This will doubtless go nowhere:
Rep. Marjorie Greene files articles of impeachment against Biden
Certainly far more valid than impeaching Trump for “Russian collusion.”
Jan 212021
Jan 212021
And we have a new idiot-in-chief to mock.
Jan 202021
So majestic. So regal. So many feels.
To protect Biden? Bring Out The Army. To protect cities when they were being burned by thousands of armed insurrectionists and domestic terrorists all through the incessant Moron Riots of 2020? Naw, let it burn.
Jan 202021
As is known far and wide, I’m not well known. What little fame I have is largely bound up is the aerospace history research and illustration I’ve done; I’m *hoping* that when the two books I’m working on now get published things will change a bit (well, I hope my *work* gains a bit of fame; I’ve little use for *me* becoming famous). Still: while I toil in obscurity, I find that the products of my labor do have a tendency to pop up here and there. Usually when the diagrams I’ve created are used by someone else there’s some sort of attribution… but not always. There’s little to nothing that can be done about that, of course. Just sorta grit my teeth and move on.
So I watched this video, gritted my teeth and will, I suppose, move on. Note that it uses diagrams I created for Aerospace Projects Review issue V1N3 and US Transport Projects #07. What I suppose was funny was that when I started watching the video I largely *expected* to see my diagrams to show up in it… and, yup, there they are. As of this writing, the video has had about half a million views, not a one of which read where the diagrams came from.
UPDATE: After comms with the video maker: it seems he received the diagrams from someone else claiming them as their own. There have been revisions to the description including proper attribution. If this all pans out, there may be collaborations in the future.
Jan 202021
Not a complete story, just an idea. Lemme know if this sounds promising. Perhaps more importantly, lemme know if it has been done adequately by others.
An alien spacecraft or entity of immense size and power suddenly appears (emerges from hyperspace, pops in from another dimension, whatever) in the outer-ish solar system. It promptly wanders over to Jupiter and tears the planet to bits, stripping it of deuterium and leaving the rest in a slowly condensing cloud. The planet is chop-shopped down to the rocky core, with an expanding cloud of protium, helium, ammonia and such around it. The Jovian moons all now orbit the sun freely… the ones that the aliens didn’t eat, at any rate. Once done with Jupiter – a process taking at most a few weeks – it turns Saturn into a blinking traffic signal, a light easily visible over substantial interstellar distances. The rings are stripped away, the moons are melting. and drifting outwards. The alien dumps a Mars-mass of fabulously radioactive trash out beyond Neptune and then moves on, back into hyperspace. Doesn’t physically harm us, doesn’t communicate with us, gives no indication that it even notices us… just refuels on a scale we can’t quite deal with. Cultural hijinks ensue on Earth.
Jan 192021
The absolute unconquerable ignorance of those who would rule over us is an evergreen source of dark amusement. Behold the 2014-vintage performance of one Kevin De Leon, politician extraordinaire.
An Oscar award for the cop in the background. Managed to act like he wasn’t in the presence of a world-class ass.
And let us not forget intellectual vacuum collapse Sheila Jackson Lee, who reminds us that an AR-15 weighs as much as ten boxes and fires 50 caliber bullets:
Oy.
Jan 192021
This looks…. maaaaaybe good?
Jan 192021
A ca. 1964 Boeing rendering of an HL-10-derived spaceplane in orbit. Numerous companies – Boeing, McDonnell, Lockheed, Northrop, etc. – contemplated the development of a logistics spaceplane based on the HL-10. The spaceplane itself would, rather like the X-20 Dyna Soar, have been minimally functional in space; most of the propulsion and power would have come from the attached adapter module. The conical adapter would have also carried the bulk of the vehicles payload to be delivered to orbit, and would be used to provide a de-orbit burn for the spaceplane. The adapter would therefore burn up on re-entry, leaving the lifting body to glide to a runway landing. The spaceplane itself would be crammed full of astronauts and the life support they’d need; there would generally be little capacity for anything else, certainly not payload going back downhill. This was fine, though, as there were few enough payloads other than humans that made sense to send *back* down the gravity well.
Jan 192021
Huh. This got by me… Virgin doesn’t seem to be as media-savvy as SpaceX.
It’s a nice-looking launch. But what it looked like to me was less the launch of a space vehicle, but the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile: with the 747 reaching the end of its passenger carrying life, perhaps the USAF should buy a few thousand of them and modify them into missile carriers for a new generation of air-mobile, air-launched long range nuclear strike system. I’m sure the Harris administration will get right on that.
Jan 192021
It’s well known that the incoming administration wants to ban standard capacity magazines for the Little People. But it seems they’re getting a jump on that by making sure that the National Guard is issued Zero Capacity Magazines:
Today, it was my honor to join @chefjoseandres and @WCKitchen to provide meals to our heroic National Guard troops who are keeping our Congressional community safe during this difficult time. pic.twitter.com/aqJ1JEwumA
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) January 16, 2021
Of course, it may be that disarming the National Guard troops is due to the new administration not actually trusting the troops. Which should do wonders for morale and unit cohesion:
FBI vetting Guard troops in DC amid fears of insider attack