Not screeching insanely at the camera or engaging in massive self indulgence, but… dping actually interesting stuff. Take, for example actor Henry Cavill (link to a worthy instagram post):
Sure, it’s a single photo. But it’s a single photo of the guy who gets paid millions of dollars to play Superman holding and painting a tiny little Warhammer 40K figure. Not my hobby, but it’s a worthy one, and orders of magnitude more respectable than anything Madonna is up to these days.
Ello, ello…
If you think that by going for a picnic in a rural location no one will find you, don’t be surprised if an officer appears from the shadows! We are covering the whole county #urbanandrural #StayHomeSaveLifes #ProtectTheNHS 2813 7702 pic.twitter.com/hieQ86dM9R
— Central Community Team (@CentralBedsCPT) April 11, 2020
A picnic? That’s done it for you, guvna!
Police officer Tells Children Not To Play In Their Front Garden
Right or Wrong? #COVIDー19 pic.twitter.com/glWjYmGbjD
— UK Street Crime 🇬🇧 (@UKStreetCrime1) April 9, 2020
Oy.
Don’t give American governors ideas, mate.
If’n the above tweets don’t appear, read about ’em here:
If, like me, you saw that headline and went “Marina who?” then be forewarned: she takes “weirdo” to a whole new weird level. She’s a “performance artist,” which often enough means less about any actual artistic talent and more about the ability to ᛒᚢᛚᛚᛋᚺᛁᛏ and self-promote and convince the vacuous that she is “deep.”
A concept circa 1968 for a Sikorsky “Advancing Blade Concept” troop transport. The ABC rotor system theoretically permits notably higher forward speed than is normal for helicopter, since the lift generator at high forward speeds is balanced (not the case for conventional choppers). The ABC rotor system was tested extensively in the 70’s with the Sikorsky S-69, but the design and materials of the time were not quite up to the challenge and the craft suffered from excessive vibration. In recent years the tech seems to have been more or less perfected with the S-97 Raider, which hopefully will go into production and finally fulfill the promise of the ABC rotor system.
This is going to end up being *really* expensive for someone…
Short form: a French company boss who had never expressed any interest in such a thing was given a surprise gift of a flight in a Rafale fighter jet. He apparently freaked out and hit the “ejector seat button.” He was booted from the plane and landed under a parachute; the pilot safely landed the fighter.
The investigation seems to have found that the passenger is not at fault. I don’t know what the ejection system is like in a Rafale, but if it is a simple button (and it almost certainly isn’t), then it would seem to be a design flaw. Typically the ejection system requires a bit more effort than pushing a button. The ejector seat for the Rafale seems to be the Martin-Baker Mk16. The ejection system for that looks like it’s the yellow and black striped “loop” between the pilots legs… give that a good strong pull and out you go. Rather more involved than pushing a button… but for someone with minimal training and a heart in tachycardia, that would seem to be an obvious thing to grab onto and pull real hard. Maybe they should disable ejection for passengers in such flights, I dunno.
See, THIS is how you advertise in a post-woke world…
It seems that living lives of being the center of attention really does drive people insane. At the very least, it looks like many of them become addicted to constant attention, and when they can’t get it, they go bugnuts. Gentlemen, behold:
Fame. It’s a hell of a drug.
I’ve never understood the need some people seem to have to be the center of attention. Not a need I have in great abundance; hell, the whole point behind starting this blog a dozen years ago wasn’t to go “lookit me!” but more “buy my stuff!” and that, along with being a simple way to bitch about things and serve as a crude diary just about covers it. So far as I’m aware I’ve never posted anything that should give a clear idea of what I even look like, because y’all don’t need to know what I look like and I have no burning desire that y’all know what I look like. So all these overpaid weirdos making fools of themselves because they’re sad that they can’t go out in front of an audience? No sympathies.
NASA does not seem to have thought highly of the Boeing proposal for the Lunar Gateway…
Particularly within the Technical Approach subfactor (the most important within the Mission Suitability factor), Boeing’s proposal was the lowest rated of the four offers, with the inadequacy of its cargo stowage design identified as a significant weakness. I further note that Boeing took several exceptions to the RFP and predicated its fixed price on several key assumptions/exceptions. This made it impossible for the SEB to determine whether Boeing’s offered price was reasonable. From a Past Performance standpoint, Boeing did very well, having earned a High Level of Confidence rating (along with NGIS and SpaceX). However, Boeing’s High rating cannot overcome its Mission Suitability ratings and the significant issues present in its Price proposal. That is, since Boeing’s proposal was the highest priced and the lowest rated under the Mission Suitability factor, while additionally providing a conditional fixed price, I have decided to eliminate Boeing from further award consideration. This offeror’s evaluation results and my assessment thereof, combined with the relative order of importance of the RFP’s evaluation factors, have led me to conclude that Boeing is not competitive for award.
It’s Not Boeing And They Ain’t Going.
Gone are the days when Boeing was run by engineers and ruled the world.
Rockwell’s Space Shuttle design as of November, 1972. Obviously very similar to the final product, but a few notable differences, including the retro-rocket on the nose of the ET (meant to make sure the tank fell into the Indian Ocean), the sleeker OMS pods, fairings extending onto the cargo bay doors; the External Tank being about 2 feet narrow in diameter and this notably longer; the slightly repositioned boosters; and a myriad of slight differences in contours.
Maybe I’m getting old…