Note: this is not only unconfirmed, it’s is *probably* false. But fog of war and all that…
Unconfirmed Reports Suggest The Worlds Largest Plane Has Been Destroyed
Feb 242022
Feb 242022
You know what the biggest roadblocks to converting to this or that religion usually are? The people pushing that religion the hardest. Take this Very Special Episode for example:
Naw, dude.
Feb 242022
As a followup to THIS POST from 2019, scientists have determined that the asteroid or comet that struck the Yucatan around 66 million years ago, ending the era of the dinosaurs, hit during springtime:
‘Frozen in place’ fossils reveal dinosaur-killing asteroid struck in spring
A site in North Dakota shows a bunch of fish who had all died within 30 minutes of the impact, jumbled up with tree branches as whatnot due to the wave that rolled through and stirred everything up. I imagine there is, or will be, a hell of a market for fossils from that site; it’s one of the few places on the planet where you have fossils pointing to one exact, understandable and important moment in time. “This specific animal was killed by *the* impactor” is a heck of a notion.
Feb 242022
Ukraine conflict: Russian forces invade after Putin TV declaration
Expect the price of gas to skyrocket, and everything else to follow. At least we have *fine* leadership to see us through this…
REPORTER to Biden: “Do you think you may have underestimated Putin?”
BIDEN: *smirks, stares blankly, picks at his teeth*
pic.twitter.com/H8JOsSUei7— Matt Batzel (@MattBatzel) February 22, 2022
Feb 232022
This drone seems to be built to penetrate the air with speed. The image quality of the onboard camera kinda blows, but that might come from all the vibrating.
Nope. Can’t quite think what the joke might be.
Feb 232022
So I tried to log it to make another post, and was met with not a login page, but a string of error messages. Yet another call to tech support… and it seemed to clear up, kinda randomly.
Joy.
So, as always, if the blog vanishes *again,* I ain’t dead, it’s just technomages screwing with the machine spirit. If the blog vanishes for more than a short time in the future, check my (gah) Twitter for any updates or complaints or whines.
@UnwantedBlog
Feb 222022
A Douglas concept from 1963 for a large space booster that was to use both chemical and nuclear engines. The first stage was to have chemical engines; when the booster reached sufficient altitude, it would stage off and a purely nuclear stage would deliver a one million pound payload to low Earth orbit (in this case, a million pounds of liquid hydrogen for a large interplanetary spacecraft). both stages would be recovered for re-use.
*Somewhere* I have a paper that describes this at least a little bit, with a minimal diagram…
Feb 222022
The bot-upvotes seem to still be coming in, but now they’re getting neutralized. They are now “Guest” upvotes that do not link to anything. Still a nuisance, but a minor one; it seems that Disqus was able to reverse engineer them, but not truly nuke them.
Was:
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Feb 222022
It’s rare that I look at a standup comics schtick and am actually kinda shocked. But this guy pulled it off. It’s… ummm…
Ummmmmmmm……………….
Wow. That’s not what I would expect to see these days. I bet the audience was uncomfortable as hell, just as they were laughing themselves fuzzy.
Feb 222022
Ever since the Commie Cough hit, I’ve noticed a lot of quality control issues in common products. Today I broke open a box with a new tube of toothpaste (purchased some months ago; expiration date is sometime in 2023) to find that something ain’t quite right with the tube.
I’m uncertain if the tube was *ever* actually sealed. The toothpaste itself has dried to a largely solid state. I’ve never actually wondered about what happens to toothpaste if allowed to dry out, but I’ve had that nugget of knowledge kinda thrust upon me. Woo.