An artists rendering of the Republic A-10 circa 1971. This is very nearly the final design, but it differs in details; the cockpit canopy is a little off, for instance.
Nov 052022
Nov 052022
The US Naval Institute press is having a 50% off sale on their in-print, in-stock books. Sale runs through December 31.
https://www.usni.org/press/books
If someone wanted to take this opportunity to buy me half-price copies of Friedman’s revised editions of U.S. Submarines Since 1945 and U.S. Aircraft Carriers, I would not object.
P.S. What with Annual Mandatory Soulless Consumer Spending Holiday coming up in less that two months, there’s lots of stuff, useful and otherwise, available on Amazon that you can get without having to mingle with the degenerate weirdos who increasingly make up the public. If you start your search for stuff by going through THIS LINK TO AMAZON, a tiny smidgen of whatever you end up spending will get passed on to me, and by extension will be used to feed my cats. You don’t want to disappoint my cats, do you?
Nov 052022
Huh.
But then…
There are a lot of weird aspects to this story, a lot of apparent contradictions and inconsistencies. Most news stories that initially seem like a conspiracy theorists wet dream fall apart once the facts come out (witness virtually *every* story related to “racial justice” over the past five or more years); I can easily imagine that this story could just as easily turn into exactly what the official narrative is if the evidence which *should* be available was released. The police body cams, the security camera footage, the identity of the mystery third person. These are not difficult things, like the results of some complicated chemical analysis; these are just “push a few buttons and upload” issues. And yet… that hasn’t happened. Why?
Nov 042022
Somehow Biden seems to think that Americans don’t settle their differences with riots, but at the Battle Box.
A Google Image Search for “Battle Box” turns up a weird assortment of Mall Ninja garbage and role playing game accessories.
Nov 032022
So, yet another attempted political assassination attempt. Let’s watch the national news media fall all over themselves to report on this, shall we?
Midterms horror as Republican candidate’s daughters, three and five, are almost KILLED after gunman opens fire at North Carolina home – where Democrat rival filmed campaign ad – with bullet landing close to where they slept
And
Shot Fired at Family Home of N. Carolina US House Candidate
Can we expect to see the same talking heads and political animals yapping about how the Republicans and right wing rhetoric are responsible for the attack on Paul Pelsosi, now talk about how the Dems and lefties are similarly responsible for this?
Nov 032022
An Aerojet rendering, unfortunately not in color, of the Small ICBM (MGM-134 “Midgetman”) from the 80’s. This was a single-warhead missile meant specifically to be carried by and launched from an off-road truck/trailer capable of withstanding a reasonably nearby nuclear blast. The image hear focuses on the second stage; like all post-Minuteman US ICBM’s, the SICBM was solid fueled. The USSR gave up the ghost and as a consequence the SICBM program was cancelled in 1992.
Nov 032022
Still a little clunky, but they’re getting close to a practical unit. The graphics it can place over reality remain monochromatic and low-rez, basically text (looks like circa 1980 home computer stuff), but the fact that they can get *anything* is impressive. I doubt something like this would be a good idea for fighter pilots; G-forces would doubtless suck the things out of place. But for commercial pilot or astronauts? Maybe. Though it’d probably be easier and all-around better for this sort of thing to be integrated into the faceplate of a space helmet. The Hollywood use for this would be communications with secret agents and assassins; an advanced version of this would look invisible and would automatically use facial recognition to spot targets in a crowded room. It would be handy for electricians, bomb techs, surgeons and the like, overlaying schematics and 3D models atop the thing/patient being worked on. For the civilian market, an obvious use would again be facial recognition: you get on a subway, look around, and you’re informed just which of the creepy weirdoes surrounding you have criminal records and for what. Some people might be dismayed to find that random people around them are suddenly maintaining a safe distance, out of pocket-picking and rail-pushing range.
Nov 032022
David DePape is an illegal alien, having come from Canada through the Mexican border and overstayed his visa. But he was in California, a “sanctuary state,” and more specifically San Francisco, a “sanctuary city.”
I wonder if Pelosi will ever wonder if the immigration laws were enforced, maybe this wouldn’t have happened? But then, how can you possibly hold back the vast, virtually infinite tide of illegal alien nudist drug addicted BLM supporting pride flag flying hippie MAGA supporters? There are so many of them that they pose a threat to democracy.
Not a threat to democracy:
From earlier: American flag stolen from church and burned outside White House on H St #protests2020 #dcprotest pic.twitter.com/yD5tFYixw0
— Steven Nelson (@stevennelson10) June 1, 2020
Nov 022022
It’s an old video, but hey, it’s new to me. And it’s freakin’ hilarious.
Nov 022022
A gearbox with a gear ratio of ten to the power of 169. The last gear will *never* turn once; it’s unlikely to turn even a detectable amount. Not just because there are probably no plans to hook the *first* gear up to a perpetual motion machine, but the fact that mo matter how fast it’s spun, that last gear will succumb to proton decay before it could turn the least bit. never mind the fact that it’s made of plastic and will crumble to dust in less than geological timescales.
Someone will doubtless improve upon this.