Sometimes they really are right there at the right time:
This occurred in January 2020 in Washington D.C. Feel free to insert your own jokes about D.C. and collapsing infrastructure, or the collapse of American culture, whatever. the field is wide open and endless.
I guess it works, but moving the Super Heavy in a vertical position seems like asking for trouble.
It’s also slow. I hope that someday reasonably soon that that transport system will need to be replaced because it’s holding up the rapid recovery and re-launch of the things on their hourly schedule to launch USSF forces to bases on the Moon, Mars and beyond.
The McCloskeys were spotted daring to defend their home from a band of racist Marxism enablers a bit over a year ago. They, like the Kenosha Kid, should never have been charged with a crime; the fact that they were shows quite clearly the corruption that stains many district attorneys and prosecutors.
Bad news: continuing ammo shortage. Good news; continuing gun sales.
As the article mentions, the lack of ammo hampers first time gun owners from practicing. A modest suggestion: the US military manufactures its own ammo, and has a pretty massive stockpile; now that we’re bailing from Afghanistan, there is not so much immediate need. Perhaps the US government could do the right thing and start handing out free crates of ammunition to gun owners with clean criminal records. Certainly a better use of government resources than enforcing bans on evicting deadbeats.
A Grumman design from the 80’s (looks like 1980) for an advanced fighter. This was clearly from the era where fighters did not need to prioritize stealth over all else, though also clearly stealth aspects are included. The aircraft had missiles integrated onto the back surface, an unusual location; it appears that these are unpowered bombs, using wings to generate lift to fling themselves upwards. It’s not immediately clear what the purpose here is; chances are that these might be nukes, so flinging the bombs upwards would give the jet a few moments to gain some distance before the bombs glide down to the ground. Or it might be a low-observability feature… launching from the top would allow the aircraft to fly at a stupid-low altitude to avoid anti-aircraft systems.
UPDATE: Check comments… this is probably a Rockwell artwork, not Grumman.
Two people debating: forget what they are arguing about, what their views are. Which one would you actually listen to? The calm, rational one, or the one losing his damn mind? If you are going into a debate, watch this video and DON’T BE THAT GUY.
I’m no Greenpeace weenie, but I admit to discomfort at zoos. Locking some animals up into small enclosures is downright cruel, and a lot of animal exhibits are simply depressing. The final straw for me was back in the 90’s: my father and I visited the National Zoo in D.C, and there was a lone male rhino in a relatively small enclosure… and it had been driven so mad by loneliness and/or boredom that the path it wore in the dirt as it endlessly circled its enclosure was four or five inches deep.
That said, the Monterrey Bay Aquarium is spectacular, and one of the few things about California that I miss.
Anyway, here;s a piece about a remarkably realistic robotic dolphin. The suggestion is made that some animals – dolphins, orca, tigers, etc. – could be replaced in captivity with robots.
The robots maker says that what he wants to do is replicate extinct sea critters… you know, the *good* ones like mosasaurs and ithyosaurs and pliosaurs and the like. Now, if there was a good sized aquarium that had Jurassic Seas as an exhibit, I’d be all over that like ugly on an ape. But a regular aquarium, where all the fish were replaced with robots? The otters and penguins and such replaced with Nexus Seven replicants? If I *knew* that, my interest would be minimal. A zoo where the lions and tigers were also robots? Meh. But am I an outlier here? If zoos had wholly believable robotic bears and tapirs and pythons and the like… would people pay to see them? Not just initially for the novelty of it, but years and decades down the line. And would zoo patrons start demanding more and more of the robots? Instead of watching a lion lounge around, would people come to expect the robolions to hunt down the robogazelle every quarter hour? Would the kids demand that the robolions put on a song and dance act?