Did someone spike my diet Dr. Pepper with a little too much LDS back in the 60’s, or is this as bizarre as it seems?
Nov 052018
Nov 042018
All the US Aerospace Projects issues I’ve teased over the last few months are now basically done. I’m going through them for the jillionth time looking for the usual collection of minor flubs as well as putting together advertising images. I hope to have them available in the next day or three. At the same time, I will be adjusting the prices of the existing issues. Maybe up, maybe down. Who knows? What has happened to the cost of living in the last five or six years?
I’m also putting together stuff for the next set of issues. I plan on starting a new series of designs for US Spacecraft projects. As a hint, the dimensions won’t be in inches, feet, meters or centimeters. More like kilometers and miles.
Nov 042018
And this time, it’s not New York, LA, Chicago or London getting trashed via cinematic CGI hijinks, but Oslo, Norway.
Nov 042018
So the Black Panthers have taken to the streets to stump for a politician they like. Ain’t nuthin’ wrong with that. They are armed in public. Ain’t nuthin’ wrong with that, neither… on its own. But they are stumping for a politician and a party who would throw them all into prison for being armed as they are.
I do, however, wonder how the American news media and our cultural betters would respond to the sight of a white racist organization taking to the streets brandishing weapons like this. We’ve seen them freak out over college graduates with guns.
PHOTOS: Armed With Rifles, Black Panthers March For Stacey Abrams In Atlanta
(Images via The New Black Panther Party – Atlanta / Facebook) pic.twitter.com/9c7roRBdBa
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 4, 2018
Nov 042018
Here’s a guy with a heck of a hobby…
Digging up century-old chemical weapons seems, errr, fun.
Nov 042018
SpaceX’s Starman Roadster has ventured past Mars
it is, in fact, well beyond Mars:
Starman’s current location. Next stop, the restaurant at the end of the universe. pic.twitter.com/Ty5m8IjJpE
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 3, 2018
Here’s an orbit simulator:
http://orbitsimulator.com/gravitySimulatorCloud/simulations/1541208449252_tesla.html
Nov 042018
Take a look at this GoFundMe campaign. And then try to explain to me why “every life is sacred.” Tall cliff, trebuchet, fling.
Please help Danny & Ethan
News coverage of the incident with more photos.
Some people steal because they are in need. And some people steal because they are monsters. Stealing candy with a dose of attempted murder? Yeah… monsterism.
Note here that while the end result is less horrifying than shooting up a synagogue or a yoga studio, the attack is just as stupid and apparently involved on the order of *20* people who thought it was a good idea. A lone nutburger is of course a bad thing. But massed packs of roaming nutburgers is in its way substantially more disturbing.
Nov 042018
The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft had a trio of posts that connected directly to the underside of the Space Shuttle Orbiter. Unsurprisingly, early on someone with a sense of humor stenciled jokes on them; surprisingly, NASA not only allowed those jokes to remain, but touched them up over the years.
Photos courtesy Dennis R. Jenkins, author of “Space Shuttle: Developing an Icon 1972-2013.” Anyone interested in the Shuttle program *really* should invest in this three-volume masterpiece:
Nov 032018
A common complaint is that Hollywood has no imagination.
Rebuttal: Ummm… this.
Well… alrighty then.
Nov 032018
I know nothing more about this than what’s at the link:
The domain Gab.com has landed at Epik.
Epik is a domain registrar. I’m seeing a number of commenters here and there suggesting that people bail from GoDaddy (Gab’s prior registrar) and sign up instead with Epik. In principal I agree: but I also suspect that Epik will now become Enemy Number One and will come under fire from every direction. On the one hand it would be great if companies that buck the trend of digital censorship end up raking in additional business (and those who bend the knee to todays cultural thugs suffer for it). On the other hand it would suck if that company scoops up a whole lot of people and websites… and then gets taken down by the mob.
FYI: I fookin’ hate social media, never had a Twitter account or Gab or Instagram. I have a Facebook account because numerous people told me it was a good business decision (several experiments over the years have shown it to be utterly useless, though it might come in handy as a backup communication system if the blog crashes again as it did a few years ago) and a similarly fallow Deviant Art account. So I have no direct stake in the fate of Gab. But I *do* despise the current fad of fascistic authoritarianism among the censorial malefactors of the far left.