The National Museum of the USAF has recently posted some interesting videos of their XB-70. Something the museum seems to be doing is filming their exhibits using drones; the angles aren’t always the best, but they do provide angles rarely seen before.
One of those videos that doesn;t tell you when, where, who, anything. Looks like a traffic stop; a guy is being arrested and decides that his best approach is to run into traffic. Discovers some little-known aspects of physics in the process, and *seems* little the worse for wear afterwards.
I feel bad for the car driver, though.
If anyone can point to further details on this, I’d appreciate it.
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
The George Floyd Memorial mural at Summit and Lagrange in Toledo has come down. No word yet on the circumstances #13abc pic.twitter.com/SkB2eDhijB
— Shaun Hegarty (@Shaun_Hegarty) July 13, 2021
Thor seems displeased with people celebrating a man who, during the commission of an armed robbery, held a pregnant woman against her will by pointing a firearm at her unborn child.
Two-thirds of the court, anyway:
If you are 18, the United States Federal Freakin’ Government can come along and draft your ass and put a gun in your hands and drop you behind enemy lines… but there are those in the government who think that a 20-year-old should not be allowed to have a pistol of their own.
A 19-year-old, to these people, is not responsible enough to own a small firearm… but, sure, put a 16-year-old behind a two-ton chunk of metal capable of a hundred miles an hour.
If an 18-year-old is not old enough to handle their full Constitutional rights… why are they allowed to vote?
Anyway… the 4th US Circuit Court Of Appeals ruled two to one that the Constitution applies to 18-year-olds. Of the three judges, one was appointed by Trump, one by Dubya, and one by Obama. Guess which one thinks that the Constitution is just a set of vague guidelines, not rules restraining government power?
Irony: he was being released on bond for having violated the conditions of his release on a 2020 gun charge.
First…
The FBI seized a fully constructed Lego set of the U.S. Capitol and a notebook with local militia information in it from an alleged January 6 rioter, a court document revealed. Robert Morss, of Glenshaw, Pennsylvania was arrested by FBI-Pittsburgh on federal charges after investigators identified him from various photos and videos taken during the riot. On June 16, he was indicted on nine charges tied to the deadly insurrection.
So this guy had a Lego model of the Capitol. Which is… what? Lego models are not exactly what you’d call “detailed and accurate.” And as for “deadly,” the only person to die due to violent actions that day was killed by a Capitol guard shooting her in the neck.
But wait! There’s more!
The US Capitol Lego set that federal authorities claimed to have recovered from an alleged rioter “fully constructed” was actually not assembled at all, according to new court papers.
Well, that changes *everything.*
At the same time that Certain People want the citizenry to set their horizons low and small and accept Tiny Homes, high-density urban housing and public transport… I want me one of these. I’d prefer if it was out in the mountains, but if someone wanted to give me this out out in the middle of No and Where, I’d take it.
Finally enough shelf space!
They say they’re going to fly passengers to space today. Livestream:
UPDATE 1: Stephen Colbert is hosting. It’s cringe. *Really* cringe. Oh-God-Make-It-Stop cringe. But the aircraft seems to be in flight anyway…
UPDATE 2: Successful launch, they’ve reached apogee. The rather chipper talking head is not as cringeworthy as Colbert, but she’s still cringey in a “Dear Leader” sort of way.
UPDATE 3: Landed safely. This would be the best space story of the year… if this was 2015 or so. As it is, “SpaceX launches it’s bajillionth re-flight of a Falcon 9 booster” or “SpaceX sends yet more people to the ISS” kinda has “a few people got a few minutes of microgravity” beat.
In this case, a punch. And seemingly a well deserved one: a whackadoodle was being arrested for acting like a violent jackass in a WalMart and decided that the way to avoid a “resisting arrest” charge was to *bite* the officer… who then clocked her upside the head and seeming knocked some calm into her. So, of course, the outrage ensues.
DEWITT N.Y. — A Dewitt police officer is on paid administrative leave following an altercation at a Walmart in East Syracuse.
A controversial social media post shows the officer punching a woman in the face on July 4th in the store on Basile Road.
Pt.3 pic.twitter.com/rzIAdsUsw4
— The Daily Sneed™ ➐ (@Tr00peRR) July 10, 2021
In case you missed it pic.twitter.com/qK5AIdjHgn
— The Daily Sneed™ ➐ (@Tr00peRR) July 10, 2021
DEWITT N.Y. — A Dewitt police officer is on paid administrative leave following an altercation at a Walmart in East Syracuse.
A controversial social media post shows the officer punching a woman in the face on July 4th in the store on Basile Road.
Pt.2 pic.twitter.com/xgHFfnKRlr
— The Daily Sneed™ ➐ (@Tr00peRR) July 10, 2021
DARPA *Really* needs to get on the ball and develop that “phaser with a wide-angle stun setting.”
One of the more imaginative and incredibly unlikely concept cars was the Ford Nucleon, a 1950’s idea for a nuclear powered car. Apparently this was pretty much a complete art and sales project, without much actual engineering; it was based on the notion that not only could nuclear reactors be scaled down small enough to fit in a car, they could be made not only wreck-tolerant, but that lightweight and virtually magical radiation shielding would be invented that would allow said reactor to hum away at full power mere feet from paying customers without roasting them or giving them explosive ass cancer. It was, let’s face it, wholly ridiculous… and entirely awesome.
Photos of models of the Nucleon have been available since the 1950’s, but diagrams have been lacking. An article posted online a few days ago included a few specifications for the proposed vehicle, finally nailing down some of the dimensions. And for reasons that seemed good to me (and which are probably obvious), I slapped together a quick side view. I think my side view is *reasonably* accurate based on numerous photos of the scale model Ford built and the dimensions given. What I’m not certain about is whether *Ford* truly understood their vehicle.
Here’s the side view using the 200-inch (16.7 ft) length specified by Ford, accompanied by two normal-sized humans:
The driver doesn’t even come *close* to fitting. So I scaled the Nucleon up until it seemed to look right, with the end result being that the car is now about 26 feet long:
That’s by no means a small vehicle… but then, it’s nuclear. Scaling it up by a factor of about 1.55 makes the cab big enough to fit actual full-size humans. But scaling it up that much makes the 77.4″ width (6.45 ft) into 120 inches, or ten feet. Good luck squeezing *that* onto the road; the Hummer H1, known as an uncomfortably wide vehicle, is a mere 87 inches wide.
Does anyone have any information to contradict and correct the Ford specifications? Or is it just another case of the art department kinda ignoring reality?
