Dramatic Scene as Jakarta Mosque’s Dome Collapses in Fire Looks like it was a sizable structure. Apparently being repaired when it caught fire. Notre Dame and the Big Butter Jesus feel yer pain, fellers.
Ronald Reagan chats with a Nazi in “Desperate Journey:” The dialog from IMDB: [Major Otto Baumeister has told the captured crew that, since they know the location of an underground Messerschmitt underground factory, they will feel his iron fist. Now he separates Flying Officer Johnny Hammond from the rest, questioning him for intelligence] …
From the long irrelevant ACLU, dated June 11, 2020: Defunding the Police Will Actually Make Us Safer So how’s that going? Let’s check in with CNN (September 25, 2022): Once nicknamed ‘Murderapolis,’ the city that became the center of the ‘Defund the Police’ movement is grappling with heightened violent crime Shocking. Who, I ask you,…
Ukrainian police use AK-47s (or maybe AK-74s, I can’t tell) to try to take out Russian anti-civilian buzz bombs. The *claim* is that they shot one down, but that’s hard to determine form the footage… it could well be that the thing just crashed where it did because that’s where it was aimed. They really…
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A rotary cell phone where a lot of the functionality is mechanical. It’s a real device that is available for pre-order as a kit, for a price that seems remarkably reasonable ($390). Since it is not manufactured by a major phone or electronics company, I imagine that you’ll be SOL if anything goes wrong with…
Here’s a look at Book 4. Some of the diagrams I do are completed in just a few hours. Some take considerably longer… several to many man-days, sometimes spread out over months as I dial in details. This one was sort of mid-range. The most complex and time consuming are typically the diagrams of aircraft…
BU researchers create hybrid COVID virus, causing friction with the government The “new” version is deadlier (at least to mice). Now, I can see value in such work… create a nasty variant so you can *cure* or create a vaccine against said nasty variant before it pops up naturally or is created and weaponized by…
Russian losses are expanding beyond Ukraine… 13 dead as Russian warplane crashes into apartment building near Ukraine border Russian news agencies have reported that at least 13 people died when a warplane crashed on Monday into a residential area in the Russian port city of Yeysk after suffering engine failure. Gotta admit, this is a…
Over the years there have been suggestions of using “lithobraking” as a means of reducing the cost of transporting payloads to the lunar surface. As the name suggests, the idea is to use the lunar surface itself – the lithosphere – to slow the craft. Meteoroids do this all the time, of course, though in…
