Dec 272020
 

The Nashville bombing is likely the result of whackadoodlism, rather than religion or politics (let’s put aside for a moment the fact that most politics and religion are fundamentally whackadoodlism… they’re just *commonly* *accepted* whackadoodlism). But even nutjobs need to have some sort of reason why they target this place rather than that. And the link below suggests why the AT&T facility might have been targeted:

Photos After The Explosion Reveal That The Bombing Target The AT&T Building In Nashville Is Reinforced NSA Style Building

Gee whiz, an important communications hub was built rugged, designed to withstand the likes of tornadoes and Russian nuclear strikes? Why on earth would AT&friggenT *possibly* be considered, oh, I dunno, some sort of important national communications asset? Must be a conspiracy! Booga Booga!

The article then wonders why the AT&T facility had a warning sign mounted outside listing “flammability,” “health” and “instability – reactivity” concerns. The author ponders explanations like: “Potential secret chemical? Maybe quantum computing-related?

Somehow, “loaded with lithium ion backup batteries and diesel generators” apparently didn’t occur to said author.

Bah.

There are lots of good reasons why a major communications corporation would ruggedize their facilities, especially the ones so clearly easily accessed by the public. People cranking out looney theories about normal communications buildings being NSA facilities, or remote airfields being UFO landing grounds, or nuclear power plants being stargate terminals, or abandoned WalMarts being concentration camps are just as nutty *and* bad for society as those who crank out conspiracy theories about a wage gap, or white privilege, or faked moon landings, or Russian collusion, or the CIA created AIDS, or the Proud Boys being white supremacists, or Holocaust-was-a-hoax BS, or Creationist claptrap, or Flat Eartherism, or 2+4=4 being anything other than flat reality.

 Posted by at 3:54 pm
Dec 272020
 

Anthony Quinn Warner Named as Nashville Bombing Person of Interest

“FBI agents spent the days at another location today besides searching the home of Anthony Warner, pursuing tips that he was paranoid about 5g spying on Americans.” Since the pandemic hit, conspiracy theories have raged that 5G cell phone towers spread COVID-19…

Yep.

Well, I guess the good news here if this is accurate is that this means that it was not political in any rational or traditional sense. Not pro/anti-Trump, not BLM, not Antifa, not commies or Jihadis, just good old fashioned whackadoodlery.

 Posted by at 1:02 am
Dec 252020
 

Explosion in Nashville that damaged dozens of buildings is believed to be an intentional act

‘Evacuate now. There is a bomb’: Witness recalls chilling warning before explosion in Nashville that damages 20 buildings, injures 3

The story right now *seems* to be:

1: Around 4:30 AM, residents heard what sounded like rapid gunfire coming from an RV.

2: Cops were called.

3: RV starts loudly blatting out a recorded warning.

4: residents evacualt, bomb squad called.

5: RV explodes at 6:30 AM, causing significant damage.

This doesn’t sound like your traditional Jihadi terrorist… it seems that the explosion was set off when they were assured of there *not* being a  lot of people around. So far no reports of deaths. Some jackhole simply PO’ed at the world? Someone with a specific grudge against a business the RV was parked in front of? Someone simply looped directly out of their gourd? Someone simply try to send 2020 out with a bang?

 

 Posted by at 12:02 pm
Dec 252020
 

In 1985, Rockwell International considered the possibility that there might be profit in clustering the External Tank from the Space Shuttle in Earth orbit. There the tanks could be filled with propellant to serve as orbital “gas stations,” or rebuilt into space habitats or other structures, or simple reprocessed for the raw structural materials. In order to do this the Shuttle would have to shed a noticeable fraction of total payload. Something not given a whole lot of thought was what to do about the insulating foam applied to the tanks; ultraviolet sunlight, thermal cycling and a harsh vacuum would cause the foam to break down ans turn each orbiting tank into a little comet, the nucleus of a cloud of foam bits.

Still, it would have been nice if the tanks had been used rather than simply dumped into the Indian Ocean.

 Posted by at 12:55 am
Dec 242020
 

So why not, I’ve uploaded another video of the QM-1 static test from way back in 2015 to YouTube. This one was with a handheld camera, so expect a bit of shakeycam. Bonus: I missed ignition by eleven seconds or so. Consequently, you miss an opportunity to hear what I sound like when I cuss profusely.

The video posted back in 2015:

 Posted by at 11:32 pm