NASA has posted some new photos of the Antares launch vehicle explosion to their Flickr account. Some of them are *really* impressive.
Gentlemen… BEHOLD:
Be sure to check out the remarkably high-rez versions at the link.
Nov 052015
Nov 052015
Saw this today on the road to Logan. Only got one dismal photo with the camera phone.
If you can’t make out what it is… on far left is a cat. At far right, atop the hay bale, is a very large hawk. The cat was trying to sneak up on the hawk. As it happened, the hawk flew off just after this photo was taken; the cat immediately dashed for the tall grass. But no good could have possibly come from a cat taking on a raptor that size.
Nov 042015
Natural Remedies for Whooping Cough: Getting Through It IS Possible
Thrill to the adventures of a Mother Of The Year candidate who subjected her three young children to whooping cough sans medical treatment. Instead: homeopathy.
Words cannot express just how awful and stupid this dimwit is. Although a good effort is made here:
Horrifying suffering caused by treating pertussis “naturally”
Nov 042015
Russian Army to Build Mobile Nuclear Stations
Seems that the whole “Pamir” setup will require four sizable truck-pulled trailers:
- Reactor
- Turbine
- Control room
- housing for crew
No info on the power output, but it’s claimed that it’ll be up and running around 2020.
Sure, kinda hard to really necessarily trust Russian (or, let’s face it, pretty much anybodies) claims about developing anything interesting and nuclear anytime soon. But if they were able to pull it off, and go from “hey, I’ve got an idea” to “hey, look, an operational nuclear power station on wheels” inside half a decade, then the US will have no excuses from not being able to crank out it’s own even better nukes. The only possible excuse will be politics and bureaucrats.
Nov 042015
Found this online a while back, thought it was a sadly entertainingly little metaphor for the US space program. Even more sadly, it would seem to apply to the last *40* years of the American space program.
Nov 032015
Now available… a new additions to the US Aerospace Projects series.
US Bomber Projects #17
USBP #17 includes:
M.C.D. 392: A wartime design for a global-range bomber
Martin Model 194: A strategic bomber somewhat larger than the B-29
Lockheed CL-285-815: A supersonic nuclear powered concept with five engines
Consolidated Model 36: An early design for the B-36 with twin tails
Boeing Model 701-290: A supersonic bomber on the road to the B-59
Thiokol 260-inch ICBM: An unreasonably large ICBM concept
AFRL ESAV: A recent concept for a stealthy supersonic bomber
Convair GEBO II: An ancestor of the B-58, carried aloft under a B-60
USBP#17 can be purchased for downloading for the low, low price of $4.
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Nov 032015
Liveleak has posted a video that is *claimed* to be of failed suicide bomber in Yemen. The story is said to be that the feller was riding a motorbike and wearing an explosive belt, heading towards some target or other, but it went off early, blowing him in half. So what we’ve got here laying in the street is the guys upper torso, head, left arm and upper right arm; legs, lower torso and right hand are apparently elsewhere. What’s kinda twitch-makin’ is that he seems to be still alive. There is remarkably little blood… you’d expect it to be dumping out of him. But *perhaps* when he separated the great bulk of his blood was promptly jettisoned and is elsewhere. How he can still be even *kinda* alive is beyond me, unless what’s seen here as signs of life – head moving and such – are just nerves twitching, post mortem.
Anyway, embedding the video here in the open seems like maybe not the best for this here Disney-level family-friendly fricken’ blog. So ifn’ ya want to see what happens when you don’t bring enough bomb, check out the link.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fe7_1446541290
The video leaves on a cliffhanger. Did he survive? Did he learn to walk again? Will his legs vote in the next Democratic primary in Chicago? Will Lance Henrickson portray him in the movie?
Nov 032015
Recently the news media has been ulcerating over a “school resource officer” pitching some kid across the floor. Now why would people who work in schools possibly be so twitchy that they would resort to such violent means, as opposed to simply shrink-wrapping the student into her chair and dragging her out to the front to to await pickup by her parents? Hmmm. Let me think.
Note: Not Safe For Work language. Not Safe For Your Hope For The Future behavior.
School isn’t for everyone, such as many of the participants shown here. This was apparently shot in 2011, so I’d assume that the bureaucracy went ahead and rubber stamped some diplomas for these rambunctious lil’ tykes, but in a better world they would be expelled and barred from the public school system for at least a year. Anyone looking to hire them would automatically (somehow) be presented with this video and any other documentation so that they would essentially be barred from any but the lowliest forms of employment; they would also be barred from receiving any form of government assistance.
The preferred end result is deportation. A yearly shipment of the ill-behaved such as these to, say, Damascus would seem a good way to go.
Nov 032015
The US has been a successful “melting pot” of immigrants because for most of its history it has been able to assimilate immigrants. For the most part, even large waves of immigrants have been only a small fraction of the total populations of communities they’ve settled in.
But Europe is trying a different approach…
They’re here! First of 750 migrants arrive in tiny German village with a population of just 102 (including a neo-Nazi councillor) bracing itself for 700 PER CENT population hike
Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. *Instantly* outnumber the locals with a mass of people from not only a different culture, but an *antagonistic* culture. Possible explanations:
- Bureaucratic incompetence, whoever decided to do this didn’t really think through the possible consequences
- Left-wing aggression: whoever decided to do this thinks that German culture is evil, excessively white, privileged, blah, blah, blah, and deserves to be taken down a peg
- Right-wing aggression: whoever decided to do this is playing a complicated game… knowing that dumping a whole lot of “refugees” into a small village will lead to strife and perhaps outright violence, hoping that said violence will lead to a propaganda victory and/or an all-out rebellion by the German people against this refugee colonization
Personally, I’d lay odds on #1. Never attribute super villainy to events that can be equally explained via incompetence or stupidity.
Nov 022015
