sea – were aborted due to emergencies of some kind, actually caused by people somewhere in the chain realizing that the whole idea was nuts. How the quoted “expert” would know this is unclear.
I can see Putin deciding to set off nukes as a show of force. I can see his own people sabotaging the effort, because they don’t want their families to be evaporated. But while such events are plausible, I’d need evidence before I believed they actually happened. And the thing is, incidents like this will almost certainly never have adequate evidence… until an actual bomb actually goes off.
In any event, I’m glad that some time back I got me a functional radiation detector.
Oct 202022
Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister
Just a thought: Britain voted for Brexit largely on the promise of getting immigration under control. But since Brexit, Britain seems to have done nothing towards getting immigration under control. How about trying to get immigration under control?
Oct 202022
Dramatic Scene as Jakarta Mosque’s Dome Collapses in Fire
Looks like it was a sizable structure. Apparently being repaired when it caught fire. Notre Dame and the Big Butter Jesus feel yer pain, fellers.
Oct 192022
Ronald Reagan chats with a Nazi in “Desperate Journey:”
The dialog from IMDB:
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[Major Otto Baumeister has told the captured crew that, since they know the location of an underground Messerschmitt underground factory, they will feel his iron fist. Now he separates Flying Officer Johnny Hammond from the rest, questioning him for intelligence]
Maj. Otto Baumeister : That plane you were flying, American-built, wasn’t it? One of the new ones. We have heard a good deal about them. We know that they are capable of operating at amazing altitudes. How do you manage to supercharge the engines at the extreme cold of those high altitudes?
Flying Officer Johnny Hammond : If I told you, the others wouldn’t find out?
Maj. Otto Baumeister : Certainly not.
Flying Officer Johnny Hammond : They can’t hear us out there?
Maj. Otto Baumeister : Quite sure. Now, about the supercharger.
Flying Officer Johnny Hammond : It’s done with a thermotrockle.
Maj. Otto Baumeister : A what?
Flying Officer Johnny Hammond : Thermotrockle amfilated through a daligonitor. Of course, this is made possible because the dernadyne has a franicoupling.
Maj. Otto Baumeister : I do not understand you.
Flying Officer Johnny Hammond : I knew you wouldn’t. The amsometer on the side prenulates the kinutaspel hepulace. That’s the entire secret. There you have it.
Maj. Otto Baumeister : I do not follow you.
Flying Officer Johnny Hammond : Well, maybe I could make it more clear if I drew a diagram.
Maj. Otto Baumeister : Certainly.
Flying Officer Johnny Hammond : [Bending over as though to draw] There’s three things you gotta understand. As I said before, the daligonitor is amfilated by the thermotrockle. It’s made by its connection with the franicoupling of dernadyne. Even at cruising speed the kinutaspel hepulace is prenulated by the amsometer. Makes no difference. Could be taking off. Snowing or raining, any pilot will tell you that the altitude, 10, 20, 30, 40,000 feet…
[flexing his arm to strike]
Flying Officer Johnny Hammond : [appearing casually in Baumeister’s doorway] Oh, Terry. He wants to talk to you.
Flight Lieutenant Terrence Forbes : Oh. The major wants to see me.
[Forbes enters Baumeister’s office and sees him under the desk, unconscious. he looks incredulously at Hammond]
Flying Officer Johnny Hammond : The iron fist has a glass jaw.