The National Museum of the USAF released a video a while back showing the internal crew spaces of the Convair B-36 Peacemaker, the ultimate expression of World War II era bomber design practices.
Dec 062021
Dec 062021
China’s Yutu 2 rover spots cube-shaped ‘mystery hut’ on far side of the moon
The rover spotted a blurry object on the horizon. It’s “cube shaped” only insofar as a blurry single image can depict a cube.
I feel confident in stating “it’s a rock.” Still, go take a look. The moon is rocks. You went to the moon to look at rocks; that one is as good as any other. One likely blasted out of the ground by a meteorite impact is likely to be fairly interesting.
Dec 062021
I hear tell that some copies of the book are to be shipped my way in the next few days, taking however long it takes to cross the Atlantic ocean. I would assume that customers who ordered directly from Mortons will get their copies shipped soon. Not sure about Amazon orders, though the listing currently says Feb 7.
I will have a limited number for signed copies (around 20). As with the SR-71 bookazine, I will include 18X24 prints made specifically for these signed copies; all copies will be signed and numbered. I expect that these will be $55 plus shipping, though I intend to auction #’s 1 through 5.
Dec 052021
Dec 052021
You’d think this place would be a PP magnet:
Dec 052021
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has kindly provided a list of words and phrases to use more often:
Words and phrases you may want to think twice about using
Fight newspeak: use “problematic” terminology on a daily basis. Anyone bitches at you for it, accuse them of being vocabuphobic.
Dec 042021
CNN fires Chris Cuomo
Time for CNN to clean house.
Dec 042021
Parents of Michigan school shooting suspect held on $500,000 bond each after manhunt
These parents seem like real winners. But none of the reports I’ve seen have said what crime they actually are thought to have committed. Yes, their offspring murdered people, but being the parents of a murderer has up till now not generally been considered a crime. Yes, they bought him a gun… but far as I can tell, they purchased it legally, and gave it to him legally. He was not a felon at the time.
Making parents legally liable for the crimes of their minor children is a debate worth having. If this is accepted, there will be a lot of prisons receiving an influx of single mothers. Perhaps Constitutionally dubious, but almost certainly a net benefit for society, especially if the absent fathers can be tracked down and also charged. *Imagine* the effect on society if single mothers and absent fathers are held equally to account for the crimes of their kids. In order for justice to be served, this would have to exempt fathers who have been denied custody or visitation, but would include fathers who skipped town or refused responsibility.
UPDATE:
Get a load of this:
Michigan shooting suspect Ethan Crumbley’s parents plead not guilty to involuntary manslaughter charges
The couple each face four counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection to Tuesday’s tragedy at Oxford High School for refusing to take their son out of school after staff said he exhibited warning signs of violence and needed counseling, according to authorities.
Huh. If the school felt he was a threat… why didn’t they boot his ass out?
Dec 042021
But apparently it’s straight up what Pelosi is like:
She’s *where* in the line of succession, again? Gee, I feel comforted when I ponder that the Chinese are working on “genetic weapons” that will target non-Han ethnic groups in order to damage their cognitive abilities.
Dec 042021
Along with some lawsuits, some legal repercussions seem like they aught to be hammered home.
It seems clear that multiple levels of NBC News fully intended to follow – and presumably dox – the Rittenhouse jury.