As I don’t speak Spanish or Portuguese or Klingon or whatever this is, I can’t follow along with the mission control. But there are a few subtle hints that there are a few hiccups.
The “journalists” here are freakin’ irritating, but the story is interesting. A *brief* clip of the audio of the *original* Wilhelm scream, with an alternate take and audio direction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fm39bUqjqU
A NASA article on the status of the X-57 “Maxwell” says that they’re wrapping up work on it, with no mention of it actually flying: X-57 Project Creates Paths Toward Electric Aviation The X-57 is a modification of an existing conventional aircraft to be all-electric. Lots of new technologies were integrated and apparently some useful…
Supreme Court strikes down college affirmative action programs The court ruled that both programs violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution and are therefore unlawful. The vote was 6-3 in the UNC case and 6-2 in the Harvard case, in which liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was recused. Affirmative action, i.e. systemic racism, is…
This popped up on ebay a few years ago. It purported to be a Boeing design for an advanced subsonic stealth bomber… but the design is, clearly, rather silly. Supposedly it dates from 1984 and was produced at, by and for Boeing, intended to be a decoy for the B-2 Advanced Technology (Stealth) Bomber competitors.…
Clothes are throwaway items now. Back In My Day, socks with holes in them were repaired; now, often enough, shirts are worn only a few times then tossed. Sometimes sent to thrift stores and the like, sometimes simply thrown out. But thrift stores have more clothes than they know what to do with. So often…
I believe I am unanimous when I say… An army – a *small* army – of poorly trained, ill-equipped chuckleheads managed to get within range of Moscow without getting kerploded by the Russian Army and Air Force. There is no getting past the fact that this makes the Russian military and leadership – especially Putin…
Russia accuses Wagner chief of urging “armed rebellion” Ummm… BREAKING: The Wagner Group has launched a military coup and are now fighting against the Russian Army. Around 30 000 Wagner soldiers have now taken control of a large area north of the Russian city of Rostov. A Russian helicopter has been shot down. pic.twitter.com/wEf7Vw63pJ…
The Red Rocks Amphitheater in the foothills west of Denver is a neat place. While I never went there for a concert when I lived in the are in the late 90’s, I went there often enough to hike around and test liquid biprop rocket engines in the parking lot when security wasn’t looking (what,…
