“Don’t Look Up” is a forthcoming netflix movie where astronomers discover a comet on a direct impact course with Earth… and neither the government nor the media seem to care. In an era of “Russia collusion” and “mostly peaceful protests” and “wage gaps” and all the other bits of misinformation , propaganda and outright lies that people in the media and government just shrug at, I can see indifference being the response to the end of the world.
Amazing what can be done with the right tools.
A similar project… a CNC’ed T-Rex:
An example of a mechanical device that would have been a nightmare to produce without 3D printing. It’s utility in an engineering sense seems minimal, but it’s doubtless interesting.
How is it that people can be *this* friggen’ stupid? It’s like he’s trying to throw his own case. And that may be the case… the prosecution of Rittenhouse has been so inept that a mistrial might be the only chance these yahoos have to assure that their show trial gets the result they want.
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— Greg Price (@greg_price11) November 15, 2021
As many have pointed out, by pointing a firearm at people, Binger should have been mobbed by the people int he courtroom. he lost the right to defend himself the moment he drew down on the jury.
China certainly seems to be in ascendance, while the US is definitely in decline. The latter fact does not need to be true, but we, like the British Empire before us, are allowing it to happen. When the US fades, *someone* (or several someones) will certainly attempt to step in and fill the void. The void will be one of power, of course, economic and military. but it will also be one of culture… views on individual liberty, cultural norms, ethics and so on. Anyone who can fill the military/economic void will bring their culture with them, and there’s not a reason in the entire universe why their culture needs to be as enlightened as America’s has been.
So, if you’re happy to see the US back off, get ready for *this* on a global scale:
In one case, a dog owner named Ms Fu witnessed through her home security camera as people clothed in hazmat suits entered her home and beat her pet corgi to death with iron rods while she was away in a quarantine facility. She tested negative for the coronavirus.
Sure, the fifty million – or more – Chinese dead at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party is certainly a bigger deal than minor functionaries killing pets. But somehow modern campus leftists and ChiCom apologists seem perfectly happy to wave away the deaths of mere *humans;* after all, the only thing worse for the Earth than humans are white cishet capitalist humans, and a lot of lefties would be perfectly happy to see a lot of *that* *type* exterminated. But puppies and kittens? A little harder to gloss over murdering *them.*
And of course there’s the little problem that China is actively destroying the planet. Not only are they belching CO2 into the air at a phenomenal rate, they are dumping vast mountains of toxic garbage into the ocean… at the same time they’re stripping the oceans bare of all life. There are worse things that could happen than if Chinas fishing fleet were sent to the bottom.
Nixon opening China to the world will be seen in future centuries by the few remaining historians as one of the worst ideas in all human history. Sounded good at the time, but the unintended consequence could well be the conversion of Earth into a sparsely populated trash heap.
A taxi passenger seems to have set off a bomb in a taxi outside a hospital in Liverpool, England. Remarkably, the taxi driver not only survived, but is apparently already out of the hospital.
Note that the news coverage gives the identity of the taxi driver and shows his face (there is no suspicion that the taxi driver did anything wrong), but the identity and photos of the bomber, and several of his compatriots who have been arrested? Hidden. Odd, that.
Something you don’t see too often, clear views of the Galaxy’s landing gear folding into the fuselage after liftoff.
Don’t got to San Francisco until there is a complete overhaul of the city government, an overhaul that includes a draconian crackdown on criminality to the point where the city uses eminent domain to claim Alcatraz and drops thieves and muggers onto the island from helicopters.
Behold!
I was one of 30 former national security officials to sign on to an amicus brief arguing that unrestricted access to concealable firearms poses a great threat to public safety. If states like New York are unable to restrict who may carry a concealed weapon, we will be at greater risk of gun violence, threats from foreign and domestic terrorism and political extremism.
Because current laws against concealed carry are stopping terrorists? Really? Someone who wants to carry out a political assassination will be dissuaded because he can’t get a concealed carry license, or because a place where he wants to shoot somebody has a sign on the door saying “no guns?”
The author is probably not actually so stupid as to believe what she’s saying. But she probably believes that a lot of the American public *are* that dumb. If you are on the political left or on the side of gun control… just bear in mind that people like this think you are a ᚠᚢᚳkᛁᚾᚷ moron, willing and able to believe the most patently stupid arguments imaginable. People like this use not only fearmongering, but fearmongering based on falsehoods and an utter lack of logic. They should be spurned and mocked.
I say “that looks like a mockup.”
To me it looks like thin sheet metal riveted to some sort of structure. The vertical tail in particular looks… ummm…
The first test pieces of the SpaceX Starship also looked like cheaply constructed crap, so… maybe? But color me skeptical that this is an actual aircraft. That landing gear… yeesh.