Yeah, that’ll work out greeeeaaaaat. Those boys grow up and find no girls… why, what could *possibly* go wrong?
I’ll be interested and amused to see the intellectual flailing by those who support “abortions at any time for any reason” but who are opposed to “abortions selecting for things we don’t want people selecting for.” I’m hopeful to see the day when in utero genetic/epigenetic tests for things like “intersex” and homosexuality become reliably available. Should be interesting to see what abortion based eugenics goes on after *that.* Yay, chaos!
A few days ago, a wakeup call came in not long after sunrise at low altitude, high speed and many horsepower. Yup, it was time to wake up. Photos below…
Heh. Billie Eilish came outta nowhere less than a year ago, gaining fame with some seriously odd songs and videos. I’m seeing this one, “Bad Guy,” all over the place these days:
But you know she has really made it when there’s a Donald Trump cover of the song…
Short form: it appears that there *was* an incident in a grocery store. The Black Democrat Lawmaker was in the “express” checkout line with too many items in her cart, and got in a screaming match with another customer who was annoyed at either her inability to count, or her inability to not be a rude fill-in-the-expletive. This much everyone seems to agree on. Where stories differ: the lawmaker claims that the Racist White Man told her to “go back where you came from.”
How do we know that stories differ because when the lawmaker showed up back at the grocery store with local press in tow in order to raise some sort of a fuss, it turns out that the Racist whit man was *right* *there,* and got into it with her. And it turns out that the Racist White Man is a Cuban Democrat Immigrant who hates Trump and thinks that the lawmaker is embellishing the story in order to Smollett-up her career.
Interesting: compare two videos of the lawmaker in question. The first, where she makes the claim, and plays up her victimhood status for all it’s worth:
I’m about to be very Transparent because this racism and hate is getting out of control! I feared for my life!
And now, a video where sh tries her best to pretend to Righteous Indignation, outraged that the guy she’s making apparently false accusations against had the temerity to disagree with her publicly:
Media machine has been blowing up story of @itsericathomas, who claims a racist white man told her to “go back where you came from.” Well, he returns during her presser to deny allegation. He says he’s a Democrat & she’s embellishing story for attention. pic.twitter.com/wh4uds2IKC
On one hand, it’s entertaining theater. On the other hand, it’s depressing that this is the quality of politician we have (not just this particular politician, but all the others, including Presidential candidates, who tried to ride the coat-tails of this incident until the facts started coming out). But on the gripping hand, this is just one more nail in the coffin of the political utility of unfounded claims of racism. This, Smollett, the Smirkening, the Goon Squad… all steps toward the public finally no longer paying any serious attention to this sort of nonsensical political theater.
The best seat in the house is the topmost perch in the living room cat tree. I’m honestly surprised that they don’t fight over it; instead; whoever gets there first gets it, and the rest simply accept it. Here we see Buttons surveying his domain.
Now available… the newest and biggest issue in the US Aerospace Projects line.
US Launch Vehicle Projects #6
Cover art was provided by Rob Parthoens, www.baroba.be
US Launch Vehicle Projects #06 is now available (see HERE for the entire series). Issue #6 is devoted to the launch vehicles proposed for the 1970’s Solar Power Satellite program. This required millions of tons of payload delivered into Earth orbit over a span of decades, with flight rates of several times per day for each vehicle. This program produced some of the largest and most ambitious launch vehicles ever designed, and was the last time that launchers of this size were ever seriously contemplated. Appropriately, USLP#6 is by far the largest issue of US Aerospace projects to date at over seventy pages, three times the size of a usual issue.
Topics in this issue include the Rockwell Star-Raker, several Boeing Space Freighters, the Boeing “Big Onion” Low Cost Heavy Lift Vehicle (antecedent and descendant designs), a Grumman two-stage HLLV, a Rockwell HLLV and “small” HLLV, NASA-JSC heavy lifters, a Boeing/Rockwell Personnel Launch Vehicle and a Boeing winged SSTO. Along with orthogonal views, a number of perspective diagrams are also included.
USLP #6 can be downloaded as a PDF file for only $9:
How can a person know if their religion sucks? Well… if your religion opposes building a world-class telescope, then, yes. Your religion sucks.
It would be one thing if this mountaintop was being used for a casino or a WalMart warehouse or a garbage dump. But a telescope that will show the universe in unprecedented detail? A *good* religion would welcome such a thing.
There is, of course, a compromise: cancel the Mauna Kea telescope and build it on the Moon instead. Such an endeavor would of course cost a bucket of money, many billions of dollars. But there are many areas of US FedGuv spending that could have their funding slashed to fund the scope. During the period of time that say, some foreign aid (humanitarian, military, diplomatic, scientific, etc.) is zero-funded, simply tell the people to thank the Hawaiians for their opportunity to sacrifice for the greater good.
Another advantage of a Lunar relocation: you *can* build a casino next to it. Perhaps just a few miles away behind a hill to block direct impingement of the gigawatts of bright flashing lights. But by building the whole complex on the near side of the moon, those Mauna Kea protestors can squat in ignorance atop their mountain and look up into the night sky and see the bright lights of New Vegas shining down on them from 240,000 miles away, and they can know that they share in none of either the money being made or the knowledge being learned.
CBS has released the first real trailer for the Picard series. It shows a whole lot of unrecognizable characters and stuff, with no views of Starfleets ships, so it’s impossible to say if this is actually in the TNG universe or some mutant STD/Kelvin timeline. However, there are a few hints that it might actually be back to TNG. There are some glimpses of Starfleet uniforms that look TNG-appropriate, and there are two cameos. One is wholly unsurprising, and is clearly partially the result of digital de-aging. The other actually made me laugh out loud and took me wholly by surprise.
CBS burned through my my supply of trust with the execrable STD, so I certainly won’t be subscribing to CBS All Access for this. But it actually does look like it has potential. That one unexpected cameo… oh, yes indeed.
