Anti-paramilitary training laws the next threat to private shooting ranges After municipal and environmental laws failed, town officials approached Vermont State Senator Phillip Baruth for help. He quickly sponsored a bill making it a felony to operate a “paramilitary training camp” within the state. Baruth, a liberal Democrat from Burlington, admitted he introduced the bill…
Back in the Good Old Days of above-ground nuclear testing, a series of solid propellant smokey-trailed rockets would be launched just before detonation. They would leave vertical trails in the sky near the detonation. The video below explains just what they were for, as well as some of the physics of the detonation itself… the…
A new Supreme Court case seeks to legalize assault weapons in all 50 states The Supreme Court could hand down a decision any day now in National Association for Gun Rights v. City of Naperville, a case that could legalize assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in all 50 states. “Assault weapons:” Normal semi-automatic rifles “High-capacity…
The James Webb Space Telescope recently took a shot of deep space, showing a multitude of galaxies lensed *spectacularly.* Full-rez version at the link. https://esawebb.org/images/potm2303a/ That view is *littered* with lensing, especially on the right.
Every now and then I see posts, tweets, comments, etc. mentioning that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has a net worth over a billion dollars. For a comedian to be that rich, especially when his nation is gettign bombed into gravel, is suspicious to say the least. The implication, of course, is that there is financial…
Interesting times *here* and interesting times forthcoming. In the past day or so Texas has seen a mass shooting with 8 dead, and an SUV *apparently* intentionally rammed a group of “migrants” at a bus stop, killing at least 7. In both cases it appears that the killer was a narrative-busting Hispanic male. In the…
In 1983 “Science Digest” ran an article that 13-year-old me lost his tiny little mind over. Illustrated by Rick Sternbach, designer of, among other Star Trek vehicles and artifacts, the USS Voyager, it described a series of possible means of interstellar travel. While the physics and engineering of some of them have proven dodgy in…
So, here are a young couple reacting to the movie “Apollo 13.” Nothing particularly noteworthy, except to the likes of me: they didn’t know how it was going to end. The public schools may well teach kids to hate western civ and to think the US was built by slaves and to count an uncountable…
The AI apocalypse has just been made inevitable: White House Names Kamala Harris ‘AI Czar’ to Save Humanity from Artificial Intelligence How is a woman of no intelligence going to save us from artificial intelligence? The only possibility i can think of is that once a suspected threatening AGI is produced, the CIA/FBI/NSA/USSF/NASA will plop…
