Six hours on the road to the SAC Museum west of Omaha. many hours on site, taking around 1,500 photos. Six hour drive back home.
Wheeeeeeeeeee.
My back hurts.
Sep 142021
Sep 142021
A Russian panther named Luna playing with its pet dog and pet humans.
Sep 142021
Why do I shrug at the “January 6” narrative? Because *actual* cases of terrorism and sedition like the one below go largely unreported by the media (certainly not getting the coverage of a Viking LARPer acting the fool in Congress), even though the actual events and actual motives were far worse than a bunch of chuckleheads wandering around the halls of power uninvited.
Former Washington state Democrat organizer federally convicted over terrorist attack on railroad
The attempt was made to cause trains carrying hazardous materials to derail and/or blow through road intersections without setting off the crossing guards, thus putting cars and trucks at risk of getting hit. Derailing a tanker train in a city is a good way to create a massive disaster. This was not just attempted murder, but attempted *multiple* murder in the service of leftist political goals.
Sep 132021
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.
Sep 122021
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.
Sep 122021
Who better to inform you of the reality of the world than Skeletor?
Sep 122021
Too bad that these days he’s only in the “race hustling movie” business.
Sep 122021
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.
Sep 122021
Gotta love the determination of this little feller to not relinquish his stick.
Sep 122021
America *and* cats. F yeah!
Some might argue that that’s an inappropriate use of an American flag. My rebuttal: bite me.