A fire truck got int he way of a jetliner in Lima, Peru: nobody won.
Yow.
Nov 222022
Nov 212022
Researching a forthcoming book, I requested a book through the interlibrary loan system. I was a little sad to see that it has only been checked out three times in the last fifty+ years, with me being the third. The first time was in 1970, which didn’t surprise me a whole lot. But what’s weird is that the second time was only a few months ago.
Nov 212022
The policies that the British government have enacted over recent years of allowing the mass invasion of Britain are, it seems, finally getting the British citizens mad enough to, maybe, do something about it. Britain seems to have a number of problems, including but not limited to:
1) Their National Health Service provide free health care to everyone… including the “migrants.” But the “migrants” aren’t funding new hospitals or more doctors; they’re just consuming the available resources.
2) The “migrants” aren’t building new housing; they’re simply being *given* housing. Houses, apartments, hotel rooms are disappearing from the market and being filled with, mostly, military age males from antagonistic nations.
3) The utilities, from electricity to natural gas to the water and sewers were built assuming the British population… not the British population PLUS an occupying foreign force.
The answer is obvious: first, prevent new “migrants” from landing; second, mass deportations. None of this is likely to occur. Why is the British government doing this to the British people? Fark if I know. The only explanations that seem to make any sort of sense sound a whole lot like conspiracy theories. But reality is what it is.
Asylum seekers to be sent to rural areas for fairer distribution of migrants
Here’s a thought… take a few hundred thousand of the military age migrant, give each of them an AK-47 and two magazines, and drop them off in Luhansk. Wacky hijinks ensue.
Nov 202022
Alex Stein took his show on the road to mock armed Antifa LARPER whackos to their faces. The one thing I wish he’d done is zoom in on their firearms and try to obtain serial numbers. Not because there’d be anything to do with that data, really, but the effort of obtaining it would likely freak out these little weirdos.
Confronting Armed Antifa at Drag Queen Story Time in Denton, Texas
— Alex Stein #99 (@alexstein99) November 19, 2022
Nov 202022
With all the freaking out about whether AI will replace human endeavor… rarely is it asked “Do we suck? Should the machines take over?” A case can be made.
Modern human art vs AI art pic.twitter.com/l6GtepGSi6
— Americana Aesthetics (@AmericanaAesth) November 19, 2022
art
[ ahrt ]
noun
Yeah. By that basic definition… humans often really kinda suck at art. Now, it’s no moral failing to be bad at art, or bad at *anything.* But when bad art is upheld as something good, when laziness is rewarded, incompetence championed, and art that just plain denigrates what should be lauded… yeah, *that* is not good.
Nov 202022
The National Reconnaissance Office is starting a series on the history of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory, a small space lab that was designed in the early/mid 1960s for the Air Force. Officially just a basic space lab, in reality it was an advanced (for the time) spy satellite. So far there is only Part One on the NRO website, and there’s not much to it… but we’ll see how it goes.
The story of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory – part one
As a reminder, there is a whole freakin’ mountain of MOL documents on the NRO website:
Index, Declassified Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) Records
Nov 202022
NASA spent *decades* launching the Shuttle, so it’s a little surprising that the launch of the SLS caused this much damage.
Huh.
Nov 202022
So Elon Musk posted some photos of a recent “code review” at Twitter. One photo in particular has some people upset… because the people who are there doing actual work seem to be… well, take a look:
— ᏴᎪᎠᎬᎡ. (@iOnlyBvz) November 19, 2022
If you read the Twitter comments, you’ll see that some people are upset that there aren’t enough women coders or black coders. Well… I don’t know how many were there before Musk took over, but the people who were fired were generally fired en masse; those who quit did so on their own; those who remained did so for reasons of their own. So it *appears* that “diverse” coders either weren’t there to begin with, or didn’t want to stay and work extra hard. Granted, some number of those remaining are foreigners on work visas… if they quit, they get sent back across the seas. So they are, arguably, stuck. Stuck in a country that all the harpies keep screaming is racist and horrible. So a chance for a free flight back to the homeland is something that they *should* be clamoring for, yes?
Nov 192022
Included here are not only the closeups, but also a view from the public area showing just how brightly the exhaust lit the world.
Nov 182022
A mere sixteen years ago I posted artwork of the Martin “EGRESS” ejection capsule meant to fling crew from a stricken spacecraft anywhere up to and including orbit. Those scans came from photocopies of a conference paper. I have at last now scanned the same work, producing slightly better results. The artwork is remarkable for one detail in particular: of the two crewmen, one is clearly Lance Squarejaw, wholly unfazed at his situation. The other is… not unfazed. I’d pay real money to get at the original color painting.
The whole thing – diagrams and art scanned at 600 DPI – will be offered up to APR Patrons & Subscribers soon.