A Finnish YouTuber demonstrates the procedures for towing an abandoned tank with a tractor.
Apr 132022
Apr 122022
So someone shot up a subway in Brooklyn. Amazingly, nobody was killed, but a lot of people were injured. The shooter seems to have done this for political and/or racial reasons. This is *exactly* the sort of thing that the news media should be all over. Except… this story doesn’t slot into The Narrative. Expect it to quietly evaporate from the headlines. Don’t expect to see marches, protests, riots, burning, looting, murders over this story.
Frank R. James, Brooklyn Person of Interest: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
He’s a black nationalist and a fan of the Nation of Islam. He disliked Trump and white people.
Breaking: NYPD named Frank James as a person of interest in the #Brooklyn mass shooting. I looked into his social media. Like the Waukesha suspect & the Louisville BLM activist who allegedly tried to assassinate a mayoral candidate, he appeared to be a fan of black nationalism. pic.twitter.com/aUQZGakJfW
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) April 12, 2022
Apr 122022
Just bought on ebay, a print of the Boeing “Space Sortie” vehicle.
So much for my “maybe I should spend less in these difficult times” idea. 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with getting high quality scans for yourself, please consider signing on either for the APR Patreon or the APR Monthly Historical Documents Program. Back issues are available for purchase by patrons and subscribers.
Apr 122022
There are certain things you don’t do. These folks seem to like to do them all.
Company that aims to race SpaceX to Mars plays with fire
They stand RIGHT FREAKIN’ NEXT to a sizable rocket engine as its being tested. With no protective walls, armor or even helmets, gloves or safety glasses. What’s better; the propellants are freakin’ toxic (furfuryl alcohol and nitric acid). They have to flee the cloud of nitric oxides.
The company website has a “Team” page with names and photos of those involved, but no links to their qualifications. This comes across more as a technically aggressive art project than an engineering one. I can appreciate the desire to charge ahead, say damn the safety weenies… but go-fever can get ya killed in some pretty horrifying-yet-entertaining-for-everyone-else ways.
Apr 122022
April 4, 2011, I posted a link to the YouTube video of Orbital’s “The Box” originally from 1996. Through random chance, today (April 12, 2022) I stumbled across another copy of the video, this one at twice the resolution, posted onto YouTube almost exactly one year ago (April 15, 2021). Huh. Well, the commentary I posted way back when still applies: this is an interesting video that shows an unsettling Tilda Swinton moving through a city at a *really* slow pace. The effect being “alienation” or some such.
I first saw this at a weird time in my life, back when MTV still tried to be about music, and it drilled itself directly into my brain where it’s sat ever since. If you haven’t seen it, give it a watch.
Apr 112022
“From the Department of Whimsy Enforcement:” Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, North Korean edition
North Korea looks like a hell of a place.
Apr 112022
Driverless taxis operate on certain streets in San Francisco during specific hours and weather conditions. But despite the fact that the cars have no human drivers, they are still subject to the laws of the road, including the need to drive with headlights at night. So the police are tasked with stopping these taxis if their headlights are out. But it seems the robots have different ideas about being pulled over…
Apr 112022
An interstellar object exploded over Earth in 2014, declassified government data reveal
It was small, only a foot and a half in diameter or so. But it impacted the atmosphere over Papua new Guinea moving at about 130,000 miles per hour. Sporty! At that speed, one kilogram of rock – or ice, or iron, or whatever – has about 1,688,688,236 Joules of kinetic energy. one kilogram of TNT has 4,184,000 Joules of chemical explosive energy, so that rock is 403 times more powerful than a conventional bomb by mass.
A one kiloton explosion would be produced by 2,481 kilograms of impactor, or about a car and a half.
Apr 112022
Checking out the “science” section on Google News brings up this headline:
*Science,* people. This is what “decolonized” science, stripped of “white supremacy” and “patriarchy” looks like: friggen’ horoscopes.
If you’re interested in astrology, you’re likely more than familiar with your Sun sign, which directly relates to your personality. Maybe your ‘scope-obsessed self is also well-versed in your Moon sign, which aligns with your emotions and moods.
Your Venus sign is something different altogether, although for most people, it can be the same sign as their Sun sign, or one of its neighboring signs, says Alice Alta, resident astrologer for the Futurio app. And as with any planetary sign, this one is determined by where Venus was in the sky at the time of your birth. To find your Venus sign, all you need is your birth date, time, and location to create your natal chart via an astrology app or website like CafeAstrology.com, explains Alta.
What is my Venus sign, and how does it impact me?
“Venus is the planet of love, beauty, harmony, money, material values,” she notes. So, Venus in the natal chart is responsible for the development of your sense of style and taste, determining your preferences in everything from clothes to romantic partners.
At its core, Venus is huge in helping to understand your personality and how you express yourself. It impacts how you show your desires, passions, and what’s important to you. It can also determine how you interact with others and the energy you give off in those interactions.
Oh my ᚠᚪᛣᚳᛁᚾᚷ Gawd.
Apr 112022
Well it *is* 2022, so disasters are to be expected.