An animation of one of the Lunar Escape System concepts. The idea was that if the lunar module ran into some sort of trouble and couldn’t launch back into orbit, the ascent stage could be torn apart and jerry-rigged into a minimalist launch system… essentially a couple of lawn chairs stuck to a few propellant tanks and a rocket. Could it have worked? Sure. Would it have worked? Ehhhhhh….
If it’s “do this crazy thing or give up and die,” I can see the Apollo astronauts getting straight to work.
Some interesting footage of a ship getting nuked. This was the USS LSM-60, a “landing ship, medium” that was used as a float to suspend an atom bomb underwater during the Operation Crossroads-Baker test, July 25, 1946. A “Fat Man” style bomb was in a small submarine 90 feet below the ship when it went off with a yield of about 22 kilotons. No recognizable bits of the LSM-60 were ever located.
Who better to inform you of the reality of the world than Skeletor?
Too bad that these days he’s only in the “race hustling movie” business.
Yeesh.
Imagine if *half* the effort that the idiot rioters and insurrectionists went through to disrupt life and burn down buildings all through 2020 went to actually *fixing* problems. How many of these poor benighted souls might not now be stuck in the ruined lives they’re living?
If your city has an area that looks even remotely like this and the city spends so much as a *nickle* on CRT or 1619 or Pride Parades… fire your entire city government.
Gotta love the determination of this little feller to not relinquish his stick.
America *and* cats. F yeah!
Some might argue that that’s an inappropriate use of an American flag. My rebuttal: bite me.
One of the odder vehicles to be tested by the Army… the next best thing to a Landmaster. I was always surprised that Hasbro never made one of these for their GI Joe line of toys. I always thought hat an interesting diorama would have a Boeing SICBM Hard Mobile Launcher setting up shop in the western desert flanked by a couple Twister scout vehicles and a Landmaster for cargo and crew transfer.
Twenty years ago today I boarded a van for the irritatingly long ride to work just south of San Jose, CA. The drive mentioned that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. We all figured it was a private plane, with minimal real damage. Before we got to the plant, we heard the first tower fall. Got into the main meeting room just in time to see the second fall. The rest of the day was utter chaos, with rumors running rampant. A truck bomb had gone off in front of the court house in San Francisco. A truck bomb was parked on the Oakland Bridge. A freighter had detonated in the bay. A jetliner was headed directly towards our little ICBM factory. All of these were wrong, of course, but there was no denying, on the trip home that afternoon, that the sky was remarkably clear of contrails.
After World War II, the United States and its allies hunted down every accessible bastion of Nazi ideology and re-educated it from existence; today Nazis exist almost solely within the minds of crazy people. After the Cold War, the United States and its allies did *not* cleanse the world of Communism, and thus we now have commies in the classroom and fellow travelers in the White House. After 9/11, the United States did *nothing* to erase the ideology that led to 9/11. And as a result, it is growing by leaps and bounds with almost no opposition whatsoever.
On that day twenty years ago, there was opposition. It came late; three planes full of people were sacrificed on the altar of believing that hijackings were to be simply waited through. One plane, though, had passengers who learned what was going on and stood up to evil people following an evil ideology. They died on their own terms, which is the best any man can hope for.
This young lady watched “United 93” and reacts to the movie like much of the country did twenty years ago.
Never forget, never forgive. If it helps, listen to the final words of Kevin Cosgrove:
A cop dares to state the basic facts. On today of all days.
Note that the AR pistol is repeatedly erroneously referred to as an “assault rifle.” Note as well that the guy wielding it is a convicted felon out on bond, thus ineligible to wield a firearm of any kind, a failure of the gun control movement the news reader seems to have forgotten to mention.
This incident would have been instructive twenty years ago. “How do we respond to an attack upon our civilization?”
“MAG DUMP.”