John Cleese ends an interview in the best way possible:
It would be great if more people would show media, activists and politicians exactly this level of respect.
Dec 182021
Dec 182021
SpaceX has recently released a video summary of their May, 2021, launch of the SN15 Starship test vehicle. it’s real, real pretty.
Giggitty!
UPDATE: huh, the video got yoinked. Looking at the SpaceX YouTube video library, it looks like it, might have been just a repost of this video from May:
Their live stream of the launch was buggy due to difficulties in sending the video down live:
Dec 172021
A recent gang shooting in San Juan, Puerto Rico left six dead. While this sounds like your average night in Chicago or Detroit, the uncensored video (in the tweet below, because this is a family-friendly blog) video shows that the description “a hail of gunfire” doesn’t quite do it justice. The people who wanted the other people dead wanted them *really* dead. As in “the writers of Marvel comics will have a hard time bringing these guys back” sort of dead.
*WARNING SUPER GRAPHIC*
Full unedited video: pic.twitter.com/kRVDhjiFaj— Donut Operator 🍩 (@DonutOperator) December 14, 2021
A discussion of the event with a whole lot of blurring is in the YouTube video below:
I can only assume that the drug trade was involved in some way. And as bad as this incident was… imagine it transported to the streets of some American city that has just defunded the police. Note that the hit squad here used fully automatic weapons (most armed with high-cyclic rate pistols, likely Glocks, while the probable leader had a gold-plated AK-47), which are just as illegal in PR as they are in the US. So… yeah, another gun control success story.
Dec 172021
Them days is gone, baby.
Third Test Of The Air Force’s Hypersonic Weapon Has Failed Like The Ones Before It
Didn’t even get to launch it.
Dec 172021
The only real problem with this skit is that is seems to be set in a rural area. Set it on a college campus and it’d be 100% accurate.
Dec 172021
Looks spiffy.This is entirely different from the Testors kits from decades ago; a number of improvements are apparent. Recessed panel lines and separate engines with considerable internal detail are major improvements.
I haven’t heard if they are doing a YF-12A or A-12; conversion kits would be a chore.
Dec 162021
The Parker Solar Probe passed close enough to the Sun back in April to arguably be said to have “touched” the sun by zipping through the outermost layers of the solar atmosphere. It took months to get all the collected data back, and John Hopkins Applied Physics Lab has just released the video below of the passage. The video quality is pretty potato, but it looks like it was a hell of a ride.
Once again, this moment of unutterable awesomeness has been brought to you by hard-nosed engineering rigor. STEM for the won… once again.
Dec 162021
The “Doomsday Glacier” may partially collapse. If it does, Earth’s sea level will rise by 2 feet
Is this bad news? I guess we’ll see. If the greens start pushing for nuclear power and *fast,* then this is bad news. If the world starts leaning on China and India to cut carbon emissions, then this is bad news. Lacking those two eventualities, then this won’t *really* be seen as *actual* bad news.
Dec 162021
Another progressivism success story. The chaos and havoc and human despair brought about (and at this point it can hardly be said “unintentionally”) by far leftist policies has opened a door for innovation. In this case, the many, MANY piles of human waste littering the streets of the formerly respected city of San Franciso has resulted in a shiny new interactive and zoomable map of the city, showing you where to NOT go, where to NOT shop, not live, not employ, not invest. Where to *leave.*
San Francisco Poop Map
Color me stunned that is seems to be circling United Nations Plaza.
Dec 162021
From the official Twitter account of the government of Ukraine:
— Ukraine / Україна (@Ukraine) December 7, 2021