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…
So “Halloween Ends” opened this weekend. On a budget of $20 million, it has made an estimated $41.25 million domestically in the opening weekend, pushing itself to profitability in a handful of days. The low budget – $17 million – horror movie “Smile” has, in just a bit over two weeks, made $71.2 million,…
Eleven days ago I set up this “backup blog” in case the main blog went goofy again. Well, guess what… both the main Unwanted Blog and the Aerospace Projects Review blogs are gone goofy, not letting me make new posts and showing errors. Wheeeee.
Yow: Just saw in this GCN Circular: https://t.co/qWZD6hLQ7w that the huuuuuge Gamma Ray Burst GRB221009A which is the brightest ever detected, has triggered detectable ionospheric disturbances in our own atmosphere. pic.twitter.com/DbGd0eEXDM — Dominique Boutigny (@AlvindeDiaspar) October 14, 2022
White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by reflecting back sunlight The idea of reflecting sunlight in order to a lower the planetary temperature is not new. The idea is sound, though it would be an incomplete solution to the problem of global warming if carbon emissions remain as they are: sure, the…
Black Hole Pukes Up Star Years After Eating It It seems that a black hole tore a star apart, trapped the tattered gaseous remains in an accretion disk, held onto it for three years, then blatted it back out into space at half the speed of light. The mechanism for this seems a little unclear.
Alex Jones ordered to pay $965 million for Sandy Hook lies $965 million sure *seems* like a lot of money. But Jones has one ray of hope: Bidenomics. If he can hold off paying for a few more months, the magic of inflation will turn that kingly sum into the cost of a loaf of…
Russia’s ‘irrecoverable losses’ in Ukraine: more than 90,000 troops dead, disabled, or AWOL This estimate appears to come from the FSB. Normally you’d expect them to underestimate the losses in order to try to make things look not quite so bad. So… is this an underestimate? Is it reasonably accurate? Or is it in the…
